Tiiks vs Geer: A Bike You Live With vs a Homescreen Shortcut
Geer is a privacy-first EU PWA you install to the homescreen, not in the App Store or Play Store with Strava sync, intervals, and a joke-heavy site. Here is how that shortcut compares to a native app with real brand parts and a widget.
They also ship a savings calculator: ride-to-failure versus servicing on time. That is a browser product with a point of view. What it is not: a native iOS or Android app, a home-screen widget in the OS sense, real brand parts, or rider reviews that include real mileage. A shortcut can be excellent at alerts and still be a website you pinned.
The short version
Geer fits if you want a browser app, you believe their privacy-first and user-funded story, you are fine with a product that is not in the stores, and two bikes with five components is enough on the free side or you accept the Pro price they advertise as about €1.67 a month yearly. Indoor and outdoor types, easy swaps, and a full history are the maintenance features you will actually use. The jokes are the tone you will live with. If avoiding the stores is the requirement, this is one of the few maintenance products that treats that as the design, not as a gap.
Track the parts in Tiiks and let real brand parts name the component, the reviews carry the evidence, and the widget show status before you open anything. A shortcut you pinned is still a shortcut. A bike you live with is a different object.
What Geer covers
Geer is a PWA at geer.bike. You install it to the homescreen. Strava sync feeds mileage. You add components and accept suggested intervals. Push and email alerts are how it reaches you when a part is due. Indoor versus outdoor ride types acknowledge that a trainer hour is not the same as a road hour, which matters if you sit on a turbo all winter and still want the chain counted. Easy swaps between bikes are for people who move hardware. Full history is the log of that life. The rest of the public story is positioning. Privacy-first, EU-based, user-funded, no investors: they say this, and it matches a PWA that never had to pass a store. The free cap: two bikes, five components and the Pro price they advertise as roughly €1.67 a month on yearly billing are how they fund it. The savings calculator is how they argue for on-time service. Joke-heavy marketing is the tone. None of that installs a native widget or fills a library of real brand models with rider reviews that include real mileage.
Geer fits if you want a browser app, you believe their privacy-first and user-funded story, you are fine with a product that is not in the stores, and two bikes with five components is enough on the free side or you accept the Pro price they advertise as about €1.67 a month yearly. Indoor and outdoor types, easy swaps, and a full history are the maintenance features you will actually use. The jokes are the tone you will live with. If avoiding the stores is the requirement, this is one of the few maintenance products that treats that as the design, not as a gap.
The table is the honest split. Everything below explains why each row matters for your garage.
Tiiks vs Geer at a glance
| Feature | Geer | Tiiks |
|---|---|---|
| Factory bike preset fills all slots | No | Yes |
| Real brand parts with specifications | No | Yes |
| Community ratings and rider reviews | No | Yes |
| Top-rated alternatives when replacing | No | Yes |
| 20 full-bike component slots | Yes | Yes |
| Strava auto mileage on each part | Yes | Yes |
| Push alerts after rides | Yes | Yes |
| Wear dashboard with color status | Yes | Yes |
| iOS home screen widget | No | Yes |
| Native iOS + Android app | No | Yes |
| Service and replacement history | Yes | Yes |
| Service-or-replace guidance | No | Yes |
| Suggested maintenance intervals | Yes | Yes |
| Indoor vs outdoor ride types | Yes | No |
| Easy part swaps between bikes | Yes | Yes |
| No account PWA install | Yes | No |
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 Geer in the App Store or on Google Play?
No. Geer is a PWA at geer.bike. You install it to the homescreen. That is a deliberate distribution choice, not a missing link. Tiiks is a native app in the App Store and on Google Play. If store presence is a requirement, the comparison is already decided.