Introducing CombCensus
Your Digital Beekeeping Assistant
Tired of scattered notebooks, forgotten tasks, and guessing the best time for an inspection? CombCensus is the comprehensive, intuitive platform designed to streamline your beekeeping, giving you complete control over your apiaries, hives, and data.
Make Smarter Decisions, Save Time, Help Your Colonies Thrive
From tracking honey harvests to managing queen genetics, CombCensus brings all your essential records into one powerful, easy-to-use system.
At-a-Glance Control with the Dashboard 📊
Your beekeeping command centre. The moment you log in, you get a complete overview of your entire operation, ensuring you never miss a beat.
Apiary Overview
Instantly see the status of all your apiaries, including hive counts and queenright status.
Queen Tracking
A live count of your active queens, categorised for easy reference.
Harvest Totals
Track your honey production throughout the year.
Upcoming & Overdue Tasks
A clear list of pending inspections, so you can plan your week effectively.
Manage Your Entire Operation 🗺️
Whether you have one apiary or a dozen, CombCensus makes management simple. Organise your locations, track apiary-specific tasks, and keep all your information in one tidy place.
Multi-Apiary Support
Manage locations with dedicated profiles, addresses, and hive statistics.
Pending Task Lists
Create and manage tasks for specific apiaries with clear due dates.
Scalable by Design
Easily add new apiaries as your operation grows.
Detailed Hive Records, Simplified 🏠
Dive deep into the health and status of every single colony. Our intuitive interface lets you see everything you need to know about a hive on one screen.
Complete Hive Configuration
Track hive type (e.g., British National), material, brood boxes, and supers.
Equipment Checklist
Easily manage the presence of queen excluders, feeders, mouse guards, and more.
Integrated Health Log
Record mite counts and track treatments
Visual Hive Representation
An easy-to-understand graphic shows the current stack of each hive.
Advanced Queen & Genetics Tracking 👑
Your queens are the heart of your colonies, and they deserve special attention. CombCensus provides a dedicated system for managing your queens with unparalleled detail.
Comprehensive Queen Records
Track each queen by apiary, hive, age, and status (alive, mated, marked).
Lineage Management
The unique "Create Daughter" function allows you to track genetics and breeding programmes over generations.
Quick Identification
Log standard colour markings for easy identification in the field.
Weather-Powered Planning ⛅
Stop guessing about the weather. CombCensus integrates powerful weather monitoring directly into your workflow, helping you choose the perfect time to work your bees, minimising stress on your colonies and yourself.
Apiary-Specific Forecasts
Get current weather and a 30-day outlook tailored to each of your apiary locations.
The Bee-Flying Index (BFI)
Our proprietary BFI score analyses weather conditions to show you the best—and worst—times for an inspection.
Pinpoint Precision
Select a specific time slot to see detailed conditions, including temperature, wind speed, and cloud cover.
Effortless Inspection Logging & Powerful Analytics 📈
Turn your observations into valuable data. Log inspections in seconds and use our analytics tools to visualise trends and understand the story of your hives over time.
Rapid Inspection Entry
Use simple icons and dropdowns to log key metrics like queen seen, brood status, swarm risk, and colony temperament.
Seen Something Unusual?
Upload images from inspections for reviewing later.
Historical Data
Keep a complete, searchable history of all routine inspections and disease checks.
Visualise Your Progress
The Hive Analytics dashboard charts population, capacity, brood nest size, and key events over multiple years.
Mobile-Friendly Field Access 📱
Take CombCensus with you to the apiary. Our mobile-optimised interface ensures you can log inspections, check weather conditions, and access hive records directly from your phone or tablet while working with your bees.
Responsive Design
Fully optimised interface that works perfectly on phones, tablets, and desktop computers.
Quick Inspection Logging
Large touch-friendly buttons and simple forms make logging inspections effortless, even with gloves on.
Camera Integration
Snap photos directly from the inspection form and upload them instantly to your hive records.
Track Your Finances and Supplies 💰
Successful beekeeping also means managing your budget. CombCensus includes simple tools to track what you spend and what you need.
Integrated Shopping List
Keep a running list of parts and supplies you need to buy.
Expense Tracking
Log all your purchases, assign them to a hive or general costs, and even note if you have the receipt.
Annual Totals
Get a clear picture of your spending with a running total for the year.
CombCensus: Smarter Beekeeping Starts Here 🚀
Everything You Need in One Platform
Dashboard Control
Complete overview of your entire beekeeping operation at a glance.
Multi-Apiary Management
Organise and track multiple locations with ease.
Detailed Hive Records
Comprehensive tracking of every colony's health and status.
Queen & Genetics
Advanced tracking of queens and breeding programmes.
Weather Integration
Smart weather monitoring with the Bee-Flying Index.
Financial Tracking
Manage expenses, supplies, and annual budgets effortlessly.
Mobile Access
Field-optimised mobile interface for apiary inspections.
Analytics & Insights
Powerful data visualisation and trend analysis tools.