Tiiks vs Dialled MTB: Named Catalog Parts vs Premium-Gated Ride Hours

Dialled MTB is suspension science and maintenance hours for mountain bikes, with the full tracker behind Premium. Tiiks puts Strava on named catalog parts, on any discipline, with reviews that already have kilometers.

You roll back into the trailhead with the fork still wet and the zip-tie an inch higher than you set it. The ride already has hours on it. What you want next is either a sag number you can trust, or a chain that already has a name. Dialled MTB, from Arcturus Digital Consulting at arcturusdc.com/apps/dialled-mtb, is built for the first hunger: mountain-bike hours, a suspension calculator, and a maintenance tracker that moves when you log a ride. The full tracker is Premium. The sag is the product.

Tiiks is the other hunger. 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. Road, gravel, commuter, mountain — the discipline is not the gate. If you came to set fork PSI and tag a value as confirmed, you are in Dialled’s parking lot. If you came to know the cassette and how far other riders got on it, you are in ours.

What Dialled MTB actually is

Dialled MTB lists on the App Store as com.arcturusdc.dialledmtb (id 6760664613). Their site says it is being built for Android and iOS, for trail riders, enduro racers, analogue bikes, and e-MTB. Maintenance covers fork, shock, drivetrain, brakes, bearings, and more, triggered by ride count, hours, or a calendar. Due and overdue show when you open the app. Log a ride and those clocks move. That is hours-as-truth for a mountain bike, not a star rating on a chain you never named.

The other half is setup. Enter weight and riding style; Dialled gives a starting point for fork and shock PSI, a sag check, and tyre pressure per bike. Values can be tagged confirmed, estimated, or suggested. They keep a tyre catalog of more than a hundred MTB tyres — casing, inserts — as a setup reference, not as verified rider reviews. Strava (gear linking) and Apple Health can feed the hours. An AI Advisor knows travel, setup, history, and tyres, and you can apply a recommendation to a saved setup. Multi-bike. Offline log. CSV export. Free is one bike, setup tools, and the basics. Premium — Dialled Unlocked — opens the full maintenance tracker and reminders, the AI Advisor, unlimited bikes, and the Strava plus Health pipes. Do not install the free tier expecting the workshop to already be unlocked.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks is native on iOS and Android, shipping, not “being built.” After a ride lands on Strava, distance goes on the bike and on each fitted component. The part is a catalog object with specs. Reviews are from riders who attach real kilometers. When a part gets close, the question is service or replace, and the history stays with the bike. A Home Screen widget keeps those parts in front of you. We do not ship a sag calculator, a confirmed-or-estimated PSI tag, or an AI that applies a clicker change to a saved setup. We remember the named part and the kilometers it has already done.

Suspension hours versus catalog mileage

Dialled’s clock is ride hours on a mountain bike: fork, shock, drivetrain, brakes. That is the right unit if you service a damper by time in the dirt, not by a road-bike calendar. Tiiks’ clock is kilometers on a named catalog part, on any discipline you actually ride. Hours on a Fox are not a review of a GX cassette at 2,400 km. Both can be honest. They are not the same number, and only one of them comes with other riders’ mileage attached.

Premium-gated tracking versus the bike after the ride

On Dialled, the complete maintenance tracker — reminders, the history that makes hours useful, unlimited bikes, the AI Advisor — sits behind Dialled Unlocked. Free will let you start a bike and poke the setup tools. It will not be the workshop. Tiiks puts Strava on the mounted parts as the job, not as an upgrade you unlock after you already needed the reminder. If you like a calculator for free and a tracker for pay, say so and pay. If you wanted the chain to move because Saturday already happened, read the paywall twice.

An MTB tyre list versus verified rider reviews

Dialled’s tyre catalog is a setup aid: more than a hundred MTB tyres, casing and inserts, so the pressure calculator has something to stand on. That is not a parts catalog of verified rider reviews. Do not borrow our sentence for their screenshot. Tiiks puts specs next to reviews that include how far the reviewer had ridden. A casing name helps you set PSI. A review at real kilometers helps you decide whether to buy the tyre again. Those are different shelves.

An AI that knows travel versus a widget that already ate the ride

Dialled’s AI Advisor is built for a suspension bike: travel, setup, history, tyres, a recommendation you can save. Useful if you will apply it and then ride the result. It is still a chat standing next to a Premium tracker. Tiiks ships a widget that shows parts that already received the Strava ride, and a service-or-replace call with history behind it. We are not going to costume a sag advisor as a mechanic, and we are not going to pretend a widget is a clicker count. Pick the sentence you actually glance at.

Who Dialled is enough for

Stay on Dialled MTB if you are a mountain biker first, you want hours and sag in one place, you will pay Dialled Unlocked for the tracker, and a confirmed PSI on the fork matters more than a named cassette with a review. Their App Store listing is real; treat Android as what the site says it is — being built — not as a finished second store. Choose Tiiks if you want native iOS and Android, Strava on twenty catalog slots, verified mileage reviews, and a history that is not locked behind a suspension-tier upgrade. Dialled is the better MTB hours-and-setup bench. Tiiks is the better named-part mileage and reviews product. Use the parking lot you actually park in.

Questions we get

Does Dialled have a parts catalog with rider reviews?

No. They have a maintenance tracker, setup calculators, and a tyre catalog for MTB casings and inserts. That is not verified rider reviews with real mileage. Tiiks is the catalog-and-reviews product. If a screenshot of a tyre list looked like a review feed, look again. A casing is a spec. A review is a rider who said how far they rode.

Is the maintenance tracker free?

The full tracker is Premium — Dialled Unlocked — along with unlimited bikes and the AI Advisor. Free is one bike and setup basics. Their site also puts Strava on the free side as a sync; the workshop still unlocks when you pay. Tiiks does not make “the parts moved” the thing you buy after the ride. If you only wanted sag math, you may never hit the paywall. If you wanted hours to mean a reminder, you will.

Can I keep Dialled for the fork and Tiiks for the drivetrain?

Yes, if you can stand two clocks. Dialled is the notebook for hours, sag, and a saved setup the Advisor can write into. Tiiks tracks named drivetrain and contact parts from the catalog, with reviews and a widget that already received the ride. Do not ask a PSI tag to review a chain. Do not ask a catalog to set your rebound.