Everything you need to run the bees.
Hive Pal brings voice-first AI inspections, colony and queen records, planning, reports, and collaboration into a single open-source platform — free to use and yours to host.
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
Every inspection, captured in detail
Record what you see at the hive with structured, repeatable inspections — then find it again the moment you need it.
- Structured inspections
- Log brood pattern, stores, temperament, space, and queen status with consistent fields, so colonies are comparable across visits and seasons.
- Quick checks
- A lightweight inspection flow for fast yard walk-throughs when you only need to note the essentials and move on.
- Batch inspections
- Inspect a whole apiary in one sitting — step through every hive in sequence without re-opening each record by hand.
- Scheduled inspections & reminders
- Plan future visits and get release-note and task reminders so nothing slips between sessions.
- Photos & observations
- Attach photos and free-text notes to any inspection to document disease signs, comb, or anything worth a second look.
- Actions & treatments
- Record feeding, treatments, and management actions as part of the inspection, building a full history per colony.
Organize apiaries, hives, and queens
A clear model of your operation — from yards down to individual frames and queen lineages.
- Multiple apiaries
- Group hives by location with site-specific notes and local weather context for each yard.
- Hive configuration
- Track boxes, frames, and configuration per hive so the record reflects the real equipment in the field.
- Queen tracking
- Follow each queen’s marking, origin, lineage, performance, and replacement history to keep colonies strong.
- Equipment planning
- Plan and account for boxes, frames, and gear across your hives so you know what to build before the season.
- QR codes
- Generate and print QR labels for hives, then scan in the apiary to jump straight to the right record.
- Hive scale monitoring
- Connect hive scales to follow weight trends — nectar flow, consumption, and overwintering at a glance.
See the season, not just the day
Turn your records into a plan and a picture of how the operation is doing.
- Calendar
- A unified calendar of inspections and scheduled tasks across every apiary, so the week ahead is always visible.
- Reports & analytics
- Roll your data up into colony-health and productivity reports to spot trends and weak hives early.
- Harvest tracking
- Record honey harvests, processing dates, and yields across hives and seasons to measure real output.
- AI assistant
- Ask questions about your apiary and get help making sense of your records, right inside the app.
- Works with AI assistants (MCP)
- Connect Claude and other MCP clients to read your apiary records and record inspections, feedings and todos for you, after you approve access.
- Bulk actions
- Apply the same action across many hives at once instead of editing them one by one.
Beekeeping is rarely a solo job
Work the bees with partners, clubs, or mentees — and share what matters without handing over the keys.
- Apiary sharing
- Invite other beekeepers to collaborate on an apiary so the whole team works from the same records.
- Invite links
- Share a join link to bring someone into an apiary quickly, without manual account juggling.
- Shared views
- Give read access to colonies or data so a mentor or club can follow along without editing.
Open source, private, and portable
Hive Pal is free software you can run yourself — your records stay yours.
- Open source (MIT)
- The entire app is MIT-licensed. Read it, fork it, audit it, or contribute — no black boxes.
- Self-hostable
- Run it anywhere Docker runs: a server, a laptop, or a Raspberry Pi. The hosted version runs the same code.
- Import & export
- Move your data in and out freely. Your beekeeping history is never locked inside the app.
- Privacy-first AI
- The voice and AI stack uses open models (faster-whisper + Ollama) and can run on your own hardware — no third-party cloud required.
- Multilingual
- Use Hive Pal in your language, with community translations managed through Weblate and growing over time.
- Installable & offline-ready
- Install it as a PWA on your phone and keep working in the apiary even when the signal drops.
Free tools you can use right now
Calculators and planners that work in the browser, no account needed — a taste of how Hive Pal thinks about beekeeping.
Ready to try it?
Sign up for the hosted version, or grab the source and run it yourself. Either way, it’s free.