TrainingPeaks vs Paceform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Paceform
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Paceform answers one question: where am I against my plan? Just run with your Apple Watch. Your plan and what you actually did meet in a single table. The verdict is honest — did the tempo run cover its main set, did the long run cover its distance? Coach notes open with the number that decided it, and nothing is dressed up in either direction. ■ It reaches your wrist The next 7 days are scheduled into Apple's Workout app on your Apple Watch. Start from your wrist without taking out your phone, and the watch guides pace and heart rate through each block. Finished runs are marked complete. Finish a run and your wrist shows completion and analysis on the spot — against the plan, and against your recent runs of the same type. Moments later iPhone computes the verdict in the background and fills in the coach's observations. You never have to take your phone out. Your watch refreshes itself around midnight, so today's session is there in the morning even if you never open your phone. ■ The weather decides with you Rain, snow, heat, and wind are read from the forecast where you actually are. On a hard day we don't just warn — we ask: move it to another day, swap it indoors, rest today, or run it anyway. Swap it indoors and a bike or treadmill session counts as that day's training. ■ Features · Four tabs: Today · Plan · Growth · Log · Training plans: the AI coach builds one around your goal, your body and your injury history — or import a plan you already have as CSV. You can start without a race, too · Honest verdicts: completed / partial / missed, judged on the session blocks your watch recorded, a Plan | Actual | Delta table, weekly and monthly completion rates · Coach notes and Ask the coach: every day starting from the number that decided it — and ask anything when you're unsure · Race day: target pace, heart-rate cap, segments, fuel and the forecast on one card; afterwards, the forecast beside the result · Weekly wrap and the Log tab: page through weeks and months as cards; past records stay exactly as they were · Growth: race-time forecast, VDOT trend, efficiency, cadence, second-half drift · Rescheduling: move sessions for weather, travel or injury, and count cross-training in place of a run · Body: condition from heart rate and sleep, with verdicts eased on days below your baseline · Race results: import as CSV or from a certificate photo; PBs and trends analysed for you · Widgets and complications: today's session on the Lock Screen, Home Screen and watch face · Choose the app language right in Settings (한국어 · English · 日本語) — widgets and your watch follow it ■ Paceform Pro Start with 7 days free. Unlocks training from your wrist (sessions scheduled into Apple's Workout app 7 days ahead), 30 coach questions a day, reading plans and race certificates from a photo, adding a race from its brochure photo, your runs in the iPhone Calendar, and free layout on share cards. ■ These stay free Coach notes with no limit, and 8 coach questions a day — with no time limit. Every verdict and metric, the Growth charts, load warnings, CSV import and manual entry, weather-based adjustments, widgets, and the watch app's today view and complications. ■ Privacy first No account. Health data never leaves your device. GPS routes and raw heart-rate samples are never transmitted. Turning the AI coach on sends only training summary numbers, your injury history and the questions you ask the coach (nothing is stored after the answer); with it off, everything runs on the device — even in airplane mode. Best used with an Apple Watch, or any device that records your running workouts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Paceform at every 3 days against TrainingPeaks's fortnightly. TrainingPeaks's advantage is chart position (#85 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. TrainingPeaks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Paceform sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TrainingPeaks ships an update fortnightly, Paceform every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrainingPeaks | Paceform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #85 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 278 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peaksware, LLC | xiah lee |
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
Paceform
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TrainingPeaks
- 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 Month Premium Subscription$19.99
- One Year Premium Subscription$119.99
Paceform
- Paceform Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Paceform Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year









