Foragers Hive

Foragers Hive: Kombucha Tracker

Forage. Ferment. Repeat.

Part brew journal, part assistant, all about your kombucha. Track every batch from F1 to finish, get reminded when it's time to taste, bottle, and chill, and keep your SCOBY hotel fed. Your recipe library holds every flavor you've built, and your brewing history keeps every finished batch — notes, star ratings, and all — so a great batch is never a one-time accident. And when one really lands? Show it off on a shareable brew card stamped with your own kombuchery's name.

Coming soon to Google Play

Android first · iPhone version planned · Free to start

What it does

Batch tracking, F1 to finish

Start a batch today, yesterday, or last Tuesday — backdating is built in. Follow every batch through F1, flavoring, bottling, and chilling. Changed your mind — or made a mistake mid-brew? Any stage can step back. Nothing is final until the batch lands in your brewing history.

One batch, up to four flavors

Can't decide between Lemonade and Ginger Lime? Don't. Split one F1 into up to four F2 flavors, each with its own recipe, its own share of the batch, and its own finish & review. One ferment, four ways to brag.

Reminders that know when to stop

A nudge to start tasting two days before your target. A bottle reminder when F1 is done, a chill reminder after F2. Finish or archive the batch and its reminders retire themselves. No zombie notifications, ever. Pick a sound you like — or none at all.

A home for your SCOBYs

Every culture gets a room at the SCOBY Hotel: checked in, photographed, and fed on schedule, with a gentle reminder every two weeks so nobody goes hungry.

Flavor library

Three proven Foragers Hive recipes to start — Lemonade, Coffee, Ginger Lime — plus every variation you invent. Build custom tea blends, save flavors with a photo or artwork, and let amounts scale per bottle or per whole batch. Presets are starting points; the app records what you actually did.

Finished brews, remembered

Your brewing history, kept properly: every finished batch with its recipe as brewed, your tasting notes, and your star rating. Rename a favorite, edit the review when your mind changes, and brew it again in one tap — the new batch starts from your real recipe and never touches the archived original.

Brew cards worth sharing

Name your kombuchery and put it on the card. When a batch finishes, share a brew card with its photo, flavor, timeline, and your rating — the kind of thing that makes the group chat ask for a bottle.

Yours, on your device

No account. No ads. No cloud holding your brews hostage. Your batches, photos, and notes live on your phone, export is free, and a full backup you control is built in. Your data leaves only when you send it.

Free vs. Hive Plus

Free

$0 — free to start

  • 2 active batches at a time
  • 1 SCOBY hotel
  • Split one batch into up to 4 F2 flavors
  • Recipe & flavor library — Foragers Hive recipes plus your own
  • Brewing history with notes & star ratings
  • Shareable brew cards with your kombuchery's name
  • Photos for batches, flavors & hotels
  • Helper tips + beginner guides — the mold guide, always free
  • Smart F1 / F2 reminders
  • Free export & full backup

Hive Plus

$3.99/mo · $29.99/yr · $59.99 lifetime

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited batches
  • Unlimited SCOBY hotels
  • Advanced guides — force carbonation, kegging, filtering, canning & bottlingComing Soon
  • Split into up to 8 flavorsComing Soon
  • Printable bottle labelsComing Soon
  • pH & temperature chartsComing Soon
  • Continuous brew modeComing Soon

Free never shrinks: if a Hive Plus subscription lapses, everything you already brewed stays readable and exportable. Founder pricing ($19.99/yr for the first 200 yearly subscribers, $49.99 lifetime for the first 100) will be offered in the app at launch.

New to kombucha?

Start with the guides and recipes, and check the gear list before you buy anything — you need less than the internet says.