Rouvy Has Reinvented Itself! We Take a Look At The Indoor Cycling App's BIG Changes

I left Zwift for Rouvy a couple years ago and I've never regretted it. On Zwift you're one of hundreds in close quarters on every ride..it's like rush hour in downtown on a Friday (not my thing). Rouvy is so much more like cycling outside...real life roads, climbs, gradients, buildings, cars, and scenery. On a normal outside ride I might see 10-20 other cyclists and often just enjoy the surroundings unless I have a real workout planned. That's how Rouvy is. Mostly though, I enjoy "visiting" so many other countries where I'll likely never actually ride in real life.

Big fan of Rouvy, I love the gradient graphic at the top left of the UI that makes it super easy to see what is seconds in front of you. Way better than Swift's version. I don't ride Rouvy enough to justify a monthly subscription though. I wish they could have an option to charge a small fee per ride or something

One aspect of outdoor cycling I like is doing the same circular route once a week to gauge my fitness. Over time you get a good idea how fit you are and it’s fun to race against your old times. With ROUVY I have enjoyed doing routes over again to test fitness. I have preferred riding on what looks like real roads rather than a cartoon landscape. So far I have enjoyed my switch from Zwift but keep an open mind.

It has been a great improvement however there is one feature I used a lot in the previous version and is no longer available. Back on the days you were able to search for routes in the map. That was very useful to explore places before traveling since the name of the rides are not always aligned with the cities or countries. For example if you look for “Hawaii” you will find several rides but no information of which island the ride is or also no way to see the ride on a map before doing the ride. If they could correct that, the would be perfect for what I look for.

Looks a lot better tbf, maybe I’ll give it another go

It would be nice to see some routes from Calpe. Nowadays it's the most popular place for professional and amateur cyclists to ride the bike. So far, I only found 1 route with a video. It would be nice to see some extra routes of calpe (for example 'coll des rates', 'col de tudons'...)

Great!

Bring on the competition! That said, I really don't see the feature set of Rouvy overcoming the inertia of users on Zwift who have 'leveled' and invested thousands of hours into the platform. Just like Windows, other OS's have better feature sets, but sheer inertia made Windows the absolute juggernaut of PCs.

Hi, voucher still doesn't work. If relevant, I'm from Canada. When I try signing up as of today, I only get the standard 14 day free trial.

ROUVY is simply brilliant. Soooo much better than Zwift, unless you are a serious racer.

Sa calobra on Mallorca was after the introduction my first one

Still no road feel on the Tacx Neo, and no integration with Trainer Road. I like the realistic rides. If they'd address those two issues I'd stop looking for alternatives.

I really enjoy Rouvy, I wish I could do my Trainer Road workouts on it like I did with Training Peaks.

Is there a way to map out (or upload) your own ride to Rouvy? I'd like to create my own route. Is this possible?

Where do you enter the code for the extended free trial?

If Zwift progress in the UI stuff and implement the possibility to upload GPX files it will be hard to beat them. With the new Zwift Hub One you have also virtual shifting which is damn good. The realistic graphic is not that big game changer in my opinion. Some people do like it more but many just don't care. The gamification aspect in zwift is also a big motivation to sit on the bike every day, which is good. And you see that it works. There are like more than 3000 users logged in on a monday early morning.

Is it possible to sync Rouvy with Garmin Connect? That’s where I keep all my cycling data (including indoor cycling with Zwift). Thanks.

Tried it for around a week or so but it’s just too quiet for me. I also miss seeing my Wattbike gear selection. Zwift just seems more fun.

I joined Rouvy recently. I like the UI and the scenery, and the absence of "bridge the gap" messages that can't be turned off. I'm having some difficulty with the companion app. It is not syncing with my laptop where I'm running/watching Rouvy from. Tried reinstalling and so far I don't know what is wrong. Apart from this all good so far.

Used (and loved) the "original" Rouvy and used it during winter training to ride thru Europe and explore new cities. Dropped it when the weather improved enough to ride outside but signed up again when the "new" version came out. But, after four rides with three screen freezes mid-ride, I decided the "new" Rouvy wasn't quite ready for prime time and I'm back to Zwift (which I hate because of the lack of realism and 2nd rate computer graphics). Fix the bugs and I'll be back (again).