Tiiks vs velohaus: A Rider's Parts vs the Household Garage

velohaus is built for a family shed: cargo bikes, balance bikes, partner sync, no account. Tiiks is built for a rider who wants named parts, reviews, and Strava kilometers on every slot.

Tiiks tracks a different household: the rider and the parts on the bike that rider actually rides. After you connect Strava, distance lands on the bike and on each fitted component automatically. real brand parts names those parts. Community ratings and rider reviews sit next to specs. A widget shows status on the home screen. velohaus wins the family-and-cargo use case. Tiiks wins named parts, reviews, automatic ride distance on each slot, and the widget. Neither listing claims the other's job.

The short version

velohaus fits if the shed is the product: cargo bikes, kids' bikes, a partner who also wrenches, reminders for lube and tyre fills, an e-bike odometer graph, no account. Free plus a tip jar is the commercial shape of that job. You will not miss real brand parts you never planned to search. You will also not miss Strava-on-slots the listing never offered.

If the cargo bike and the balance bike are the reason you opened the store, velohaus is the household garage. If the reason is a chain you cannot name and kilometers that should have landed after Strava, that is the record Tiiks keeps.

What velohaus covers

velohaus is a household bike book that syncs through iCloud and does not ask you to sign up. Unlimited bikes is the feature that matches a mixed shed. Reminders cover the jobs families actually forget: lube, tyre pressure. Component wear and thresholds let you decide when a part is due. If one adult rides the cargo bike and the other handles school-run maintenance, Partner Sync is the product: the partner can log rides, add service, and manage reminders without a shared password ritual. E-bike odometer logging is how mileage becomes a graph. You put the number in; the history plot is the payoff. That is honest for a cargo or commuter e-bike whose display already shows a total. It is not Strava. The listing does not claim a Strava connection, a parts library, or rider reviews that include real mileage. Treat those as absent. A family garage can be complete without any of them. It is still a different object from a rider app that writes published rides onto named slots.

velohaus fits if the shed is the product: cargo bikes, kids' bikes, a partner who also wrenches, reminders for lube and tyre fills, an e-bike odometer graph, no account. Free plus a tip jar is the commercial shape of that job. You will not miss real brand parts you never planned to search. You will also not miss Strava-on-slots the listing never offered.

The table is the honest split. Everything below explains why each row matters for your garage.

Tiiks vs velohaus at a glance

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

Does velohaus connect to Strava?

The listing does not claim Strava. Mileage on the e-bike side is odometer logging that becomes a history graph. Partner Sync lets a partner log rides by hand. Do not treat that as an athlete sync that writes distance onto named real brand parts. Tiiks reads Strava and puts those kilometers on each fitted slot automatically.