Rouvy has announced a raft of updates ahead of the indoor cycling season, including expanded support for Zwift hardware, integration with TrainerRoad workouts, new real-world routes, and more ways for riders to train and ride together.
Despite now supporting Zwift’s equipment, Rouvy says it wants to continue to focus on its real-world riding simulation ethos, despite its links to more gamification-oriented Zwift.
The two platforms were expected to continue operating independently, with separate subscriptions and product roadmaps. However, the link-up could present practical benefits to both companies and make using each platform easier without a different setup.
Rouvy says those who already own Zwift hardware will have another option for software, rather than being tied to using Zwift's platform.
Smart trainers with Zwift's Cog and Click pre-installed will now work with the platform, bringing virtual shifting and handlebar-mounted controls to Rouvy’s users.
Riders can also use the Zwift Ride as a full indoor setup for Rouvy, potentially making the hardware more attractive to those who want to switch between (or, at least, try) the two platforms.
Accordingly, Rouvy says a quarter of the ‘EXP’ points earned in either platform will transfer over to the opposite account to reward effort put in across the programs.
Compatible hardware will also be available through Rouvy’s online shop – from 9 September, it will offer a Zwift Ride Rouvy Edition, which comes with a set of Rouvy stickers.
TrainerRoad workouts come to Rouvy
Rouvy has also added support for TrainerRoad's structured workouts, enabling users to complete their prescribed training sessions while riding Rouvy's real-world routes.
That means riders can combine TrainerRoad's structured approach to training with Rouvy's video-based routes and simulated gradients, rather than completing a workout against a more conventional virtual training environment.
Rouvy and TrainerRoad say the integration is intended to make indoor training more enjoyable by combining structured workouts with a greater sense of realism.
More real roads, in higher definition
The platform is also expanding its route library, with new routes planned for Morocco, India and Patagonia.
Some of the new routes will carry a new 'Enhanced' tag. According to Rouvy, this identifies routes that have received significant visual improvements, with greater detail and improved speed-adjustment processing.
In theory, for example, a route recorded at 20km/h, but then ridden virtually at 40km/h will now feature less warping – a common issue faced by users.
The whole library is expected to have been enhanced in around 12 months' time.
Rouvy says it has also responded to user feedback by adding a ‘Ride Later’ collection, whereby riders can bookmark routes they want to tackle in future, rather than marking them as a favourite route immediately.
Challenges and pro rides
Rouvy introduced its ‘Clubs’, ‘Communities’ and social chat features in the northern hemisphere’s indoor training ‘off-season’ (summer), and says 850 clubs and 130 communities have been created by users since launch.
The next addition will be ‘Club Challenges’, arriving this autumn and enabling riders in groups to compete with each other.
A programme of rides with professional cyclists will also begin in October, led by 2026 Paris-Roubaix winner Wout van Aert and Victor Campenaerts, both of Team Visma-Lease a Bike, and the 2026 Tour de France green jersey winner Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek). Rouvy says the full calendar of pro group rides will be announced shortly.
