The purpose of this paper is to explore conditions which guarantee Lipschitz-continuity of harmonic maps with respect to quasihyperbolic metrics. For instance, we prove that harmonic quasiconformal maps are Lipschitz with respect to quasihyperbolic metrics.

We give simple proofs of various versions of the Schwarz lemma for real valued harmonic functions and for holomorphic (more generally harmonic quasiregular, shortly HQR) mappings with the strip codomain. Along the way, we get a simple proof of a new version of the Schwarz lemma for real valued harmonic functions (without the assumption that 0 is mapped to 0 by the corresponding map). Using the Schwarz-Pick lemma related to distortion for harmonic functions and the elementary properties of the hyperbolic geometry of the strip we get optimal estimates for modulus of HQR mappings.

We give the lower bound for the modulus of the radial derivatives and Jacobian of harmonic injective mappings from the unit ball onto convex domain in plane and space. As an application we show co-Lipschitz property of some classes of qch mappings. We also review related results in planar case using some novelty.