BeTheBee
Voice Hive Inspections
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Be The Bee is an offline-first hive inspection app built for practical, data-driven beekeeping.
Inspect hives hands-free using voice input and Bluetooth earphones, or complete the same structured inspection manually when voice recording is not needed. Be The Bee is designed for real apiary conditions, including remote locations where internet access may be limited or unavailable.
Voice recognition, inspection processing, and key metric calculations can run directly on the device, allowing inspections to continue without a live cloud connection. Records are saved locally first and can be synchronized with the cloud when internet access becomes available.
During each inspection, Be The Bee helps you record the details that matter most in the apiary: queen status, brood and larvae, drone brood, queen cells, swarming indicators, colony temperament, visible disease, treatments, feeding, equipment changes, and custom notes.
Voice-powered inspections help reduce paper notes and make it easier to capture information while working directly with your colonies. Inspection data is organized into clear hive records so you can review colony history, track changes over time, and make better management decisions.
Use Be The Bee to:
• Inspect hives hands-free
• Work offline in the apiary
• Record structured hive data
• Use on-device voice recognition
• Save inspection records locally
• Sync data with the cloud when connected
• Track queen status and colony condition
• Log brood, larvae, queen cells, and swarming signs
• Record treatments and feeding
• Manage equipment changes
• Add custom inspection notes
• Review hive history over time
Whether you manage a few colonies or a growing apiary, Be The Bee helps you keep cleaner records, work more efficiently, and build a better long-term picture of every hive — even when you are working far from reliable internet.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://app.bethebee.ca/legal
Ratings & Reviews
- Added pause and resume controls for voice inspections.
- Added voice commands for upper and lower brood chambers.
- Added a profile setting to choose a top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top inspection order.
- Improved voice transcription for common field inspection phrases.
- Improved offline hive detail caching and cache status indicators.
- Improved offline box update reliability.
- Updated the voice inspection tutorial with the latest commands.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving hive details while data was loading.
- Improved pending sync and notification card layouts.
The developer, Beekeeping Innovations Ltd., 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:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Beekeeping Innovations Ltd.
- Size
- 300.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 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
- BeeCube Premium Yearly $129.99
- BeeCube Premium Monthly $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Beekeeping Innovations Ltd.