What is rampida?
rampida is an indoor cycling app that runs in your browser. You drop in a GPX or FIT file, it snaps the line to real roads and builds the surroundings in 3D from elevation and OpenStreetMap data, and your smart trainer follows the gradient. Nothing to install. The pitch is your routes rather than a game world, in the maker's words what you also ride outdoors.
It's new. The public changelog starts at version 0.2.0 on October 27, 2026 and had reached 0.4.0 three days later, and the app was called grimpio until October 28. It's in open beta until March 31, 2027, and everything is free until then. The terms say the beta can be extended but not shortened.
Key Features
Your own routes
GPX and FIT both load, along with the .fit.gz file Strava's Export Original often gives you, so there's no need to unpack it. Komoot, Strava, Garmin Connect, Wahoo, Ride with GPS and files straight off a bike computer are all named as sources. There is no import by link: rampida says those services don't allow access from the browser, so you download the file and drag it in. An activity with no GPS, such as an indoor ride, has no route to ride. A route editor trims the ends and cuts out detours and GPS spikes.
Ready-made climbs
If you don't have a file, there are over 140 ready-made routes, climbs and routes other riders have shared, with a leaderboard on every climb. Climbs on any route are detected and categorised from 4 to HC, and you're timed on them.
Workouts and a coach
ERG mode sets the trainer's power for you, with templates from base to VO2max or your own workouts written as text. The coach, new in version 0.4.0, plans your training up to a date on a target climb, which can be your own GPX. It's a Pro feature that's free during the beta. The plan is calculated by rampida; the wording of the coach's messages is written by Claude, Anthropic's AI, and the privacy policy lists what goes there (training type, duration, load, the target route's name and size, not heart rate, weight, name or email).
Company on the road
Bots and pacer groups ride along, with a draft that saves up to 40% of air resistance by rampida's figures. You can race a ghost of your best time or a friend's ride, see other riders live on the same route and send a Ride On. XP, levels, achievements, tours and a customisable rider sit on top, and leaderboards only count rides with a trainer or power meter, which the server recalculates.
What goes to Strava
Connect Strava from your profile, then send each ride by hand or switch on upload after every ride, which is off by default. rampida gets the right to add rides and, by its privacy policy, reads nothing else from your account. The upload is a FIT file with start time, power, cadence, speed, distance and altitude each second, plus the route's name. Heart rate stays out unless you turn it on for Strava, a switch added in October 2026. The file has no GPS positions, so don't expect a map of the route on the Strava activity. You can also save the FIT file yourself, and rides can go to Google Health as a summary.
Who It's For
- Riders with a specific climb or event coming up, who want to ride that road rather than a game world
- Komoot and bike computer users who already have the file
- Anyone wanting a cheaper Zwift alternative for solo riding, at €4.99 a month after the beta
- People who can't or won't install anything, on a Windows, Mac, Linux or Chromebook machine or an Android phone
What it doesn't do
The hardware limits are the ones to check first. Pairing uses Web Bluetooth, so you need Chrome or Edge on a computer, or Chrome on Android. Firefox won't pair, and neither will any browser on iPhone or iPad. There's no native app, though Chrome and Edge can install it as a web app.
Trainers have to speak Bluetooth FTMS, which covers most current Wahoo, Tacx, Elite, Zwift, Wattbike, Stages and Saris models. Trainers that only speak ANT+ FE-C can't be controlled from the browser; with a Bluetooth power meter you can still ride one, setting the resistance yourself.
It won't read your Strava routes or activities, so every route of your own is a manual export. rampida's homepage is plain that Zwift has the bigger community and more races. The app, the guides and the pricing are in German and English, but the help page, the changelog, the privacy policy and the terms are in German only.
Two details of the post-beta plans don't line up across rampida's own pages. The pricing table has Strava upload by hand on the free plan, while the help page and the app's connections panel list it under Pro. The table also shows all routes as free, while the Zwift comparison page says community routes will need Pro.
Can I try it without a trainer or an account?
Yes, up to a point. A demo ride works with no account and no trainer, and loading, viewing and editing routes works without a trainer. Riding your own routes takes a free account, and riding properly takes a trainer that pairs or a Bluetooth power meter.
Can I ride a Strava segment?
Yes, by exporting a route or activity that contains it. rampida finds the climbs on the route itself and times those, so your time is against rampida's own leaderboards, not the segment on Strava.
Who can see the routes I load?
They sit in a private library on rampida's server. No other rider sees them; the privacy policy says rampida's operator can. The privacy policy warns that a route can reveal where you live, so it suggests not sharing one that starts or ends at your door. Sharing one with the community gives rampida a lasting right to use it, and a shared route stays up after you delete your account, with your name removed.
What happens to the Founder Pass if the service closes?
The terms say the unused part of the price is refunded pro rata. The pass isn't a lifetime deal: it runs for a fixed term from the end of the beta and then normal prices apply, and it doesn't turn into a subscription.
