1.2M+
Treatments logged since 2019
Every dose — oxalic acid, formic, thymol, amitraz, and beyond — recorded with colony outcome 30 and 60 days out.
Features · Chapter 01
The field journal, rebuilt for the modern keeper.
BeeBook is a quiet, serious logging tool for the hobbyist with three hives and the commercial operator running five hundred. What follows is a guided tour of how every chapter of the app works — written for beekeepers, by people who keep bees.
38,400 beekeepers · 92 countries · 99.97% uptime
In this chapter
A guided tour, in eight parts.
Skip ahead, or read in order. Every section lands in roughly the time it takes to smoke a hive.
Chapter 01 · Offline-first
Built for the bench by the hive, not the office.
Most beekeeping apps assume you have signal. BeeBook doesn't. Every inspection, every photo, every marginal note is written to the device first — then syncs the moment your phone finds a tower again. You can pull a queen in a back pasture with no bars and the record will still be there in the truck on the way home.
- Local-first writes. Entries land on the device in under 80 ms, so you're not waiting on a spinner in gloves.
- Conflict-free sync. Multiple beekeepers in the same yard never clobber each other's notes.
- Photo queueing. Twenty frames shot in the rain sync quietly over Wi-Fi later, untouched.
- Status indicators. A small badge shows what's local, what's syncing, and what's safely in the cloud.
Designed for apiaries with no Wi-Fi, on carriers that drop to one bar between boxes.
Chapter 02 · Inspection forms
Every inspection becomes structured, searchable hive history.
Paper logs are honest, but they're unsortable. BeeBook replaces the spiral notebook with forms tuned by master beekeepers — capturing queen status, brood pattern, temperament, stores, and supers in a shape you can actually query later.
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Queen status & marking
Mark, see, or absent — with a one-tap logger for color-by-year convention. Sightings attach to a timeline so you can prove she was laying three weeks ago.
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Brood pattern & stages
Solid, spotty, shotgun — graded on a four-point scale across capped brood, larvae, and eggs. Trend lines reveal the slow drift before it becomes a problem.
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Temperament & behavior
Calm, runny, defensive. Notes on robbers, orientation flights, and bearding feed a per-colony temperament profile you can match to yard placement.
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Stores, supers & weight
Frame counts for honey and pollen, super on/off dates, and live weight pull-ins from 18 native scale integrations. Never guess at harvest timing again.
“What sets BeeBook apart isn't the app — it's the dataset behind it. A beekeeper in Vermont can see how a treatment performed on a colony just like hers in Vermont, last August, three counties over. That's the kind of memory a single keeper, or a single extension office, simply cannot hold.”
Chapter 03 · Varroa & treatment
A shared industry memory, not a personal notebook.
The largest crowd-sourced varroa mite and treatment database in North America. Every dose logged by every keeper becomes part of a working reference — with compliance windows, withdrawal-period reminders, and treatment efficacy you can actually compare across regions.
Withdrawal-period reminders
Set the treatment, set the harvest date, and BeeBook keeps you honest about legal and label-restricted windows.
Compliance & audit trail
Export a clean, signed record per yard for state inspectors, certifications, or your own peace of mind.
Treatment efficacy charts
Compare mite drop before and after, regionally, by product, by season — the same view used in the University of Florida longitudinal work.