Tiiks vs BikeLog Pro: A Living History vs Data Locked in iCloud

BikeLog Pro is a stats-first ledger on your iPhone and in iCloud. Tiiks is a living wear history on the parts you actually ride.

A good ledger can tell you how far the bike has gone, how long you sat on it, how much elevation you bought, and what the year cost. That is useful. It is also possible for every one of those numbers to be correct and for you to still have no idea whether the chain on the bike is the chain that did those kilometers.

BikeLog Pro is an iOS app built to be that ledger. It imports workouts, lets you assign bikes and equipment, and rolls distance, time, elevation, and cost through the components while they are mounted. Alerts fire when something is near a lifespan you set. Helmets and sensors can live in the same garage as the cassette. There is no account. The data sits on the device and in iCloud.

Tiiks is not trying to be a quieter Numbers spreadsheet. We take Strava rides and keep a living history on named parts: mileage, service versus replace, catalog identity, rider reviews, a widget, the archive when something comes off. The contrast is not stats versus no stats. It is a ledger you lock in Apple's cloud versus a wear record you can actually act on the next time the chain makes a sound. Elevation totals are interesting at the end of a year. They do not tell you whether Saturday's cassette is the one that did those meters.

What BikeLog Pro stores

BikeLog Pro starts from workouts. You import them, you assign a bike and the equipment that was along for the ride, and the mounted components inherit the metrics for as long as they stay mounted. That inheritance model is the honest way to do a local log: the cassette only ages while it is on the bike. Lifespan alerts sit on top, so a tire you marked for 4,000 km can warn you before it squares off.

The garage is wider than consumables. Helmets and sensors can be tracked the same way you track a chain, which makes sense if you think in equipment, not in wear. A radar that lived through two seasons is inventory. A chain that lived through two seasons is a wear problem. Privacy is the other half of the pitch. No accounts. Data on the device, synced through iCloud if you want a backup. The free tier is not unlimited — they say you get up to ten workouts — and premium lifts that cap. It is a stats-first, privacy-first product, and it stays inside Apple's fence on purpose.

A history that stays alive

Tiiks is native on iOS and Android. Strava syncs automatically, so you are not importing a workout list and then attaching a bike before the numbers mean anything. Each component collects its own mileage from the rides that happened while it was mounted. We keep service and replace as different actions, because a pad bed-in is not a new rotor, and a chain wipe is not a new chain.

The living part is everything around those kilometers. A real parts catalog names what you installed. Verified reviews from riders who logged real mileage sit on those names. The home-screen widget shows the bike without opening a ledger. When a part comes off, it remains in the full bike history instead of becoming a ghost row you might have backed up. That is a record you can open next season, on a different phone, and still read.

Workouts you import vs rides that land by themselves

Importing workouts is disciplined. It is also homework. You pull the files, you assign the bike, you hope the equipment set was current. BikeLog Pro will then do the arithmetic correctly. The failure mode is not math. It is the week you rode five times and imported none of them, or imported them onto last month's wheelset. A ledger is only as current as the last time you sat down with it. Stats-first products assume you will sit down. Wear products assume you will not.

Automatic Strava sync removes that sitting-down. The ride ends, the file exists, the mounted parts move. You can still be sloppy — wrong bike on Strava, a part you forgot to swap in the garage — but you are not also running an import ritual. We built Tiiks for the rider whose maintenance problem is not a lack of spreadsheets. It is a lack of time to keep one.

A free cap vs a catalog you can keep using

BikeLog Pro's free tier is a trial of the ledger, not the ledger. They say you get up to ten workouts. That is enough to see whether the inheritance model clicks, and not enough to live in for a season. Premium is the real product: unlimited workouts, the full stats surface. There is nothing shady about that split. It does mean the private, no-account story still has a commercial door if you actually ride.

Tiiks is not a ten-ride scratchpad. The catalog, the reviews, the per-component mileage, and the history are the product you keep using. We are not going to pretend a wear app is useful if it stops counting after a handful of files. If you want a stats locker that you unlock once you outgrow ten workouts, BikeLog Pro is explicit about that deal. If you want the parts record to start on ride one and still be there on ride four hundred, you want a different shape.

Helmets and sensors vs the parts that actually wear

Tracking a helmet or a radar in the same app as a chain is tidy. It is also a sign the product thinks in inventory. A helmet ages on a calendar and a crash, not on kilometers the way a tire does. Tiiks is opinionated the other way. We track the twenty component slots on the bike — the things that grind, stretch, square off, and get replaced because you rode. Sensors can live in a drawer. Wear lives on the drivetrain.

iCloud as the vault vs a history you can act on

On-device data plus iCloud is a real privacy design. It is also a lock. The history lives in Apple's backup of an iPhone app. There is no Android client. There is no catalog sitting next to the row. There is no rider review that says this cassette died at a number you can compare to yours. You have stats. You do not have a living wear identity. Restore-from-iCloud is a fine disaster plan and a poor daily glance. Tiiks keeps the history in a bike you can open on either platform, with service versus replace and a widget that does not wait for you to launch a ledger. If the only way to see the chain is to open an iPhone app that restored correctly, you do not have a dashboard. You have a backup.

Who each ledger is for

Pick BikeLog Pro if you want a private iOS ledger, you like workouts as the unit of truth, and you are comfortable unlocking premium once ten files are not enough. You care about elevation and cost in the same place as pad life. You want helmets and sensors in the garage. You already live in iCloud and you do not need Android, a parts catalog, or reviews.

Pick Tiiks if the ledger is not the point — the part is. You want Strava to feed mileage automatically, a catalog that names the component, reviews with real distance, service versus replace, a home-screen widget, and a history that survives a phone swap on iOS or Android. You can live without a helmet row. You cannot live without knowing the chain's kilometers.

Questions we get

Is BikeLog Pro private?

Yes, in the way they designed it. There is no BikeLog account. Data stays on the device and, if you enable it, in your iCloud. That is a strong privacy story for an iPhone-only rider. It is also why the history is awkward to take anywhere else, and why Android is not part of the conversation.

Does Tiiks keep your data only on the phone?

No. Tiiks is account-backed so the bike, the parts, and the Strava-linked mileage can follow you on iOS and Android. That is a different contract than a local-plus-iCloud ledger. We keep that record so a replaced chain still has a history, not so a workout list can vanish when you stay inside one Apple ID.

Can BikeLog Pro tell you when to service a chain?

It can alert you when a component you configured is near the lifespan you typed. That is a threshold on a ledger, not a service-versus-replace decision on a named part with catalog context and rider mileage next to it. If you set the number well and you keep importing workouts, the alert will fire. If you want the app to know what the chain is and what other riders did with it, that is Tiiks's job, not a stats row.

If you want a quiet iCloud ledger and you will pay to lift the workout cap, BikeLog Pro is already that app. If you want a living wear history on real parts, fed by Strava, with a widget you actually glance at, that is the record we keep. Put the bike in Tiiks and let iCloud stay a backup, not a garage.