Tiiks vs BikeHub: Parts That Mean Something vs Swap Journal

BikeHub is a Hungarian indie Android app for riders who install, remove, and move parts between bikes and then back-calculate the miles. Here is how swap accounting compares to a named part identity.

That is a real problem and a real solution. It is also a different problem from “what is this part, and what do other riders know about it.” A ledger can be precise about when a component changed bikes and still be silent about whether that component is a named model in real brand parts, or how far other riders have taken that model. If you swap often, start with BikeHub’s job. If you live with one bike and want identity, start with the other job.

The short version

Choose BikeHub if you regularly move wheels, groups, or brakes between bikes, you are on Android, and the feature you will use every month is “I forgot to log the swap, so I will enter it last month and let the miles catch up.” The small indie scope is a feature here: the app is aimed at that job, not at becoming a store. Photos of what you pulled off are part of that job. A thousand downloads on Play is enough to take the ledger seriously and not enough to pretend it has a parts library platform.

Track the bike in Tiiks so the cassette stays a named real brand part with its own mileage and reviews, not a row in a ledger that only remembers which frame it transferred to.

What BikeHub covers

The center of BikeHub is the install and remove event. You tell the app that a part went onto a bike on a date, or came off on a date, including dates that have already passed. Mileage from Strava and operating time are then allocated across those intervals. That back-calculation is the feature people who move wheels and groupsets actually need. Without it, every swap resets the story or leaves miles stuck on the wrong bike. Entering a past date is not a correction on the margins. It is the normal way this diary gets written, because the swap happened on a Tuesday and the phone came out on Sunday. Around that, BikeHub gives you service intervals, notifications, and photos of the part or the job. For a rider who treats components as inventory that travels, photos are a practical memory: which rotor was on which wheel, which caliper had the new pads. The app is not trying to be a storefront or a review site. It is trying to keep the books when the hardware will not sit still.

Choose BikeHub if you regularly move wheels, groups, or brakes between bikes, you are on Android, and the feature you will use every month is “I forgot to log the swap, so I will enter it last month and let the miles catch up.” The small indie scope is a feature here: the app is aimed at that job, not at becoming a store. Photos of what you pulled off are part of that job. A thousand downloads on Play is enough to take the ledger seriously and not enough to pretend it has a parts library platform.

The table is the honest split. Everything below explains why each row matters for your garage.

Tiiks vs BikeHub at a glance

What Tiiks covers

Tiiks is a native app on iOS and Android. Add a bike from factory presets and Tiiks fills all twenty slots with real brand parts: Shimano, SRAM, and the rest, not blank rows you name yourself. Connect Strava once and ride distance lands on the bike and on each fitted component automatically. Community ratings and rider reviews sit next to those parts, with mileage riders actually put on them. The wear dashboard shows colour status at a glance, push alerts fire after rides, and an iOS home screen widget shows the same without opening the app. When a part is due, you choose service or replace and the bike keeps the full history.

Quick answer

Is BikeHub made for people who swap parts between bikes?

Yes. The install and remove flow, including past dates and back-calculated mileage, is the point of the product. Photos and service notifications sit on that ledger. If you do not move parts between bikes, you are paying for a workflow you will not run.