Your apiaries, hive by hive, season by season
Each apiary drawn as it stands, with every hive drawn from its own record and a card showing how it's doing. A page for every hive, the whole season at a glance, step-by-step inspections - and a National Bee Unit (BeeBase)-style CSV export when you need it.
A page for every hive, the season for every hive at a glance, step-by-step inspections with the brood box frame by frame, the season report, your queens, and the Dusk look.
A page for every hive - the brood box as you last saw it, the queen, weight, honey and every record
Season - every hive's year at a glance, with what needs doing this week
Log inspection - step by step, tapping the frames of the brood box
Report - honey, varroa, inspections, queens and treatments, with the National Bee Unit export
Queens - each queen's record travels with her, with her family line
Day and Dusk looks
Every hive is drawn from its own record - National, Commercial, Langstroth, WBC or top bar, with its supers, colour tag and number - and a card above it shows days since the last visit, the latest varroa count and its weight.
Search an address or place name to drop the pin automatically - no need to know latitude/longitude. Or click/drag the pin on the real map (OpenStreetMap) directly, or type coordinates in.
The brood box as you last saw it, the queen and her family line, a weight chart, honey this year, and every inspection, feed, treatment, harvest and photo - each one a click to open.
Log a 24-hour natural mite drop count and see it colour-coded low, moderate or high - a widely-cited rule of thumb, not a diagnosis.
Weather, temperature, temperament, brood pattern and frame counts, queen and eggs seen, queen cell state, treatment applied and swarm control action - all in one inspection record, stepped through in order. Tap the frames of the brood box to record brood, stores, pollen and empty comb.
One export shapes every apiary, hive and inspection into the fields the NBU's own inspection sheet commonly asks for - a best-effort record, not an official BeeBase integration.
Checkboxes for chalkbrood, suspected EFB/AFB, deformed wing virus and suspected nosema - with an in-app reminder to contact the National Bee Unit for anything notifiable.
Choose a daytime or dusk look, and use it in a narrow window too - the layout rearranges itself, with the views along the bottom. A sample season loads on first launch so you can see it working straight away.
Every apiary, hive and inspection lives in local storage, not on a server - only the map tiles need an internet connection to load.
A Map page plots every apiary you've placed onto one shared real map, labelled and clickable, so you can see your whole operation at a glance alongside each apiary's own scene.
The Season view lays out every hive's year in one place - inspections, varroa counts, feeds, harvests, treatments and moves - with a This week list of overdue inspections (threshold configurable, default 14 days), treatments due and queen cells. A season report rolls it all up.
Log syrup, fondant or pollen patty feeds and honey harvests (kg and jars) per hive, in a couple of taps from the hive's page - both feed straight into the season report.
Track each queen's ID, hive, year, marked colour, parent queen, drone source, laying proficiency, temper and calmness on comb - with a full history of every hive she's been assigned to, shown on each hive's page.
A "Move apiary" button carries a hive - and every record logged against it - to a different apiary for quarantine or a forage-season move, logging a dated transfer history on the hive's page.
Place hives on a simple grid matching their physical layout in each apiary; track an equipment inventory with low-stock alerts; and log treatments and veterinary medicine purchases, with honey withdrawal periods flagged automatically.
One click prints a clean, full inspection history for a hive for a physical logbook; a "Quick log" mode captures a lightweight mid-inspection note in seconds when there's no time for the full form.
Most hobbyist and small-scale beekeepers either keep a paper hive record card in the bee shed or build their own spreadsheet. Here's how a dedicated beekeeping app compares.
| Feature | Beekeeping Log | A paper record card | A spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | £4.99 one-off after a 15-day free trial | Free (cost of paper/printing) | Free, if you already have one |
| The whole season for every hive at a glance | ✓ | ✕ (one card per hive, no combined view) | ✕ (you'd build this yourself) |
| Apiary coordinates on a map | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Varroa count advisory band | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ (unless you build the formula) |
| NBU-style export ready to hand over | ✓ | ✕ (manual transcription) | ✕ (needs reformatting) |
| Survives a wet bee suit pocket | ✓ (log it later on your laptop) | ✕ | ✓ |
General comparison as of August 2026. Not affiliated with the National Bee Unit or BeeBase.
Yes - Beekeeping Log is a Windows app from the Microsoft Store, with a 15-day free trial. There's no account or sign-in, and your records stay on your PC. If you used the old browser version, open it once more and choose Download my data, then use Settings > Data > Restore from backup in the Windows app.
Yes. Apiary locations are placed and viewed on a real interactive map (Leaflet with OpenStreetMap tiles) - search an address, or click/drag the pin to set coordinates, and see every apiary plotted together on the Map page. This is the one part of the app that needs an internet connection; everything else, including all your logged data, stays fully offline.
Yes. A "Move apiary" button on each hive's page transfers it - and every inspection, feeding, harvest, treatment and queen record logged against it - to a different apiary, useful for quarantine or a forage-season move. Each move is logged with a date, and the hive's position in the apiary plan grid resets since it's only meaningful within the old apiary's layout.
A dedicated Queens page holds each queen's ID, hive, year, marked colour, parent queen, drone source, laying proficiency, temper and calmness on comb, plus a full history of every hive she's been assigned to - useful since queens are sometimes moved between hives, temporarily or permanently. Each hive's page shows its current queen.
When you log a 24-hour natural mite drop count, the app colour-codes it low (under 10/day), moderate (10-50/day) or high (over 50/day) - a widely-cited rule of thumb only, not veterinary or diagnostic advice specific to your local conditions or time of year.
No. BeeBase has no public import/export API, so the CSV export is a best-effort shaping of the fields the NBU's own inspection sheet and BeeBase colony records commonly ask for - apiary name and coordinates, hive reference, inspection date, colony strength, queen status, varroa count and method, disease signs, treatment. It isn't a certified or official integration.
No. The disease-sign checkboxes are a personal record only. If you suspect a notifiable disease such as American or European Foulbrood, contact the National Bee Unit or your local Bee Inspector directly rather than relying on this app.
Everything - apiaries, hives, inspections - persists on your device between sessions via local storage, not on a server. Only the map tiles are fetched over the internet; your logged data itself is never uploaded anywhere.
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