3 Ways Rouvy Beats Out Zwift

One thing Rouvy does better than everyone is the gradient graphic/ramp at the top left of the screen. It's large and granular enough to see what's coming up just seconds ahead, so you can adjust your gearing right ahead of it. Zwift's version is just too small and useless. Also I love the full view of the gradient (and difficulty) that goes along the full bottom of the screen. Gives a great high level view of what's coming up and how hard it'll be.

I used to ride on Zwift but once I tried Rouvy I switched and never turned back. The cycling experience on Rouvy is so real, I really feel almost like on the road somewhere lost in the world. Recently I enjoy the monthly challenges that make it easier for me to select new locations to explore.

I use both Zwift and Rouvy. Zwift has a better community and group events, but Rouvy wins in all other areas. I feel that I can ride Rouvy for much longer sessions because it is more true to the road experience.

A little over a year ago I tried them all and settled on Rouvy for all the reasons you mentioned. I've been enjoying regular group rides with the same riders here lately. The improvements Rouvy has made are fantastic, and they really do listen to customer inputs. Great review Mike! 👍

Love Zwift and Rouvy, both great apps. One big win for me is that Rouvy can download the routes so you can ride them offline and has a significantly better and useful gradient map

Hi Mike - LTomie56 here. I've been with Rouvy from Oct/2015. CVT era. I used Rouvy this year to prep for Haute Route Alps. Awesome. Day 6 - climbing Agnel and knowing exactly what was coming was so great. Take care

Good points, just started using Rouvy. The AR environment is a big plus for me.

one extra bonus feature with Rouvy would have to be the monthly challenges. You always get a monthly elevation goal such as Everest or K2 and a monthly distance goal but then you get special challenges - for example this month they have recreated several routes of the 2023 vuelta and the tour of slovakia. They also have a sponsorship deal with the Datev Challenge triathlon series to emulate their world bike routes. At the moment I am on the final day of a personal Rouvy challenge to climb Mont Ventoux every day for a week. Today's ride (will probably be around 2:30 from Malaucene) will be my 9th ascent since last saturday. I have been a subscriber for only a year and find it far superior to zwift (which i used for a free trial and some running back in 2019 ). oh, and a lot of the monthly challenges seem to have real world prizes, whether free subscriptions to smart trainers, cycling kits, trips to watch real world races and ride in a team support car and socks.

Great timing as I am shopping for a indoor trainer!!! Thanks!!!

Great video, Mike. You nailed it and gave lots of good insights. Thanks for creating this video. I did a pretty extensive comparison of Zwift and Rouvy when deciding which platform to use for my first season with an indoor trainer - I settled on Rouvy. I also like that Rouvy has lots of interesting climbing routes that you can do in 45-60 minutes, getting some big vertical in a ride with gorgeous scenery. I agree with your assessment of races and group rides: enough variety and competition to make it interesting to stay motivated. I agree with most people's comments regarding Zwift: if all your friends are on it, or you want to take racing VERY seriously, Zwift is for you.

I agree with all that you said. Great review and as a pretty new user you gave me some great new information

Merci pour cette vidéo. Très pertinent et après avoir essayé Zwift et Rouvy, je suis du même avis. De plus, comme j’utilise un ipad, les informations concernant le relief, la pente, le drafting et la position des autres concurrents sont beaucoup plus visibles et claires sur Rouvy.

As a coach I find Rouvy much easier to develop workouts for my athletes, save them as public and it's easy for them to find. Much easier than Zwift. Convinced quite a few of my athletes to shift to Rouvy.

I love Rouvy because I also like the adventure aspect of cycling. I can ride locations beforehand - like my future Italy mountain rides. I also like being able to create my own workouts and then apply pretty much any location as background video. It keeps it interesting. And being able to set up a group ride and invite friends is a nice feature as well. I expect that races and fondo’s will upload video footage of their event for future promo.

Great Review. Thanks a lot.

I used both and like rouvy more than zwift. The only downfall is, all my friends use zwift. 😅

I've been using Rouvy with a Kickr smart bike for a couple of years now, mostly during winter months. I absolutely love it. The rides are very realistic, and there is an incredible depth of locales, offering flat rides, hilly rides, short rides, long rides, etc. It's as close to real outdoor riding as you can get, and actually better in many ways: the weather is always perfect, the wind is always zero, and there are only virtual cars and fellow riders to run into. I can do a beautiful route in Mallorca in the morning, and ride Utah in the afternoon. I did Zwift for awhile, but seldom use it anymore.

Absolutely a great job on reviewing the app!!!! as being an ex pro racer I see everything you’re saying here and I agree with you. It’s very well done I like swift very much for the reasons you mentioned, but I love this app now it’s absolutely wonderful and you’re right it’s really been improved dramatically and an important ways. I’ll be using it. Thank you so much for this. Very informative and useful video. Well done keep them up.

Couldn’t said it better myself 👍

Absolutely love Rouvy. The realism with the video, physics of drafting and descending is spot on. Not gamified, much less cheating and few unrealistic power to weight numbers. Getting more popular so hoping the cheaters don't migrate over to Rouvy