Tiiks vs WatchMy.bike: Native Widget and Reviews vs a Public Web Garage

WatchMy.bike is the closest web garage: 50 bikes, Strava every six hours, public profiles, MCP. Strong product. Tiiks is native iOS and Android with a catalog, verified mileage reviews, and a widget.

Most comparisons on this site are easy. One side is a reminder list, a brand remote, or a camera demo. WatchMy.bike is not that. It is a real garage on the web: component lifecycle, optional Strava, alerts, swap history, costs, photos, public profiles, an MCP for Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini. If you wanted a Pedal Room you can actually maintain, this is the closest thing in the batch. Treat it that way.

WatchMy.bike is a PWA at watchmy.bike, built by Marien van Os — a cyclist since 2008. There is no App Store listing. Component lifecycle is the spine. Strava is optional: automatic mileage every six hours, or you log by hand. Alerts fire by distance or time, as push, email, or desktop. Public profiles and custom URLs are first-class. You get swap history, costs, and photos. AI import from text. Tyre-pressure and chain-wear calculators. Up to fifty bikes. Eight languages. Steel is free for three bikes. Alloy is €39 a year. Carbon is €69 a year. It works without Strava, unlike many loggers that pretend otherwise.

The contrast is still a contrast, not a dismissal. WatchMy.bike is a PWA. Tiiks is a native app on iOS and Android with a home-screen widget. WatchMy.bike lets you type intervals and keep a public garage. Tiiks puts a real parts catalog under the slot, with specs and verified rider reviews that include mileage. Public profile is their specialty, not ours. If you came here hoping we would call a strong web garage a toy, you have the wrong article.

What WatchMy.bike actually is

A browser garage that does not need an App Store. You open watchmy.bike and the bike is there — on a phone, a desktop, a tablet. Component lifecycle, swap history, costs, and photos are the workshop. Alerts by distance or time cover the jobs you forget. Strava can write mileage every six hours, or you stay manual. That optional path is a real product decision: the garage still works if you never connect an athlete account.

The public layer is the other product. Profiles, custom URLs, a garage other people can look at — that is Pedal Room energy, shipped. MCP access for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, plus AI import from text, is a builder's garage, not a private note. Tyre-pressure and chain-wear calculators sit next to the log. Fifty bikes and eight languages are the fleet pitch. Steel / Alloy / Carbon is the price ladder: three bikes free, then €39 or €69 a year. None of that is a native widget, and none of it is a verified rider-review catalog with mileage attached to a model.

What Tiiks remembers

Tiiks is a native app on iOS and Android. After you connect Strava, ride distance lands on the bike and on each fitted component automatically — not on a six-hour pull you watch from a browser, and not only when you open a PWA. The twenty slots each keep their own mileage. A home-screen widget shows status without opening the app. That is the native half of the contrast. It is not a claim that a PWA cannot store a bike.

Those parts are catalog objects with specs. Verified rider reviews include real mileage — other riders, on that model, with kilometers behind the sentence. When a part is due, you choose service or replace. The bike keeps a full history. Tiiks does not ship public profile pages with custom URLs, an MCP, or a fifty-bike showcase. Public garage is WatchMy.bike's specialty. Named catalog identity plus reviews is ours.

A PWA versus native iOS, Android, and a widget

No App Store is a feature if you hate stores, or if you live on a desktop first. A PWA at watchmy.bike will open where a browser opens. Push, email, and desktop alerts cover more surfaces than a single phone OS. The cost is also a feature: you do not get a native home-screen widget in the same sense, and you do not get a native iOS and Android app with the same interaction model. If the phone is how you glance at the bike, that gap is the one you feel at the door.

Tiiks ships native on both phones, with a widget for the bike you actually rode. You do not need the browser to see whether the chain is due. WatchMy.bike can still be the better desk tool. A strong PWA and a native widget are not the same object. Pick the surface you actually look at before you pick a winner on features you will never open.

Typed intervals versus catalog identity and reviews

WatchMy.bike's lifecycle is yours to configure. Distance or time, alerts, swap history, costs, photos, calculators for tyre pressure and chain wear. That is a complete workshop log. Two different 11-speed chains can share an interval you typed and a calculator result without the garage knowing which catalog model other riders actually wore to 3,000 km. A typed interval is still a typed interval, even when the PWA around it is excellent.

In Tiiks the part is a catalog object. You pick a real model, you see specs, and you can read verified rider reviews that include mileage. The history belongs to that identity. Service versus replace sits on it. WatchMy.bike can approximate a careful shop book if you type carefully and photograph everything. A catalog with reviews does it by design. That is the deepest product difference, and it is not a slight against their log.

Strava every six hours, or none, versus Strava on every slot

Optional Strava with a six-hour automatic pull is an honest sync. Manual logging is the escape hatch, and it is why WatchMy.bike works without Strava when many loggers do not. Tiiks is built the other way at the ride layer: after you connect, distance lands on the bike and on each fitted component. You are not waiting for a six-hour job, and you are not the clerk if you already published the ride. If you refuse Strava on principle, their manual path is the product. If you already publish and want the chain to move with the file, that is the sync Tiiks is built around.

A public profile versus a private catalog

Public profiles and custom URLs are WatchMy.bike's specialty. MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini is the same instinct: the garage is something you can show and something an agent can read. Tiiks does not take that job. The catalog and the verified reviews are shared knowledge about parts. The bike you ride is not a Pedal Room page. If the reason you opened a garage was to publish the build, they win that sentence. If the reason was to know this chain's kilometers and what other riders did on that model, the public URL was never the feature you were missing.

Who WatchMy.bike is enough for

WatchMy.bike fits if you want a web garage, you like public profiles and custom URLs, you want MCP and AI import, you might skip Strava, and you are fine without a native widget. Three bikes on Steel is a real free tier. Alloy or Carbon is a clear price if the fleet is the point — up to fifty bikes, eight languages, costs, photos, swap history. That is a strong product. Plenty of riders only needed a PWA that serious.

It is the wrong shape if you want a native iOS and Android app with a home-screen widget, a real parts catalog with specs, and verified rider reviews that carry mileage. It is also the wrong shape if you assumed a public lifecycle log was the same object as catalog identity. Those are product differences. A close competitor is still a different object. Saying so is the point of a comparison, not a ranking.

Questions we get

Is WatchMy.bike on the App Store?

No. It is a PWA at watchmy.bike. You use it in the browser, with push, email, and desktop alerts. Tiiks is a native app on iOS and Android, with a home-screen widget. If the store listing is how you find tools, you will find one of these and not the other.

Does WatchMy.bike require Strava?

No. Strava is optional: automatic mileage every six hours, or you log manually. Working without Strava is one of the reasons it is stronger than many loggers. Tiiks is built around Strava as the way distance arrives and lands on each fitted component. If you will not connect Strava, their manual path is the product that matches the constraint.

Which one is for a public bike profile?

WatchMy.bike. Public profiles and custom URLs are their specialty, along with MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Tiiks does not take the Pedal Room job. The catalog and the verified reviews are about parts. The bike page you publish is theirs.

If you wanted a public web garage with MCP, costs, and a fleet, WatchMy.bike is the serious option in this pair. If you wanted native iOS and Android, a widget, catalog identity, and verified rider reviews with mileage, that is the job Tiiks takes — after Strava, on the slots you actually fitted, without asking you to become the public curator of the build.