Bees Knees: Hive & Beekeeping
James Belcher Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Bees Knees: Hive & Beekeeping is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by James Belcher. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated September 15, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 37 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 15
- 2026 · v1.6.0
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About Bees Knees: Hive & Beekeeping
Bees Knees is the simple, reliable way to manage your apiaries from the hive side — built for beekeepers, by beekeepers. Record a full hive inspection in seconds with glove-friendly controls: colony strength, stores and brood, queen sightings, disease and varroa checks, swarm signs and the actions you took. Everything is saved on your phone first, so it works perfectly in the apiary with no signal — and syncs automatically to your free Bees Knees web account when you're back online. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • Apiaries and hives, with photos, locations and notes • Inspections with health ratings, queen status, disease and varroa records • Queens — marking colour and year, clipping, temperament • Honey and wax harvests, with quantity and floral source • Treatments and feeding records • Hive weights over time • Income and expenses PLAN AND STAY ON TOP • Calendar and to-do view with one-off and recurring reminders • "Needs attention" prompts for hives overdue an inspection • Apiary map with forage-range rings and current weather SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE • Reports for honey per month, top hives, colony averages and finances • Dashboard summary of your whole operation at a glance WORKS ANYWHERE • Offline-first: full functionality with no connection • Free cloud sync keeps your phone and the web in step • Optional Face ID / Touch ID lock Bees Knees is a free companion to the free Bees Knees website. Create an account on either, and your records follow you everywhere. You stay in control of your data — manage your account and delete it at any time, from the app or the web.
What’s new
Version 1.6.0 · Updated September 15, 2026
YOUR MEDICINES RECORD, READY FOR AN INSPECTOR: The veterinary medicine administration record you must keep for five years is now on the phone, laid out to match the official card: date, product, batch number, place of purchase, colonies treated, dose, withdrawal period and disposal. It shows the same rows and the same dates as the website, including the day each withdrawal period ends. Open it from the menu under Write it down, or from the print button on the Treatments list. SEASON REPORT: One page per year: colonies on the books at the start and end of the year, hives added, losses as they stand, inspections, honey from your own bees, treatments given, feeding, and money per currency. Pick any year that holds a record. Under Reports. INSPECTION HISTORY: Every inspection, hive by hive and in date order, the record book a bee inspector would ask to see. Filter to one hive or one year, or print the lot. Dead and sold hives stay in the book. Under Reports. HIVE QR LABELS: The app could scan a hive label and could not print one. Now it prints a sheet, three labels to a row, or a single label from a hive's page. The code never changes, so a label survives renaming, renumbering and moving the hive. Under At the hive in the menu, and in each apiary's menu. ALSO IN THIS BUILD: A colony rating left blank on the website used to show on the phone as 5. It now shows as blank, and stays blank if you edit the inspection on the phone. Editing an inspection that never recorded a time no longer stamps the current time on it. A hive label scanned while signed out opens nothing.
App privacy
The developer, James Belcher, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Performance Data, Crash Data
- Location: Coarse Location
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bees Knees: Hive & Beekeeping | – | Free | September 15, 2026 |
| Bee & Bloom | – | Free | Jun 8, 2026 |
| Bee Inspector: Hive Manager | – | Free | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Bees Intelligence | – | Free | Jun 15, 2026 |
| Pasika: Beekeeping Hive App | 5.0 / 5 (2) | Free | Sep 20, 2026 |
| Sunny Bee | – | Free | Aug 3, 2026 |
| Queenright Beekeeping Logbook | 5.0 / 5 (1) | Free | Jun 5, 2026 |