What is BikeCare?
BikeCare is a bike maintenance app that works out what's due on your chain, tires, brakes and more than 20 other parts from the rides you've done. It covers road, gravel, mountain and e-bikes, runs in the browser and on iPhone, iPad and Android, and works in English and German. The pitch on its App Store page is plain: catch a cheap wear part before it takes an expensive one with it, like a worn chain taking the cassette and chainrings with it.
It's a solo project by a road cyclist in Germany. The changelog inside the app starts on June 27, 2026 and moves quickly: version 3.12.0 landed at the end of October 2026, adding a ride calendar and Strava segments with your best times first.
Key Features
Wear that depends on the ride
The same ride can count differently for different parts. The homepage's example is 84 km with 1,240 m of climbing, wet, recorded as a gravel ride: 164 km toward the chain, 138 km toward the brake pads and exactly 84 km toward the rear tire. Chain, cassette and chainring are also weighted by the work done, using kilojoules per kilometer, but only when a power meter measured it; Strava's estimated power is left out. Forks and shocks can run on operating hours, preset to 50 hours.
A measurement beats the estimate
Record a chain gauge reading and it replaces the calculated figure for that chain. Each part shows how its number came about. When past parts give it something to go on, BikeCare can suggest a better interval, and you decide whether to apply it.
Chain care by lube method
Hot wax, drip wax, dry lube and wet lube each get their own interval, and a wet ride brings the chain care reminder forward.
Reminders and what waiting costs
Reminders go out by push and email, set separately, and you can postpone one by 30, 60, 90 or 180 days or your own number. For a due part, BikeCare shows what replacing it now costs and what follows if you wait, using your own documented prices where it has them.
A service log you can hand over
Every job goes in with cost, mileage and receipt, and you can mark what warranty or insurance covered. That feeds a cost per 1,000 km figure and a PDF service record, which states on the page that it rests on your own entries, not a workshop's confirmation. When you sell, the BikeCare Passport moves the bike to the buyer's account with a one-time link. Parts, intervals, wear so far, the odometer and service history go across; your notes, costs, receipts and rides stay with you. To show the record without handing the bike over, there's a revocable share link lasting 7 to 180 days.
Wheelsets, and a tire pressure calculator
Wheelsets move between bikes and keep their kilometers. The tire pressure calculator takes rider weight, front and rear width and tire system, and on hookless rims caps the result at the ISO/ETRTO maximum. It's free to use on the site with no account.
AI for setup and questions
Enter a brand and model and live web research through Perplexity suggests the parts; you check them, or enter everything by hand. The Copilot, which runs on Claude by Anthropic, answers questions about your bike. The wear calculation, status and plan aren't AI, and the rules are published on the How BikeCare calculates page.
Who It's For
- Riders on Android, or moving between phone and browser, since one account covers web, iOS and Android
- Wet-weather and gravel riders, whose kilometers count for more on the chain than dry road ones
- Riders who wax their chains, with intervals that follow the method
- Anyone planning to sell a bike who wants its history to go with it
Worth Knowing
Strava is the only automatic source. Rides from Garmin, Wahoo, komoot and Apple Watch reach BikeCare by going through Strava first, and a free Strava account is enough for that. New rides arrive by webhook shortly after upload, and on the first import you pick which Strava bikes and rides to bring in, up to the 2,000 most recent. Once you're in the app, its changelog says several Strava bikes can feed one BikeCare bike. Leave a turbo trainer's Strava bike out if you don't want it counted, and watch for two devices on one ride: BikeCare counts both uploads until you delete the duplicate.
Its comparison page with Geer says BikeCare asks for read-only Strava permissions and writes nothing back. No page names the Strava scopes; a message in the app says BikeCare needs access to your activities and your profile (for your bike list). The privacy policy says it stores activity data such as distance, duration, route, elevation and bike assignment, plus heart rate and power where your activities have them. It treats heart rate as health data, asks for explicit consent when you connect, and uses it only to show your rides, statistics and records. For wet-ride detection it sends each ride's start location, rounded to about a kilometer, and the date to Open-Meteo, which you can turn off. The app's changelog says the Copilot no longer sees individual imported rides, though it still knows your distance, goals and wear. The App Store page still says it knows your rides.
The free version isn't a trial: one bike, with wear calculation, reminders, the service log, the PDF record and sharing, and it doesn't expire. It also includes 40 AI parts recommendations, one AI bike setup and one Copilot question a month. Pro is €3.49 a month or €28.99 a year in the terms, and the App Store's release notes offer a 30-day free trial. The US App Store lists $2.99 and $24.99, Google Play's US page shows $3.99 to $33.99 per item, and the terms say store prices can differ slightly. In the free version the 90-day plan is a preview, with the first item shown in full.
BikeCare shows no ad banners, but both app stores flag advertising. Some shop links in the parts recommendations are affiliate links, labeled as advertising in the app. The privacy policy also says ad measurement through Meta is on by default in the mobile apps, and you can switch it off under Settings, Data, Ad measurement. On iPhone and iPad it also needs your yes in Apple's Tracking dialog.
The wear figures are calculated, not measured, and the site says so. It also says BikeCare gives no safety assessment, so check your brakes yourself, and that the Passport isn't proof of ownership. The legal pages are written under German law and the German versions are the authoritative ones.
Can I use BikeCare without Strava?
You can enter rides by hand: kilometers, bike, date, duration and surface. There's no other automatic import, so skipping Strava means skipping the automatic kilometer count.
What happens to my rides if I disconnect Strava?
New rides stop coming in. The privacy policy says imported rides stay in your account, and the app asks whether to delete them or keep them as ordinary rides.
Do indoor rides wear my tires in BikeCare?
Rides marked indoor or trainer don't count toward your tires and barely count toward your brakes, but they do count toward the chain. An indoor ride that arrives as a normal one can be switched to indoor in BikeCare.
