ROUVY: Real Indoor Cycling App

You can’t even cancel on the app and they charge you even if you do cancel or try to switch to monthly billing

Since a few weeks the App keeps crashing on my older iPad which I have dedicated for the purpose of indoor cycling. I guess this started with one of the recent updates. Really annoying. Today it happened just as I was about to start pedaling - thus had to go and start selecting a ride from scratch. Then, it happened again after an hour 150 m before the finish line! My wife says it crashes almost every time she rides… needless to say that this is a major problem. Considering trying another App instead of paying $30 a month for something that doesn’t work reliably.

Worked fine Jan and Feb. Since Mar 15, only 1 ride out of 4 finished without crashing. One ride crashed 8 times, including 3 times at the very end. Another crashed 3/4 of the way through. The latest was 2 crashes with 300 meters left in a 34.5 km ride. The best is that you get no credit for the ride within the Rouvy system. Going to stick to flat routes—like a spin class. Still waiting for some reasonable response other than “sorry you’re having problems, we know it’s frustrating.”

PLEASE CHANGE THE APP TO REMIND PEOPLE TO DO THE MANDATORY UPDATES WHEN FINISHING A RIDE RATHER THAN WHEN STARTING UP THE APP. THAT WAY YOU AVOID THE FRUSTRATION OF SITTING AND WAITING FOR 15 MINUTES FOR AN UPDATE WHEN YOU WERE ALL READY AND MOTIVATED TO RIDE.

Although I’m not as fast as I used to be I am thoroughly enjoying riding all over the world. I still have that competitive gene and enjoy an occasional challenge. Thank you for keeping me healthy. Love the beautiful scenery.

Love the immersive experience, realism and the variety of features and challenges. The Rouvy team is constantly innovation by listening to users… this makes it a winner!!

If by some chance you come across someone else’s avatar, the system starts to glitch out, freezes, unfreezes, freezes, unfreezes, with a spinning circle in the middle of the screen

18 MONTH UPDATE: After a year and a half on ROUVY I've ridden over 4,650 miles in almost 40 countries. My FTP has gone from 135 to 240 and I'm hoping to reach 250 later this year. I'm really happy with the constant updates and improvements by the ROUVY team. Keep going! I fell in love with ROUVY the first time I saw it several years ago and it's even better today. NINE MONTH UPDATE: After nine months on ROUVY I've ridden over 2,400 miles, I've lost over 25 pounds, and my FTP has gone from 135 to 213. ROUVY has changed my life! SIX MONTH UPDATE: After more than six months on ROUVY I've ridden Alpe d'Huez, Cormet de Roselend, Paris, London, Rome, and Tokyo. So far I've ridden over 1,500 miles in 32 countries and I've lost over twenty pounds. My FTP has gone from a pathetic 135 to a miserable 185, but I'm super motivated to continue improving thanks to ROUVY's real world videos with augmented really. Truly amazing stuff! I've had zero issues using ROUVY with my Wattbike Atom and iPad Air. I could not be any happier...except when I get my FTP up to 250! Every now and then something completely blows me away. That is ROUVY. Kudos to the developers for using real world video with augmented reality. My rides in ROUVY feel more like playing a fun virtual video game while I'm on vacation sightseeing instead of my normal boring outdoor local rides. The use of virtual riders in ROUVY is my favorite feature. Virtual riders are people who have already ridden the selected course, including yourself. Their avatars show exactly as when they rode the course. So, if you ride a course twenty times, you can select to ride against all twenty of your own avatars. I'm slower than about 90% of ROUVY users, so I like to select 10-80 virtual riders who rode the course in a similar time to my own. It makes for a competitive and motivating ride (race) and always ends with me pushing myself to the maximum trying to beat as many of the avatars as possible. Strava integration is great. After each ROUVY ride completes, the data uploads to Strava and appears exactly as my actual outdoor bike rides. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to ride to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii or climb the hardest mountain stages in the Tour de France, you can do it in ROUVY. Well, you can try.

Absolutely love Rouvy paired with my Wahoo smart trainer. Video and courses are amazing, the stats and shadow riders really motivate me. Having Rouvey and a companion app is a bit convoluted. And haven’t figured out how to always have a cooldown ride even with it selected pre ride. The interface still needs some work, but well worth the money!

Setting up an account seems like an endless loop… Download app. Confirm email Sends me somewhere Nothing to do—/ Finally got to a password screen— Cannot confirm No app should be this difficult. Tried to login using Apple ID thru the little Apple icon- Said not supported. Deleted app