Quiver vs Strava gear

This one is not really a choice. You almost certainly already use Strava, and Quiver does not replace it: no ride tracking, no segments, no mileage. What is worth knowing is exactly where Strava's My Gear stops, because a lot of riders assume it holds more than it does.

What My Gear actually stores

Strava tracks two kinds of gear, bikes and shoes. A bike record holds a nickname, a bike type, a weight, a brand and model, and an optional description. Brand and model come from Strava's own list, and their help centre is direct about the limit: "there is no way to add your shoe or bike model if it is not already listed."

On the website, not the phone, you can add components to a bike. Per component you can record the type, the brand, the model, the weight, the date you added it, and notes. That is the whole field list. The brand and model are text you type, not entries from a parts catalog, and what the components are for is one number: the distance you have ridden on that part.

So the gear record has no field for a groupset, fork travel, axle standard, chainstay length, reach or stack. It was built to count miles, and it counts them well. It was not built to say what the bike is made of.

What Strava does better

Everything to do with riding, which is most of what a bike app is for. Strava reports 195 million athletes, your friends are on it, and the mileage on your gear accrues by itself from rides you were going to record anyway. There is no version of Quiver that competes with that, and we are not trying to. If you want to know how far your chain has gone, Strava already knows and Quiver never will.

What Quiver does better

Knowing what the parts are. In Strava you type a component's brand and model as free text, and the only technical thing it records is weight. In Quiver you name the bike and the catalog returns the factory build, part by part, with the real specs and a recorded source for each one and a clear mark on anything unconfirmed. Per-size geometry is there for the next-bike decision, stock parts and your upgrades stay easy to tell apart, and the total invested is there when you sell or insure.

The history is different too. Strava allows one component of each type per bike, a retired component cannot be brought back, and replacing a part makes the old one disappear from the list, so the record only ever shows the bike as it is now. Retiring a frame means starting the whole bike over. Quiver is built the other way around: the point is the record of everything that has been on the bike.

Use both, honestly

This is the cleanest pairing on this page. Strava counts the miles. Quiver knows what the parts are, what they cost, and where those answers came from. Quiver has no Strava sync and no plans to pretend otherwise, so nothing here asks you to move anything out of Strava.

Strava details come from Strava's own help centre, API reference and pricing page and were checked on 17 August 2026. Quoted lines are Strava's words. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, email [email protected] and we will fix it. Quiver is not affiliated with Strava, and Strava is their trademark, used here to describe their product.