Intelligent Hives vs Beeirol
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.
Beeirol
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The Beeirol app offers you the digitization of your hive map, through the app you always have all relevant data about your hives with you. When inspecting the hive, the “beekeeper mode” also offers simplified entry during the inspection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Intelligent Hives at none against Beeirol's shown. Intelligent Hives also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Intelligent Hives ships an update every 9 days, Beeirol every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intelligent Hives | Beeirol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Intelligent Hives sp. z o.o. | Philipp Mair |
In-app purchases
Intelligent Hives
No in-app purchases
Beeirol
No in-app purchases
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