New features, research partnerships, conservation milestones, and everything happening in the HivePulse community.
After months of development and beta testing with a group of dedicated beekeepers, HivePulse v1.0 is officially available on the App Store and Google Play. The launch includes QR-based hive management, varroa tracking, apiary statistics, and a live public map showing our growing community.
We're excited to announce an anonymized data-sharing agreement with researchers studying the relationship between varroa mite levels and colony winter survival. Starting this spring, aggregated inspection data from HivePulse will contribute to longitudinal studies spanning multiple European and North American regions.
Every beekeeper tracks different things. v0.9.5 introduced custom field definitions — add your own inspection data points at the apiary or per-hive level. The backend now supports arbitrary text, number, boolean, date, and select-type fields.
The HivePulse community has crossed 500 registered apiaries spanning four continents. What started as a personal project for a small group of local beekeepers has grown into a genuine global network.
The full HivePulse codebase — backend API, iOS app, and Android app — is now publicly available on GitHub under the MIT License. Pull requests, issues, and feature discussions are open to everyone.