Tiiks vs Velo Garage: part wear or a photo toolkit

Velo Garage keeps photos, tire pressure, and imports from several ride apps. Tiiks tracks Strava wear on each named part.

Velo Garage is a visual garage app for iOS and iPad. It keeps photos, purchase notes, a tyre pressure chart, geometry data, and a sold-bike archive. Wear tracking is in the app alongside that toolkit. Tiiks names the parts from the catalog and tracks wear from Strava. One is the garage archive; the other is the parts wear record.

The short version

If photos, purchase records, a sold-bike archive, tyre pressure charts, geometry data, and rides from Wahoo, intervals.icu, or Apple Health matter: Velo Garage.

If you want named parts from the catalog, Strava wear on each one, and rider reviews, without managing photos: Tiiks.

What Velo Garage covers

Velo Garage is an iOS and iPad app. Photos and purchase notes live alongside the bike record. A tyre pressure and geometry toolkit is built in. Sold bikes go to an archive rather than disappearing. Wear tracking sits in the same interface as the photo toolkit. Strava, Wahoo, intervals.icu, and Apple Health can all feed the mileage counter, which is more ride sources than Tiiks connects to.

What Tiiks covers

Tiiks does not hold photos, purchase notes, or a sold-bike archive. When a Strava ride lands, the distance goes to the chain, cassette, and tyres that were mounted, under the catalog names they shipped with, and with the reviews other riders left on that model.

Can you use both?

Yes. Velo Garage holds the photos and the geometry. Tiiks holds the parts names and the wear history. If the rides already land on Strava, the same activity would feed both.

Does Velo Garage track component wear like Tiiks?

Wear sits beside the photos and the pressure tools. A photo does not add kilometres to the chain.