Walk up to the hive already knowing where it stood.
Queen seen, brood on five frames, a touch tetchy today — say it over the open hive while the smoker's still going, no notebook to juggle. Each inspection stacks into a colony record you can read back before you next lift the roof.
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What you capture
- A spoken note over the open hive — queen seen, brood pattern, temper, stores — hands still in your gloves
- Photos of the frames: a tight brood pattern, a suspect queen cell, the first capped super
- The date and which hive in the row, captured for you on every entry
Tap a hive and its whole inspection log opens on your phone — every voice note, frame photo and date in the order the season unfolded, so you know what this visit needs before you lift the roof.
Good beekeeping is good record-keeping, but a paper hive inspection log is the first thing to go: it gets propolised to the crownboard, smudges in the rain, or sits in the kitchen while you're stood at the apiary. And with seven to ten days between inspections, the detail you swore you'd remember — was that hive queenright, did it have stores, was it turning tetchy — has faded by the next visit.
Put a little tag on each hive and the record builds itself. Tap it, speak what you found while your hands are still full, and the entry lands on that colony's timeline with the date and the frame photos you took. Over a season it becomes a proper hive inspection log; over years it's the beekeeping record that lets you spot a failing queen, time the varroa treatment and judge when to add a super, and a reminder keeps the next inspection or varroa treatment from slipping. If a tag finally weathers or pulls off, move the colony's history onto a fresh one and lose nothing; and when a hive is combined or doesn't make it through winter, archive its story and free the tag to reuse on the next swarm you box up.
Stick a tag on it
A cheap NFC tag on a stake, lid, box — anything.
Tap & add
Photos, notes, voice. Date and place captured automatically.
Tap to recall
Tap again, anytime, to see everything. No app to install.
Questions
- Can I log an inspection without taking my gloves off?
- Yes — that's the point. Tap the hive and speak what you found while the colony's still open and your hands are full; it's saved to that hive's timeline as a voice note, with the date added for you. No typing on the roof in a veil.
- Does each hive keep its own history?
- Yes — every hive's tag is its own private record, so inspection notes, frame photos and treatment dates never get mixed up. Each colony's log builds visit after visit, season after season, and you can set a reminder for the next treatment or super so nothing slips.
- What if a tag weathers off, or a colony doesn't survive winter?
- Your records live in the app, not on the tag, so a weathered tag still works — and if one's lost you can move the whole history onto a new tag. When a colony is combined or lost over winter, archive its story to keep the track record and free the tag to reuse on the next hive.