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.
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.
Free to useUK statutory recordsWorks offlineRecognised best practice
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.
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.
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’re in, and how the honey’s going - the moment you sign in.
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What makes it different
See every hive - and what’s in it - at a glance
No more guessing what’s in which box between visits.
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.
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.
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 your pocket
See it in action
The same records on the web and on your phone - and it keeps working offline in the field.
Apiary map & forage
Reminders & calendar
Reports & insights
Better than the notebook
Goodbye, rained-on notebook
Everything a paper record or spreadsheet can’t do - without the faff.
Find last visit’s notes in seconds
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Bees Knees
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.
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 honeySelling honey in the UK
Labels, registration and when the rules change, from the first jar at the gate.
ThreatsAsian 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.
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.
Free on web and iPhone. No card, no catch.