Changelog
Ride Cave ships constantly. Here’s a running log of the features and improvements we’ve released, newest first.
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.
The Infinite World and Immersive Workouts are now free for everyone, on every route, with no Cave Crew required. Ride any eRoute or Ride Anywhere inside the full 3D world, with live riders on the road, drafting, and pelotons, and attach any structured workout to ride your training in the world instead of watching a graph.
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.
eRoutes now opens on a world map: every route on the platform pinned where it really starts, in Ride Cave, community, and your-routes colors. Zoom in, tap a pin, and ride it. Prefer the classic cards? Flip the Map/List toggle and it sticks.
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.
Every session now rides in the zone its name promises, with sweet spot at 91% of FTP and endurance at 65%. Your discipline genuinely shapes the week too, so a time trial block no longer looks like a criterium one. Training load figures are recalibrated too, measured from the intervals you actually ride, so they are more accurate and most plans read a little lower than before.
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, steer, and brake 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.
Training plans that adapt to your fitness, fatigue, and recovery automatically.
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.
The native iPhone app with Bluetooth trainer support is here.
May 2026: Race other riders head-to-head on the track in real time.
More membership options for supporting Ride Cave.
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.
Every feature here is live now. Ride Cave runs in your browser with no trial and no credit card. Jump in and try the newest additions.