Your open-source
beekeeping companion.
Record voice notes at the hive. Let AI transcribe and draft your inspections automatically — so you keep your hands on the frames, not the keyboard.
Everything you need to tend your hives.
Professional tools designed by beekeepers, for beekeepers — to keep colonies healthy, productive, and well-documented through every season.
Four pillars · built into one platform
Explore all features- Apiary management
- Organize and track multiple apiaries with detailed location information, weather data, and site-specific notes.
- Hive inspections
- Schedule and record detailed inspections with customizable checklists, photos, and health assessments.
- Queen tracking
- Monitor queen performance, breeding records, and replacement schedules to maintain strong colonies.
- Harvest management
- Track honey production, processing dates, and yields across seasons and hive locations.
Inspect with your voice,
not your keyboard.
Hive Pal records audio during inspections, transcribes it automatically, and uses AI to draft structured notes — so the busywork happens while you’re still at the apiary.
Record at the hive
Tap record on your phone, talk through what you see on each frame, and move on. Recordings upload straight into the inspection — even if you lose signal mid-yard.
Automatic transcription
Whisper-powered speech-to-text turns every recording into a searchable transcript attached to the inspection. Multilingual out of the box.
AI-drafted notes
Local LLMs extract queen sightings, brood patterns, treatments, and observations into a pre-filled inspection — you just review and save.
Bring your own assistant
Connect Claude or another MCP-compatible assistant to your Hive Pal. Ask which hives are due for an inspection, or have it log a feeding for you, once you sign in and approve access.
Your recordings, your models. The AI stack runs on open-source models (faster-whisper + Ollama) and can be self-hosted alongside your data — or run as a pull worker on your home machine.
No third-party cloud required
Self-host, or let us run it for you.
Two ways to use Hive Pal — both free, both run the same open-source code.
Self-hosted
Free, foreverFull control over your data and infrastructure. Run it on your own server, your laptop, a Raspberry Pi — wherever suits you.
- MIT licensed — read, fork, ship
- Host anywhere Docker runs
- Your data stays on your hardware
- Community support via GitHub
Hosted by us
FreeZero setup required. We run the servers, handle updates, and keep things ticking. Same open-source app — just on our hardware.
- Sign up and go — no installation
- Automatic updates & backups
- Best-effort uptime, monitored
- Community support via GitHub
Free tools, no signup.
Handy calculators and planners you can use directly in the browser — bookmark them for the apiary.
Sugar Syrup Calculator
Precise sugar and water amounts for 1:1, 3:2, or 2:1 syrup at any container size. Metric or imperial.
Brood Development Timeline
Visualize queen, worker, and drone brood stages with day counts and project dates from any starting day.
Swarm Management
Step-by-step Demaree swarm-control workflow with follow-up timing and an inspection planner.
Liebefelder Estimation Method
Estimate colony strength — bees, brood, pollen and feed — by counting comb eighths, with seasonal evaluation guidelines.
Varroa Management Plan
Season-long treatment schedule for production colonies and nuclei with mite-fall thresholds, plus the divide-and-treat method explained step by step.
Give it a try.
Sign up for the hosted version, or grab the source and run it yourself. Either way, it’s free.