A beekeeping app, built by a beekeeper

Keep your hands in the hive. Let HiveSight take the notes.

HiveSight is a hive-tracking app I'm building for my own apiary in Michigan — and for yours. Paired with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, it does the logging for you and talks you through what it sees while the hive is open. Before it lands in the app stores, I'd like to hear from beekeepers, from first-timers waiting on spring packages to folks running dozens of colonies.

Take the 3-minute survey

What HiveSight does

In the app

Your hive, box by box

Build each hive the way it actually stands — bottom board, deeps, supers — then tap into any box to see its frames.

In the app

Every frame, logged

Paint brood, honey, pollen and queen cells right onto a frame, and see how each hive changes from one inspection to the next.

Coming · paid version

Smart glasses do the logging

Wear Ray-Ban Meta glasses while you work. Pull a frame, look at it, and HiveSight logs what's there — no gloves off, no notebook, no typing it up later.

Coming · paid version

A second set of eyes, live

Through the glasses' speakers or your earbuds, HiveSight tells you what it's seeing while the hive is still open — so you can deal with a problem now, not after you've closed up.

Some free · more in paid

AI that knows your hives

Ask a question and get an answer that uses your own inspection records, not generic advice. The free version includes some AI features; the paid version adds more.

In the app · sharing coming

Share your beekeeping

Post updates, photos and video to your HiveCircle of fellow beekeepers today. Sharing those posts straight to Facebook and Instagram is on the way.

Free and paid versions. The free version is for one apiary and one hive, with everything entered by hand: hive and frame logging, HiveCircle and some AI features. The paid version adds more apiaries and hives, the smart-glasses features, automation and more AI. Smart glasses aren't included with HiveSight or provided for testing — you'd use your own pair.

A look at HiveSight

Concept: writing notes with gloves on, versus speaking the frame and side while HiveSight and the glasses log what they see and talk back.

Sample hive screen: a hive drawn box by box with a medium super and two deeps, and a health report showing the queen seen, a solid brood pattern and a low mite count. — Your hive, box by box, with a health report

Sample frame screen: a honeycomb map of one frame side with capped brood in the center, rings of larvae, eggs and pollen, and capped honey around the edges. — Paint each frame: brood, pollen, honey, the queen

Sample HiveCircle feed: a beekeeper's post about a full honey super with a photo of a capped frame and comments from other beekeepers. — HiveCircle: share with fellow beekeepers

Sample screens with made-up hives and beekeepers.

Tell me what you'd want

Answer as much or as little as you like. No account needed, and your answers stay anonymous unless you sign up to test.

About you

1Where are you in beekeeping?

2How many hives do you keep?

3Where do you keep bees (or plan to)?

Keeping records

4How do you keep track of inspections today?Pick any

5What's hardest about it?Up to 3

What would help you most

Rate each idea. “In the app” means it works today; “paid version” means it's planned for the paid version; the rest are ideas being considered.

Build your hive box by box, frame by framein the app

Log each frame: brood, honey, pollen, queen cellsin the app

Smart glasses log every frame for you while you inspect — no typing, no notebookpaid version

Smart glasses tell you what they're seeing, live, while the hive is openpaid version

AI that spots the queen, eggs, pests or disease signs in a photopaid version

Ask AI questions about your own hives and get answers from your recordsin the app

Reminders to inspect, feed or treat

Mite counts and treatment tracking

HiveCircle: follow other beekeepers' hives and postsin the app

Share posts, photos and video clips to Facebook and Instagram

Share a hive with a mentor so they can see your inspections

Smart glasses

The idea: wear smart glasses while you work a hive and let them do all the logging. Pull a frame, look at it, and HiveSight records what's there — no gloves off, no notebook, no typing it up afterward. Through the glasses' built-in speakers (or your earbuds), HiveSight can also tell you what it's seeing while the hive is still open, so you can deal with a problem right then instead of finding it in your notes later.

HiveSight is being built for Ray-Ban Meta glasses first. Glasses aren't included with HiveSight — you'd use your own pair — and the glasses features will be part of the paid version.

6Do you own smart glasses?

7Would you wear them during inspections?

8What would give you pause?Pick any

The app itself

9What would you use it on?Pick any

10What would you pay for the paid version?Free: one apiary and one hive, everything entered by hand, with HiveCircle and some AI features. Paid: more apiaries and hives, the smart-glasses features, automation and more AI. Glasses are bought separately.

11What's the one thing a beekeeping app has to do for you?

12Anything else we should know?Optional

Help test HiveSight

I'd like to try early versions and give feedback.Anyone can sign up, wherever you are and whatever the season — you don't need glasses to help test the rest of the app. If you have Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you're exactly who we'd love to hear from. Glasses aren't provided for testing.

Only question 1 is required.