HiveCompanion - Beekeeping

HiveCompanion — The offline beekeeping logbook built for the field

Keep track of every hive, every inspection, every harvest — right from your pocket.
No account. No cloud. No internet required.

Your beekeeping records stay on your device, always available — even miles from a signal.

Built by a beekeeper, for beekeepers.

WHY HIVECOMPANION

> Truly offline
Works in the middle of a field, on a mountain, anywhere. Your data stays on your device.

> Private by design
No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads. Ever.

> Fast in the field
Designed for real conditions — sunlight, gloves, one hand on the smoker.

> One-time purchase
No subscriptions. No paywalls hiding basic features.

WHAT YOU CAN LOG

Apiaries & Hives
Organize your bees by location. Create storage apiaries for empty or dead hives.
Track queen color, queen reference, supers, and status at a glance.

Full Inspections
Log everything that matters in under a minute:
• Queen sighting, population, food stores
• Brood quality (capped & uncapped)
• Behavior rating
• Diseases: American & European foulbrood, chalkbrood, sacbrood
• Pests: varroa mites, wax moth, small hive beetle
• Viruses: deformed wing virus, chronic bee paralysis
• Predators: Asian, European, Oriental hornets
• Free notes for anything else

Hive Life Events
Record every major moment:
• Harvests (with honey type and super count)
• Treatments
• Requeening
• Splits & merges
• Hive moves between apiaries
• Super additions
• Varroa counts
• Deaths
• Custom log entries

Tasks & Calendar
Plan the season. Assign tasks to hives or apiaries.
View everything in a calendar and never miss a treatment window.

Harvests
Track honey type, quantity, date, apiary, hive, and super count.
Build a real production history year after year.

YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES

• Export to PDF — generate per-hive reports or batch exports
• Export to Excel — your raw data, ready for analysis
• QR codes — scan a hive and log instantly
• Full backup — export your entire database anytime

BUILT FOR BEEKEEPERS

• GPS coordinates for each apiary with one-tap directions
• Photos attached to inspections
• Imperial or metric units
• Clean, readable interface
• Optimized for phones and tablets

FREE TO TRY, ONE-TIME UNLOCK

Use HiveCompanion for free with up to 10 hives.
Unlock unlimited hives and reminders for a single $5.99 payment.
No subscription. Ever.
MADE WITH CARE

HiveCompanion is built by a solo developer who keeps bees.
Every feature exists because a beekeeper asked for it.

Have a suggestion? Write in — real beekeepers make this app better.

Recent changes:
- The app now provides better support for divisible hives
- Bug fixes