Chad: Private Cycling Coach

New: claim the roads you actually ride. Every ride fills in your map — and the blank tiles become your next route. Free, on-device, no account.

Your coach, not your scoreboard. Chad measures you against your last few weeks — not your best-ever ride.

Most cycling apps celebrate your all-time peak. Chad cares about your current form: what your recent training says you are ready for today, and what to ride next. After a break, a hard block, or a long season, the coaching adjusts to where you are now — no guilt, no ghost of your fittest self.

No setup. No account, no sign-up, no FTP test, no forms to fill in. Import one ride — or tap "Read a sample ride" to try Chad with no data of your own — and Chad works out your terrain, your FTP, and your heart-rate ceiling from the ride itself.

You do not start from zero. Export your Strava archive, hand the file to Chad, and every cycling activity you have ever logged imports in one go — years of riding, read on your phone, filling in your history and your map at once. Single rides import too, from Garmin, Wahoo, Karoo, or anything that exports FIT, TCX, or GPX.

Seconds later, Chad tells you in plain language what a session actually did, how hard it was, and what it means for your training this week.

New: Claim new ground

Every ride you import claims the ~1 km map tiles it crosses. Watch your map fill in over real roads and terrain — a heatmap of everywhere you have actually ridden, with the blank patches next door suggesting your next route. Tap a tile to see when you first claimed it and which rides crossed it.

No leaderboards, no sharing, no streak to protect — just an honest picture of your own ground.

Training toward a sportive or gran fondo? Set a target event and Chad tracks your readiness, counts down the days, and shapes its recommendations around the time you have left.

Key Features

• Coaching built from your recent rides, not generic averages or all-time records
• Claim new ground: a ~1 km tile heatmap of every road you have ridden, on a real map
• No account, no setup — or try the built-in sample ride first
• See at a glance whether your last 7 days are moving you forward
• Plain-language feedback after every ride: what it did, how hard it was, what it means
• Set a target event and track your readiness score and days to go
• See your fitness trend — a training load chart built from your rides, visible from day one
• Track your consistency streak and ride milestones as your history grows
• Smart FTP suggestions built from your recent power data
• Review heart-rate zones, power zones, and training load
• Import FIT, TCX, and GPX from Garmin, Wahoo, Karoo, and more
• Bring your whole Strava history across in one go, automatically
• Keep the last 2 months free, with a one-time upgrade for full coaching

Unlock Full Coaching

Upgrade once with a one-time in-app purchase to unlock:

• Complete ride history — including every tile you ever claimed, not just 2 months
• Fatigue signature for rides with power and heart-rate data
• Full 7-day stats with personal deltas and goal-focused coaching actions
• Smarter next-ride recommendations based on recent load and intensity
• Structured training plan tuned to your goal, current fitness, and remaining time
• Today's workout: the day's recommended session as a structured workout, exportable as a FIT file to your bike computer
• Training plan summaries with Chad's recommendations
• All-time power curve across every duration from 1 second to 3 hours, with rider type and block comparison
• Full fitness trend with fatigue and form curves, plus a taper projection to your goal event
• Week-by-week training track with actual-vs-target longest-ride progress

Private by design

No account. No cloud. No subscription. All analysis runs on your phone, and your ride data never leaves it — the map included. Built-in backup and restore keeps you in control — your data is yours to keep, move, or delete. "Private" means both things: a coach of your own, and training data that stays yours.

Download Chad and turn your next ride into coaching you can act on.