Bicycling vs CoachCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bicycling
Discover the best cycling routes, gear recommendations, and fitness advice. This app offers practical tips for both experienced racers and beginners to enhance their riding experience. Enjoy exclusive content and share articles easily.
- Bike and gear recommendations
- Fitness and strength advice
- Beautiful road and trail guides
- Practical tips for all cyclists
- Social media sharing
- Timed issue previews
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Bicycling inspires cyclists with authoritative recommendations on the latest bikes and gear, the best advice on getting fitter and stronger, and guides to ride the most beautiful roads and trails. Bicycling gives experienced racers and beginning cyclists the practical tips to enjoy the ride of their lives. SUBSCRIBE NOW AND GET YOUR FIRST ISSUE FREE! Don't forget, you can also get free access to issues with a timed preview (on your iPhone, too!). Plus, share app content with your favorite social networks. Using a simple two-finger tap, actual images of the content itself are “clipped” and can be sent directly to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, or via email or saved to your photo roll. Download our free app today! Select the issue you'd like to purchase, or sign up with a subscription and save! Please note that you must have iOS 10.0 or higher installed on your device to use this app. Bicycling Pricing: • Subscription 1 Month - USD 1.99* • Subscription 1 Year - USD 19.99* * For non-US app stores, the equivalent currency charges will apply. Please note: App subscriptions do not include access to subscription-only content on our website. Additional Subscription Information: • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Privacy Policy - https://bit.ly/2J5Ujfh Terms of Use - https://bit.ly/2J1YZqL • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
CoachCat
This AI-powered cycling coach analyzes your ride data instantly to provide personalized feedback. It integrates with a custom training plan builder and a comprehensive training library for various cycling disciplines. Connect with popular fitness trackers for a holistic view of your performance and recovery.
- AI-powered ride data analysis
- Instant coaching feedback
- Custom training plan builder
- Extensive training library
- Integration with fitness trackers
- Sleep and HRV data analysis
- Daily training recommendations
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Tell CoachCat what you want to get out of your riding and how many hours you have. Get a training plan built around both, starting today. FasCat has coached endurance cyclists for 20+ years, from first-time gravel riders to national champions. We invented Sweet Spot training, the method that made structured base building work whether you have 6 hours a week or 16. CoachCat puts that coaching on your phone. // WHAT COACHCAT DOES • Builds your plan around you• Training for a race, chasing a fitness number, or just want to get stronger on the bike. Tell CoachCat the goal and the hours you actually have, and it builds the plan. Not sure what your goal is? Answer a few questions and CoachCat will tell you what to work on. Road, gravel, mountain bike, cyclocross, multisport and more. Unlimited access to FasCat's 5-star plan library, with Sweet Spot base, intervals, strength training and everything in between. • Adjusts the plan as your life changes• Miss a week. Travel. Get sick. Change your goal. CoachCat reworks the plan instead of leaving you to catch up on your own. This is where most training plans fall apart, and it is the reason people quit them. • Tells you what to do today• Open the app and your workout is there, with the reason behind it. No deciding, no guessing, no building your own week. Just ride what it says. • Coaches you after every ride• Upload a ride and ask anything. Why your power faded in hour 3. Whether that interval set did what it was supposed to. What to change on Saturday. You get a straight answer built on your data, not a generic article. • Knows when to push and when to back off• CoachCat pulls sleep and HRV from your wearable and scores your recovery every morning. Green means go. Red means rest. Your plan responds to that instead of ignoring it. • Handles the fueling• FuelTrix™ reads the duration and intensity of every workout on your calendar and gives you a carbohydrate target in grams per hour, then converts it to bottles and gels. Plus meal plans and recipes for the eating you do off the bike. • Shows you whether it is working• Fitness, fatigue and form over time. Your FTP. Your consistency. The numbers that tell you the training is doing something. // WHO IT IS FOR Riders with a race on the calendar. Riders who just want to be faster, fitter and stronger on the bike. Riders who want real structure without a 1-on-1 coaching budget. Riders who would rather be told what to do than build their own training week. Riders who have started a plan before and quit because life happened and nothing adjusted. // WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR Apple Health, Garmin, Wahoo, Strava, Zwift, Hammerhead, Whoop, Oura, Rouvy, Fitbit and more. // TRY IT FREE First week free. No credit card required. After that, $34.99 per month, or $210 for the year, which works out to $17.50 per month. // 6-WEEK IMPROVEMENT GUARANTEE Train with CoachCat for 6 weeks and hit 80% green days. If you have not improved, we refund you in full and set you up with a complimentary consultation with a FasCat coach. // SUBSCRIPTION CoachCat is available as a monthly subscription at $34.99 or an annual subscription at $210. Payment is charged to your Apple Account upon purchase co. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase. // APPLE HEALTH CoachCat reads sleep, heart rate variability and workout data from Apple Health to score your daily recovery and adjust your training. Your health data is never sold or shared with advertisers. Train smarter. Recover better. Ride faster. Terms of Use: https://fascatcoaching.com/pages/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://fascatcoaching.com/pages/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
Bicycling and CoachCat both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of CoachCat's written reviews are positive against 22% of Bicycling's. CoachCat also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Bicycling's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 81). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Bicycling sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CoachCat sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Bicycling against 4.3 for CoachCat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bicycling has 1.1K ratings behind it against 81, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 22% of Bicycling's written reviews are positive against 75% of CoachCat's.
Bicycling ships an update every 3 months, CoachCat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bicycling | CoachCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.1K ratings) — better | 4.3 (81 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 74.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 81 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hearst Communications, Inc. | Fascat Coaching LLC |
Customer experience
Bicycling
CoachCat
Bugs and requests
Bicycling
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes and becomes unusable
- Issues with downloading and restoring purchases
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
3 requests- Bookmark feature to save progress
- Improved navigation and UI
- Seamless integration with print subscription
CoachCat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bicycling
- Bicycling 1 Month Subscription$1.991 Month
- Bicycling 1 Year Subscription1 Month trial$19.991 Year
- Bicycling Tour De France Photo Guide$1.99
- Bicycling Jan / Feb 2012$6.99
- April 2012$6.99
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- May 2012$6.99
- Jan/Feb 2013$6.99
- March 2013$6.99
- April 2013$6.99
- April 2014$6.99
CoachCat
- CoachCat Month$34.991 Month
- Optimize Monthly Subscription$34.991 Month
- CoachCat Year$209.991 Year
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- Optimize Subscription$299.991 Year







