Bees Knees: Hive & Beekeeping
Apiary inspections & records
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Sell your honey from your phone: sales, customers and stock at the gate or the market stall, synced with the website. Plus hornet sightings, pollen and queen cell timing.
Bees Knees is the simple, reliable way to manage your apiaries from the hive side — built for beekeepers, by beekeepers.
Record a full hive inspection in seconds with glove-friendly controls: colony strength, stores and brood, queen sightings, disease and varroa checks, swarm signs and the actions you took. Everything is saved on your phone first, so it works perfectly in the apiary with no signal — and syncs automatically to your free Bees Knees web account when you're back online.
WHAT YOU CAN TRACK
• Apiaries and hives, with photos, locations and notes
• Inspections with health ratings, queen status, disease and varroa records
• Queens — marking colour and year, clipping, temperament
• Honey and wax harvests, with quantity and floral source
• Treatments and feeding records
• Hive weights over time
• Income and expenses
PLAN AND STAY ON TOP
• Calendar and to-do view with one-off and recurring reminders
• "Needs attention" prompts for hives overdue an inspection
• Apiary map with forage-range rings and current weather
SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE
• Reports for honey per month, top hives, colony averages and finances
• Dashboard summary of your whole operation at a glance
WORKS ANYWHERE
• Offline-first: full functionality with no connection
• Free cloud sync keeps your phone and the web in step
• Optional Face ID / Touch ID lock
Bees Knees is a free companion to the free Bees Knees website. Create an account on either, and your records follow you everywhere. You stay in control of your data — manage your account and delete it at any time, from the app or the web.
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YOUR MEDICINES RECORD, READY FOR AN INSPECTOR: The veterinary medicine administration record you must keep for five years is now on the phone, laid out to match the official card: date, product, batch number, place of purchase, colonies treated, dose, withdrawal period and disposal. It shows the same rows and the same dates as the website, including the day each withdrawal period ends. Open it from the menu under Write it down, or from the print button on the Treatments list.
SEASON REPORT: One page per year: colonies on the books at the start and end of the year, hives added, losses as they stand, inspections, honey from your own bees, treatments given, feeding, and money per currency. Pick any year that holds a record. Under Reports.
INSPECTION HISTORY: Every inspection, hive by hive and in date order, the record book a bee inspector would ask to see. Filter to one hive or one year, or print the lot.
Dead and sold hives stay in the book. Under Reports.
HIVE QR LABELS: The app could scan a hive label and could not print one. Now it prints a sheet, three labels to a row, or a single label from a hive's page. The code never changes, so a label survives renaming, renumbering and moving the hive. Under At the hive in the menu, and in each apiary's menu.
ALSO IN THIS BUILD: A colony rating left blank on the website used to show on the phone as 5. It now shows as blank, and stays blank if you edit the inspection on the
phone. Editing an inspection that never recorded a time no longer stamps the current time on it. A hive label scanned while signed out opens nothing.
The developer, James Belcher, 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:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- James Belcher
- Size
- 38.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 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
- © Bees Knees Apiary 2026
