Apiary Tools

Apiary Tools is a hive tracker and a set of beekeeping calculators, built by beekeepers and free to use. Log what you see at the hive, know what is blooming around it, and let the app remind you what comes next.

TRACK YOUR HIVES

Apiaries, hives and inspections, with photos. Record brood, stores, temperament, queen status and the actions you took, then see the whole history on one timeline. Queen events, requeening and splits are kept per hive. Custom inspection actions if the built-in list is not yours.

LOG THE WHOLE YARD AT ONCE

Treatments, feeding and harvests can be logged for every hive in a yard in one go. Harvests carry a batch number for the jars you sell, and season totals build themselves. A simple finance tracker keeps money in and money out.

KNOW WHAT IS BLOOMING

A weekly bloom check asks about the plants in your forage region and builds your own bloom calendar for each yard, year by year, with first bloom dates side by side. Mark a plant "not in my area" and it stops being asked about. Import years of notes from a calendar file. The forage map shows what grows around the yard, and the week's weather sits on each apiary page.

FORAGE CALENDARS

Regional bloom calendars for the United States by state, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New South Wales and South Africa, with the main flow and the fall flow marked on the beekeeping year.

TASKS AND REMINDERS

Plan tasks across hives and yards, with recurring templates for the jobs that come round every season. Inspection reminders and a weekly digest arrive by email, in your time zone.

WORKS OFFLINE

Everything you log in the yard is saved on the phone and sent up when you have signal. Two devices editing the same record no longer lose one side; you choose which to keep.

SHARE A YARD

Invite a mentor, a partner or a club to see or edit an apiary, with the role you choose.

CALCULATORS

Sugar syrup, mite wash thresholds, honey yield and net weight, queen rearing timeline, overwinter feed, mead and more. Each one explains the numbers it uses.

GUIDES

Plain-language guides on winter preparation, swarm control, robbing, combining colonies and why hives die over winter.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE

The app runs in 22 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Japanese and Arabic.

FREE, WITH A TIP JAR

No subscription and no ads. If the app earns its keep, there is a tip jar in the menu.

Privacy: your hive records are yours. Precise apiary locations are never shown on a public profile, and location is used only for weather, the forage map and placing your yard in a forage region.

SOURCES AND DISCLAIMER

Apiary Tools is an independent app made by a beekeeper. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for any government agency, and it does not provide government services.

Two guides in this app cite research published by the US National Library of Medicine. These are the only government sources in the app, and each is linked on the page that cites it:

- How to stop robbing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11765616/

- Why did my hive die over winter: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496033/

Treatment dosing, honey grading and honey labeling rules are not included in the Android app. They are on apiarytools.com, where each page links its sources.