From a browser tab to Strava: how Moveee Indoor runs a full trainer session

It's easy to describe an indoor app feature by feature and still leave you unsure what a ride actually feels like from the inside. So instead of a list, here's a single ride followed all the way through — from a cold trainer and a closed browser to a finished session sitting on Strava — using Moveee Indoor, our browser-based indoor app. No installs anywhere in it, and nothing left out.

One ride, start to finish

Eight beats, in order. The whole thing, the first time, takes about five minutes of setup and then it's just riding.

That's the loop. Notice there's no seam in it where the indoor part gets second-class treatment — the recording, the analysis and the upload are the same ones your outdoor rides go through. Let's slow down on the two steps riders ask about most.

Pairing (step two), in a bit more detail

The connection is the part people expect to be fiddly, and it's genuinely the simplest bit. When you click connect, the browser opens a short Bluetooth picker, you choose your trainer from the list, and that's it — it's the standard FTMS trainer protocol, so Wahoo, Tacx, Elite, Saris and most others just work. Power meters connect over CPS and heart-rate straps over the standard profile, each in its own quick tap. There's no ANT+ dongle to find, no separate app to bridge the signal. If it ever sulks, connecting a smart trainer in the browser covers the handful of things worth checking.

The ride itself (steps four and five)

This is where a browser app has to earn its keep, and it's the part that surprises people. The world isn't a stock backdrop — it's your route, rebuilt in 3D from OpenStreetMap and real elevation data, so you ride past the actual buildings, over the actual bridges, up the actual gradient. Free-ride off the route line if you fancy exploring, or stick to it to recon a course you've got coming up.

Resistance behaves in one of two ways, depending on what you picked. On a plain ride it follows the road: the trainer gets harder as the real hill steepens and eases on the descents, so effort maps to terrain. Inside a structured workout, ERG mode takes over and simply holds each interval's target watts for you — you turn the pedals, it does the rest. If ERG is new to you, ERG mode explained is the primer.

What lands when you stop

Press stop and the ride doesn't just vanish into a file — it flows into the rest of your training on its own.

Because it all counts toward your Moveee plan, a trainer ride on a filthy January evening does exactly the same work in your training history as a summer road ride. That's the whole point of following the loop end to end: there's no indoor silo to escape from afterwards.

The same loop, with company — or without a trainer

One variation sits on top of the very same loop without changing its shape. Haven't a trainer to hand at all? Explore mode rolls you through the world with no hardware paired — handy for walking the course of an event you've entered, or simply seeing a route in 3D before you decide it's worth riding for real. Pair or don't; the recording, the finish and the upload behave the same either way.

The honest edges

Two things to keep in view. Moveee Indoor is Chrome or Edge only — pairing needs Web Bluetooth, which Safari and Firefox don't support, so an iPhone or iPad can't run it and there's no native app that would. And it's free while in alpha: young, improving fast, and rough in places. It is a solo app: no racing scene, no group rides. Everything in the walkthrough above, though, works today — you can ride the whole loop this evening.