Tiiks vs BikeKeep: Mileage on Named Parts vs a Manual Dual Clock

BikeKeep asks you to log the ride, then counts chores in kilometers and days. Tiiks reads Strava and puts that distance on catalog parts that already have a name.

You hang the bike, wipe the chain, and pick up the phone to be a clerk. BikeKeep is waiting for you to log the ride so the total distance moves. Until you do that, the dual clocks sit still: chain lube in twenty kilometers, a tyre that ages in days whether you rode or not. The reminder stack is earnest — approaching, on the day, then daily until you mark it done. The bike, meanwhile, already happened. Strava already has the file. You are typing a second copy of a ride you already finished.

That is a fair product if you like a chore list with two timers. It is a different product from an app that reads the ride you already published and puts those kilometers on a named chain, a named cassette, a named pair of pads. BikeKeep and Tiiks both put a widget on the Home Screen. They do not show the same object. One counts down to the next job. The other shows parts that already received the ride.

What BikeKeep actually is

BikeKeep — the App Store listing says BikeKeep: Bike Maintenance — is an iOS app from TsuzuKit. You keep a bike collection with a photo, a service log, and costs. You log a ride to update total distance. Maintenance items run on two clocks at once: distance and time. A chain can be due in twenty kilometers; a tyre can be due in a number of days. Presets cover chain lube and replacement, tyre pressure, tyres, pads, cables, bar tape, wheel truing, the bottom bracket, a drivetrain clean, and a full wash. You can change the recommended intervals. The app treats those intervals as guides, not laws, which is the honest way to ship a preset list.

Reminders come in three stages: approaching, on the day, then every day after until you close the job. There are twenty-four cyclist tips and a mascot. The Home Screen widget tells you which bike is due and how many kilometers or days are left. Free gets you one bike, three maintenance items, and reminders. Premium opens unlimited bikes and items, the full history and ride log, grouping by storage, and no ads — a one-time twenty dollars, or a dollar forty-nine a week. No Strava connection is claimed. The odometer is your thumb.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks is native on iOS and Android. After a ride lands on Strava, distance goes on the bike and on each fitted component — twenty slots, not three chores. The chain is a catalog chain with specs, not a preset labeled “chain lube.” Verified rider reviews carry real mileage. When a part gets close, the question is service or replace, and the history stays with the bike. The Home Screen widget shows the status of parts that already received that ride. You do not re-type Saturday so Monday can count.

A ride you type versus a ride that already exists

BikeKeep updates total distance when you log the ride. Miss a week of commuting and the dual clocks are fiction: the days still tick, the kilometers do not. That is not a moral failing. It is what a manual odometer is. Tiiks reads the Strava file you already made and puts those kilometers on the mounted parts. The clerk job is gone. The parts move because you rode, not because you opened a form before dinner.

Dual clocks on chores versus mileage on named catalog parts

Distance times time is BikeKeep’s real idea. Lube can be a short-kilometer job. A tyre can be an age job. Pads, cables, bar tape, truing, the bottom bracket, a wash — each item gets a recommended interval you can edit. Useful, if you think in chores. Tiiks tracks named parts from a real catalog. The object is the named part you fitted, with specs and reviews that include kilometers, not a customizable reminder called “drivetrain clean.” A wash still matters. It is not a cassette, and we do not pretend a preset list is a catalog.

A widget that counts down versus a widget that already ate the ride

Both apps ship a Home Screen widget. BikeKeep’s widget answers “which bike is due, and how many kilometers or days are left.” That is a next-job clock. Tiiks puts the bike on the Home Screen as parts that already received the ride: wear that moved, a service-or-replace call that is current. If you glance at the widget to decide whether to ride tomorrow, one glance is a countdown. The other is status. Those are different glances.

Three free items versus twenty slots

Free BikeKeep is tight on purpose: one bike, three maintenance items, reminders. A chain, two tyres, and the rest of the bike live behind twenty dollars once or a dollar forty-nine a week. Premium also unlocks full history, the ride log, grouping by storage, and a life without ads. That is a clear checkout. It is also a small garage until you pay. Tiiks tracks twenty part slots on the bike you actually ride. The catalog is there when you name them. The free cap is not the comparison. What you are allowed to remember is.

Who BikeKeep is enough for

Stay on BikeKeep if you are on iOS, you like logging the ride yourself, and a dual clock on a short list of chores is the whole job — lube, pressure, a wash, bar tape, with three-stage reminders and a mascot. The one-time twenty dollars is a clean buy if you want unlimited items and a ride log without a subscription story. Choose Tiiks if you already publish to Strava and you want those kilometers on named catalog parts, with reviews, a service-or-replace history, and a widget that shows wear that already happened. If you will not log the ride, BikeKeep’s clocks are decorative. If you wanted a catalog, three free items were never going to be the garage.

Questions we get

Does BikeKeep connect to Strava?

Not that they claim. Distance moves when you log a ride. If your riding already lives on Strava, that is a second copy of a file you already have. Tiiks reads that file and puts mileage on the bike and on each fitted component. Do not install BikeKeep expecting an athlete connection that is not on the box.

Are BikeKeep’s intervals a real schedule?

They are guides, and the app says so. A twenty-kilometer lube reminder is a prompt, not a laboratory result. You can customize the recommended intervals, which is the right control to ship. Tiiks does not replace your judgment with a preset list. It puts the kilometers you rode on the part you named, then asks service or replace against the history of that bike.

They have a widget. Isn’t that the same feature?

Same square on the Home Screen. Different sentence. BikeKeep tells you which bike is due and how many kilometers or days remain. Tiiks shows the status of parts that already received the ride. If you wanted a countdown to “do the thing,” theirs is built for that. If you wanted to see the chain after Strava already moved, that is the widget we ship.