What’s New

Oct 2026: Pick Log it on any strength session, or Instant > Just Log, to tick off your sets at your own pace with your last numbers alongside, and switch to the guided coach and back at any time. Set the dumbbells you own in Settings > Strength.

Oct 2026: Your track now has a Cover tab: line up the view, capture it, and that picture shows on its tile and page. Publishing and unpublishing say they worked, your own published tracks show in Community Tracks, and the 3D view no longer redraws while you type or drag a slider.

Oct 2026: Design your own velodrome in Tools > Track Builder: the lap, the banking, indoors or out, the sky and the weather, with a rider lapping it as you go. Cave Crew riders from Level 4 save theirs and publish them to Community Tracks for everyone to ride and race.

Oct 2026: Colorado Springs, Indianapolis, Trexlertown, Herne Hill and Roubaix now stand on the real ground around them, built from the same map data as the Infinite World.

Oct 2026: Pick Strength in the sport switcher for guided dumbbell and bodyweight sessions built for endurance athletes, powered by Cave Motion™: a 3D athlete shows every rep, a coach calls your sets and rests, and your weights adapt.

Oct 2026: Add the new Energy (kJ) field to your ride or row views to watch the work you have done add up in kilojoules, the unit most athletes use to track their week.

Oct 2026: A workout you send to Intervals.icu from your calendar no longer comes back as a second card on the same day, and the workout picker lists it once.

Oct 2026: Atlas now writes every ride, row and run in the same workout text you type in Turbo Builder, so it keeps your splits, paces and watts exactly, gets the session length right, and can build free rides, ramps, rest as needed and run cadence. When Atlas builds several workouts at once, you get every one of them.

Oct 2026: Group Rides hold together on a patchy connection: riders keep rolling instead of freezing, come back within seconds, and a finish made while your connection drops still counts. Riders keep right and step aside when passed, the rider pills stay put, there is no Pause in a Group Ride, and your chat bubble sits just over your head. A ride no longer marks a plan workout from a later day as done.

Oct 2026: While your power meter is supplying your power, the power chart shows the PM badge in its top corner, in races and free rides too. Hover it to see what it means.

Oct 2026: In an Elimination, riders who go out are now out of the way: eliminated bots leave the track for good, eliminated riders in a Group Race ride up by the boards without giving or taking a draft, and your place now counts only the riders still in.

Oct 2026: Track race bots now ride the same race on every computer, phone or screen. On a busy or slower device they could fall behind and stop chasing, so a strong effort won by far more than it should.

Oct 2026: Your line on the track is now the distance you ride, as on a real track: the higher up a bend, the further you go. Going up and over to pass no longer feels like a climb on your trainer; you pass by riding faster than the riders below you.

Oct 2026: Ending a ride early with End & Save in the phone apps now goes straight to your summary. Dropdown lists are readable on Windows, your Intervals.icu planned workouts and the sessions you did for them show as one card, the Remaining widget field works for rowing, and the setup guide is clearer that connecting an account imports your new activities.

Oct 2026: Race bots now pace for the length of the race, so a short race asks for your short-race power and going all out from the gun no longer runs away with Hard. Easy stays a real race you win at the line, and your race results now remember the level you raced.

Oct 2026: Every rider has a new hand-inked look, and the world is drawn to match. Design your own rider in Tools > Character Builder, with more of it opening as you level up (everything by Level 3), and save up to 10 characters and a gear locker with Cave Crew. Your XP level is in Settings > XP & Levels.

Oct 2026: New to Ride Cave or want a refresher? The setup guide walks you through your details, connecting your devices with tips for your browser, connecting your accounts and weather checks. Run it any time from Settings > Help.

Oct 2026: Run on a smart treadmill or any treadmill with a footpod, by pace or treadmill speed, with workouts that set the incline for you, plus a running library, a running builder and running views.

Oct 2026: Track race bots now sprint like people: they kick hard in the last lap, go with your jump and pace their sprint on any track, so a Normal bunch finish is a real fight. And signing in with Google always lets you pick the account, in the desktop app too.

Oct 2026: Race bots play fair and Easy, Normal and Hard now mean what they say, at any fitness: bots draft, tire, chase and sprint by your rules, the keirin derny eases up from a slow roll, and track workouts last the time you pick with your ERG watts always shown.

Oct 2026: Connect a Concept2 SkiErg and every rowing workout plays on it, with your SkiErg FTP, skiing stroke rates and its own Data Lab section.

Oct 2026: Home sits at the top with your sport's pages right under it, then Build, Community and Analyze. Every section folds open or closed, and the menu remembers how you left it.

Oct 2026: Skills now live on the Tracks page: switch between Tracks and Skills next to the title.

Oct 2026: Bring up to 24 bots of your own on track free rides and workouts: they ride the track rules like anyone and never through you.

Oct 2026: Quick chats, waves and cowbells now reach the other riders on the track, in free rides, Group Rides and Group Races, with the same rules as eRoutes.

Oct 2026: Shift with Shimano Di2, SRAM AXS and more through the BikeControl app or any OpenBikeControl device, from Settings > Devices > Shift Controller.

Oct 2026: Settings > Devices > Power Meter now lets you choose how big a gap between your power meter and trainer Power Match corrects (down to every watt), how many seconds Continuous Power Match averages over (5 to 60), and whether to see its messages. The defaults are unchanged.

Oct 2026: Power Match is steadier: the plus and minus buttons and ramps reach your trainer straight away, and stopping, sprinting or a power meter that drops out no longer throws off its correction. And if a Google or Apple sign-in doesn't finish, Ride Cave now tells you why.

Oct 2026: Tracks are now full 3D velodromes with real track rules. Race bots in Scratch, Points, Elimination, Tempo, Keirin and Time trial, host a live Group Race with official results, practice the rebuilt skills on the boards, and keep your results and badges after every race.

Oct 2026: Signing up and logging in has a new look on every device, with a quicker start, a smoother Settings and a quiet bot check that keeps spam accounts out. Track records show other riders again.

Oct 2026: Rowing rests now show a big countdown, how your last piece went and what's next. LTHR saves when you press Enter or close Settings, and Max HR says it doesn't change your zones. The Android "keeping your sensors connected" notice now goes away when a workout finishes. If your login expires, Ride Cave tells you and lets you sign back in instead of showing empty screens.

Oct 2026: When the same session arrives from more than one of Garmin, Strava, Intervals.icu and Wahoo, Ride Cave now keeps one copy, the most detailed, and moves your effort rating and plan credit onto it, so your training load counts it once.

Oct 2026: The first time you tap a device button, a quick guide shows what each one connects. Heart rate straps, power meters and sensors now show their battery in Settings > Devices, with a heads-up when one drops under 10%, and a row no longer wakes your trainer (or a ride your rower).

Oct 2026: eRoute data panels scale up on big monitors and TVs, and the zoomed elevation chart keeps its overview in a strip above the climb so nothing covers you. Settings > Help now gathers support, videos and Discord in one place.

Oct 2026: Early support for Zwift Plays on firmware 2.0.1, which links both halves into one connection: if yours won't connect, let us know. If a Play half won't show up, Ride Cave now explains why and can search wider, and a Zwift Ride on firmware 1.3 or later tells you when Zwift has it locked.

Oct 2026: Zwift Ride, Play and Click buttons now do what they do in Zwift: left shifters go easier, right shifters harder, and hold Y to skip an interval. Z and A press the on-screen minus and plus (your watt target, or difficulty on an eRoute) in every mode, and Zwift's Shimano and SRAM shift styles are on the Shift Controller card. Connect both Play halves, and feel a buzz when a hold lands or you run out of gears.

Oct 2026: Switch to another app mid-ride and the Android app keeps recording. If your phone pauses it anyway, you get a heads-up, and the player now uses the whole screen.

Oct 2026: If your phone or computer pauses Ride Cave mid-ride, you now see how long it was paused when you come back, and your ride summary shows the time that could not be recorded instead of quietly dropping it.

Oct 2026: Post a Group Ride on any public eRoute in seconds: pick a time, choose a poster drawn from your route, and share the link. Riders tap I’m going, wait on the start line as the clock counts down, roll out together, and land in the official results. Every event now has its own page to share.

Oct 2026: The rowing target panel now shows your stroke dots and embers on phones, your first two strokes of each piece no longer count against your score, and rows upload to Strava as rows.

Oct 2026: Trail eRoutes now have tabletop jumps, log stacks, rock gardens, and berms in the 3D world. Each jump shows the power zone that lands it, or the zone your workout asks for when one is attached.

Oct 2026: Riding in a big group is now up to 40% smoother on older devices, and maps-only rides run nearly three times smoother. On a recent Mac, a full Group Ride stays silky with every rider around you fully drawn. Still struggling? Pick Ultra Low graphics (no scenery) or just maps under Settings when you set up a ride.

Oct 2026: eRoutes start on a start line with a quick countdown and your bots beside you, and you can set how many loops to ride.

Oct 2026: Get instant help at support.ridecave.com (or Settings > Help) from an AI assistant that knows Ride Cave, reads your logs and can pass your case to the team.

Oct 2026: Fixed: Intervals.icu workouts missing from the eRoute picker, eRoute summaries not naming your workout, a blank zone panel before you pedal, long ANT+ cadence decimals, workout file import in the mobile apps, the Analyze report under the phone status bar, and plan workouts marked done by rides that didn't fit them. Completed plan workouts now show the activity that completed them, heart rate is colored by zone, and ride charts are smoother with legend keys you can tap to show or hide each line.

Oct 2026: Add up to 30 bots to any eRoute at the zone you pick, as steady pacers or racers who ride like real riders. They draft, chat and ring the bell back in the 3D world, and Call bots in the player menu brings them back if you drop them.

Oct 2026: The eRoute preview shows the map and elevation together, and Next takes you to one screen for how you want to ride: just ride, a workout, a ride along, or bots.

Oct 2026: Tap the stacked-panels button in the player header to put every panel of your view on one screen, no swiping. Tap again for the pages. On an eRoute, find it on the clear view.

Oct 2026: Type a step as a heart-rate band, like 60min 62-69% LTHR, with no power target: the trainer stays uncontrolled and the ride paces you by heart rate. Free-ride blocks now show what they ride to instead of placeholder watts.

Oct 2026: Connect a Concept2 PM5 or Bluetooth rower and train by split, watts, and stroke rate, with 50+ rowing workouts, rowing zones, and a 2k Test that suggests your Rowing FTP.

Oct 2026: Setup now asks whether you ride, row, run, or swim and sets a starting threshold for each, so your first workouts and training load are right from day one.

Oct 2026: The calendar picker has a Ride/Row switch with the full Ride Cave rowing library, scheduled rows show their own graph, and rowing workouts from Intervals.icu land on your calendar ready to row.

Oct 2026: Tap Edit view during any ride, row, or track session and shape the screen while you train: swap, move, or remove any number, add numbers to a grid, swap a whole panel for a chart or map, add or remove panels, and choose an arrangement. Works in the Infinite World too. Keep it with Save view or Save as new view from the player menu, or revert.

Oct 2026: Tools > Widgets now shows widgets other riders have shared. Search them, filter by sport or category, preview one on sample data, and clone it into your own collection to use or edit.

Oct 2026: Type a workout one step per line and watch it build as you write, for rides and rows. Cave Crew members can start a line with @atlas and describe the set in plain words, and Atlas types out the steps.

Oct 2026: Virtual shifting is rebuilt on real gear ratios. Ride Cave now learns the gear your bike is actually in from your trainer's own speed and cadence, starts you on the matching virtual gear, and measures every shift against it, so the easiest gear is genuinely easy on a flat road and the hardest loads up with speed. A new Zwift Cog preset gives single-cog setups (Zwift Ride, Zwift Cog, KICKR CORE 2 bundles) Zwift's own 24-gear ladder, numbered the same way.

Oct 2026: On some trainers (reported on the Tacx Neo 2T and the KICKR CORE 2) a route ride could stay locked at one fixed effort from the first pedal stroke, so virtual gears and climbs changed nothing while ERG workouts worked fine. Route rides now put the trainer in simulation mode before you start pedaling and keep it there, and the debug panel records every grade sent to your trainer for support.

Sep 2026: Bring your whole training life into Ride Cave: runs, rows, swims, gym sessions, and every other real activity now import from Strava, Intervals.icu, Garmin, and Wahoo - free for everyone, with one switch in Settings > Connections. Each activity earns an honest training load and counts toward one combined fitness picture, with its own vocabulary everywhere: pace and steps for runs, splits and UT2-AN zones for rowing, and an RPE rating that sets the load on gym sessions. Cycling analytics stay cycling-only.

Sep 2026: A Cave Crew perk: push your rides to Strava with a blank description. Your fitness numbers and the Ride Cave mention are stripped out, so only your ride shows. Flip it on under Settings, Preferences, and your activity titles stay exactly as they were.

Sep 2026: Workout views packed with your own metric widgets now lay out in a clean, space-filling grid that adapts to the screen: readable on your phone, filling the panel on desktop, with no more overlapping numbers or cut-off labels. Two-panel views can stack top-to-bottom as well as side-by-side, and the view picker and builder previews now match what you actually ride. Current breath rate also reads live from any heart-rate strap that sends RR intervals, like the Garmin HRM-Pro Plus, not just a dedicated breathing sensor.

Sep 2026: Invite a coach, or coach riders yourself. Coaches see an athlete’s fitness, adherence, plans and key training numbers, can build and edit plans, update training numbers like FTP, run Data Lab reports, and leave notes. Everything your coach does appears on your Coach Log on the home dashboard, where you can save any note straight into your own Training Notes.

Sep 2026: After any ride, rate how hard the whole session felt from 1 to 10 on the ride summary. Your ratings build a Perceived Effort view in the Data Lab and a Feel toggle on the Training Status card, showing your internal load and when riding feels harder than the power says. If you train with a coach, they see your ratings on your rides.

Sep 2026: Accepting or dismissing an Auto Train insight now settles it for good. Previously, after a stretch of missed rides, the same "plan rebuilt from your current fitness" suggestion could come back every day until the misses aged out of the review window, even after you had accepted it. An insight now only returns when something genuinely new happens - a new missed session or new riding outside your plan.

Sep 2026: Attach a structured workout to a 3D eRoute and ride it inside the world. Your targets are painted on the road ahead, colored by zone, with Cave Coins to chase above target, gates that shatter between intervals, and a heads-up display on your rider showing target versus current. It works with any workout in your library, and like the Infinite World it is free for everyone, on every route.

Sep 2026: Build your own workout data with two new field families. Rolling averages report your power, heart rate, or cadence over a trailing window (3 seconds up to 10 minutes), so you can pace by a steady number on a long ride without touching the lap button. And a full 7-zone LTHR heart-rate model joins the 5-zone one, splitting the effort above threshold into three so time right around threshold reads separately from all-out work. Comes with a matching 7-zone time chart for your views and a zone table in athlete settings.

Sep 2026: The Infinite World is now a shared road: riders on the same eRoute appear live in the 3D world beside you. Sit on a wheel and the draft genuinely makes you faster, pelotons form up around matched riders, and nameplates and edge pills always show who is up or down the road. It is on by default, so the riders you follow just show up; switch it off any time under Enable real-time riding with others.

Sep 2026: Say something as you ride: quick preset messages and a wave or thumbs-up float above your rider in the world, and you can ring a cowbell for a specific rider by tapping them. Comms are optional, and riders under 18 see and send only the curated presets, never free-text chat. Real-time riding requires a birthdate so those rules can apply.

Sep 2026: Community boards are now Clubs: join a club, follow its calendar of events and Group Rides, add events to your own calendar, and attach the workout or route an event will ride. Old boards and groups links redirect automatically.

Sep 2026: Ride Anywhere now lives on the eRoutes map: tap the pencil, drop a few points anywhere on Earth, and generate a rideable route on real roads with real elevation. A new map search flies you to any place or any route first.

Aug 2026: Virtual shifting now works the way a real drivetrain does: a harder gear multiplies the resistance of the hill you are on and loads up with speed on the flat, instead of adding a fixed step. Big gears are finally usable on flat roads, easy gears genuinely ease a climb, and the MTB and gravel presets feel like the cassettes they are named after. The Shifting intensity slider now shows the force change per shift.

Aug 2026: Ride eRoutes and Ride Anywhere inside a full-screen living 3D world: real terrain built from your route, day rolling into night, weather that moves through, bridges, your own rider, and Ride Along companions beside you.

Aug 2026: Training plans no longer pile a whole week of easy riding into one very long indoor session. Unless your goal is a long-distance event, endurance volume now spreads across more days, so a plan tops out at a sensible trainer ride length instead of a three-hour indoor marathon. Your weekly training load is unchanged.

Aug 2026: Your Fitness, Fatigue and Form now read the same on the home card, in Atlas analysis, across Data Lab reports, and in plan simulations - one definition, computed one way. And when you build a plan while your synced rides tell a solid story, you can now choose to start it from your measured fitness instead of your stated level.

Aug 2026: One big update across the whole feature. Plan numbers are now measured from the intervals you actually ride, heart-rate-only rides are scored with a bar built for them, and every suggested change names its reason and shows you the weeks it touches before you apply anything. The Plan Check-in offers the two levers that really reshape a plan, your weekly hours and training intensity; editing a started plan rebuilds only the weeks ahead with your history intact; and after a big setback the repair now reaches the week you are in instead of waiting for Monday. Existing plans get a one-time refresh of their numbers; your sessions and riding time are unchanged.

Aug 2026: Push a single workout straight to your Intervals.icu calendar from its menu, the same as Garmin and Wahoo. Power, heart-rate, cadence and free-ride targets all carry over, and plans you sync to Intervals keep them too. Editing a ramp block is easier as well, with fine one-watt corner steppers you can hold to repeat and a mobile tray you can slide down to preview the workout while you tune it.

Aug 2026: Workouts imported from Intervals.icu are now scaled to the FTP you have set here, instead of the watts Intervals had already worked out from your outdoor FTP. If you keep a separate indoor FTP, your sessions were running hard by exactly that difference, and you no longer need to mark anything as indoor first. Heart-rate and power-zone targets convert correctly too.

Aug 2026: Set an outdoor FTP in Athlete settings and any workout you send to a Garmin or Wahoo is built from that number instead of your trainer FTP. Leave it blank and nothing changes.

Aug 2026: The Android app is live on Google Play. Connect your trainer over native Bluetooth and ride from your phone or tablet, the same as on iPhone and iPad. Grab it from the Play Store, or from Downloads in Settings.

Aug 2026: Zwift Ride, Zwift Play and Zwift Click 2 can now change power as well as shift. One rule on every controller: vertical shifts, horizontal adjusts. Up and Down shift, Left and Right adjust target power in a workout or trainer difficulty on a route, and Y, B, Z and A do the same on the right-hand pad. Zwift Click 2 is now supported, and a controller that nods off mid-ride reconnects itself when you press a button.

Jul 2026: A new Advanced option when you build a plan. Normal keeps two quality sessions a week and fills the rest with easy riding; Maximized spends some of that easy volume on a third quality session, for more load inside the same safety limits.

Jul 2026: Pair Zwift Play or Zwift Ride controllers straight from the device tray and shift without leaving the saddle. Works in the browser, no bridge app needed.

Jul 2026: The desktop app now runs on Linux, as an AppImage for most distros or a .deb for Ubuntu and Debian, with ANT+ USB support via a one-time udev rule. Download it right alongside the Mac and Windows builds.

Jul 2026: The eRoute map now combines the fly-through, overhead map, and Street View into one view you switch between, running on a single map for a lighter load. Includes a fix for smoother virtual shifting on lower-powered devices.

Jul 2026: Pay once and keep Cave Crew for as long as Ride Cave runs, with no subscription. Prefer a year at a time? Grab the one-time Season Pass. Same features, your choice of commitment.

Jul 2026: Every training plan is now built by the Ride Cave engine: it starts from your current fitness, ramps you up safely into your weekly hours, and tapers you fresh for your event. Cave Crew plans keep adapting as you ride.

Jul 2026: Atlas now authors every interval of its custom plans, so what you ride matches what it described, and the plan stays fully editable. Want one that adapts automatically instead? Build it with Auto Train.

Jul 2026: Set your plan’s difficulty, skip the base phase if you’ve already built it, and build up to 16 hours a week. Build and Maintain Fitness plans now hold your fitness instead of tapering for a race.

Jun 2026: Ride the track from the rider’s eye with a new 3D first-person camera.

Jun 2026: Build and ride workouts that target heart-rate zones.

Jun 2026: One-click procedural eRoutes. Pick a vibe and go.

May 2026: Race other riders head-to-head on the track in real time.

Apr 2026: A desktop app with ANT+ USB support for your sensors.

Apr 2026: Rides you import now bring full stream data and detailed charts.