Free for up to 5 colonies. Just speak your inspection, iBee fills in the beehive card. Plus feedings, treatments, harvests and the comb grid, even offline.
Free for up to 5 colonies. More colonies, photos and documents come with the iBeekeeper package, which applies to all iBeekeeper apps.
An apiary is not a desk.
Gloves on, hive tool in one hand, the colony open in front of you. That is exactly when an app should stay out of the way. Beehives saves everything on the device first, so you can keep working where there is no signal. As soon as there is a connection again, the app syncs with the server by itself.
IBEE: SPEAK INSTEAD OF TYPING
At an open colony you have no hand free for the phone. So just say what you see: gentle colony, six combs of brood, stores are fine. iBee listens, writes it down, picks out the individual values and puts them into the fields of your beehive card. You see every value and can change it before the card is saved.
You can ask iBee questions too, right in the middle of the work. Whatever it suggests you either accept or discard, nothing is saved behind your back. And which of your data it may see at all is your decision, area by area, made up front.
iBee needs a connection, everything else works without one.
THE INSPECTION
Comb by comb, box by box, both sides. You tap what you see: worker brood, drone brood, honey, pollen, foundation, queen cells. At the end it tells you how much brood area the colony has, in square centimetres, along with the estimated number of brood cells and from which comb to which comb the brood nest runs.
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE COLONY
Beehive card, feeding, treatment, harvest, disease, rating. Each one separate, each with its own form. Which fields appear on the beehive card is up to you: you put them together at webapp.iBeekeeper.de, and the app shows exactly those.
Enter a treatment and the app works out when the withdrawal period ends, then tells you at the colony how many days are left. Ratings collect at the colony, with an average across all of them.
THE WHOLE APIARY IN ONE GO
Fed forty colonies and now you type forty entries? No need. Feedings, treatments and beehive cards can be created for every colony at an apiary in a single step. Take individual ones back out if you like.
NOTE IT DOWN HOWEVER SUITS YOU
Speak your note into the phone. It gets written down and you can read it as text later. Photograph the comb you are puzzling over. Attach a task to one colony or to the whole apiary, with templates for the jobs that come round every year.
AND ALSO
Apiaries with weather from our own weather service. Migrations with a full history, so you know where a colony stood and when. APITag with QR code and NFC. The last reading reported by your hive scale, right at the colony. An app for Apple Watch. On iPad a proper layout with a sidebar, not a blown-up iPhone.
YOUR DATA
What you enter in the app is in the web application at webapp.iBeekeeper.de as well, and the other way round. Where your bees actually stand stays between us: iBeekeeper never shows locations publicly, and if a photo of yours does become public, in the beekeeping knowledge base for example, the capture location and device details are stripped from the file first.
You need an iBeekeeper account to use the app. There is a free period to try it out, after which up to five colonies stay free for good.
Privacy: https://www.ibeekeeper.de/en/privacy-policy
Terms: https://www.ibeekeeper.de/en/terms
Licence: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Support: https://www.ibeekeeper.de/en/kontakt/
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New in this version:
- Weight check with honey reserve: record weighings of your colony, store the hive weight and factors, and the app works out the estimated honey and feed reserve. The chart shows the weight trend, the reserve and your feedings as a running total; weights from a hive scale appear automatically.
- Two-factor sign-in: if it is switched on for your account, the app asks for a code from your authenticator app, a code by email or a recovery code after your password. If you like, it trusts your device for 60 days. You can set it up in the web app under Settings → Security.
- Route and share location: “Route” opens navigation to the apiary in Apple Maps, and “Share location” sends its name and a map link to other apps.
- Tasks with a time: give a task a time and choose when the app reminds you: default, 1 day, 1 hour, 30 or 15 minutes before, or a time of your own. Task templates remember the reminder too.
- The app's reminder follows the task's time and lead time and no longer comes twice when you have notifications for tasks switched on.
- Notifications and reminders play the familiar iBeekeeper sound again.
- If a task has instructions, links or files, the “Help” button shows everything at a glance.
- When editing a task at an apiary, you can apply it to individual colonies; each one gets its own task.
- Tasks can be duplicated.
- Feedings have a “Product” field with suggestions from your earlier entries.
- Comb grid: new frame sizes Zander 1.5, German Normal 1.5, Swiss standard, Kuntzsch and Mini Plus. The brood area is calculated with the same comb areas as the web app.
- Frame size, frames per box and number of boxes no longer appear twice in the master data.
- With “Report a problem” you can attach up to five pictures of your own.
- Field names, hints and choices of the standard forms now appear in the app's language.
- Required fields are checked when saving.
- After switching forms, the master data only shows the fields of the new form.
- New photos are uploaded right away.
- The surroundings on the start page are sorted by name.
- A colony's overview no longer crashes when a hive card has been removed.
- A crash report names the page that was open before the crash.
- Missing translations added, among them breeds and hive types in all languages.
Version 4.0.6
The developer, iBeekeeper UG (haftungsbeschränkt), 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.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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Information
Seller
iBeekeeper UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Size
108.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
