For beekeepers
Bee Forage Book identifies and organizes the plants honey bees forage on in your own area, arranged by season, so you can see what is available to your bees and estimate when honey flows are likely.
Photo identification · Bee notes for each plant · Forage calendar · Forage conditions gauge · Forage areas · Beehive Book link
Coming soon to theApp StorePhotograph a plant your bees are working and Pl@ntNet suggests what it is, or enter it by name. Each plant gets bee notes: its nectar and pollen value, pollen color, and how much it can contribute to a honey crop. The calendar shows what blooms when, year after year.
Today's forage conditions gauge shows the strongest forage in bloom around your apiary right now, from major-flow plants down to a dearth. Forage areas keep each apiary's plants apart, and Beehive Book's Hive Advisor can read what's blooming near each one.
Your plant list, sightings, notes, photos and locations stay on your iPhone. There are no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. When you identify a photo, only a copy with all location and camera data removed is sent. Read exactly what leaves your phone in the privacy policy.
Questions, a bug, or feedback — email us and a real person in East Texas will get back to you. It helps to include your device and iOS version.
support@beeforagebook.comIn the app, open Settings (the gear on Today) and tap Export backup. It makes one file with your plants, sightings, notes, edits, forage areas and your own photos. Save it to Files or iCloud Drive, AirDrop it, or email it to yourself. On the new phone, tap Restore from backup and choose the file. Restoring adds what's missing and never removes anything. The backup includes your locations, so keep it somewhere private.
Free includes up to 10 plants in your list, 5 photo identifications in total, logging sightings by name, bee notes, the forage calendar, one forage area, and backup and restore. Pro adds the forage conditions gauge, unlimited plants, up to 300 photo identifications a month, multiple forage areas, and the Beehive Book link. Pro is monthly or yearly, with a 14-day free trial. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.
It counts the plants in your Forage Plants list right now, so deleting a plant frees a space. Logging another sighting of a plant you already have never counts and is never limited. Plants are never hidden or locked: if your Pro subscription ends, or you restore a backup with more than 10 plants, you keep every plant and can still view, edit and log sightings of them; you just can't add new plants until you're under 10 or subscribe again.
Take or choose a photo and Pl@ntNet suggests the most likely plants. Only identifications that find at least one match count, whether or not you save the plant; errors, time-outs and "no plant found" don't. Free includes 5 in total, which never reset. Pro includes up to 300 a month, starting again on the first of each month, and the 14-day free trial includes 20. If you've used them up, you can still save the sighting by typing the plant's name.
Open Settings and tap Restore Purchases, signed in with the same Apple ID you subscribed with. Pro is tied to your Apple ID, not to the phone, so it carries over to a new phone the same way.
A forage area is the land around one apiary, such as "Home yard". Give it a name and a center (your current location, or a past sighting's location), and every sighting within 3 miles of the center counts toward it. You can move a sighting to a different area yourself. Free includes one forage area; Pro has as many as you need, one for each apiary.
With Pro, Bee Forage Book keeps a small forage report on your phone that Beehive Book can read: what's in bloom and coming up in each forage area, with the honey flow strength of each plant. Plant names, including ones you type yourself, are included; Beehive Book only passes recognised plant names to its Hive Advisor. It never includes where you saw a plant, your notes or your photos. In Beehive Book, link each apiary to one of your forage areas, and Hive Advisor uses what's blooming near it. You can also send the report yourself from Settings › Beehive Book report.
They're written by an AI model from what's known about each species, and they can be wrong or not fit your region. Tap Edit on a plant's bee notes to correct anything; your edits are always kept. Bee notes are only available for plants matched to a known species, not for names you type in without a match.