Beehive vs Keeper

Beehive: The Modern Beekeeping Journal   Streamline your apiary management with Beehive, the intuitive app designed for both hobbyist and professional beekeepers. Say goodbye to paper logs and hello to a smarter way to track your colony’s health, productivity, and history. Key Features: • Smart Hive Management: Organize all your hives in one place. Track hive types, status, and established dates with ease. • Detailed Inspection Logs: Record every detail of your inspections, from queen sightings and brood patterns to population levels and temper. • Interactive Map: View your hives’ precise locations on an integrated map—perfect for managing multiple apiaries. • Quick Actions with QR Codes: Generate and scan unique QR codes for your hives to instantly access logs and details in the field. • Activity Counter: Use our built-in timer to monitor bee activity and flight traffic for a data-driven look at colony strength. • Task & Reminder System: Never miss an inspection or treatment. Set tasks and receive notifications to keep your bees thriving. • Weather Integration: Automatically log weather conditions during your inspections for better context on colony behavior. • Secure & Private: Sign in quickly with Apple Login. Your data is your own, securely stored and always accessible. Whether you're managing a single backyard hive or a large-scale commercial operation, Beehive provides the tools you need to ensure your colonies stay healthy and productive. Download Beehive today and take your beekeeping to the next level!

Your bees can't remind you what they need. Keeper can. Keeper is the offline hive tracker that works where your bees are — gloved hands, no signal, mid-inspection. Log what you see and Keeper flags what's due next. One saved colony pays for this app many times over. A missed mite treatment doesn't announce itself. You find out weeks later when the colony is already crashing. A queen you meant to check goes queenless for a month. A follow-up you were sure you'd remember never happens. The problem isn't knowledge — it's that no notebook can track every hive, every treatment window, every follow-up across a full operation. Log an inspection in a few taps. Keeper reads what you entered and queues the follow-up — the mite recount in 10 days, the requeen check, the second treatment in the series. When you complete the work, it auto-completes. No extra tapping with gloved hands. Less screen time, more bee time. Stick a cheap NFC tag on any hive and scan it to jump straight to that hive's records. No scrolling through lists, no guessing which box you're in. Or skip it and use the app standalone, your choice. Your insights dashboard turns months of inspections into a clear picture — mite counts graphed across the season, colony health by yard, winter loss patterns. The kind of overview that used to require a spreadsheet and a free afternoon. Start a yard visit when you arrive. Keeper tracks which hives you've worked so you don't drive home wondering if you missed one. Review your time later. See where the season is heading. Your data stays on your device and it's yours — works without an account, without internet, without giving anything up. Free to try, no credit card required. Keeper Pro unlocks unlimited apiaries and hives, plus cloud sync across devices. Download it before your next yard visit. You'll wonder how you worked without it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hivekeeper.app/privacy