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Free hive record book for UK beekeepers

Every hive, every inspection, one calm place.

The modern hive record book for UK beekeepers - best-practice inspections, the legally required medicine records, your apiary map and your honey sales. On the web and in your pocket, online or off.

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Free to useUK statutory recordsWorks offlineRecognised best practice
Bees Knees Apiary beekeeping app home screen: an apiary card, the weather verdict for inspecting today, quick actions and jobs due
13tools in one record book
Offlineworks at the hive, syncs later
QRscan-to-open hive labels
Freeno card, no catch

Tools worth a look

Pollen identifierFree tool

What are your bees bringing in? Match the pollen colour at the entrance against 89 UK plants, each with a photo in flower. No account needed - try it now.

Queen cell calculatorFree tool

Found queen cells? Work out when she emerges, how long to leave the colony alone, and when there should be eggs. Every date sourced. No account needed.

Sugar syrup calculatorFree tool

How much sugar and how much water for your feeder, thick or thin, from the National Bee Unit’s own quantities. No account needed.

Honey jar calculatorFree tool

How many 454 g, 340 g and 227 g jars a bucket of honey fills, and what is left at the end. No account needed.

Varroa calculatorFree tool

Turn a mite drop, a wash or drone uncapping into the National Bee Unit’s estimate for the colony. No account needed.

Forage logWith an account

Save what you identify and build a season-long forage diary, hive by hive - free with your account.

The record book

The whole season, one tidy system

Built around how beekeepers actually work - quick records in the field, the full picture back home. One record per colony, everything linked.

13 tools in the record bookHover over a cell to see what each one does.

Hives, apiaries & queensQR labels

Build each hive visually - brood, supers, queen excluder - with full queen records, plus a printable QR label on every hive: scan it and the right record opens.

Inspections, done properly

Record strength, stores, brood, queen, varroa and disease signs to best practice - quick in the field, complete back home.

Reminders & calendar

Colour-coded jobs so you never miss an inspection, treatment or feed - with recurring tasks for the season.

Harvests & finances

Log harvests by weight or by the jar, and track income and costs per apiary - with CSV export for your accounts.

Statutory records, sortedPrint-ready

A print-ready Veterinary Medicines Record (kept 5 years, as the law requires), with foulbrood and varroa reporting prompts.

Kit & bee bag

Keep an inventory of your gear and build a “bee bag” packing list per visit - so you never arrive at the apiary missing a tool.

Sales, stock & customers

Log every sale with jar sizes and batch/lot for traceability, keep a product catalogue with stock, remember your regulars, and see sales by month.

Apiary map & live weather

See every apiary on a map with forage range, plus a “good to inspect” verdict from real weather at each site.

Forage log

Track what is flowering around each apiary and what your bees are working - hive by hive, season by season.

Hornet watch

Log Asian hornet sightings at each apiary and keep the details ready for an official report.

Pollen identifier

Match the pollen colour coming in at the entrance against 89 UK plants, each with a photo of the plant in flower.

Reports & insights

Honey yield, treatments, disease and trends across the season at a glance - and records ready to export.

Not a mock-up

This is the real thing

Your dashboard: what needs attention, what to pack, the season you are in, and how the honey is going - the moment you sign in.

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The Bees Knees Apiary web dashboard: what needs attention, the jobs for the season, the bee bag, sales this month, apiaries and tasks
What makes it different

See every hive, and what is in it, at a glance

No more guessing what is in which box between visits.

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Build your hive - meters fill themselves

Stack the real boxes - brood, supers, queen excluder. The brood, honey and food meters update from every inspection, so you see what each box holds without opening it.

Levels change as the season - and your colony - does.

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Your whole apiary on one plan

Drop every hive onto a ground plan - or your own aerial photo of the site. See all your hives and how each is set up at a glance, with a status dot per colony. Tap one to open it or add an inspection.

Perfect when an apiary grows past a dozen colonies.

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Pick the right day to inspect

A colour-coded calendar of jobs plus a live “good to inspect” verdict from real weather at your apiary’s location.

Head out when it suits the bees - and avoid wasted trips.

In 20 seconds

See it in action

Short films of the real thing, made with example records. Tap one to play.

Honey store and sales20 seconds, no soundHoney kept in tubs by harvest, jarring up with the lot and best before, the profit after costs on each sale, and any lot traced to who has it. Example records. The words on screen: Selling your honey? Keep every tub, jar and sale in one free place. Every tub, by harvest. Oldest lot first, so you jar that one first. Jar up as orders come in. The lot mark and best before go with every jar. See what every jar made. Profit after the jar, the lid and the label. Trace any lot to who has it. Ready to print if a batch is ever called back. Sign up free.
The medicines record20 seconds, no soundEvery treatment in one place, the warning when honey must not be sold, and the medicines record printed or saved as a PDF. Example records. The words on screen: Medicines record, done for you. It follows the regulations, ready to print. Every treatment in one place. What is in the hive, and what needs finishing. Told when honey must not be sold. On the harvest, the sale and the jar label. Print it, or save it as a PDF. Kept for five years, as the regulations ask. Sign up free.
The guide library20 seconds, no soundPlain-English beekeeping guides with every figure traced to the document it came from, what is in season, and the question you are asking. Example screens. The words on screen: Sourced guides, free to read. Every figure traced to the document it came from. What is in season now. The month's jobs, at the top of the library. Find the answer fast. Pick the question you are asking. Every claim has its source. Numbered, and checked against the document. Plain words, real numbers. Written for UK hives and UK law. Sign up free.
In season nowLabels for Christmas honey20 seconds, no soundHoney jar labels with the legal fields filled in from a harvest, a QR code that opens a page about the lot, and a sheet of 21 to print. Example records. The words on screen: Labels for your Christmas honey. The six legal fields, checked as you go. Pick the harvest. Weight, best before and lot fill in for you. Add a QR code to the jar. It opens a page about that lot. What a buyer sees. Your words and the flowers, never your address. Print a full sheet. 21 labels to an A4 sheet. Sign up free.
Better than the notebook

Goodbye, rained-on notebook

Everything a paper record or spreadsheet cannot do, without the faff.

Find last visit’s notes in seconds
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Works in the apiary with no signal
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Reminders for treatments & inspections
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Sales, stock & customer records
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Statutory medicine records, print-ready
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Whole-season reports & yields
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Syncs to your phone automatically
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Survives a rained-on notebook
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Switching from a spreadsheet or a closed app? Here’s how to move across →

Web first · apps in your pocket

Best on the web - with you at the hive

Bees Knees Apiary lives on the web: the full record book, planning and season reports on a proper screen. The free iPhone companion app comes with you to the apiary to record inspections - even with no signal - and syncs straight back, with Android coming soon.

The full experience on the web

Records, planning and reports on a big screen - your home base.

A companion app for the field

Record inspections at the hive on iPhone, with Android coming soon.

Offline, then synced

Works with no signal and syncs back to the web automatically.

Download on the App Store
Coming soon toGoogle Play

Free on the App Store today - Android coming soon.

Free guides

The paperwork, explained plainly

Short, sourced guides to the records UK beekeepers are expected to keep, written to be checked against the official gov.uk pages.

Compliance

Veterinary medicines record

What to record when you treat, and the print-ready record the app keeps for you.

Selling honey

Selling honey in the UK

Labels, registration and when the rules change, from the first jar at the gate.

Threats

Asian hornet, identify and report

Tell it apart from a European hornet and report a sighting the official way.

Free tool - no account needed

What are they bringing in?

Watch the entrance, pick the closest pollen colour, and see which of 89 UK plants your bees are most likely working right now, each with a photo of the plant in flower.

Try the pollen identifierSign up to log and track
Dandelion
Oilseed rape
Siberian squill
Red deadnettle
Alder
Apple
Red clover

Seven of the 89 pollen loads in the library, named by the flower they come from.

Start your record book before the next inspection.

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Free on web and iPhone. No card, no catch.