What is Vekolo?
Vekolo is an indoor cycling app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch from overmorrow GmbH, a German company. It turns a smart trainer into a workout tool, and the whole pitch is what it leaves out: no account, no lobby, no feed, and no server holding your rides. It asks for your FTP rather than your email.
It's new. Version 1.0 reached the App Store on September 5, 2026, and it had reached 1.12 by October 19, with German added along the way.
Key Features
Ride Now
Pair your sensors once and they connect when the app opens. Your first pedal stroke starts the warm-up, so you can spin while you pick a workout or have one generated. The site says a ride survives calls, app switches and even a crash.
Workouts
ERG mode holds the target power, with a library of essential workouts sorted by what they do to your legs and an editor that works in zones. You can bring your .zwo files over from Zwift and share workouts with friends as .vekolo files.
The AI generator
Type something like "45 minutes, something spicy" and you get a structured session tuned to your FTP. Apart from the Strava connect step below, this is the one thing the privacy policy says touches a server: the text you typed goes to Vekolo's generator service and on to Anthropic's Claude, with no ride data, profile data or device identifiers attached, and the service stores nothing. Workout notes are written by Apple Intelligence on your device.
Apple hardware
Apple Watch works as a second screen, ride remote and heart rate sensor. AirPods can supply heart rate too, so no strap is needed. Intervals show in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, and finished rides go to Apple Health.
Your data
Rides are stored on your device as FIT files, and your profile, workouts and rides sync through the private database of your own iCloud account. The app's privacy label says the developer collects no data.
What goes to Strava
Connect Strava in the app and finished rides go up. The website says one tap and the App Store description says automatically, so see which it is once you're connected. Uploads go straight from your device to Strava, and your Strava tokens are stored encrypted on the device. The connect step passes through Vekolo's server because Strava requires a confidential client secret; the policy says that server stores nothing. As documented this is one way, with nothing read back from Strava. You can disconnect in Settings.
Who It's For
- Riders who want a structured session and nothing else on the screen
- Privacy-minded riders who'd rather not hand a platform years of training
- Zwift leavers with a folder of .zwo workouts
- Anyone who already wears an Apple Watch or AirPods and doesn't want a chest strap
What it doesn't do
It needs recent software: iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and, for the watch app, watchOS 26. There's no Android, Windows or Mac version on its pages.
Its site is headed "Virtual Indoor Cycling", but we found nothing on its pages about virtual worlds, courses, races or group rides. It calls itself the un-platform and "a tool you own". Its trainer support rests on the FTMS standard, and the terms say compatibility depends on each manufacturer's implementation of it; the App Store names Wahoo, Garmin, Tacx and Elite without listing models.
The free tier isn't spelled out. Vekolo says "Free to start", and the App Store lists Pro Yearly at $59 and Pro Lifetime at $119, but neither the site nor the terms say what Pro adds, or whether Strava upload sits on the free side. The terms say prices are shown in the app before you buy.
What if I stop using it?
Rides are ordinary FIT files, so you can take them to anything that reads FIT. Deleting the app removes them from that device. iCloud copies are yours to manage in iOS Settings.
Who do I contact if something's wrong with a purchase?
Apple. Purchases, renewals, cancellations and refunds run through the App Store, and the terms send you there. The developer's terms list a contact address for anything else.
