Comparison

Bienenvölker vs PSK Beekeeping

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bienenvölker

Features
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Beehives is the beekeeping app from iBeekeeper: digital beehive card and beekeeping management for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and it keeps working offline in the apiary. Free for up to 5 colonies. More colonies, photos and documents come with the iBeekeeper package, which applies to all iBeekeeper apps. Over 15,000 beekeepers trust iBeekeeper. An apiary is not a desk. Gloves on, hive tool in one hand, the colony open in front of you. That is exactly when a beekeeping 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 beekeeping 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: https://www.ibeekeeper.de/en/kontakt/

About

PSK Beekeeping

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Die App zur Pin-Stock-Karte (PSK) für Imker revolutioniert die Art und Weise, wie Imker ihre Bienenstöcke verwalten, indem sie eine benutzerfreundliche und effiziente Plattform für die digitale Erfassung, Verfolgung und Analyse von Informationen bietet. Mit dieser App können Imker mühelos ihre Pin-Stock-Karten scannen und automatisch eine umfassende Historie für jedes Bienenvolk erstellen. Mit einer Freitexteingabe ermöglicht diese App eine detaillierte Aufzeichnung und Analyse, um die Gesundheit und Produktivität ihrer Bienen zu optimieren. Funktionen: Digitale Erfassung von Pin-Stock-Karten (PSK): Scannen Sie Ihre Pin-Stock-Karten einfach mit der Kamera Ihres mobilen Geräts und erfassen Sie automatisch alle relevanten Informationen, wie beispielsweise Brutstadien oder Zuchtkriterien. Automatische Historieerstellung: Die App erstellt automatisch eine detaillierte Historie für jedes Bienenvolk basierend auf den gescannten Pin-Stock-Karten, sodass Imker eine lückenlose Aufzeichnung der Entwicklung ihrer Bienenstöcke haben. Freitexteingabe: Ergänzen Sie die automatisch erfassten Informationen durch Freitexteingabe, um zusätzliche Beobachtungen, Behandlungen oder andere relevante Details festzuhalten. An dieser Stelle können Informationen zu Varroa oder Drohnenschnitt ergänzt werden. Übersichtliche Darstellung: Die App bietet eine übersichtliche Darstellung aller erfassten Daten, einschließlich Grafiken und Diagrammen, um Imkern einen schnellen Überblick über den Gesundheitszustand und die Produktivität ihrer Bienenvölker zu ermöglichen. Excelexport: Exportieren Sie Ihre Daten mit einem Klick in Excel, um weiterführende Analysen durchzuführen oder Berichte zu erstellen, die mit anderen geteilt werden können. Terms of use: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bienenvölker4 screens
PSK Beekeeping4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bienenvölker at every 11 days against PSK Beekeeping's every 4 weeks. PSK Beekeeping's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bienenvölker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and PSK Beekeeping sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bienenvölker ships an update every 11 days, PSK Beekeeping every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Bienenvölker versus PSK Beekeeping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBienenvölkerPSK Beekeeping
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiBeekeeper UG (haftungsbeschränkt)PSK Beekeeping

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Bienenvölker

Subscriptions3
  • bis 10 Bienenvölker$24.991 Year
  • bis 25 Bienenvölker$49.991 Year
  • bis 50 Bienenvölker$79.991 Year
4 purchases

PSK Beekeeping

Subscriptions4
  • Hobby - 1 Year$8.991 Year
  • Basic - 1 Year$17.991 Year
  • Profi - 1 Year$24.991 Year
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  • Expert - 1 Year$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Bienenvölker free?
Bienenvölker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PSK Beekeeping free?
PSK Beekeeping is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bienenvölker or PSK Beekeeping have ads?
Neither Bienenvölker nor PSK Beekeeping shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bienenvölker or PSK Beekeeping?
Bienenvölker ships an update every 11 days, and PSK Beekeeping every 4 weeks. Most recently, Bienenvölker was updated on November 1, 2026 and PSK Beekeeping on October 25, 2026.

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