Originally Posted by
jitteringjr
Looking at upgrading my 18 year old Fluid2 with a smart trainer and the Kickr snap and Cycleops M2 are my top picks right now. I want to stay with wheel on because I have both Campy and Shimano drivetrains and don't want to deal with swapping cassettes in a direct drive trainer so these are the top picks.
I am finding information on what free software comes with the trainers confusing at best. For Cycleops, I see people mentioning Virtualtraining that comes free, but there is nothing in the app store for apple matching this. Did Virtual training become Rouvy at some point? If so isn't Rouvy a paid subscription so I would have to pay to do simple spin down calibration? Or am I missing something.
For Wahoo it seems less confusing and looks like there is a wahoo fitness app in the app store that would work with the snap trainer.
I plan on trying out Zwift, Rouvy and trainerroad. Probably going to go with something like trainerroad because I would rather watch recorded races from nbc sports and whatnot rather than watching virtual stuff of me. I will be using my iphone to control it and screen mirror with a lightning to hdmi to the big tv if I decide I do lift zwift or Rouvy type software.
What software do you use if you have a cycleops or wahoo trainer? What is available for free that comes with each?
Rouvy is the Cyelops app. There is some free stuff but most of the training options are paid but I think they do 30 day trial. But you can use Rouvy, Zwift, Trainerroad or Wahoo or most apps with any trainer basically (smart or dumb). I had a Magnus for about a week and tested Rouvy with that and a dumb trainer and I didn't think it was worth it. Now they have added the Augmented Reality option and I watched review and it looks cool. It's basically Zwift laid over real video of real courses which is more interesting to me then what Zwift offers. I also tried Zwift and wouldn't pay for it. Currently I'm using the Wahoo app to track my rides on trainer with speed/cadence/hr sensors but I'm not using smart trainer now so I don't have feedback/adjustment. But all of the apps have some sort of trial period so try them all