Sadly today marks the day where I will stop working on Bee and move onto other things.

I’ve written and supported Bee for the last 8 years and I have come to the point where I have the desire to work on something new. Unfortunately this means I can no longer support Bee or continue maintaining it.

The release published today will be the last published release. I have removed the remote license activation functionality which means that your Bee 3 license will continue to work indefinitely.

Thank You

I connected and talked with so many users of Bee over the years. Being the sole developer and support person provided the blessing of being able to communicate directly with impassioned people who care about their tools.

Without your help and your feedback I wouldn’t have gotten Bee to the stage it rests at today, so thank you!

Monday September 3, 2018

The first major release of Bee 3 is out today — v3.1! This is a rundown of the more interesting parts of this release.

Thursday May 3, 2018

After more than a year in intensive development, and 2 months in public pre-release mode — I’m excited to announce the arrival of Bee 3.

Tuesday April 17, 2018

Bee v2.3 has just been released! If you are running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the first thing you will notice is that Bee’s UI is now using the new San Francisco typeface throughout.

Monday January 18, 2016

Bee v2.0 is out now! There’s a whole host of under-the-hood performance improvements, but the main thing you’ll notice is the refreshed UI for OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Bee is now faster and lighter.

As well, there are exciting improvements and features still to come with the new v2 base which will be released in the coming months.

Friday November 7, 2014

Bee v1.9 is out now. The release notes for v1.9 are smaller than usual for a major release and whilst there are a couple of notable new features and fixes, the majority of changes have been happening under the hood.

Bee is being prepped for Yosemite support and for the support of additional issue trackers.

Sunday August 24, 2014

This latest release of Bee brings with it a much requested feature: timesheets!

FogBugz and JIRA have sophisticated time tracking built-in. Bee takes advantage of this fact and introduces a fun, new and intuitive way of interacting with your logged time.

Friday May 30, 2014

Bee is getting smarter with each update. In v1.7 Bee now remembers values you type or select in each field during item creation. This makes a huge difference when creating multiple items, or as a way to set up an ad hoc template for your new items.

E.g. If you always create items with a particular assigned user, Bee will remember the assigned user and pre-populate that field for you each time.

Tuesday May 6, 2014

Bee v1.6 includes substantial improvements in stability, performance and usability. It also enhances the way lists which include sub-tasks or sub-cases are displayed.

Tuesday April 15, 2014

CocoaPods (the open source dependancy manager for Objective-C) is having a Bug Bash to help clear out the issues in their backlog. The top contributors will have an opportunity to win licenses for some of the best software available on the Mac today:

• AppCode - The alternative Objective-C IDE.
• Bee - Mac issue tracker supporting GitHub Issues, FogBugz and JIRA.
• Dash - Instantly access developer documentation.
• GIFBrewery - The best tool for converting MP4 to .gif.
• Reveal - The best way to explore the iOS view hierarchy.

Wednesday March 26, 2014

Bee v1.5. This is the biggest release so far! Here’s a run-through of some of the new things that Bee does to make you more productive at work.

Tuesday March 18, 2014

Bee v1.4 just hit the App Store and is also available via the web site. The major feature in this release is something that has been frequently requested: file upload support!

There’s a completely new UI for viewing file attachments and JIRA and FogBugz now support uploading and emailing files.

Wednesday February 12, 2014

Bee v1.3 is out now in both the web site and the App Store, and I just wanted to give a short rundown on some of the exciting new features that have emerged in this release. This is the biggest release in a while in terms of new features, with the major feature being inline username autocompletion which a lot of users have asked for.

The current release cycle of Bee is 1-2 weeks which is evident when you look at the release notes. The advantage of shorter release cycles is that user feedback can be addressed immediately - a lot of the features mentioned below are a direct result of feedback.

Wednesday January 29, 2014