Tiiks vs beSPOKE: Named Catalog Parts vs a Private Local Ride Diary

beSPOKE is a local-only iPhone ride diary in public TestFlight, with light reminders on chain, tyres, and brakes. Tiiks is Strava on named catalog parts, on iOS and Android, with reviews that carry mileage.

You lean the bike in the hallway, drop the phone on the saddle, and the ride is already a memory you want to keep on this device — photos matched by time, the weather, a note, an Eddington bump. beSPOKE, at bespoke-cycling.com, is built for that hallway. Local-only iPhone. No account. No cloud. No subscription yet; they say pricing is still to be decided fairly. Public TestFlight beta. It complements Strava and Komoot. It does not replace them. The diary is the product. The chain is a reminder on the side.

Tiiks is the other object in the same hallway. Native iOS and Android. Strava distance on the bike and on each fitted component. A real parts catalog with specs. Verified rider reviews that carry mileage. Service or replace. Full history. A widget. Twenty slots. Light component reminders by kilometers or time are not a catalog. A private diary is not a review feed. If you came to keep the story of the ride on the phone and nowhere else, stay in their beta. If you came to know the named part, you are in the wrong notebook.

What beSPOKE actually is

A garage of bikes. Rides from GPX and FIT, from Apple Health cycling workouts you assign to a bike, or typed in when you forgot to record. Automatic photo matching by time. Weather on the memory. Notes. Indoor kilometers kept honest against outdoor. Streaks. An Eddington number, because they are not embarrassed by nerd statistics. English and German. The site is clear about the stack it is not: not a social platform, not a route planner. Strava and Komoot can stay. beSPOKE sits beside them with the garage and the diary.

Component tracking is on the box: chain, tyres, brakes and more, reminders by kilometers or time, per bike. That is a light maintenance layer on a ride journal, not a parts catalog and not verified rider reviews. Sync between devices is not there today; if it comes, they say it will only come in a form that still fits “your data, only yours.” No Android. Public beta, no waitlist, TestFlight. The core can already be daily. They say some edges are still rough. Believe that. Do not write a finished dual-platform store page they have not published.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks reads Strava and puts that mileage on the bike and on each fitted component. The part is a catalog part with specs. Reviews include how far the reviewer had ridden. The history stays with the bike when you service or replace. A Home Screen widget shows parts that already received the ride. We ship on iOS and Android. We do not keep the ride as a local-only diary, we do not match photos by timestamp, and we do not calculate Eddington. We remember the named part. The ride you already published is the evidence.

A private diary versus a named catalog part

beSPOKE stores the story on the iPhone: the photo, the weather, the note, the indoor-versus-outdoor split, the streak. That is a relationship with the ride, and they say so without blinking. Tiiks stores the identity of the part: catalog name, specs, a review at real kilometers, wear from the Strava file. A diary can make Monday feel like a season. It will not tell you what other riders saw on the same chain. A catalog will not keep the summit photo. Stop asking one app for both souvenirs.

Health and files versus Strava on the slots

GPX, FIT, Apple Health workouts assigned to a bike, a manual ride when the watch stayed in a drawer — beSPOKE is open to files you already have, and it still refuses to become Strava. That is the complement they advertise. Tiiks is Strava-shaped on purpose. Distance lands on the bike and on each fitted catalog component. A Health workout can be a real ride. It is not, by itself, a named cassette with a review. An imported FIT is a file. A Strava sync onto twenty slots is a wear pipe. Do not let “it counts kilometers” collapse those.

Light reminders versus service or replace with history

Chain, tyres, brakes, due in kilometers or in time — enough to stop a commute tyre from surprising you. It is not twenty slots, it is not a catalog, and it is not a service-versus-replace history with verified reviews behind it. Tiiks asks the sharper question on the part you named, and keeps the answer on the bike. If a reminder square is the whole maintenance job you wanted, their layer is honest. If you wanted the next cassette to inherit a real history, a reminder square is a sticky note.

iPhone beta versus native iOS and Android

beSPOKE is iPhone, local-first, TestFlight, English and German. No Android. Sync is a future that may never arrive if it cannot stay local. Pricing is TBD; they promise no subscription tricks and have not finished the offer. Tiiks is a shipping native app on both phones, with a catalog you can use as a product. Beta privacy versus finished dual-platform parts. If you will not leave the iPhone and you will not open an account, their hallway is the honest one. If you wanted Android, or a catalog, the beta is the wrong door.

Who beSPOKE is enough for

Stay on beSPOKE if you want a private local ride diary on an iPhone: GPX and FIT, Health workouts, photos and weather, Eddington, indoor honesty, light reminders on chain and tyres and brakes, no account, no cloud, and you accept a public TestFlight while they decide how to charge. Choose Tiiks if you want Strava on named catalog parts, verified mileage reviews, a service-or-replace history, a widget, and a finished native app on iOS and Android. They complement Strava. We use Strava as the wear pipe. Those are different compliments.

Questions we get

Does beSPOKE replace Strava?

They say no. The site positions the app as a complement to Strava and Komoot, not a social feed and not a route planner. Tiiks also does not replace Strava. We read it. If you wanted a local diary beside the feed you already have, that is their job. If you wanted the feed to move a named part, that is ours. Two complements. Two different leftovers.

Is there an Android app?

Not that they publish. beSPOKE is iPhone, local-first, TestFlight. Tiiks is native on iOS and Android. If Android is required, this comparison is already over. If you live on one iPhone and want the data to stay there, their missing Android is a feature, not a hole.

Will my rides sync to an iPad later?

Not today. They say sync between devices is local-first for now, and will only appear if it still fits “your data, only yours.” That is an honest non-feature. Tiiks is a connected rider app; we are not going to sell you a second-device story they refused to ship. If the lock is the job, stay local. If the named part on both phones is the job, you were never in a local-only diary.