HiveCompanion: Beekeeping
Offline beekeeping logbook
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Track every hive, inspection, harvest, and more — offline, private, and built for the field. No account, no cloud, no subscription. Just you and your bees.
HiveCompanion — The offline beekeeping logbook built for the field
Keep track of every hive, every inspection, every harvest — right from your pocket.
No account. No cloud. No internet required.
Your beekeeping records stay on your device, always available — even miles from a signal.
Built by a beekeeper, for beekeepers.
WHY HIVECOMPANION
> Truly offline
Works in the middle of a field, on a mountain, anywhere. Your data stays on your device.
> Private by design
No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads. Ever.
> Fast in the field
Designed for real conditions — sunlight, gloves, one hand on the smoker.
> One-time purchase
No subscriptions. No paywalls hiding basic features.
WHAT YOU CAN TRACK
Apiaries & Hives
Organize your bees by location. Create storage apiaries for empty or dead hives.
Track queen color, queen reference, supers, and status at a glance.
Full Inspections
Log everything that matters in under a minute:
• Queen sighting, population, food stores
• Brood quality (capped & uncapped)
• Behavior rating
• Diseases: American & European foulbrood, chalkbrood, sacbrood
• Pests: varroa mites, wax moth, small hive beetle
• Viruses: deformed wing virus, chronic bee paralysis
• Predators: Asian, European, Oriental hornets
• Free notes for anything else
Hive Life Events
Record every major moment:
• Harvests (with honey type and super count)
• Treatments
• Requeening
• Splits & merges
• Hive moves between apiaries
• Super additions
• Varroa counts
• Deaths
• Custom log entries
Tasks & Calendar
Plan the season. Assign tasks to hives or apiaries.
View everything in a calendar and never miss a treatment window.
Harvests
Track honey type, quantity, date, apiary, hive, and super count.
Build a real production history year after year.
YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES
• Export to PDF — generate per-hive reports or batch exports
• Export to Excel — your raw data, ready for analysis
• QR codes — scan a hive and log instantly
• Full backup — export your entire database anytime
BUILT FOR BEEKEEPERS
• GPS coordinates for each apiary with one-tap directions
• Photos attached to inspections
• Imperial or metric units
• Clean, readable interface
• Optimized for phones and tablets
FREE TO TRY, ONE-TIME UNLOCK
Use HiveCompanion for free with up to 10 hives.
Unlock unlimited hives and reminders for a single $5.99 payment.
No subscription. Ever.
MADE WITH CARE
HiveCompanion is built by a solo developer who keeps bees.
Every feature exists because a beekeeper asked for it.
Have a suggestion? Write in — real beekeepers make this app better.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- The app now provides better support for divisible hives
- Bug fixes
The developer, Hexatek, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Hexatek
- Size
- 78.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 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+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro $5.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 - Hexatek