Comparison

RY_Speaker vs ApiaryOS

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

Head to head
About

RY_Speaker

Features
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The application can use BLE remote control BLE dual-mode products, the use of iOS devices as a remote control, control the product features. 1, Lantern: The corresponding LED lights color, brightness and color temperature control,LED lights can be selected in accordance with the corresponding mode changes 2, Music: You can use Bluetooth peripherals to play the user's local music, SD card music and UDisk music 3, FM:Find and change radio station 4,EQ: You can choose the corresponding mode according to the built-in EQ effect, but also according to preferences custom EQ

About

ApiaryOS

Features
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**B-HyveOS is a beekeeping app for people who actually keep bees.** Every serious tool, in one elegant iPhone and iPad app. Built for beginners finding their way through a first season and for longtime keepers tracking a hundred inspections a year. **Your apiary, organized.** Group hives into named yards โ€” "North Yard", "Backfield", wherever your bees live โ€” each with its own location. Weather and bloom predictions come from exactly the right spot. Add hives one tap at a time or pin a whole apiary at once. **Inspections done right.** A guided inspection form walks you through what to check and why โ€” queen spotted, eggs/larvae/capped brood, honey and pollen stores, temperament, pests, disease signs โ€” with short educational notes so you're learning as you log. Temperature auto-fills from the weather at your hive's location. **Live weather and forage predictions.** Apple WeatherKit drives current conditions and a 5-day forecast for every hive. Growing degree days (GDD50) accumulate from your biofix date and power a built-in library of 25+ North American nectar and pollen plants. You see what's blooming now, what's starting soon, and what finished weeks ago. **Serious Varroa tracking.** Log mite counts by method (alcohol wash, sugar roll, sticky board), sample size, and mites counted. Watch the 3% economic threshold color-coded across the app โ€” green below 2%, orange 2โ€“3%, red above. The Varroa story, properly told. **Honey, treatments, feedings.** Track every harvest by frames pulled and weight. Log treatments by product โ€” Apivar, oxalic acid, Formic Pro, Apiguard. Record sugar syrup feedings by ratio and amount. See lifetime totals on each hive. **Voice notes with on-device transcription.** Narrate what you see while you're at the hive. B-HyveOS records audio and transcribes with Apple's on-device speech recognition โ€” your voice never leaves your phone. Attach notes to a specific hive, inspection, harvest, or leave them loose in the Journal. **Checklists for every season.** Eight curated templates โ€” pre-inspection prep, spring opening, summer maintenance, fall prep, winter prep, swarm capture kit, extraction day, quick routine check. Check off items as you work. **Learn as you go.** Beekeeping glossary, seasonal calendar, first-year checklist, and links to the best free resources โ€” Honey Bee Health Coalition's Varroa tools, Bee Informed Partnership, Cooperative Extension, American Beekeeping Federation. **Privacy by design.** Your data lives in your own iCloud โ€” there are no servers because B-HyveOS doesn't need any. Voice recordings stay on your device. Sign in with your iCloud account and it just works across iPhone and iPad. **For the curious beekeeper.** For beginners: the explanations, the first-year checklist, the threshold colors that tell you when something's wrong. For experts: per-hive phenology, GDD correlation, a clean interface that gets out of your way during a 20-minute inspection in full suit. **Requires iOS 17 or later. Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases.**

Screenshots

RY_Speaker4 screens
ApiaryOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ApiaryOS at every 4 days against RY_Speaker's every 3 months. RY_Speaker's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RY_Speaker ships an update every 3 months, ApiaryOS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
RY_Speaker versus ApiaryOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRY_SpeakerApiaryOS
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size19 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJiaxing Rongcheng Electronic Technology Co., LtdJW McCullough

In-app purchases

None

RY_Speaker

No in-app purchases

None

ApiaryOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RY_Speaker free?
RY_Speaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ApiaryOS free?
ApiaryOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RY_Speaker or ApiaryOS have ads?
Neither RY_Speaker nor ApiaryOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RY_Speaker or ApiaryOS?
RY_Speaker ships an update every 3 months, and ApiaryOS every 4 days. Most recently, RY_Speaker was updated on September 29, 2026 and ApiaryOS on October 2, 2026.

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