Beekeeping Community, Forums vs Hivee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beekeeping Community, Forums
This app helps beekeepers manage their apiaries by tracking hives, identifying bees and pests with AI, and connecting with a global community. It offers tools for logging inspections, scheduling tasks, and learning about beekeeping practices.
- AI-powered bee, pest, and disease identification
- Detailed hive inspection logging
- Automated task reminders
- Global beekeeper forums with translation
- Interactive bee map and bloom calendar
- Flight forecast and QR hive tags
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Beekeeping Community is the complete app for beekeepers — track your hives, identify bees, pests, and diseases with AI, and get answers from 12,000+ beekeepers around the world. Whether you're catching your first swarm or running a hundred commercial colonies, this is your pocket apiary manager. Log inspections in seconds, catch varroa before it spreads, and never miss another treatment or honey harvest. WHAT YOU CAN DO BEE AI Photo-identify bees, pests, diseases, and forage plants. Diagnose brood problems, spot varroa mites early, and check whether a wildflower is bee-friendly — with vision AI trained on beekeeping, not generic biology. HIVE LOGBOOK Structured inspection notes: queen status, brood pattern, temperament, frames of honey, bees, brood, and pollen, mite counts, treatments, feeding, supers on. Attach photos to every inspection, and cover a whole apiary in one round. SMART TASKS Never forget a varroa treatment, sugar shake, honey harvest, or queen re-check. Set daily, weekly, or monthly reminders — or let inspections flagged \"check soon\" create follow-up tasks automatically. GLOBAL FORUM Ask anything and get answers from beekeepers in your region and climate. Automatic translation across 18 languages, plus direct messages with experienced mentors. BEE MAP Pin apiaries, forage spots, swarm reports, and local clubs. See real-time community activity near you, with reviews on every location. BLOOM CALENDAR Major nectar plants — dandelion, clover, linden, heather, black locust, canola, borage, sunflower, and more — mapped by bloom month. Know the flow before your bees do. FLIGHT FORECAST Daily weather-based scores that tell you when your bees will fly. QR HIVE TAGS Print a QR sticker for each hive. Scan it to open that hive's logbook in one tap. LEARN Video lessons from Langstroth basics to varroa cadence, queen rearing, and honey extraction. VARROA CALCULATOR Alcohol wash and sugar shake ratios with treatment thresholds, instantly. QUEEN TRACKER Marking color by year, birthdate, status (laying, virgin, missing), and last-seen date. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Available in 18 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. FREE FOREVER The forum, map, hive logbook, bloom calendar, single-hive inspections, and Bee AI trials are free — with no banner ads, ever. Your inspection notes, messages, and GPS coordinates are never shared or sold. BEEKEEPING PLUS Go further with unlimited Bee AI, advanced map layers, mentor messaging, the full lesson library, printable QR sheets, multi-hive inspections, and priority translations. BUILT BY BEEKEEPERS Every field, reminder, and AI category was designed around real hive management. One hive or five hundred, urban rooftop or mountain apiary — this is your beekeeping journal and community, in your pocket. Join the hive. Premium Membership and Terms: Access exclusive features with our Premium Membership, available at $12.99 per month. - Premium membership includes a 3-day free trial, followed by a subscription at $12.99/month. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Manage subscriptions and disable auto-renewal via Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited upon subscription purchase. Please review our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: - Terms of Use: https://asteradigital.com/terms - Privacy Policy: https://asteradigital.com/privacy
Hivee
This app organizes beekeeping activities with a user-friendly interface, offering at-a-glance apiary status, quick inspection logging, and AI-powered advice. It tracks hive health, provides weather-smart task reminders, and visualizes colony trends for proactive management.
- Apiary overview with hive health and weather
- One-minute glove-friendly inspection logging
- AI-powered beekeeping advice
- Living hive health scores
- Weather-smart task reminders
- Colony trend visualization
- Offline operation with automatic syncing
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Hivee is beekeeping, beautifully organized. Most hive-tracking apps feel like spreadsheets. Hivee feels like walking your bee yard with a master beekeeper at your side — warm, simple, and built for real hands in real gloves. YOUR APIARY AT A GLANCE Open Hivee and see everything that matters: every hive, its health, today's weather at your yard, and exactly what needs doing. No digging through menus. One warm home screen. LOG AN INSPECTION IN UNDER A MINUTE Big, gloves-friendly controls walk you through queen sightings, brood pattern, pests, temperament, and stores. Snap photos of frames as you go. It works with zero cell signal at the apiary and syncs when you're back in range. ASK HIVEE — YOUR AI MASTER BEEKEEPER Stumped by a spotty brood pattern? Wondering when to add a super? Ask Hivee gives you clear, experienced answers — and it knows your hives, your weather, and your season, so the advice fits YOUR bee yard, not a textbook. Free questions included every month. KNOW EVERY HIVE'S HEALTH AT A GLANCE Hivee turns your inspections into a living health score for each colony. Green means thriving. Amber means watch closely. Red means open that hive today — before a small problem becomes a lost colony. THE RIGHT TASK ON THE RIGHT DAY Weather-smart reminders tell you when conditions are right to open a hive — and gentle nudges make sure no colony goes too long between inspections. Your daily to-do list keeps the whole apiary on schedule. WATCH YOUR COLONIES TREND Insights charts show how each hive is trending across the season, so you spot trouble weeks early and learn what's actually working in your yard. EVERY FRAME, REMEMBERED Your inspection photos are organized by hive and date, compressed smartly, and backed up automatically to the cloud. Your beekeeping history is safe — even if your phone isn't. BUILT FOR THE BEE YARD - Works fully offline — sync happens automatically later - Big touch targets that work through nitrile gloves - Warm, calm design that's a pleasure to open - Gorgeous in dark mode - Sign in with Apple — no passwords to remember BECOME A FOUNDING BEEKEEPER The first 100 beekeepers to join Hivee earn a numbered Founder badge on their profile — permanently. When you spot the crown, you're looking at one of the originals. Whether you're on your first nuc or your fortieth colony, Hivee helps you keep bees with more confidence and less chaos. Your bees deserve better than a spreadsheet. — Questions or ideas? We read everything: hivee@amplifygo.io Privacy: https://hivee-ead6f.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hivee at none against Beekeeping Community, Forums's 3. Hivee also leads on ads (none vs shown). Beekeeping Community, Forums's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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. Beekeeping Community, Forums sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Hivee asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beekeeping Community, Forums against 5.0 for Hivee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Beekeeping Community, Forums ships an update daily, Hivee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beekeeping Community, Forums | Hivee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astera Dijital Hizmetler Anonim Sirketi | Matthew Christopher |
Customer experience
Beekeeping Community, Forums
Hivee
In-app purchases
Beekeeping Community, Forums
- Beekeeping Plus Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Beekeeping Plus Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Beekeeping Plus Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
Hivee
No in-app purchases
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