What Beekeeping App Works on My Phone and My Computer?

You log an inspection on your phone in the bee yard on Tuesday morning. Thursday evening at home, you want to pull up the season's records on a laptop and plan the next round. Most beekeeping apps cover one of those two situations and leave you exporting files or retyping notes to bridge the gap.

Bee Inspector runs on iPhone, Android, iPad, and any web browser. One account. The same data on every device.

In the apiary: your phone

Many apiaries are outside cell coverage. Bee Inspector stores your data on the device itself and syncs to the cloud when you reconnect. You can run a full inspection day without signal and find every record intact when you get back to coverage.

The inspection form covers queen status, brood frames, mite counts, honey stores, temperament, and treatment notes. If your hives have NFC stickers on the box, tap the sticker to open that hive's full history in the app. No searching by name, no scrolling through a list of twenty colonies to find the one in front of you.

Before you crack the cover, the app shows you highlights from the last inspection: what you flagged, what you planned to check, and what's overdue. That briefing replaces the clipboard search at the start of every inspection day.

At your desk: the web app

Open my.beeinspector.com in any browser and log in with the same credentials. The apiaries, hives, and records you entered on your phone are there, current.

The analytics suite runs five reports: Apiary Overview, Hive History, Queen History, Honey Production, and Treatments. You can export any record set as a CSV or PDF for insurance documentation, USDA grant applications, or your own seasonal review. The queen score cards show genetic trait ratings across eight criteria, including UBeeO pheromone test results, Harbo hygienic testing, VSH worker scores, and treatment-free mite resistance history. Every inspection, treatment, and harvest goes back to your first entry.

The bigger screen is also where seasonal decisions make sense. You can look across all your colonies on a single dashboard, compare queen scores side by side, and spot which hives held through winter and which ones need attention before the spring flow.

Offline sync without the asterisk

A lot of apps advertise offline support and then add "limited functionality" in small print. Bee Inspector runs from local device storage. Open a hive, fill out the form, and move to the next box. No spinner, no connectivity warning, no lost data. When you drive back through a cell signal, your records upload. Your browser sees the updates within seconds.

If you share your operation with a partner or a hired hand, the team sharing feature lets multiple beekeepers log into the same account. An inspection entered in the field by one person appears on the dashboard for everyone else.

What the app tracks

• Inspection records: brood, queen status, mite counts, honey stores, temperament, and treatment notes
• Queen scoring across eight genetic traits
• NFC hive tagging for instant field lookup on iOS and Android
• Treatment tracking synced to a dedicated treatments log, separate from inspections
• Five analytics reports
• CSV and PDF export from any device
• Notes and reminders with completion tracking
• Hive splits, combines, and honey harvest records

Start free

The free plan covers one apiary and three hives with no time limit and no credit card required. That covers most new beekeepers and anyone who wants to try the app before committing. Paid plans start at $19.99 per year for hobbyists managing up to 20 hives.

Download the app on your phone, create an account, then open my.beeinspector.com on your computer and sign in with the same email and password. Your records sync between the two devices automatically.