HiveSightA King Innovations venture
Keep your hands in the hive. Let HiveSight take the notes.
A hive-tracking app built by a beekeeper. Paired with smart glasses, it logs every frame for you and talks you through what it sees while the hive is open.
What HiveSight does
Each feature is marked with where it stands today, so you know exactly what you'd get.
- In the app
Your hive, box by box
Build each hive the way it actually stands, from bottom board to supers, then tap into any box to see its frames.
- In the app
Every frame, logged
Paint brood, honey, pollen and queen cells onto a frame and watch each hive change from one inspection to the next.
- Coming in the paid version
Smart glasses do the logging
Wear Ray-Ban Meta glasses, pull a frame and look at it. HiveSight records what's there. No gloves off, no notebook.
- Coming in the paid version
A second set of eyes, live
Through the glasses' speakers or your earbuds, HiveSight tells you what it sees while the hive is still open.
- Some free, more in paid
AI that knows your hives
Ask a question and get an answer built from your own inspection records, not generic advice.
- In the app
HiveCircle
Post updates, photos and video to a circle of fellow beekeepers, and follow their hives and posts.
A look at the app
Sample screens with made-up hives and beekeepers.
Speak the frame. HiveSight writes it down.
Writing notes with gloves on rarely works. With smart glasses, you say which frame and which side you're holding, and HiveSight logs what the glasses see and talks back with what it notices.
Smart glasses aren't included with HiveSight; you'd use your own pair.
Free and paid versions
Free
For getting started with one hive.
- One apiary and one hive
- Hive and frame logging, entered by hand
- HiveCircle community
- Some AI features
Paid
For beekeepers who want the hands-free workflow.
- More apiaries and hives
- Smart-glasses logging and live guidance
- Automation
- More AI
Built in a working apiary
HiveSight is being built for a real apiary in Michigan, and shaped by beekeepers at every level, from first-timers waiting on spring packages to people running dozens of colonies.
Before it reaches the app stores, we want to hear what you'd need from it. The survey takes about three minutes, and you can sign up to test early versions.
Ray-Ban and Meta are trademarks of their respective owners. HiveSight is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Ray-Ban, EssilorLuxottica or Meta.