The $99.99 Bee Eclipse takes Bee’s conversation-recording AI to the back of your phone: the credit-card-sized device attaches magnetically. The Amazon-owned company also introduced the $74.99 Bee Frontier, a next-generation wearable you can strap to your wrist or pin to clothing.
Bee announced both devices Thursday, marking its first product launches since Amazon acquired it last year. Like the original Bee, both devices use AI to take notes from your everyday conversations, then turn what was said into summaries, insights, and to-dos.
With the phone-mounted Eclipse, Bee competes more directly, at a lower price, with the $159 Plaud Note and $129 Pocket AI device. The Plaud Note Pro sells for $189, also above the price of either new Bee device.
The Frontier’s color options are Onyx, Lavender, and Sage; Eclipse buyers get Silver, Midnight, Honey, and Blush. On both models, one button handles power, while a light indicates that a conversation is being summarized. For the Frontier, Bee also lists an IP67 water-resistance rating, a battery lasting up to seven days, charging over USB-C, and two microphones with advanced noise filtering.
If a conversation with friends ends with an agreed date and time, Bee can use those details to create a calendar invitation. Taking notes during a lecture or recording a care plan discussed with a doctor are other examples of how it can be used.
Conversation summaries and recaps are free across Bee’s devices, with 14 days of memory included. The $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription provides unlimited conversation summaries plus connections to Amazon.com, Alexa+, and third-party apps. Its other features are a personal chat assistant, conversation templates, daily memories, and suggested to-dos.
The Amazon.com and Alexa connections support Amazon purchases and hands-free requests to Alexa for your Bee insights, summaries, or to-dos. Connections to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook let Bee handle tasks such as drafting emails, arranging meetings, and identifying action items. You can also upload photos to Bee or connect it with Apple’s HealthKit to add a picture of your overall wellness to its insights. Alongside a redesigned companion mobile app, all Bee devices now come with a new desktop app.
Bee says its private computing security architecture deletes audio after processing it in real time, so it doesn’t retain raw recordings of conversations. The company says your device generates and controls the encryption keys for conversation transcripts. Unless you deliberately share those files yourself, Bee says nobody else can access them, including Amazon employees.
You can also choose to link Bee with Alexa. With that optional connection enabled, an Echo can recognize you speaking through Voice ID and record conversations for Bee’s insights. Amazon says transcripts and summaries can be deleted whenever you want.
The Frontier is already available on Amazon. Bee says the Eclipse will follow soon afterward, without giving a specific date.
