ApiManager vs ApiTracer Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ApiManager
This app helps beekeepers track and record hive development, inspections, honey production, and feedings. It offers user-friendly data management with graphs, reports, and statistics to monitor apiary progress and finances.
- Hive inspection tracking
- Honey production recording
- Feeding and task management
- Graphs and reports
- Advanced statistics
- Expense and earnings tracking
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Tracking and recording the development of your bees is an integral part of beekeeping. A pen and paper is good to record the progress of the hive. However, a beekeeping mobile app with a user-friendly interface is cooler than the traditional ones. Made for beekeepers, ApiManager is a feature rich application designed to help you manage your beehive records. It allows you to record important beekeeping data on your bees. Tracking hive inspections, honey production, feedings, tasks are just a few of the awesome features this app provides. Use various Graphs, Reports and Advanced statistics for monitoring your business and never lose track of your expenses and earnings. Beekeeping can be simple, manage your apiary well.
ApiTracer Lite
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This application is dedicated to beekeepers wishing to manage closely their hives. Turn your phone into a geolocalised barcode reader, specialised for beekeepers. Our application will quickly replace your notebook! You will be able to enter in the apiaries, all the necessary informations to track your hives: -Strain association scan: associate each hive to the queen it contains and easily follow your queen lineage. - Harvest scan: link the supers to their hive. - Transhumance scan: place hives in their apiary. - Wintering scan: locate your overwintered hives. - Hive list: indicate the hives that need a quick intervention and find them easily in your application. -List of tasks : Also use ApiTracer to organize your task by apiary, keep track of your visits and plan future work. -Apiaries map : quickly access a map of all your apiaries and let it guide you. -Access a simple barcode generator in the application. You can then export all the data by e-mail in the form of an Excel table. It is then up to you to interpret the collected information. This Lite version is completely free of charge, with a limit of 100 hives. A Pro version is available for an unlimited number of hives and a personal website for easier use of the data. This application is independent of any server, all data is stored locally on your phone, and no one but you can access it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ApiManager at 12.0 against ApiTracer Lite's 14.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ApiManager sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and ApiTracer Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ApiManager ships an update every 2 weeks, ApiTracer Lite monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ApiManager | ApiTracer Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Domagoj Filipan | Les Ruchers du Bassigny |
In-app purchases
ApiManager
- Basic Subscription$14.99
- Standard Subscription$30.99
- Premium Subscription$64.99
ApiTracer Lite
- ApiTracer Lite$8.99









