Comparison

MyTrainPal vs Ride Cave

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

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About

MyTrainPal

This app provides an AI-powered training coach for cyclists, runners, and triathletes. It creates adaptive training plans, explains workouts using your data, and offers a 3D virtual riding experience for indoor training with smart trainers.

Highlights
  • AI-powered adaptive training plans
  • 3D virtual indoor cycling with smart trainers
  • Natural language coaching queries
  • Fitness, fatigue, and form trend analysis
  • Integration with popular fitness trackers
  • Support for cycling, running, and swimming
Features
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MyTrainPal is an AI coach for cyclists, runners and triathletes. It builds your training plan, adapts it to your life and explains every session with your own data. When it's time to ride indoors, MTP Ride turns your workouts into 3D roads you ride with your smart trainer. AN AI COACH THAT KNOWS YOU • Ask anything in plain language: "How is my fitness building?", "Should I train today?", "How did my intervals go?" • Get answers from your own data, with charts right in the chat: fitness and fatigue trends, weekly load by sport, power and heart rate for any ride. • Your coach remembers your goals, schedule, injuries and preferences across conversations. A PLAN THAT ADAPTS TO YOU • Build a plan for your goal event on proven training methodologies, from base to build, peak and taper. • Busy week, short night or heavy legs? Your coach proposes the change. • Nothing changes without you. Every proposal waits for your Approve or Reject. MTP RIDE: YOUR WORKOUTS IN 3D • Pair your smart trainer over Bluetooth: Tacx, Wahoo, Elite and other FTMS trainers. • ERG mode holds the target power of every interval. On free rides your trainer follows every gradient. • Ride the Costa Blanca, the mountains, winter, the coast or the suburbs, at morning or sunset light. • Import any GPX and ride it in the world you choose. • Race your past self on the same course, or ride in a group of AI riders. • Pick your kit and bike, from road KNOW WHEN TO PUSH • A daily readiness score from your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and training load. • Fitness, fatigue and form trends sbuilding or overreaching. • Home screen widgets and Apple Watch sync. EVERY SESSION, ANALYSED • Power, heart rate, cadence and paccurve. • Planned vs. actual for every structured workout. • Ask your coach to review any active. WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR • Strava, intervals.icu, Apple Health, Wahoo, Polar, Ultrahuman and Hevy. • Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Zwift, Whools.icu. • Activities and health data sync automatically. ONE PLAN FOR EVERY SPORT Cycling, running, swimming and stren for a gran fondo, a marathon or a triathlon. FOR COACHES MyTrainPal Coach adds an athlete triummaries per athlete, direct messaging and scheduling in plain language. START FREE Every core feature is included for free to explore the full experience. MTP Ride is free with your MyTrainPal account. Upgrade to MyTrainPal Plus for a higher AI allowance for daily coaching. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account. Terms of Service: https://mytrainpal.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://mytrainpal.app/privacy-policy

About

Ride Cave

This platform offers a comprehensive indoor cycling experience with structured workouts, AI coaching, and virtual racing. Explore real-world routes, compete on velodromes, and analyze detailed performance metrics. It integrates with popular fitness trackers and smart trainers for a complete training solution.

Highlights
  • Structured workouts and builder
  • AI coaching and fitness reports
  • Real-world GPS routes
  • Virtual velodrome racing
  • Group rides with voice chat
  • Advanced performance analytics
  • Integrations with Strava, Garmin, etc.
Features
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Ride Cave is a premium (and free) indoor training platform for cycling and rowing, built for serious training and serious fun: an endless supply of structured workouts, eRoutes anywhere in the world in a living 3D world, more than 20 velodromes, and now live rowing. Bring your runs, swims and gym sessions too, and every activity counts toward one picture of your fitness. ROWING Connect a Concept2 PM5 or a Bluetooth smart rower and train by split, watts and stroke rate. A live rowing screen with a target panel that shows every stroke against your target, 50+ rowing workouts, a rowing workout builder, your own Rowing FTP with UT2 to AN zones, and 2k, 5k and 6k tests that suggest your new number. MULTI-SPORT Import runs, rows, swims and gym sessions from Strava, Intervals.icu, Garmin and Wahoo. Each one earns an honest training load and counts toward one combined fitness and fatigue picture, free for everyone. STRUCTURED WORKOUTS Hundreds of workouts ready to ride or row, plus a built-in workout builder, an instant workout generator, community shared workouts, and Turbo Builder: type a workout one step per line and watch it build. TRAINING PLANS Multi-week cycling plans that scale to your FTP, discipline, and time. Sync your calendar to Intervals.icu or Wahoo. Send workouts to your bike computer to train outdoors. AI COACHING Most platforms push AI in your face and charge you a premium for it. AI is fully optional in Ride Cave. Use Atlas, the AI coach, to build plans, talk strategy, or create ride and row workouts and fitness reports. RIDES & ROUTES Real-world GPS routes with elevation in a 3D world with live riders. Race the leaderboard or ride alongside other people's past efforts. Open the globe, tap a spot and ride, or import your own routes. VIRTUAL TRACK RACING Single player workouts and races against AI ghost riders, or real-time group races on accurate virtual velodromes. Elimination, scratch races, points races, and more. GROUP RIDES Ride live with friends. Synchronized workouts, shared routes, and voice chat. ANALYTICS Full power, HR, and cadence breakdowns. Strain analysis, W' balance, training load. Data Lab reports and more than 100 data points, with views and widgets you can customize, even mid-workout. INTEGRATIONS Strava, Wahoo, Intervals.icu, and Garmin Connect. SIMPLE BY DEFAULT, POWER WHEN NEEDED Real physics, calendaring, social profiles, quests, custom alerts, mini-games and more. REQUIREMENTS Cycling: a compatible smart trainer or power meter with Bluetooth FTMS support (Wahoo KICKR, Tacx/Garmin, Saris, Zwift Hub, Elite, and most modern smart trainers). Rowing: a Concept2 PM5 or a Bluetooth smart rower.

Screenshots

MyTrainPal4 screens
Ride Cave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ride Cave at none against MyTrainPal's 3. MyTrainPal's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MyTrainPal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Ride Cave asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MyTrainPal against 5.0 for Ride Cave. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyTrainPal ships an update every 2 days, Ride Cave every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MyTrainPal versus Ride Cave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyTrainPalRide Cave
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size190 MB30 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKrzysztof KosteckiCave Works LLC

Customer experience

MyTrainPal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ride Cave

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MyTrainPal

Subscriptions2
  • MyTrainPal PLUS Monthly$9.991 Month
  • MyTrainPal Coach Monthly1 Month trial$24.991 Month
One-time1
  • MyTrainPal 1000 AI Credits$9.99
None

Ride Cave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MyTrainPal free?
MyTrainPal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ride Cave free?
Ride Cave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MyTrainPal or Ride Cave?
MyTrainPal and Ride Cave are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do MyTrainPal or Ride Cave have ads?
Neither MyTrainPal nor Ride Cave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MyTrainPal or Ride Cave?
MyTrainPal ships an update every 2 days, and Ride Cave every 3 weeks. Most recently, MyTrainPal was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ride Cave on November 5, 2026.

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