ApiaryOS
Beekeeping Journal & Tracker
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Elegant beekeeping journal with live weather, GDD bloom predictions, voice notes, and guided inspections. Made for first-season keepers and lifers alike.
**B-HyveOS is a beekeeping app for people who actually keep bees.**
Every serious tool, in one elegant iPhone and iPad app. Built for beginners finding their way through a first season and for longtime keepers tracking a hundred inspections a year.
**Your apiary, organized.**
Group hives into named yards — "North Yard", "Backfield", wherever your bees live — each with its own location. Weather and bloom predictions come from exactly the right spot. Add hives one tap at a time or pin a whole apiary at once.
**Inspections done right.**
A guided inspection form walks you through what to check and why — queen spotted, eggs/larvae/capped brood, honey and pollen stores, temperament, pests, disease signs — with short educational notes so you're learning as you log. Temperature auto-fills from the weather at your hive's location.
**Live weather and forage predictions.**
Apple WeatherKit drives current conditions and a 5-day forecast for every hive. Growing degree days (GDD50) accumulate from your biofix date and power a built-in library of 25+ North American nectar and pollen plants. You see what's blooming now, what's starting soon, and what finished weeks ago.
**Serious Varroa tracking.**
Log mite counts by method (alcohol wash, sugar roll, sticky board), sample size, and mites counted. Watch the 3% economic threshold color-coded across the app — green below 2%, orange 2–3%, red above. The Varroa story, properly told.
**Honey, treatments, feedings.**
Track every harvest by frames pulled and weight. Log treatments by product — Apivar, oxalic acid, Formic Pro, Apiguard. Record sugar syrup feedings by ratio and amount. See lifetime totals on each hive.
**Voice notes with on-device transcription.**
Narrate what you see while you're at the hive. B-HyveOS records audio and transcribes with Apple's on-device speech recognition — your voice never leaves your phone. Attach notes to a specific hive, inspection, harvest, or leave them loose in the Journal.
**Checklists for every season.**
Eight curated templates — pre-inspection prep, spring opening, summer maintenance, fall prep, winter prep, swarm capture kit, extraction day, quick routine check. Check off items as you work.
**Learn as you go.**
Beekeeping glossary, seasonal calendar, first-year checklist, and links to the best free resources — Honey Bee Health Coalition's Varroa tools, Bee Informed Partnership, Cooperative Extension, American Beekeeping Federation.
**Privacy by design.**
Your data lives in your own iCloud — there are no servers because B-HyveOS doesn't need any. Voice recordings stay on your device. Sign in with your iCloud account and it just works across iPhone and iPad.
**For the curious beekeeper.**
For beginners: the explanations, the first-year checklist, the threshold colors that tell you when something's wrong. For experts: per-hive phenology, GDD correlation, a clean interface that gets out of your way during a 20-minute inspection in full suit.
**Requires iOS 17 or later. Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases.**
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Bee math for individual hives.
The developer, JW McCullough, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- JW McCullough
- Size
- 5.7 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © JW McCullough