Bienenvölker: the app for iPhone, iPad and Android
Manage colonies, hive cards, harvests and inventory digitally, even offline at the apiary.
At the apiary you work with the app, at the computer with the web app. Both use the same data.
Why offline matters
Apiaries are rarely where the signal is good. At the edge of a wood, behind a hill, in the dead zone between two villages. If an app needs a connection there, it is useless at the moment that counts.
The Bienenvölker app works offline. You add colonies, record inspections, edit or delete entries, without needing a single bar of reception. As soon as the device has a connection again, everything syncs in the background.
What helps at the apiary
You find a colony with the search field instead of scrolling through a long list. With a package you speak your observations as a note instead of typing with gloves on, and attach photos. You bring nucs, production colonies or a breed together in colony groups, each group with its own form.
New: “Inspect with iBee” and the frame grid
You speak your inspection, and iBee fills in the fields of your hive card. You check every value before the card is saved. You can talk to iBee during the trial period and with a package; iBee needs a connection for this. In the frame grid you mark brood, honey, pollen and queen cells comb by comb, and the app shows you the brood area in cm². Both are available on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Apple Watch
The app comes with an app for the Apple Watch. There you have your colonies and tasks on your wrist and, with a package, record a voice note right at the colony.
Fully customisable hive cards
Every beekeeper works differently. With iBeekeeper you adapt your hive cards yourself, without any programming knowledge. Show and hide fields, choose suitable templates and create your own colony groups with their own forms for nucs, production colonies or breeding colonies.
Everything in one app
Hive cards
Document inspections quickly and in a structured way.
Harvests
Record and analyse honey harvests per colony and apiary.
Inventory
Keep track of your stock of jars, frames and materials.
To-dos
Plan and tick off tasks per colony and apiary.
Treatment journal
Record varroa treatments completely and ready for inspection.
Photos
Save photos right at the colony and find them again.
Document treatments, medicine record book as a PDF
You enter treatments in the app or in the web app, if you like for all colonies at an apiary in one step. On the colony you can see when the withdrawal period ends. In the web app you add the batch, supplier, receipt and, where applicable, the vet, and under “Reports” you output the medicine record book (Germany) as a PDF: per apiary and year with all the details required by Article 108 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6, with your details as the animal keeper and a field for your signature. The medicine record book, treatment journal and inventory list as PDFs are available with a package and during the trial period, and for 90 days after your contract ends. Data export under “Settings” is always free, even without a package.
Scan at the apiary instead of searching
Scrolling through a list of forty colonies with gloves on is no fun at the apiary. If an APITag is stuck to the hive, you hold your phone to the hive and the app opens exactly that colony, with its hive card, last inspection and everything that goes with it.
The tag holds on a metal lid, where ordinary NFC stickers stay silent, and has its number printed on it. If someone else scans it without the app, they don't get to see your hive cards, but whatever you have set for that.
For every size of operation
Whether a hobby apiary with five colonies or a commercial operation with several hundred, iBeekeeper grows with you. You keep track even with many apiaries and colonies.
What the app looks like
The apps at a glance
- Bienenvölker for iPhone and iPad and for Android: the app for working at the apiary, with an app for the Apple Watch on the iPhone.
- Kasse for iPhone and iPad: sell honey at the market stall or in the farm shop. You can take cash even without a signal; card payment at the terminal needs a connection. Kasse is part of the package, and you can try it out during the trial period.
- Büro for iPhone and iPad: cash book with receipt photos attached to the booking, documents in folders and a yearly summary with income and expenses per month.
- Community for iPhone and iPad: posts, groups and messages with other beekeepers.
All apps use your iBeekeeper account. What the packages include is shown in the price overview.
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Try it freeRelated pages
- Digital hive card
- Beekeeping software at a glance
- Hive card module
- Harvest module
- Measuring the water content of honey
- Use iBeekeeper for free: what the free package can do
- APITags: mark colonies clearly at the apiary
Frequently asked questions
Is the beekeeping app free?
You can try iBeekeeper for free and use it for good with the free package. For larger beekeeping operations there are extended packages.
Does the app work offline?
Yes. You document completely offline at the apiary; the data syncs automatically as soon as there is a connection again.
Is the app available for iPhone and Android?
Yes, iBeekeeper is available for iPhone and iPad, for Android and also as a web app in the browser, with the same data on all devices.