# Bienenvölker — Beekeeping: hive card, AI

> Beekeeping: hive card, AI (iPhone/iPad app by iBeekeeper UG (haftungsbeschränkt).)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bienenvolker/id1198119768 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [iBeekeeper UG (haftungsbeschränkt)](https://appshunter.io/developer/1198119767)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 100 MB
- Languages: American English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany) and 13 more
- Released: 2017-01-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bienenvolker/id1198119768/reviews.md

## What is Bienenvölker?

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: http://support.ibeekeeper.de
Forum: https://forum.ibeekeeper.de

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| bis 50 Bienenvölker | $79.99 | per year |
| bis 10 Bienenvölker | $24.99 | per year |
| bis 25 Bienenvölker | $49.99 | per year |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.0.4 — 2026-09-30

Every date field now has a “Today” button. You can create tasks straight from a template if you like. The note about the honey harvest after a treatment now only appears if the waiting period reaches into the honey season.

Also fixed: the number of your colonies at the top stays visible. New apiaries and placements reliably reach the server, and an apiary with active colonies can no longer be deleted. An APITag that belongs elsewhere no longer stays attached to your colony. When you reach the photo limit, you no longer get wrong advice about a larger package. Plus a quieter sync and small improvements to the display.

### 4.0.3 — 2026-09-28

Fixes a crash during syncing when a location has a place name but no position on the map. Further improvements for more stability.

### 4.0.2 — 2026-09-27

Treatments entered for several colonies at once now show up on each of those colonies. And while you type, the input field stays above the keyboard.

Older beehive cards are fully available again: the last 12 months are there automatically, and you can load older ones on the colony, year by year. Plus many improvements so that nothing gets lost when syncing.

This release fixes a crash and brings the queen to the colony.

- Syncing runs through again. Anyone keeping material sets had the app quit during it. The cause has been found and fixed.
- New at the colony: the queen panel with name, marking colour, marking number, breeding book number, hatch date and first eggs.
- The menu now shows which version and build is on the device.

### 4.0.1 — 2026-09-24

Fixed: the app could quit while it was syncing in the background and a colony was open at the same time.

### 4.0.0 — 2026-09-23

The app has been rebuilt, and it now does what you used to need a computer for.

New at the colony
- Feedings, treatments, harvests and diseases. For a treatment the app works out when the withdrawal period ends and shows the days remaining.
- The amount applied and its unit for a treatment, as in the web application.
- Ratings with an average: temper, comb occupation, brood, strength, spring build-up.
- Comb grid: record combs the way they look. From that the app works out the brood area in square centimetres and the estimated number of brood cells.
- Inspection comb by comb, box by box, both sides.
- A note right at the colony, and older beehive cards can be loaded.

New for the whole apiary
- Feeding, treatment and beehive card for every colony at an apiary in one step.
- Tasks at the apiary, not just at a single colony.

New altogether
- The last reading reported by your hive scale, right at the colony.
- Messages, and a reporter that sends us a problem together with a screenshot.
- An app for Apple Watch.
- On iPad a proper layout with sidebar and search.
- The overview can be arranged the way you want it.

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