Comparison

TrainingPeaks vs Peps!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TrainingPeaks

This app offers a comprehensive platform for athletes and coaches to plan, track, and analyze training for endurance sports and strength building. It provides flexible scheduling, actionable insights, and integrated strength training to optimize performance and durability.

Highlights
  • Flexible training planning
  • Actionable data insights
  • Integrated strength training
  • Indoor cycling virtual rides
  • Seamless device syncing
  • Advanced coaching tools
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The world’s most complete training platform for coaches and athletes to plan, lift, and train. Use TrainingPeaks to maximize your potential. Connect the ability to plan, lift, and train for your endurance events and adventures. Whether you are training to run a half marathon, finish a Gran Fondo, or complete a full-distance triathlon, TrainingPeaks provides the ultimate tools you need for your journey. Simply connect with your coach or load a training plan to fill your schedule and get started. TrainingPeaks for Athletes • Flexible planning to fit your life: Easily adjust your schedule and sync your training with your daily routine. • Actionable Insights to keep you on track: Data-driven feedback that helps you understand your progress and stay motivated. • Build strength to be unbreakable: Integrated strength training plans designed to improve durability and performance. • Ride inside on TrainingPeaks Virtual: Experience world-class indoor training and ride with a global community. • Any sport, any device, any time: Seamlessly sync with your favorite wearable or head unit, ensuring your data is always where you need it. TrainingPeaks for Coaches • Advanced tools for planning: Annual season planning and individual workout creation tools to make planning clear and quick. • Time-Saving Tools to Streamline Your Coaching: Keep your athletes on track with powerful performance dashboards, easy-to-understand compliance scores, notifications, and in-workout commenting. • Look pro. Feel pro. Manage payment, athlete groups, schedules and communication all in one streamlined tool. • Any sport, any device, any time: Athletes seamlessly sync with your favorite wearable or head unit, ensuring data is always where you need it. Build community and engagement on TrainingPeaks Virtual: Keep athletes engaged year-round with the only indoor cycling platform designed for coaching. Go to trainingpeaks.com to sign up for your coach account. Trusted Partner of: USA Cycling, USA Triathlon, British Cycling, British Triathlon, AusTriathlon, Road Runners Club of America, INEOS Grenadiers Cycling Team and more Privacy Policy: https://home.trainingpeaks.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://home.trainingpeaks.com/terms-of-use

About

Peps!

Enhance your running experience by receiving custom audio or text cheers from friends and family during races. Integrate your favorite music and track your progress, all without requiring your friends to download the app.

Highlights
  • Custom written or recorded cheers
  • Live and pre-sent cheers
  • Language detection for text cheers
  • Spotify music integration
  • No friend app download required
  • Emoji and audio feedback to friends
  • Sports watch notification support
Features
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ENGAGE FRIENDS AND FAMILY WITH PEPS With Peps, your friends and family can send you their own custom written or recorded cheers, which you will hear on the race course while running the race. Friends can either send their cheers in advance prior the race, or send them LIVE while watching your strugg..enjoyable voyage towards the finish line. Messages can be either written or recorded, and written cheers can be in any language: Peps detects the written language and speaks it out in that language. If you like listening to music while running, friends can also send you their power songs, which will be then added to your Spotify queue automatically. EASY FOR FRIENDS TOO Your friends do not need the Peps app and they don’t need to register anywhere either. You simply create your race event’s unique magic link in the Peps app and then just send the created link to your friends. Friends will do all their things on that web page. Friends will not see other friends´ messages and so can’t you until the race is over. So it will be a lot of fun! RESPOND TO YOUR FRIENDS You can also send feedback to the friends: you can either send quick emojis from the app, and they will pop up on the friends map. You can even record quick audio messages to your friends, which the friends can listen on the friends page. Also your listened Spotify tracks will appear on the map on points they started, as well as the ran distance, spent time and the trail you’ve done so far. RACE PASS To listen the cheers sent to you in a race, you will have to buy a Race Pass. You can download the app for free, and you can create your event as well for free, and friends can even send their cheers without purchasing the Race Pass, but if you want to listen the cheers in the race, you need the Race Pass. Race Pass is not a subscription of any type. The Race Pass is valid 8 days from the purchase, so you can do the purchase way before the actual BANG at the start line. While the pass is valid, you can run as many races you want, you SUPERHUMAN! If the race organizer is offering Peps free in their event, the PLAY button will become active when you are located nearby the race area. In this case you don’t need to purchase the Race Pass. VIRTUAL RUNS Peps is used for many virtual running events too. Simply enter the route code you received to download the routes. Pick your route and tap PLAY! THE GOOD, THE BETTER, THE DETAILS Read everything from the FAQ section in the app. You’ll find tutorial videos there too! But the highlights briefly: All written messages will be also sent to your sports watch, if it just supports iPhone’s mirrored notifications via Bluetooth. You can listen to your music etc. with Peps just like normal. You can use your tracker app with Peps just like normal. Other volume is ducked down, when Peps has something to say, and after it, brought back up. Peps won’t drain your battery either or over-consume your data plan. To use the Spotify features, you will need to connect Peps with Spotify app. Do this in the app’s settings, grant access and you’re good to go. Some functions need the Spotify Premium account. When friends send you messages and the race has not started yet, they can set the distance marker for their message, when it is played, or just leave it without distance marker, and then the message is played at some random point of the race. If the race is on (means that you’ve tapped PLAY in the app), all sent messages at that time are played out immediately. LINK PACK: IG: @racepeps FB: @racepeps TWITTER: @racepeps WWW: www.pepsapp.com HELP: https://pepsapp.com/help

Screenshots

TrainingPeaks4 screens
Peps!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TrainingPeaks at 62% against Peps!'s 0%. TrainingPeaks also leads on chart position (#87 vs unranked). Peps!'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TrainingPeaks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Peps! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrainingPeaks ships an update fortnightly, Peps! every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
TrainingPeaks versus Peps!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrainingPeaksPeps!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (13K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#87 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size278 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeaksware, LLCAppsipaja Oy

Customer experience

TrainingPeaks

All ratings12,761 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews1,162 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral11.7%
Negative26.3%

Peps!

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

TrainingPeaks

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inconsistent sync between mobile app and web version
  • Workout data not always accurately recorded or displayed
  • Frequent crashes and performance issues
  • Login problems and password reset difficulties
  • Incompatibility with certain devices and platforms

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and customize training plans
  • Improved user interface and navigation
  • Better integration with Apple Health and other fitness apps
  • Dark mode option
  • More affordable subscription tiers

Peps!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

TrainingPeaks

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Premium Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Quarterly Premium Subscription$48.993 Months
  • Annual Premium Subscription$134.991 Year
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  • Annual price 2025$135.991 Year
One-time2
  • One Month Premium Subscription$19.99
  • One Year Premium Subscription$119.99
1 purchases

Peps!

One-time1
  • Race Pass$5.99

Questions

Is TrainingPeaks free?
TrainingPeaks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Peps! free?
Peps! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TrainingPeaks or Peps! have ads?
Neither TrainingPeaks nor Peps! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrainingPeaks or Peps!?
TrainingPeaks ships an update fortnightly, and Peps! every 5 days. Most recently, TrainingPeaks was updated on November 1, 2026 and Peps! on October 16, 2026.

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