Hive Pal
Your open-source beekeeping companion. Record voice notes at the hive. Let AI transcribe &
Hive Pal is an open-source beekeeping management application for recording hive inspections by voice. It captures audio at the hive, transcribes it with Whisper-powered speech-to-text, and uses local LLMs (faster-whisper + Ollama) to draft structured inspection notes covering queen sightings, brood patterns, treatments, and observations, so beekeepers can review and save rather than type in the field. Recordings upload to the inspection even without signal.
The platform covers apiary and hive management, queen tracking, inspections with checklists and photos, harvest tracking, calendar planning, reports and analytics, an AI assistant, bulk actions, and collaboration features such as apiary sharing, invite links, and shared views. It includes QR code labels for hives, hive scale monitoring, equipment planning, and a PWA installable on mobile for offline use. Free browser-based tools include a sugar syrup calculator, brood development timeline, swarm management planner, and Liebefelder colony strength estimation.
Hive Pal is aimed at beekeepers managing colonies across multiple apiaries, including teams, clubs, and mentors working from shared records. It is MIT-licensed and self-hostable anywhere Docker runs, or available as a free hosted service with automatic updates and backups. Both options are free, with community support via GitHub.
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