ColonyTrack

Run multiple apiaries from one account, track all-yards trends, and get free apiary stats. The app tells you what to check next in the field.

ColonyTrack is a beekeeping app I built because the tools I tried didn't fit how I actually work my hives.

I'm MayDay. 22 years across cloud engineering, eCommerce, and gaming. After enough seasons of cobbling notes together in spreadsheets, I decided to build what I wanted: a field tool that thinks like a beekeeper. There are other beekeeping apps out there. This one is just built the way I think a field tool should work.

WHAT I WANTED THIS TO BE A tool you can use with gloves on, in the sun, with bees around. Guided inspections instead of blank forms. My mentors taught me: never open a hive for a fishing expedition. Have a reason, then open the lid. Voice dictation when your hands are full. QR or NFC on every hive so the right record is one tap away. Charts that show what actually matters, alerts that only fire when they should.

THE QUEEN LIFECYCLE ENGINE The part I'm proudest of. When a hive starts raising a new queen, because it's superseding her, getting ready to swarm, or you made a split, the app runs the real queen-development clock for you. It counts the days and tells you exactly when to look back in and what you should see: when the new queen should have emerged, when eggs should appear. One timeline handles supersedure, swarm cells, splits, emergency queens, even a mated queen you caged and installed. No flipping through a calendar doing the math in your head. It's free, it's on by default, and if you'd rather keep things simple you can switch it off in one tap.

YOUR DATA IS YOURS Inspection records, photos, hive history. Yours, end of story. Export to CSV any time, free tier or paid. If you leave, you take everything with you. No paywall on your own work.

PRIVACY AS A DELIBERATE CHOICE No advertising trackers. No data sold to brokers. No third-party behavioural profiling. The marketing site asks consent before counting visits, and the app collects only what's needed to make it work. The full policy lives at colonytrack.app/privacy.

A SMALL TEAM, GROWING WITH YOU No board, no investors, no founders meeting. ColonyTrack is built by a beekeeper, with help, and I'm still learning this craft alongside everyone using it. The app grows with me, shaped by the people using it.

Pro subscriptions fund what's next: offline logging for yards with no signal, queen line tracking across seasons. If there's a feature you think it must have, free or paid, email me. I read every message.

WHAT IT DOES Twelve guided inspection flows that tell you what to check. QR and NFC scanning (NFC on Pro). Voice dictation. Color-coded inspection history. Varroa, colony strength, and brood trend charts. Queen change tracking on your hive timeline. Alerts that only fire when they should. Field guides built in: varroa, pests (hive beetle, wax moths, ants, wasps, mice), installing a package or nuc, swarm prevention. Apiary dashboard with Best All-Around ranking. Split tracking with parent-hive links. Mentor sharing via read-only link.

FREE PLAN Up to 2 hives, no time limit. QR scanning, voice dictation, color-coded history, the Queen Lifecycle Engine, mite check reminders, apiary stats, CSV export.rt.

PRO PLAN ($4.99/month) Up to 100 hives across up to 5 yards. Adds multiple yards (run more than one apiary from one account, with all-yards trends and comparison), NFC tag binding (tap a sticker to open the hive), treatment window alerts, the apiary dashboard, cross-hive comparison, split tracking, mentor sharing, PDF reports, and trend charts.

SUBSCRIPTION INFO Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically each month at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings, Apple ID, Subscriptions.

Privacy policy: https://colonytrack.app/privacy Terms of service: https://colonytrack.app/terms

Made in Santa Barbara by a beekeeper with too many hives and not enough memory.