For self-coached athletes
Coach yourself like a pro. Every feature free.
Plan your season, send 5 × 4' at threshold to your watch and see what each session did to your fitness and fatigue. Trail, road, triathlon, cycling. No trial period, no feature behind a paywall.
- No credit card
- Export everything, any time
- Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Polar, Strava
Tomorrow · 5 × 4' threshold
On your COROS
Freshness
+6
Fresh for Sunday's long run
Your watch, whatever the brand
Activities arrive from Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Polar and Strava, or as FIT, GPX and TCX files. Planned workouts go to Garmin, COROS and Suunto watches. Switching brands next year? Your history stays where it is.
Your week in OpenAthlete
Four days, one block, no spreadsheet
What a normal training week looks like when the plan, the watch and the analysis talk to each other.
01 · Monday
Plan the week in ten minutes
Drag sessions from your library onto the calendar, or copy last week and shift it. The weekly bar compares planned load with the range that suits your current fitness.
Planned load: in range
02 · Tuesday
Intervals on your wrist
The 5 × 4' at threshold you built with pace targets is already on your Garmin, COROS or Suunto. Run it, sync, and the activity links itself to the planned session.
On the watch
03 · Thursday
See what the session did
Laps graded against the plan, time in zones, aerobic decoupling, pace corrected for heat and slope. With AI turned on, a short read sums it up in three findings.
Read of the session
- 4 of 5 reps on target
- Decoupling 3.1%: steady
- The heat cost you 6 s/km
04 · Sunday
Long run, then check your form
Two hours on the trails. Fitness, fatigue and freshness update, and the curve runs on over next week's plan, so you already know whether Tuesday will hurt.
58
Fitness
71
Fatigue
−13
Freshness
The full toolkit
What others sell as Premium, free here
No 14-day trial and no Premium tier for features. The free account is the whole app.
Season view
Six or twelve months on one screen: blocks drawn with the mouse, A, B and C races, weekly load against the recommended range.
Workout builder
Warm-up, repeats, recoveries, targets in pace, heart rate, power or % of VMA and FTP. Save it once, drop it on any day.
Records and capacities
Best efforts from 400 m to 100 km, critical speed and power, race time ranges, Daniels training paces.
Activity analysis
Intervals and climbs detected for you, aerobic decoupling, grade-adjusted pace, weather along the route.
Sick, injured, travelling?
Mark the days off and OpenAthlete offers to move the planned sessions after the break, or clear them.
Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate
Pulled from Garmin, COROS, Suunto or Polar and shown next to each day's freshness.
Training load
Real training load, with the maths in the open
Each activity gets a Banister TRIMP from your heart rate. Fitness is the 42-day average, fatigue the 7-day one, freshness the gap between them. Planned sessions get a load estimate too, so the curve runs ahead into next week.
The formulas sit in the source code, not behind a trademark. Read them, check them, argue about them on GitHub.
Read the codeAI, on your terms
Use the AI you already pay for
Add a key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral or another provider and every AI feature works on a free account. No key? Supporter includes a monthly allowance on ours. Nothing runs until you say yes.
A session from one sentence
"Hilly 1h15 with 6 × 3' at 10K pace" becomes a structured workout built on your zones. You edit it like any other.
Three questions after each run
How did it feel, how did you sleep, anything sore? Answer by text or by voice. Effort and pain go into your log.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT to adjust your week
There's no chatbot inside the app. Connect the assistant you already use through the MCP server: it reads your training and can plan up to 60 sessions straight into your calendar, and onto your watch.
via the OpenAthlete MCP server
Invite your coach, for free
Send an invitation from your settings. Your coach sees your calendar, plans your sessions and comments on your runs. Their first five athletes cost them nothing, and you never pay to get their sessions on your watch. Two coaches, one for running and one for the bike? That works too.
What your coach getsYour data leaves with you
Download everything in one file: profile, workouts, activities, metrics, messages. Delete your account and it's gone, links to your watch accounts included. And because the code is open, you can run your own copy.
Open source and self-hostingWhat athletes pay
The paid tier, per year
OpenAthlete's free account has every feature. This is what the paid plan costs elsewhere.
OpenAthlete
€0
Every feature. Supporter (€50) is optional.
intervals.icu
$48
Supporter, 12 × $4
Strava
€59.99
Subscription; not a planning tool
Nolio Premium
€82.80
Premium, 12 × €6.90
Runna
€119.99
Yearly plan
TrainingPeaks Premium
$134.99
Yearly; Premium is needed to get planned workouts on your watch
List prices on each vendor's pricing page, checked on November 3, 2026. US dollar prices are before tax; OpenAthlete prices include VAT. Sources: intervals.icu, Strava, Nolio Premium, Runna, TrainingPeaks Premium.
Free doesn't mean nobody pays
Servers, AI and development are paid for by Supporters: €5 a month or €50 a year, with AI on our keys in return. Or buy a coffee, once. Both keep the project independent.
Athletes ask
Yes. Calendar, workout builder, watch sync, analysis, records, training load and the MCP server are all on the free account, with no time limit. You only pay if you want AI on our keys instead of your own: Supporter, €5 a month or €50 a year.
Not yet. Polar activities, sleep and HRV come in, but Polar doesn't accept planned workouts from OpenAthlete. Workouts reach Garmin, COROS and Suunto watches.
Connect Strava and your full history comes in; COROS sends it too, 50 files a day, so a long history takes a few days. Garmin and Suunto bring the last 30 days, and Polar only new activities. For the rest, upload FIT, GPX and TCX files in bulk.
No. Most of the app is built for athletes who plan their own training. If you start working with a coach later, invite them and they plan in the same calendar.
The web app is designed for phones and installs on your home screen today. Native iOS and Android apps are in testing and coming soon.
Only what each feature needs, sent to the provider of the key in use, and only after you allow it. You can withdraw that permission at any time in Settings, and turn off the post-activity questions on their own.
Your next block starts on Monday
Create an account and connect your watch. It takes two minutes, and your recent activities start coming in straight away.
Free forever. No credit card.