The email is the product. You don't have to open the app. You ride your bike, the data flows in from your device, and on your schedule you get a short note that tells you where your fitness stands, in plain English, with numbers that mean something.
They come from Kenny at RideTool. Hit reply and it reaches me.
From Account → Email Digest, choose how often it lands:
Whatever the cadence, it lands at 7am, your local time.
Every email has the same five sections, a snapshot of your Me card, delivered to your inbox.
Your fitness number right now, plus how it's changed over the last 2 weeks and last 24 weeks. A verb tells you the direction at a glance: on the rise, holding, or easing off. When it's easing off, the email says what adds it back.
The trend as a picture: your fitness line over the last 12 weeks, with each day's effort as a bar underneath it. The line takes the color of your direction. When it rises, your engine is growing. The slope tells the story faster than any number.
Your W/kg number with the same 2-week and 24-week lookbacks. Both levers, training and body weight, are captured here. Your FTP and weight are shown so you know exactly what's driving the number.
How rested you are today in one word, tired, almost ready, ready, fresh, or fully rested. Plus a 3-day lookahead so you can plan ahead. Tomorrow, and the day after.
Your consistency: one bar per week for the last 12 weeks, the recent weeks brighter, and this week's total so far. Steady bars are the whole game.
Monday tells you where fitness stands heading into the week and whether you're fresh enough to push or need an easier start. Wednesday is the midweek pulse check: recovering or building, push or back off. Friday is the weekend preview, what shape you're in for the days when most riders get their hours, so you can plan a long ride, a short one, or a guilt-free rest day.
Most users never open the app. The emails are designed to stand alone, everything you need in under a minute. The app is here when you want to look closer, but it isn't required.