Intelligent Hives vs Bee Squared Beekeeping
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intelligent Hives
This app helps beekeepers manage their apiaries and reduce bee mortality. It simplifies daily tasks, allowing detailed record-keeping of harvests and statistics. The app remembers colony checks, diseases, and medications, ensuring you stay informed about your hives.
- Apiary management support
- Reduced bee mortality
- Detailed harvest records
- Statistics calculation
- Disease and medication tracking
- 24/7 hive condition monitoring (with BeeHUB)
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The aim of Intelligent Hives is to support beekeepers in managing their apiaries by providing them with an easy-to-use application and reducing bee mortality. Our application facilitates the daily tasks of apiary management. It allows you to keep detailed records of your harvest and calculate statistics. You don't have to remember or note the information about the latest checks of colonies, diseases and medications used, our application will remember it for you! Purchase of the BeeHUB device provides additional functionality to the application, including the ability to track the conditions in the hives 24 hours a day. Because of this, you will always know what is happening inside your hive and you will be able to react early to any anomalies.
Bee Squared Beekeeping
This app helps beekeepers manage their hives with advanced record-keeping features. Track inspections, harvests, feedings, equipment, and finances. Sync data across devices and generate PDF reports for better colony management and productivity.
- Unlimited hives and apiaries
- Automatic data sync across devices
- Detailed inspection logging
- Honey harvest and feeding records
- Equipment and consumable inventory
- Financial tracking and PDF reports
- QR codes for hive identification
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From the makers of the best selling BeePlus comes Bee Squared, an advanced beekeeping app for the modern beekeeper. Designed from the ground up to be powerful yet easy to use, let Bee² improve your record keeping, colony management and ultimately, the health and productivity of your hives. Main features at a glance • Unlimited hives & apiaries • Automatically sync data between devices • Perform inspections • Log honey harvests • Record feedings • Add photos • Monitor problems and treatments • Pin hives on map • QR codes for quick hive ID • iCloud backup • Plan tasks • Manage equipment • Log individual frames • Track consumables • Document products sold • Oversee finances • PDF hive reports By beekeepers, for beekeepers. Multiple record types for inspections, feedings, harvests and more so you can record the information you need. Add photos for a visual record too and have them stored within Bee² so they don't clutter up your Photos app. Auto sync records between devices associated with your Apple ID. Input data on your iPhone while at the apiary and have it sync automatically to your iPad and Mac with Apple silicon for later review or further editing. You can still input data if you have no connection and Bee² will sync when next online. Track colony splits or combine colonies together. Should the worst happen you can also track a colony perishing. Archived colonies retain their equipment records but as they are no longer in use allow them to be reassigned to where needed. Advanced inventory management. Equipment inventory to keep track of exactly where your hive components are being used so you always know what you have available. Consumables section to track items that get used up over time like sugar syrup, fondant or mite treatments etc. Add consumables to colony records to follow exactly when and where they were used and if you're running out. List the products your bees have kindly made for you and record sales. Add honey from a harvest for provenance or consumables like glass jars to see your costs. Add equipment, consumables and products to finance records to track sales and purchases. Existing BeePlus users. If you are a BeePlus user you can import their hives without manually adding all the details, simply export a transfer file from BeePlus and import to Bee², locations, hives and swarm traps will be automatically added. Inspections and other data are not compatible yet and won’t be imported. We think Bee² is great, and we're confident you will too so you can download and try Bee² for 3 months for free! After the free trial a subscription is required to create new records. We really hope you'll never want to, but if for some reason you do ever cancel your subscription you will still retain full access to your all data. End user license agreement (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download Bee² now and experience the future of beekeeping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bee Squared Beekeeping at 4.3 against Intelligent Hives's 1.0. Bee Squared Beekeeping also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Intelligent Hives's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Bee Squared Beekeeping sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intelligent Hives asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bee Squared Beekeeping holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
Intelligent Hives ships an update every 9 days, Bee Squared Beekeeping fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intelligent Hives | Bee Squared Beekeeping |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intelligent Hives sp. z o.o. | OmniChrome |
Customer experience
Intelligent Hives
Bee Squared Beekeeping
In-app purchases
Intelligent Hives
No in-app purchases
Bee Squared Beekeeping
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly3 Months trial$24.991 Year
Questions
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