WaxOn
Never ride a dry chain
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your chain is probably due. Sorry.
WaxOn counts the kilometres since you last waxed or oiled your chain, then tells you before things start sounding expensive. Connect Strava and it adds your rides up on its own — no bike computer to squint at, no spreadsheet, no trying to remember whether that last dunk was before or after the wet week in March.
BIKE MAINTENANCE IS A TEAM SPORT
Share a bike with a six-character code or a QR scan, and that person sees its chains, its history and its reminders. They can log a wax, tick off a brake-pad check, or flag "shifting's gone weird" for you to find later. Handy if you have a mechanic, a partner, or a friend who helps keep your bike rolling smoothly.
Everything anyone does lands in the bike's timeline with their name on it. Revoke access whenever you like. And if someone's bikes are being noisy, mute them — you still see every symbol on their cards, it just stops buzzing.
WAX OR OIL, NO JUDGEMENT
This started because a group of us got curious about waxing our chains. Legs are a different story. We discovered the hard part isn't the wax, it's the remembering. The app has you covered.
Still want to use good old drip lube? The app tracks that too! Mark a chain as oiled and every counter, button and reminder changes to match, right down to its own degrease counter. Same app, different chemistry.
WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES
• Counts ride distance per chain, straight from Strava — or type it in by hand for bikes that aren't linked
• Tells you when wax or oil is due, ideally before it's overdue
• As many chains per bike as you run: one on the bike, the rest on the shelf, ready to go fast
• Service reminders for brake pads, tire wear, tubeless sealant, battery checks and degreasing
• Saves your waxes and lubes as presets, because a hot-melt and a wet lube do not last the same distance
• Flag a problem on any bike, resolve it when it's fixed
• A timeline per bike: every wax, degrease, check and flag, with who did it and at what distance
• Logged something by mistake? Remove it, and the counter it reset goes back where it was
• Kilometres or miles, your call. We won't judge (too much ;)
NOTIFICATIONS THAT PAY ATTENTION
WaxOn live tracks how fast you're getting through a chain's interval and schedules its warnings from that, so they arrive even with the app closed. Ride more and they move closer; take a week off and they slide out. Chains sitting on the shelf never alert.
THE SMALL PRINT
Sign in with Strava — no separate account, no password, and no email address, because we never ask for one. No ads. Free. You can delete everything from Settings, or from waxon.cc/delete-account without installing a thing.
Powered by Strava. Not endorsed by Strava.
Never ride a dry chain.
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New
- Preset lookup for wax and lube. Settings now has a searchable catalogue of known chain products and their typical reapplication distances. Tap one and it creates a preset with the kind and interval already filled in, so you are not guessing at the number that drives every future alert.
- Service reminders can track by time, distance, or both. Whichever comes first makes the reminder due. Tubeless sealant and coin-cell batteries wear on the calendar whether or not the bike moves, so each reminder now has a separate switch for its distance basis and its time basis.
- Private nicknames. If you service other people's bikes, you can give each bike, and each owner, a nickname that only you see. The real name always travels alongside it, and the owner is never shown the nickname or told it exists.
- Bike notes. Every bike gets a free-text notes box for the small facts that outlast a single service, such as tire pressures and spare-part sizes. Anyone who services the bike can edit
it.
- Chain type on import. Bikes imported from Strava now ask whether the chain is waxed or oiled before they are added, so degrease tracking starts out correct instead of needing a trip to the chain settings.
- Quick-link split tracking. The wax and lube sheet has a "Quick link split" tick box, and each chain keeps a running count, since a quick link is only rated for a limited number of openings.
Fixed
- Strava sync could show an error the app had caused itself after a screen was reopened many times in quick succession. It now backs off when Strava asks it to and recovers on its own.
- Opening a bike's settings screen could crash. Fixed.
- Unmuting a person no longer replays the alerts that were silenced while they were muted.
- Some notifications could be delivered twice. Fixed.
- Two service contacts with the same display name (two riders both called "Dave") are no longer merged into one person.
- The Save button when setting a nickname could sit behind the keyboard.
- Various smaller reliability and security fixes.
The developer, Jonas Armes, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Jonas Armes
- Size
- 50.1 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 INVNTech
