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Bike maintenance apps compared: BikeCare, Strava, Garmin Connect, ProBikeGarage, mainTrack and Geer

Six apps handle bike components in very different ways, and none of them is right for everyone. Strava counts kilometres per component. Garmin shows wear on the head unit. ProBikeGarage has the widest reach in the segment. mainTrack is free and has been on iOS since 2019. Geer is the cheapest paid option and syncs with Strava in real time. BikeCare weights the conditions a part is ridden in and turns that into a remaining life. This page sets out the differences — including the ones where BikeCare loses. Figures for Strava, Garmin Connect and ProBikeGarage were retrieved on 19 July 2026, those for mainTrack and Geer on 4 August 2026.

As of 4 August 2026 · taken from the providers’ own public pages.

If you only want the kilometres per component, Strava and Garmin already do that and cost nothing extra. If you want them for free with no subscription at all and ride iOS, look at mainTrack. If price decides it, Geer is cheaper than BikeCare. BikeCare is for riders who want the kilometres weighted by wet weather, surface and elevation, plus a tyre pressure calculator and a cost per kilometre.

Every app at a glance

Feature comparison of 6 bike maintenance apps, as of 4 August 2026
Feature	BikeCareBikeCare	StravaStrava	GarminGarmin Connect	PBGProBikeGarage	mainTrackmainTrack	GeerGeer
Remaining life per component	yes	no	partly	partly	yes	yes
Remaining life forecast per component (chain, tyres, brake pads, cassette) yesBikeCare BikeCare shows a remaining life in kilometres and days for chain, tyres, brake pads, cassette and 20+ further parts. noStrava Strava counts the kilometres per component, but according to its help centre there is no target value to calculate against (retrieved 19 July 2026). partlyGarmin Connect Garmin Connect compares the distance ridden against an interval that the user sets themselves; according to the Garmin forum that is the "Max Distance" input field. partlyProBikeGarage ProBikeGarage compares the distance ridden against an interval that the user sets themselves. yesmainTrack Maintenance is planned per part against a target the rider sets: "Plan your bikes maintenance periodically based on period of time, usage, rides or elapsed time", plus "Check your bike's parts usage since you last serviced them" and a notification "when a service is due". A wear-rate forecast with a projected date is not described in the provider's sources. yesGeer Geer runs components against service intervals you set — the homepage describes "Add your components, set maintenance intervals" and "Set suggested service intervals". Changelog v2.6.0 (9 June 2026) adds a switch of the progress display "between remaining and elapsed", and v2.11.2 shows a countdown per maintenance task. The parts named by the provider are chain, cassette, brake pads, tyres, brake rotors and bottom bracket.
Weighted by conditions	yes	no	not stated	not stated	not stated	no
Wear weighted by conditions (wet, surface, elevation gain) yesBikeCare In BikeCare, wet weather, surface and elevation gain feed into the remaining life as factors. noStrava Strava tracks components in distance only. not statedGarmin Connect For Garmin Connect — distance, hours, days and number of activities are documented — weighting by conditions is not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedProBikeGarage For ProBikeGarage — distance, moving time, elapsed time and number of rides are documented — weighting by conditions is not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedmainTrack The provider itself lists the bases of its intervals as "period of time, usage, rides or elapsed time"; wet weather, surface and elevation appear neither there nor on any of the five pages of its website. Not stated on the provider's own pages. noGeer On Geer's own roadmap board the request for brake wear weighted by metres descended and the request for weather-based chain wax intervals have both stood unchanged at "In Review" since 18 April 2025 or longer, while the provider demonstrably marks implemented requests as "Completed"; founder Roland Lehle put it in his own words on Product Hunt (around April 2026): "Right now we track distance and time intervals". What Geer does have is an include/exclude rule rather than a weighting: components can be marked as indoor, outdoor or both ("Ride types", changelog v1.11.0), with an extension to gravel and mountain-bike ride types listed as "Planned".
Weighted by power output	yes	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Wear weighted by the power actually put out yesBikeCare Chain, cassette and chainring are additionally weighted by the work done: 200 km out of the saddle uphill loads the drivetrain harder than 200 km rolling along the flat. The calculation runs on kilojoules per kilometre and only counts power actually MEASURED by a power meter — Strava's estimates are deliberately left out because they ignore wind and drafting. Without a power meter the calculation stays unchanged. not statedmainTrack As usage figures the provider names only distance, hours, rides and time ("how many hours your race wheel have"). Watts, kilojoules or a power meter appear in neither the full App Store description (English and Portuguese) nor the website. Not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedGeer Not stated on the provider's own pages. Neither the homepage, the help centre, the comparison pages nor the full changelog names watts, kilojoules, normalised power or power-meter data as a wear metric (checked 4 August 2026).
Tyre pressure calculator	yes	no	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Tyre pressure calculator (front/rear width, tube/tubeless/hookless, ETRTO limit) yesBikeCare BikeCare derives the pressure from system weight, front and rear tyre width and the tyre system, and on hookless rims caps it hard at the ISO/ETRTO maximum. noStrava Strava's component management has neither pressure nor width fields; a value could only be written into the free-text note. not statedGarmin Connect A tyre pressure calculator is not stated on Garmin Connect's own pages. not statedProBikeGarage A tyre pressure calculator is not stated on ProBikeGarage's own pages. not statedmainTrack Tyres appear in the provider's sources only as a part to be serviced ("when was the last time you replaced your tyres"), not as a calculator. Neither the home page, the support page nor the App Store description mentions tyre pressure, bar/psi, tubeless or hookless. Not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedGeer Not stated on the provider's own pages (homepage, help centre, comparison pages, blog, changelog and feedback board, all checked 4 August 2026). The app itself sits behind a Strava login and cannot be checked from the outside.
AI assistant and bike setup	yes	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
AI assistant and AI bike setup yesBikeCare AI auto-setup creates the bike from make and model including its parts list (live web search), the Copilot answers questions about your specific bike, and there is a monthly AI report. The AI parts recommendation with checked shop links is free (40 requests a month); the remaining AI features belong to Pro. not statedmainTrack No provider source mentions AI or automatic bike recognition, and the description presents setup as manual ("Create Components ... Assign Components to Bikes"). The release notes for the current version 1.7.53 of 5 June 2026 read only "Minor bug fixes and performance improvements." Not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedGeer Not stated on the provider's own pages. The homepage feature list ("What's under the hood?": dashboard, push and mail notifications, easy swap, full history, private by design, ride types, any device), the help centre and the changelog name no AI or assistant feature; bikes are imported from Strava rather than created from make and model.
Chain care per lube method	yes	no	not stated	partly	partly	partly
Chain care intervals per lubrication method (hot wax, drip wax, dry lube, wet lube) yesBikeCare BikeCare stores its own interval for each method. noStrava For Strava, care intervals for bike components are not documented. not statedGarmin Connect In Garmin Connect the chain as a "Bike Component" covers replacement, not recurring care. partlyProBikeGarage ProBikeGarage addresses chain waxing explicitly in a blog post of its own, but the intervals are set by the user ("based on the mileage or time intervals you set"). partlymainTrack Intervals are freely definable — "Plan your bikes maintenance periodically based on period of time, usage, rides or elapsed time" — so a wax or oil interval can be set up by hand. Preset intervals that differ by lubrication method are not stated on any provider source. partlyGeer Several care tasks per component are possible: changelog v2.3.0 (22 April 2026) states "Unlimited maintenance tasks per component — add as many service intervals as you need", and the request behind it, marked "Completed", argues precisely with "cleaning, waxing and replacing their chain" — so you can set up a wax interval of your own. Preset intervals that differ by lubrication method (hot wax versus drip wax versus dry or wet lube) are not stated on the provider's own pages.
Costs per year and per km	yes	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Cost analysis per year and per kilometre yesBikeCare BikeCare converts the recorded costs into a figure per year and per kilometre ridden, per bike and across all bikes. not statedStrava Cost tracking for gear is not stated on the Strava pages we checked. not statedGarmin Connect Cost tracking for gear is not stated on the Garmin Connect pages we checked. not statedProBikeGarage For ProBikeGarage, price comparison for spare parts and logging workshop visits are documented; a structured cost field with an analysis is not. not statedmainTrack The provider's description names a service history, but neither cost fields nor an analysis per year or per kilometre, and the five pages of the website say nothing about costs. Outside the provider's own sources there are indications that workshop costs can be recorded, but that cannot be evidenced from the provider's own statements. Not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedGeer Not stated on the provider's own pages. The homepage carries a savings widget ("Calculate your savings", footnote "Based on average component prices and recommended replacement intervals"), which works from average prices rather than your own records; recording your own costs per part and analysing them per year or per kilometre is not stated.
Service book and export	yes	partly	partly	partly	partly	partly
Service book with costs and warranty, export as CSV and PDF yesBikeCare BikeCare exports the complete service book as CSV and as PDF. partlyStrava Strava offers only master data and a free-text note per component. partlyGarmin Connect Garmin Connect allows a full account data export with CSV and JSON, but no service book with maintenance entries. partlyProBikeGarage ProBikeGarage keeps a documented maintenance history with attachments of up to 10 GB on the Premium subscription; a CSV or PDF export is not stated. partlymainTrack The service log itself is clearly documented: "record all serviced parts and components" and "Keep track of all services, so you know when you last serviced a part or component." Cost fields, warranty details and an export as CSV or PDF are not stated on any provider source. partlyGeer The service history itself is documented: the homepage says "Full History — Detailed maintenance history at a glance for every single part you own", and all three of Geer's own comparison pages tick "Service history". The export is missing: "Data Export (CSV, Excel, ...)" has sat unresolved at "In Review" since 6 February 2026, and a PDF export as well as cost and warranty fields in the service history are not stated on the provider's own pages.
Push and email reminders	yes	not stated	partly	partly	partly	partly
Push and email reminders with separately adjustable frequency yesBikeCare In BikeCare the push frequency and the email digest are configurable independently of each other, and reminders can be snoozed individually. not statedStrava Reminders for bike components are not stated on the Strava help pages we checked; a distance email is documented explicitly for running shoes. partlyGarmin Connect Garmin warns as you approach the maximum distance you set yourself; the delivery channel is not specified in the sources. partlyProBikeGarage For ProBikeGarage, maintenance alerts are documented; email reminders and an adjustable frequency are not. partlymainTrack Push is documented: "Receive timely notifications upon completing a ride or when a service is due." Email reminders and separately adjustable intervals are not stated anywhere; the only email function on the website is a newsletter list (page "subscription-confirmation"). partlyGeer Both channels are documented and the provider highlights them itself: the homepage lists "Push & Mail Notifications — Friendly reminders when components are due", and Geer's own comparison page against mainTrack says "Geer sends both push notifications and email alerts when components are due for service." A separately adjustable interval for push versus email is not stated anywhere; the help centre only covers enabling notifications in the browser, and the changelog names "Bundle email notifications" (v1.9.0) plus a fix against repetitive notifications (v1.9.2).
Friends, challenges, ranking	yes	yes	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Friend comparison, challenges and leaderboard yesBikeCare In BikeCare this is voluntary and switched off by default. Private groups with their own challenges are available. yesStrava Strava is unbeaten here — segments, kudos and public clubs with a feed are something we deliberately do not rebuild. not statedmainTrack Neither the full App Store description nor the website shows a social, challenge or leaderboard function. The provider places the social side expressly outside the app, in a Strava club ("Join our mainTrack.app club and share your rides.", 929 members). Whether there are in-app leaderboards is not stated on the provider's own pages. not statedGeer Not stated on the provider's own pages. What the pages do describe is a referral programme ("For every friend you refer to Geer, you get 1 month of Pro for free", help centre; changelog v1.15.0) and a Strava club as an external community; a comparison with friends, challenges or a leaderboard are not stated.
Sync sources	partly	yes	yes	partly	partly	partly
Where the rides come from (sync sources) partlyBikeCare This is where BikeCare is weakest: it syncs via Strava only, by webhook shortly after the upload. Without a Strava account there is no automatic import. yesStrava Strava records rides itself and takes them in from Garmin, Wahoo, Apple Watch and Fitbit. yesGarmin Connect Garmin Connect gets the activities straight from its own device, but is tied to Garmin hardware for that; an automatic import from Strava into Garmin Connect does not exist. partlyProBikeGarage In its primary sources, ProBikeGarage likewise names Strava as its only sync source. partlymainTrack Exactly two routes are documented: "Keep track of your bikes and components usage by connecting to Strava or manually recording activities." Garmin, Wahoo, Komoot or further sources are not stated on any provider source; apart from Strava, no third-party service is named anywhere on the website. partlyGeer Strava only, and deeply so: the help centre says "Geer receives your new rides from Strava the moment they happen" (webhook in real time, plus a daily full sync at 6 p.m. and a manual sync in the settings), bikes are imported from Strava, and "Your data is securely linked to your Strava account". Garmin and Wahoo are not stated as sources — "Integration of Wahoo and Garmin APIs" is the highest-voted open request on the feedback board and has been at "In Review" since 17 May 2025 — and adding bikes manually without Strava has been an open request there since 31 May 2025. A Strava account is therefore a prerequisite; a paid Strava subscription is expressly not.
Operating hours as metric	yes	not stated	yes	yes	partly	yes
Operating hours as an interval metric of its own (suspension fork, shock) yesBikeCare For fork and shock, operating hours are the technically correct yardstick — Fox and RockShox publish their service intervals in exactly that unit. BikeCare keeps them as a metric of its own alongside kilometres and calendar time, preset to 50 h for fork and shock and 100 h for the dropper post. not statedStrava For Strava, elevation gain and hours as a unit of measure for components are an open request in the Community Hub. yesGarmin Connect Alongside distance, Garmin also records hours and days. yesProBikeGarage ProBikeGarage works with moving time and elapsed time. partlymainTrack Hours are demonstrably kept as a usage figure in their own right — "how many hours your race wheel have" — and the provider names suspension expressly as a use case ("Or when you need to service your suspension?"). Whether an interval can be set directly in operating hours is not clear from the provider's sources; the interval bases named there are "period of time, usage, rides or elapsed time". yesGeer Alongside distance, Geer knows time-based maintenance tasks: changelog v1.9.1 (30 June 2025) refers to "moving time and timer maintenance tasks" — that is, tasks running on ridden moving time as well as on calendar time — and v1.10.3 adds "Timer service notifications". Suspension forks and shocks are not named as component types on the provider's own pages; the parts advertised are chain, cassette, brake pads, tyres, brake rotors and bottom bracket, with components freely creatable ("Chain, cassette, brake pads — whatever").
EU provider, GDPR, EU servers	yes	partly	partly	not stated	partly	yes
EU provider under the GDPR, servers in Germany, public legal notice yesBikeCare BikeCare is developed in Germany and the data sits on EU servers; the legal notice gives a full postal address at which the provider can be served. partlyStrava Strava, Inc. is based in San Francisco; for EU users Strava Ireland Limited is responsible, and according to the privacy policy the processing takes place in the USA on the basis of standard contractual clauses. partlyGarmin Connect Garmin is a US group with a Swiss holding company and a German entity in Würzburg; the server location could not be evidenced on 19 July 2026. not statedProBikeGarage According to the App Store, the seller of ProBikeGarage is Tappr Labs LLC, a US legal entity with no stated server location. partlymainTrack GDPR rights are named in the privacy policy (withdrawal of consent, erasure, portability "in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format", objection). There is no legal notice, no controller with a postal address and no server location; on transfers it says only that "data transfers may involve transferring and storing your information in a country other than your own". The German App Store notes expressly that the developer has not identified itself as a trader for this app. yesGeer Fully disclosed: the footer of every page carries "GEER BIKE OÜ · Reg. 17213697 (Äriregister) · Pärnu mnt 139b, 11317 Tallinn" together with a contact address, so the company is registered in Estonia with its commercial register number. The privacy policy names "renewable-powered servers in Germany" as the server location, states "EU-Based & GDPR-Compliant" with the legal bases Art. 6(1)(a), 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f) GDPR, lists the processors by name (Mailgun, Plausible, Sentry, Grafana, Stripe, Strava, Meta Platforms) and discloses third-country transfers under standard contractual clauses; the applicable law is Estonian.

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You can work out your tyre pressure right here: bike tyre pressure calculator – from system weight, front and rear tyre width and tyre system, no sign-up.

The individual comparisons

BikeCare vs. Strava

For recording rides, segments and community, Strava stays the first choice, and BikeCare does not try to replace it. What BikeCare adds is the maintenance side of the same kilometres: remaining life per component, service intervals, a calculated tyre pressure and cost per kilometre. Run together, one app records the riding and the other looks after the bike.

BikeCare vs. Garmin Connect

If you ride Garmin hardware and want the wear status in front of you on the handlebars, Garmin Connect is the right place. If you want wear weighted by wet rides, surface and climbing, plus a tyre pressure calculator, chain care intervals per lubrication method and a service book that records costs, BikeCare is the better fit — including alongside Garmin.

BikeCare vs. ProBikeGarage

ProBikeGarage is the safer pick for proven, basic maintenance tracking with a large parts catalogue, several setups per bike and file attachments in the service log. BikeCare suits road, gravel and MTB riders who want tyre pressure, chain care per lubrication method, condition-dependent wear and cost per kilometre worked out precisely. As at 19 July 2026.

BikeCare vs. mainTrack

mainTrack is free, mature and deliberately lean — if you ride on an iPhone and want a dependable counter with intervals and reminders, it costs you nothing and does that job well. BikeCare earns its subscription only if you want the arithmetic behind the maintenance: remaining life per part, wear weighted by conditions and by measured power, tyre pressure, cost per kilometre — plus Android and the browser. Where mainTrack's own pages stay silent on a feature, we say so rather than claiming it is missing.

BikeCare vs. Geer

Geer is cheaper — its Pro is €1.67 a month billed annually, less than BikeCare Pro on the same annual billing — and it syncs with Strava more deeply, right down to writing the wear status back into your activity descriptions. BikeCare earns the difference if you want those kilometres weighted by wet conditions, surface and elevation gain rather than merely counted, a tyre pressure figure that knows tubeless and hookless, costs per year and per 1,000 km, and a service book you can export as CSV and PDF. Both are based in the EU and name a full address — GEER BIKE OÜ in Tallinn, BikeCare a sole trader in Germany.

What BikeCare is built for

Kilometres become a remaining life

Strava shows how far a component has been ridden. BikeCare works out how far it will still last — for chain, tyres, brake pads, cassette and 20+ further parts, in kilometres and in days.

Wet rides count for more than dry ones

Remaining life is weighted by the conditions: wet weather and surface for the drivetrain, elevation gain for the brakes. A rainy ride over gravel eats more chain than the same distance dry and flat, and that is exactly how it is counted.

Tyre pressure is calculated, not noted down

The calculator takes system weight, front and rear tyre width and the tyre system (tube, tubeless, hookless), and on hookless rims caps the result hard at the ISO/ETRTO maximum. In Strava, a pressure value would sit in the component's free-text note.

Chain care follows the method you actually use

Hot wax, drip wax, dry lube and wet lube each have their own intervals, weighted again by wet weather and surface. Someone who hot-waxes gets different dates from someone running wet lube through the winter.

A service log that knows the costs

Workshop visits, part prices, warranty dates — all recorded, and exportable as CSV or PDF. BikeCare turns them into cost per year and cost per kilometre, per bike and across all your bikes.

Reminders you set yourself

Push and email are configured separately, each with its own rhythm. If you do not want emails, you get none — without losing the push reminders.

How we compared

Everything here comes from the providers’ own public sources — website, help centre, pricing page and store listings. Retrieved: 4 August 2026.

Every statement of the form “provider X cannot do this” was checked separately, with the explicit brief to disprove it. Of 17 such statements, 13 held and four were dropped — they therefore do not appear as a cross in the table.

Where we could not find a feature in the public sources, the table says “not stated” instead of a cross. That is a statement about the sources, not about the product — a feature can exist without being documented.

Feature sets change. If something here is out of date or wrong, write to us at support@bikecare.app — we will correct it and note the date.

Common questions

Which bike maintenance app is the best one?

There is no single answer, and any page that gives you one is selling something. Strava and Garmin Connect are free and already installed; they count kilometres per component but, according to their own help pages, do not turn them into a remaining life. mainTrack is genuinely free with no subscription, but iOS only. Geer is the cheapest paid option and writes wear status back to your Strava activities. ProBikeGarage has the largest predefined bike catalogue. BikeCare weights wet weather, surface and elevation gain, adds a tyre pressure calculator and a cost per kilometre. Pick by what you actually want to do.

Do I have to give up Strava to use BikeCare?

No. BikeCare takes its rides from Strava — it is an addition, not a replacement. Everything you already do in Strava keeps working.

Which of these apps is free?

Strava's component tracking and Garmin Connect's gear tracking are free. mainTrack is free with no subscription at all. Geer has a free tier for two bikes and five components, and Pro from €1.67 a month billed annually. ProBikeGarage has a free tier and a paid one. BikeCare is free for up to two bikes; Pro adds the AI features and unlimited bikes.

Where does BikeCare lose?

On price against Geer and mainTrack, on reach and catalogue size against ProBikeGarage, on community and segments against Strava, and on showing wear on the head unit against Garmin. Each of those is set out on the individual comparison page for that app.

How current are these figures?

Strava, Garmin Connect and ProBikeGarage were retrieved on 19 July 2026; mainTrack and Geer on 4 August 2026. Feature sets change. If something here is out of date, write to support@bikecare.app and we will correct it and note the date.

Sources

Everything here comes from the providers’ own public pages, retrieved on 4 August 2026. Feature sets change — if something is missing or has changed, write to us at support@bikecare.app — we will correct it.

BikeCare is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Strava, Inc., Garmin Ltd. or any other provider named here. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Ride data powered by Strava.

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