Definitely offline access.
Ability to enter fractions of frames rather than whole integers for brood and food.
Ability to trace queen lineage so see which colony she descended from.
Prediction on current state of queen hatching - so if you know when a larvae or capped queen cell was left, you...
Hundreds? Wow, you’re being robbed. I bought a brand new tablet for £40 from Currys especially for my beekeeping records - you can’t even get half a pack of fifty frames for that. Besides, this is the beekeeping software forum not beekeeping pen and paper.
When you mark an apiary as inactive it’s removed from the count on beebase. At least the number at my nearby out apiaries went down by one when I marked home as inactive.
My neighbours were great but it was too stressful worrying that the screams from their kid were from a bee sting. As much as I miss watching the workers coming and going, the "out apiary" has been a winner for my stress levels - wonderfully peaceful hive checks where I can just relax and enjoy....
If it's *consistently* t-shirt weather, surely? And with freezing temperatures forecast towards the end of the week I won't be wearing one any time soon.
Isn't Arnot Forest in the US? Where honeybees are not indigenous and were introduced by European travellers in the 17th century? I'd take it with a pinch of salt before applying to UK/Europe.