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Today's Plan alternatives after the shutdown

Today's Plan is gone, and has been for over two years. Their own site now serves one line: “Today's Plan is no longer in operation.” If you are only finding out now, the useful questions are not about them — they are where else your rides still exist, and what replaces the thing you actually lost. For a lot of Today's Plan riders that second thing was not a logbook at all. It was a coach.

Cyclist at a kitchen table writing in a worn paper training notebook, a closed laptop pushed to one side and a road bike behind
The platform outlasted nobody. What you wrote down yourself is still here.

Where to go instead

Platform
Best if you want…
Price
Peakfy Our pick
Coaching itself — numbers computed from your rides, then explained
Free to try at launch
TrainingPeaks
To carry on working with a human coach
$19.95/mo · $134.99/yr
intervals.icu
The closest free replacement for the log and the analysis
$0 forever ($4/mo optional)
Golden Cheetah
To own your data locally and never depend on a service again
Free, open source
IntervalCoach
A cheap adaptive coach layered on intervals.icu
From €3/mo
TrainerRoad
A structured plan rather than a diary
$21.99/mo · $209.99/yr
Garmin Connect
Something free that already has your rides
Free

Peakfy is pre-launch, so it has no ratings or user numbers — and we don't invent any. Pricing is announced at launch.

What happened to Today's Plan

www.todaysplan.com.au now serves a single image and nothing else. The sentence sits in the image's alt text, so it is there in the source, not just in pixels: “Today's Plan is no longer in operation. We appreciate the years of support and wish you the best in your fitness journey.”

When it happened, precisely as far as the record allows. The Internet Archive holds the normal product site on 28 February 2024 and the farewell page on 18 March 2024. So the platform closed somewhere between those two dates. We are not going to be more precise than that: figures circulate for the exact day, but no page you can open today states one, and we would rather give you a bracket you can check than a date you cannot.

Nothing has moved since. We compared the archived 18 March 2024 page with the live page on 9 August 2026 — they are byte-for-byte identical, all 550 of them. Whatever the plan was, this is the end state.

One thing they never said, so neither will we: nothing on that page mentions your data — not that it was exported, not that it was deleted. There is simply no service left to ask.

First: where your rides are likely to be

Today's Plan was rarely the only place your rides lived, and the archived version of their own site tells you where to look. It advertised syncing with Garmin, Stages Dash, Zwift, Lezyne, Wahoo and Polar. If your activities arrived that way, the originals are still sitting in those accounts, untouched by any of this. That is usually the whole history.

Be realistic about the head unit. On a shutdown that happened last month we would tell you to plug your Garmin in and copy the Activities folder before it overwrites itself. This one is more than two years old. If you have ridden since, that storage has long since rolled over. Look anyway — it costs five minutes — but do not build a plan around it.

Search your own disk. Anything you exported while the service was alive is probably still where you saved it. Look for .fit, .tcx and .gpx files from before March 2024.

If you had a coach, ask them. This is the one that people forget, and for Today's Plan it matters more than for most: coaches often kept their own copies of athlete files and plans outside the platform. A single message may recover more than any amount of digging.

The seven platforms worth moving to

Every claim below was read from that company's own website on 9 August 2026. We build Peakfy, so we have put it first and said so here rather than hiding it — judge the rest on whether the free options and the coach-first option are described fairly, because for many people leaving Today's Plan one of those is the right answer.

Our pick

Peakfy

Move here if what you miss is being coached, not the charts. Today's Plan sat between you and a person; if that person is no longer in your training life, a diary will not replace them. Peakfy computes training load, readiness, zones and an FTP estimate from your rides — and then a coach you can actually talk to explains what each number means for tomorrow, remembers your whole season and lets you push back, with no counters and no credits. Every session arrives with the interval profile, exact power and heart-rate targets and what to eat per hour, a combination we could not find on any rival's marketing pages. Cycling only. Six languages, iOS and Android, built and hosted in Europe under GDPR.

Where it does not win: Peakfy is pre-launch, so it has no ratings and no user numbers, and we do not invent any. Data comes in today via Intervals.icu and .fit import; direct Garmin, Strava, Wahoo, Zwift and Apple Health connections are planned, not live. And it is not a coach marketplace — if you want to hire a human, this is not where you do it.

TrainingPeaks

Move here if you still work with a human coach, or want to. This is the closest structural replacement for what Today's Plan actually was: a platform two people share, built around the Performance Management Chart, and the place most coaches already work — which means your coach probably needs no convincing. Premium is $19.95/month or $134.99/year with a 14-day trial. For context, Garmin acquired it on 22 July 2026; nothing about how it works has been announced as changing.

Where it does not win: if you came out of this self-coached, you are paying for a professional-grade dashboard and doing the interpretation yourself. Their Coach Match tiers also ration plan adjustments — one a month, two a month, unlimited only at the top.

Read the full Peakfy vs TrainingPeaks comparison →

intervals.icu

The closest free replacement for the log and the analysis. Their homepage says “Intervals.icu is free for everyone” — $0 forever, no credit card required, with an optional $4/month Supporter tier. Fitness, fatigue and form tracking, activity analysis with interval detection, a workout builder, a plan builder, wide device integrations, 21 languages. If what you lost was the charts, you can rebuild that today for nothing.

Where it does not win: it analyses and plans, it does not coach — there is nobody to ask why. And there is no native iOS or Android app; it is an installable web app, by deliberate choice of its maker.

Golden Cheetah

Move here if two shutdowns in three years have taught you something. Free, open source, and the most powerful desktop analysis in the sport — your files live on your own disk, and no company can switch them off. It imports directly from Garmin, SRM and PowerTap hardware.

Where it does not win: their own site concedes “a steep learning curve for new users”. It analyses rather than prescribes, and it is a desktop application — no coach, no phone app, nobody to ask at 10pm the night before a session.

IntervalCoach

Move here if you want an adaptive coach for very little money. “Train for the day you're actually having” — daily re-planning from 60+ signals, the most transparent readiness display in the category, fifteen languages, from €3/month with a free tier.

Where it does not win: it requires an Intervals.icu account, so it is a layer on someone else's platform rather than one product — and it meters its coach chat by tier.

TrainerRoad

Move here if what you want now is a plan, executed. “Cycling's #1 Training App”, built around structured workouts and a plan that adapts when life interferes, with AI FTP Detection so you do not need test days. iOS, Android, Windows and macOS; outdoor sessions go to a Garmin, Wahoo or Hammerhead head unit. $21.99/month or $209.99/year.

Where it does not win: their site advertises no coach you can talk to and makes no claim to explain why a session was chosen. No free trial, only a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Read the full Peakfy vs TrainerRoad comparison →

Garmin Connect

Consider this if your rides were syncing there anyway — because then you lost nothing. Today's Plan advertised Garmin syncing, so for many riders this is exactly the case. It is free, it already holds the history, and Garmin Cycling Coach on top of it is genuinely adaptive: base/build/peak blocks against %FTP bands, using sleep and recovery.

Where it does not win: the coach is a hardware gate — compatible Garmin device plus a paired power meter and heart-rate strap — and a Garmin-only data island. Explanations sit behind the paid Connect+ tier, and there is no per-hour fuelling.

Did you stop training when the platform did?

For some people the shutdown was the moment the structure went, and the riding thinned out after it. If that is you, be honest that the problem is not which app to pick — it is getting a reason to go out on Tuesday. That argues for something that tells you what today's session is and why, not something that draws a chart after the fact.

Was the coach the point, or the software?

Today's Plan was built around coach-and-athlete pairs, so this question decides more here than on any other migration. If the relationship is still alive, follow your coach — in practice that means TrainingPeaks. If it ended with the platform, you are not looking for a shared dashboard at all.

How much does not depending on one company matter to you now?

A fair question after watching a platform vanish. Golden Cheetah is the maximal answer: files on your own disk, no service to disappear. Short of that, keep local copies of your .fit files wherever you land — every platform on this page can be left, and you should assume one day you will leave it.

Starting again after two years — what you actually lose

Much less than on a fresh shutdown, and it is worth saying why. Long-term load metrics were already meaningless. Anything built on a rolling six-week window stopped describing you within about six weeks of March 2024. Whatever you import now, it will be rebuilt from your next six weeks of riding regardless — so importing history is a convenience, not a rescue.

Your FTP and zones are current facts, not historical ones. A recent hard ride or a short test re-anchors them, and the zones follow automatically. Your best efforts across durations rebuild from the riding ahead of you, not behind you.

What is genuinely worth recovering is the record, not the numbers. Which weeks worked, what you rode before a good result, what a bad patch looked like from the inside. If your coach kept copies, or you kept a notebook, that is the part with lasting value — and no platform ever held it as well as you think it did.

If you do recover .fit files from Garmin, Strava, Wahoo, Polar or Zwift, import them wherever you land. Peakfy reads .fit files today and also takes your data through Intervals.icu. And this time, keep a copy of the raw files somewhere nobody can switch off.

Who wrote this: we build Peakfy, so we have put it first and said so on the page rather than hiding it in a footer. We have not tested these products — we read each company's own website on the date shown and linked every source, so you can check any line yourself.

Sources, all read on 9 August 2026: www.todaysplan.com.au · web.archive.org/web/20240228030150/https://www.todaysplan.com. · web.archive.org/web/20240318124128/https://www.todaysplan.com. · intervals.icu · www.goldencheetah.org · www.trainingpeaks.com/pricing/for-athletes · www.intervalcoach.app/en/pricing · www.trainerroad.com/pricing. Today's Plan is a trademark of its respective owner; Peakfy is not affiliated with or endorsed by Today's Plan.

Good questions

Frequently asked

It shut down. Their own site, read on 9 August 2026, serves a single image whose alt text states “Today's Plan is no longer in operation. We appreciate the years of support and wish you the best in your fitness journey.” The Internet Archive shows the normal product site on 28 February 2024 and this farewell page on 18 March 2024, so the closure falls between those dates.
No page you can open today gives a day. What is verifiable is the bracket: still running on 28 February 2024, already closed by 18 March 2024, according to the Internet Archive's copies of their own site. The farewell page's own file timestamps sit inside that window — 14 March 2024 for the image, 18 March 2024 for the page. Anyone quoting an exact date is going beyond what the surviving record shows.
There is no service left to export from — the site has served nothing but a farewell notice since March 2024, unchanged. Note that Today's Plan never made any statement about user data, so we will not tell you it was deleted; we simply cannot ask. What you can recover is whatever exists elsewhere: in Garmin, Strava, Wahoo, Polar or Zwift if you synced from them, in an export you made before March 2024, or from your coach, who may well have kept their own copies.
intervals.icu. Their homepage states “Intervals.icu is free for everyone” — $0 forever with an optional $4/month Supporter tier — covering fitness, fatigue and form tracking, interval detection, a workout builder and a plan builder in 21 languages. If you want your files on your own machine instead, Golden Cheetah is free and open source.
TrainingPeaks, if you are asking structurally: a platform an athlete and a coach share, which is what Today's Plan was built around. If the coaching relationship ended with the platform and what you now want is the coaching itself rather than a shared dashboard — something that reads your rides and tells you what to do next and why — that is a different product, and it is what Peakfy is built for.

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