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What It Is

BeeInTouch is a digital apiary management and hive-card SaaS built for beekeepers. It works in the browser and also offers iOS/Android apps such as BeeInTouch Willi and BeeInTouch Lager. Rather than being a generic project management tool, it brings beekeeping workflows—apiaries, colony inspections, varroa treatments, feeding, honey harvesting, queen rearing, inventory, bookkeeping, and sales—into a single system.

Core Features and Collaboration

The product is highly vertical. Users can manage apiaries on an interactive map and create digital hive cards for each colony. By scanning a QR Code or NFC tag, they can open the corresponding record directly, and multiple scans can be used to perform batch actions such as relocation, mite treatment, or feeding. Inspection forms can be customized from more than 70 fields, making them suitable for different beekeeping habits. Inventory and batch management are a highlight: honey can be traced from finished jars back to the apiary and colony. The bookkeeping module can link with inventory to generate records automatically. The breeding module supports breeding plans, automatic reminders, and metric-based colony selection. For teams, paid plans support multiple members, Todo items can be assigned to colleagues, and member visibility can be limited to specific apiaries.

Pricing and Deployment

BeeInTouch offers a free Hobby plan, limited to 5 colonies, 2 apiaries, and no team members. Paid plans start with Hobby Plus at €3.08/month and go up to Riesenimker from €48.93/month, scaling by the number of colonies, apiaries, inventory items, products, bookkeeping entries, and team members. Larger deployments can request custom pricing. Deployment is mainly via the cloud browser version and mobile apps. The mobile apps support offline recording at apiaries without network access and sync once connectivity is restored. The official materials do not disclose self-hosting, an API, or a developer platform.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are comprehensive coverage of industry-specific workflows, NFC/QR and offline capabilities that fit real-world apiary operations, and batch traceability that is genuinely useful for honey sales, organic certification, and regulatory documentation. The pricing tiers are also fairly clear. The drawbacks are that the main pages are in German, with limited information on internationalization and Chinese-language support. There is also no clear explanation of data security, GDPR, backups, open integrations, or payment methods. Permission granularity appears to be limited to team members and apiary visibility.

Access from China and Alternatives

Access from mainland China is unknown, and payment methods are not disclosed. Anyone planning long-term use should first test network connectivity, app downloads, email/push reminders, and euro-denominated payments. For Chinese users who do not need NFC or beekeeping-specific traceability, spreadsheets, Notion, Airtable, or domestic agricultural production management software may be alternatives. For professional apiaries, however, BeeInTouch’s specialized design still offers clear reference value.