Hives in the field
This isn't another forms app

The fastest path
from the bee yard
to digital records

Android Alpha iOS — coming soon

Minimal structure.
Maximum capture.

Most hive apps give you a form and hope it matches how you work. HiveScribe takes the opposite approach — choose a hive, hit record, or snap a photo. No half-filled inspection forms. Just your observations, decisions, and plans, preserved the way you actually make them.

The more you capture, the more useful your records become. HiveScribe will keep finding new ways to make that time investment pay off.

Smoker and notepad resting on a hive top Photo: Laurie Schneider
How it works

Built for the bee yard.

Works over the lock screen

No unlocking. HiveScribe is one button away when your hands are full and the next hive is waiting.

Review past visits

A timeline of summaries and images is right there before you lift the cover.

Volume-button controls

Record a voice note, snap a photo, move to the next hive — all from the volume buttons. Gloves can stay on.

Every entry is a snapshot

Hive, apiary, queen, date, and time are captured automatically. No filling in the header before you can say what you actually came to say.

Offline-first. Works where your bees are. Transcriptions and summaries when you're back in range.

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Working apiary yard
Frame covered in bees
Worn beekeeping gloves
Beekeeper writing notes in the field
We all start the season trying to take good notes. Then the flow hits.
Read the story

If any of this sounds familiar, HiveScribe is for you.

You're already recording. You're just not keeping it.

You snap photos in the yard. You make voice memos on the drive home. You have a notebook in the truck full of shorthand that won't make sense in a month. The information is there — it's just not anywhere useful.

You've tried the other apps and deleted them.

Too many required fields. Too many taps before you can say what you actually came to say. HiveScribe doesn't ask you to fill out a form. It asks you to hit record.

Your operation is bigger than one person's memory.

A partner, a seasonal helper, a research program — everyone in your operation sees the same hives, the same history, the same notes. Nobody's making decisions from last week's half-remembered walkthrough.

Beekeeper in veil examining a frame

Your Data to Keep.

Your notes, recordings, and summaries belong to you. Every day you inspect, HiveScribe emails that day's logs to an address of your choosing — grouped by apiary, waiting in your inbox before you wake up. Your records live outside the app from day one.

Export them, delete them, or take them somewhere else. HiveScribe is designed so your records outlast any app, including this one.

Read our privacy policy → Delete my data →

Help build what beekeeping
apps should be.

Android alpha is open. Rough edges included. Direct line to the developer guaranteed.

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