Tiiks vs SAGLY: The Named Part vs Becoming a Better MTB Rider

SAGLY is a setup, skills, and training app that also reminds you to service. Tiiks is the named catalog part with Strava mileage and reviews. Maintenance is real on both. It is not the center of both.

The trail went from dust to grease in one storm, and you are kneeling in it turning a rebound dial you set last month for a different mountain. SAGLY, from SAGLY GmbH at sagly.at, is built for that kneel: copy a dry setup into a wet one, run the sag method, ask for a tyre pressure, then go ride a structured step when you get home. Becoming a better mountain-bike rider is the product. The chain is in the backpack.

Tiiks is the opposite center. Native iOS and Android. Strava 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. Maintenance in SAGLY is real — hours or kilometers, manuals, a reset when you did the job. It is still secondary to suspension and training. If you came to get faster and more consistent on the trail, stay on their landing page. If you came to know the named part, you are in the wrong classroom.

What SAGLY actually is

SAGLY lists on the App Store as org.reactjs.native.example.sagly (id 1564693622) and ships on iOS and Android. You manage and copy setups, including wet-condition adjustments. There is a sag-method guide, a tyre-pressure calculator, and a mix of AI and factory suspension settings as a baseline — their own FAQ calls the suggestions a starting point, not a replacement for riding the result. You can explore other riders’ setups. The notebook works offline. History covers the changes you saved and the Strava rides that landed.

Connect Strava and maintenance intervals can run on hours or mileage, with manuals for the job. That is a real reminder stack. Training is the larger room: more than eighty structured steps, custom plans, and AI video analysis of technique, which they describe on the site. PRO unlocks all trainings — not just two — unlimited maintenance resets, and deeper setup and history. The free tier will let you taste the classroom. The paid tier is the season plan. Do not confuse a maintenance reset with a parts catalog. They never claimed one.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks reads Strava and puts that mileage on the bike and on each fitted component. The part is a catalog part with specs, not a setup you copied from a wet afternoon. Reviews are from riders who attach real kilometers. The decision we surface is service versus replace, with the history still on the bike. A Home Screen widget keeps those parts in front of you. We do not ship eighty training steps, a video coach, or a gallery of other riders’ clicker counts. We remember the named part. You already know whether the trail was wet.

A better rider versus a named part

SAGLY’s sentence is improvement: setup you can repeat, skills you can film, a plan with steps. Maintenance exists so the bike does not interrupt the plan. Tiiks’ sentence is identity: this cassette, these kilometers, this review at a number you can read. If you opened the app to get better on a berm, a catalog will feel cold. If you opened it to decide whether the chain has another month, a training library will feel like a lobby. Both hungers are honest. Only one of them is ours.

Setup science versus catalog specs and reviews

Copy a setup, convert it for rain, start from factory numbers, peek at what another rider ran — that is SAGLY’s notebook. It is not a parts catalog, and it is not verified rider reviews with mileage. A factory baseline is a starting PSI. A review at 3,000 km is evidence of a part other people actually wore out. Tiiks puts the second object on the table. We will not set your sag. They will not show you a drivetrain review that carries kilometers. Stop asking one screenshot to do both jobs.

Strava as a coach feed versus Strava on the slots

Both apps can read Strava. In SAGLY the file feeds maintenance intervals — hours or mileage — and sits next to a history of setup changes and a training plan. In Tiiks the file moves the bike and each fitted component, and the component has a catalog name. Same athlete connection. Different object after the upload. An interval that says “service the fork” is not a cassette that already received Saturday. Do not let the word Strava collapse those two after-screens.

PRO for trainings versus a widget for the part

SAGLY PRO is priced like a coaching product: all the steps, unlimited maintenance resets, deeper setup and history. That is a fair checkout if you will follow the plan and reset the job when you bleed the brakes. It is a lot of house if you only wanted the reminder. Tiiks puts a widget on the Home Screen that shows parts that already received the ride, and a service-or-replace history that does not need a training unlock. Pay for the classroom if you will attend. Do not pay for eighty steps to see a chain.

Who SAGLY is enough for

Stay on SAGLY if you want to become a better mountain-bike rider: setups you can copy, wet conversions, sag and tyre math, other people’s baselines, offline notes, and a training plan with video feedback — maintenance included, not starring. PRO makes sense if you will use more than two trainings and you reset jobs as you do them. Choose Tiiks if you want the named catalog part, verified mileage reviews, Strava on twenty slots, and a widget that already ate the ride, on iOS and Android. SAGLY is the better skills-and-setup coach. Tiiks is the better parts product. The kneel in the mud is theirs. The cassette on Monday is ours.

Questions we get

Does SAGLY replace a component tracker?

It can remind you, from Strava, in hours or kilometers, with a manual for the job. Replacement is the wrong word if you wanted a catalog, verified mileage reviews, twenty slots, and a widget that shows wear that already happened. A reminder can count. A bike app has to name the part. SAGLY never said it was a review catalog. Do not install it as one.

Are the AI setup suggestions a finished tune?

They say no. The site calls the suggestions a strong starting point — rider body, bike, suspension, terrain, skill — and tells you to test them on real ground. That is the honest disclaimer. Tiiks does not offer a competing tune. We offer a named part and the kilometers on it. A baseline PSI is not a review, and a review is not a clicker count. Believe their FAQ, then ride the result.

Can I use SAGLY for setup and Tiiks for parts?

Yes, if you can stand two homes for the same bike. SAGLY keeps the setups, the wet copy, and the training steps. Tiiks keeps the catalog parts, the reviews, and the Strava mileage on the slots. Do not ask a video analysis to wear a chain out. Do not ask a catalog to tell you what rebound the rider on the next bike ran.