Best Bike Split vs Dirt Factor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Bike Split
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Best Bike Split: Race planning, pacing, workouts, and ride execution on your phone. Build and manage cycling race plans with course maps, target power, expected time, normalized power, intensity factor, and TSS. Use your saved BBS bikes and courses, adjust plans from mobile, and review elevation, power, speed, and pacing charts before race day. When it is time to ride, use the app for outdoor ride mode, indoor race simulation, and structured workouts. Follow target power, interval progress, live ride metrics, route progress, and race-specific pacing guidance from a focused mobile experience. Key features: - Sign in with your existing Best Bike Split account - Create and update race plans from mobile - Review course maps, elevation, power, speed, and pacing data - Ride outside with BBS targets - Simulate race plans indoors - Ride structured workouts indoors or outdoors - Send supported workouts and race-plan workouts to connected training platforms - Upload completed activity files where supported - Use BBS Assistant for race plans, workouts, courses, and support - Sync with the Best Bike Split web app Best Bike Split is built for cyclists and triathletes who want practical race-day pacing, structured training, and a simpler way to turn course data into executable ride plans. Choose Essentials Mobile for full mobile app access with Basic website access, or Premium for full mobile and web access. Both plans are available monthly or yearly. Existing Premium members keep full mobile access with their current subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel App Store subscriptions in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.bestbikesplit.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.bestbikesplit.com/terms-of-use
Dirt Factor
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Your race. Your fitness. Your training plan. Training for Leadville, Unbound, or your first gravel or mountain bike race? Dirt Factor analyzes the demands of your goal race, compares them with your current fitness, and builds a personalized training plan to help you get ready. Stop guessing. Start training with a purpose. NEEDED VS. CURRENT Pick a race and a goal: a finish time, or a place in your age group from past results. Dirt Factor models every climb, descent and surface on the course and gives you one honest answer: the power your goal takes against the power you have now. WHERE IS THE GAP? See the watts each climb and section takes, compared with your own race file. Know whether it's the climbs, the descents or the last three hours. BUILT FOR DIRT - Surface by segment, from pavement and gravel road to rough singletrack - A 1-5 technical trail scale: rough trail sets its own speed, whatever your watts - Altitude: the same watts feel harder at race elevation than where you train - Your descending, cornering and pacing, learned from your race files A PLAN BUILT BACK FROM RACE DAY - Blocks that work one intensity at a time, with your biggest gap as the training focus - Fits your riding days, hours, and indoor or outdoor riding - Race rehearsals before the big day, then a real taper - Every session explained: when to use it, how it feels and why it's in your plan - Targets in power, heart rate and feel, with trainer files to export CONNECTIONS Bring in your FTP, power curve and recent riding from Intervals.icu, Strava or Wahoo, and send your sessions to Intervals.icu or your Wahoo ELEMNT. Featured races include Big Sugar, Mid South, Unbound, SBT GRVL, Leadville and more, or upload your own course GPX. DIRT FACTOR PREMIUM The free version gives you one race goal and the first two weeks of a plan. Premium adds unlimited race goals with pacing, gap and section targets, custom training plans through race day, your race files and riding style in every plan, and workouts sent to Intervals.icu or your Wahoo. Premium is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://dirtfactor.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dirtfactor.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dirt Factor at every 2 days against Best Bike Split's every 3 weeks. 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. Best Bike Split sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month and Dirt Factor sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Best Bike Split ships an update every 3 weeks, Dirt Factor every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Bike Split | Dirt Factor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Caffeinated Innovations LLC | Kaizen Endurance |
In-app purchases
Best Bike Split
- BBS Essentials Mobile Monthly$5.001 Month
- Monthly$19.001 Month
- BBS Essentials Mobile Yearly$60.001 Year
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- Yearly$119.001 Year
Dirt Factor
- Dirt Factor Premium Monthly7 Days trial$12.001 Month
- Dirt Factor Premium Yearly7 Days trial$99.001 Year
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