ApiaryLensOpen Source Apiary Intelligence Open ApiaryLens

Built for beekeepers

Know Every Hive.
Empower Every Beekeeper.

ApiaryLens helps a family understand its first hive—and grows into the lasting apiary intelligence a professional operation can depend on.

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  • Open Source
  • Self-Hosted
  • Works Without Signal
  • Mobile Ready
  • Community Driven
A family works together at an open hive in a larger well-managed apiary, representing growth from first hive to professional operation

The ApiaryLens home

Start where you are.

Learn the product, open the app, run it your way, find support, or help build what comes next.

Everything in one place

Powerful Features.
Built for Beekeepers.

Keep the practical story of every colony together—from inspection notes and queen history to mite counts, feeding, treatments, harvests, and photos.

01

Manage All Your Hives

Track apiaries, hives, queens, equipment, and complete history as your operation grows.

02

Detailed Inspections

Record what you see in the field, attach photos, and keep follow-up work from slipping through the cracks.

03

Queen Management

Preserve queen identity, source, introduction, marked state, status, notes, and meaningful history.

04

Health & Mite Tracking

Follow varroa counts, observations, feeding, treatments, and colony health over time.

05

Harvest & Production

Record honey harvests by date, quantity, and source hive alongside the season that produced them.

06

Photo History

Build a visual almanac for every hive with private originals that remain yours to back up and export.

Built as one connected hive history.

Weather and bloom intelligence, optional AI assistance, richer collaboration, and advanced professional reporting continue on the public roadmap.

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One history. A lifetime of beekeeping.

From the family apiary
to the professional yard.

ApiaryLens begins with the people learning together at a few hives, then preserves the same records and relationships as their responsibilities grow.

Available in the family MVP

Families & hobbyists

A parent and child, partners, or friends can share a dependable history of apiaries, hives, inspections, photos, queens, health work, feeding, treatments, and harvests.

Simple enough for the first hive.
Growing product direction

Mentors, clubs & educators

Portable records and deliberate sharing boundaries create a foundation for mentorship, bee-club learning, demonstrations, and education without exposing unrelated private data.

Connected enough to learn together.
Long-term platform direction

Professional & research apiaries

The same portable core is designed to scale toward hundreds of hives, teams, richer reporting, routes, sensors, research workflows, and commercial operations.

Powerful enough to grow into.

The first release is deliberately family-focused. Club, research, and advanced professional workflows remain on the public roadmap—not disguised as finished MVP features.

A living history for every hive

More than a digital notebook.

ApiaryLens turns scattered notes and photos into a dependable colony history you can understand, share with family, and carry into the next inspection.

Your bees.

See inspections, queens, health work, harvests, and photographs in the context of each hive.

Your data.

Choose your own hardware or your own cloud account. Back up, restore, and export your records and original media.

Your future.

Begin simply with a family apiary and grow toward club, research, and commercial needs without changing products.

Growing with you

Start practical.
Build toward intelligence.

The first release focuses on dependable hive management. Later releases add weather and bloom intelligence, richer reports, optional AI assistance, connected sensors, and commercial workflows.

  1. NowFamily foundation

    Hive management, inspections, photos, health records, sharing, backup, and ownership.

  2. NextDeeper insight

    Weather and bloom context, richer trends, summaries, and mentor-friendly collaboration.

  3. GrowingConnected apiary

    Optional scales, sensors, automations, and integrations built on portable contracts.

  4. ProfessionalOperational scale

    Teams, routes, inventory, reporting, finance, and workflows for hundreds of hives.

  5. FutureCommunity & research

    Extensible tools for clubs, educators, researchers, and the broader beekeeping community.

Open source. Community driven.

Beekeepers strong.

ApiaryLens is built in public for the people who keep bees. Families shape the starting experience; mentors, clubs, educators, researchers, developers, and professional beekeepers help shape where it grows.

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ApiaryLens MVP

See the first release take shape.

The release candidate brings secure family accounts, apiaries and hives, inspections and photos, health and management records, synchronization, backup, export, and guided deployment together as one product. It remains clearly marked pre-release until its complete field and deployment tests pass.

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