Great tool for beekeepers
I have used BeePlus for 5+ years. Feels like the authors know beekeeping. Easy to use interface, eg tick boxes to record sightings of the queen, eggs, larvae, brood. Drop-downs to select # of honey and brood frames, and foundation. Freeform boxes to capture your musings. You can record honey harvest by weight per hive, and the cost and usage of components per hive. You can set up multiple apiaries, and if you move a hive, the app lets you move the hive and its records to the new location. You can export all your records, which was great when I was asked to present my records for 5 years as part of a certificate program. Easy to track the genetic line of your queen. Good value.
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Great app
This app allows me to speed up the notetaking process and take much more accurate notes. Great been using it for a couple years would recommend.
Works great
I have twenty hives on multiple sites. Once you get the hang of it this app makes life so much easier. Started using Sept 2025 and loving it
Well worth the price
It didn’t take long for us to work out how this system works and only have a couple or three grumbles:
1. When we sync from an iPhone (which we use outdoors in the single apiary we have - around 45 colonies, counting nucs which we sell) we found not all the data synced to the iPad we use indoors. Things like recording a Virgin queen becoming a Mated queen didn’t change.
Workaround: we now delete the entire apiary on the iPad before syncing from the iPhone. This works every time.
2. It would be nice if we could order the To Do list on the Timeline, either alphabetically or, even better, in the order we work through the apiary, but it’s completely random.
Workaround: We normally glance through the To Dos but rely on the To Dos in the Apiary - Hives section. Works for us but a bit frustrating sometimes.
3. Queen Breeding: I know a few people have bemoaned a lack of features for this but we, using a bit of a cheat, get on okay with it.
Workaround: We usually graft larvae from our breeder queens into cups installing 20 grafts onto cell bars. We have a ‘hive’ called Zee Incubator and, on the day of grafting, record that there as an ‘inspection’. When we take the queen cells out of the cell raiser and transfer them into the incubator we record that as another inspection. We always include the breeder queen who laid these eggs. Even queen cells, which either pass through the incubator or simply transfer from one hive to another are recorded here, dates and explanations. Then, as the virgin queens are placed in mating nucs each is given a colour and number (the number is random, the colour denotes her bloodline) so Blue45 or Yellow32. Queen cells are not given a number until they begin laying but their colour and dam is recorded on their ‘Incubator Inspection Page’ and updated if they do come into lay. This makes every queen traceable.
A paper system functioned well with a few hives but I would never want to go back to one. The cost of this system is very reasonable and we applaud the developers for their attention to detail. The fact that it works across several hardware systems (in the same name) is a bonus.
In a nutshell, well worth purchasing even if you have just one hive multiplied by the number of hives you have.
If I have time (hmmm, but will I have any?) I’d like to present a quick overview of the system.
Subscribe or visit YouTube.com/@welshblackbees to check us out.
1. When we sync from an iPhone (which we use outdoors in the single apiary we have - around 45 colonies, counting nucs which we sell) we found not all the data synced to the iPad we use indoors. Things like recording a Virgin queen becoming a Mated queen didn’t change.
Workaround: we now delete the entire apiary on the iPad before syncing from the iPhone. This works every time.
2. It would be nice if we could order the To Do list on the Timeline, either alphabetically or, even better, in the order we work through the apiary, but it’s completely random.
Workaround: We normally glance through the To Dos but rely on the To Dos in the Apiary - Hives section. Works for us but a bit frustrating sometimes.
3. Queen Breeding: I know a few people have bemoaned a lack of features for this but we, using a bit of a cheat, get on okay with it.
Workaround: We usually graft larvae from our breeder queens into cups installing 20 grafts onto cell bars. We have a ‘hive’ called Zee Incubator and, on the day of grafting, record that there as an ‘inspection’. When we take the queen cells out of the cell raiser and transfer them into the incubator we record that as another inspection. We always include the breeder queen who laid these eggs. Even queen cells, which either pass through the incubator or simply transfer from one hive to another are recorded here, dates and explanations. Then, as the virgin queens are placed in mating nucs each is given a colour and number (the number is random, the colour denotes her bloodline) so Blue45 or Yellow32. Queen cells are not given a number until they begin laying but their colour and dam is recorded on their ‘Incubator Inspection Page’ and updated if they do come into lay. This makes every queen traceable.
A paper system functioned well with a few hives but I would never want to go back to one. The cost of this system is very reasonable and we applaud the developers for their attention to detail. The fact that it works across several hardware systems (in the same name) is a bonus.
In a nutshell, well worth purchasing even if you have just one hive multiplied by the number of hives you have.
If I have time (hmmm, but will I have any?) I’d like to present a quick overview of the system.
Subscribe or visit YouTube.com/@welshblackbees to check us out.
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Good app but difficult to sort the hives
Good app. Difficult to sort the hives in the app though, so I need to look for a while for the right hive. Archiving feature would help so not active hives are saved there
