Press record. Walk your whole apiary. Done.
One recording covers every hive you open. Talk the way you'd talk to another beekeeper. Beeledger works out which hive you meant and files it all. No signal required.
No card up front. Android now, iOS soon.
The phone goes in your pocket
You press record once, at the first hive. Then you work. Gloves stay on, hands stay free, and you don't touch the phone again until the row is done.
Every other hive app
- Open the app, find the hive
- Dictate or tap through the form
- Save. Peel a glove off if it won't register
- Walk to the next hive
- Repeat, once per hive
12 hives = 12 times through that
Beeledger
- Press record
- Do your inspection
- Press stop
12 hives = still two taps
How does it know which hive you're at? You tell it, out loud. There are no QR stickers to print and re-print when they fade, and no NFC tags to buy, glue on and lose in the grass. Just the names already on your boxes, in black marker, in your handwriting.
You talk like a beekeeper, not like a form
Nothing to memorise. Correct yourself, jump back to a hive, think out loud.
"Alpha 1, queen's laying, saw her. Brood on six frames, nice tight pattern. Stores look good. Alpha 2 now. Good brood pattern across five frames. Bit of chalkbrood on the edge, nothing serious. Actually no, scratch that, that's just old pollen. Stores are low so I'll feed her. I need to come back in two weeks and treat this one for varroa. And I'm splitting Alpha 1 today, three frames into a nuc, queen cells are capped on it already."
One recording. Three hives, named as you go. ↓
Alpha 1
- Queen seen, laying
- Brood on 6 frames
- Stores good
Alpha 2
- Good brood pattern, 5 frames
- Stores low, fed
Alpha 3
- Split from Alpha 1
- Queen cells capped
Every line above traces back to something said out loud. It heard "scratch that" and dropped the chalkbrood, because it won't record a disease you didn't confirm.
Your apiary has no signal. That's fine.
Recording works with no bars, no data, airplane mode, a dead zone behind a hill. Everything is saved on your phone and syncs itself when you're back in range. Most apps that offer voice simply refuse to record without a connection. Your bees are usually where the signal isn't.
One price. No credits, no counters.
Record as much as you like. Nothing to top up, nothing to run out of halfway down a row.
- ✓ Unlimited voice inspections
- ✓ Unlimited hives and apiaries
- ✓ Works offline
- ✓ Photos and video
- ✓ Phone and web
- ✓ Up to 3 people on your account
- ✓ Export everything, any time
Running a commercial operation or a bigger team? Talk to us.
Questions
Can I really do several hives in one recording? +
Yes, and it's the whole point. Open as many hives as you like in one take. Say which hive you're at the way you normally would, and Beeledger splits the visit into one record per hive.
Does it work without internet? +
Yes. Recording, photos and typing all work with no connection. Everything saves on your phone and syncs when you're back in range, and the sorting happens then.
Hive names? How am I supposed to remember those? +
You don't have to invent anything. Each apiary gets a letter, each hive gets a number, and Beeledger names them for you: Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Bravo 1. It uses the phonetic alphabet on purpose, because "Alpha one" survives wind, gloves and a phone in your pocket, where "A1" gets heard as "eight one". There are French and colour-based versions too if you prefer.
Then write it on the hive, however you like. A black marker on the lid does the job. Nothing to print, nothing to stick on, nothing that stops working when it rains.
It isn't sexy. It's dumb, easy to say out loud, and reliable, which is what counts when you're talking instead of looking.
Do I need QR codes or NFC tags? +
No. You say the hive's name out loud. Whatever you already wrote on the box is enough.
What if I misspeak or change my mind? +
Talk normally. Correct yourself, go back to a hive you already covered, trail off. Beeledger sorts it out, and it won't invent an observation you didn't make.
Which languages? +
English, French and Spanish, spoken properly rather than translated labels.
Can I type instead? +
Of course. Everything can be added, edited and corrected by hand, on the phone or on the web.
Is my data mine? +
Yes. Export it whenever you like. If you stop paying, your records stay readable and exportable, you just can't add new ones until you're back.