Bee Eclipse is a $99.99 credit-card-sized device that snaps magnetically onto the back of your phone. Press its button and it listens to your calls and conversations, then the Bee app turns them into summaries and to-dos. Amazon says it handles both sides of a phone call, prompts you to get permission from the people on the call each time, and deletes the audio once it is processed. It is listed as “available soon”, with no date.
Epocra records every call on your normal number, automatically, on any iPhone or Android. There is nothing to attach or press: it starts on its own from the first word, in and out, and after you hang up you get the recording, the transcript, a summary, the follow-ups as tasks, custom analytics and a searchable history you can ask questions across, whether you took the call on speaker, AirPods, in the car or on your watch.
Disclosure: we make Epocra. Everything said about Bee comes from Amazon’s own announcement and product pages plus launch coverage, checked on 21 October 2026. The Eclipse has not shipped, so nobody has reviewed it yet.
See it in action
Every call remembered, on your phone or watch
An interactive demo, not a video. Answer a call and see the recording, transcript and follow-ups land in the app once it ends, with the audio kept.
- Every call on your number: incoming and outgoing, from the first word
- AirPods, car or speaker: it records the line, not a microphone
- Summary and action items: written for you after every call
Bee Eclipse at a glance
| Spec | Bee Eclipse |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI recorder that attaches magnetically to the back of your phone |
| Size | About the size of a credit card, thinner than two stacked |
| Fits | MagSafe and Qi2 phones; a metal ring is included for other phones |
| Microphones | Four |
| Battery | More than 21 days |
| Starts recording | When you press the button; a light shows it is on |
| Phone calls | Both sides, Amazon says, once you start it |
| Keeps the audio? | No, it is processed and deleted |
| Price | $99.99, plus optional Bee Pro at $11.99 a month |
| Available | “Soon”, no date or regions announced |
What Bee Eclipse is
Bee started as a startup selling a $49.99 wristband that listened to your day. Amazon agreed to buy the company in July 2025, without saying what it paid, and on 15 October 2026 it launched two new devices: the Bee Frontier, a wearable for in-person conversations, and the Bee Eclipse.
The Eclipse is the one that lives on your phone. It is a thin, rounded slab about the size of a credit card that snaps onto the back of a MagSafe or Qi2 phone, or onto the metal ring Amazon includes for other phones. It comes in Silver, Midnight, Honey and Blush. Amazon pitches it for the conversations you have with your phone in hand, calls included; its own example is a family call planning a vacation, where Bee keeps the arrival times and restaurant picks so nobody has to write them down.
How it handles a phone call
Amazon’s product page says the Eclipse “processes both sides of every phone call”, with an asterisk: when it is activated through start and stop. So it is manual. You press the button when a call starts, a light shows it is listening, and you press it again to stop. If things go quiet, the microphones switch off on their own after a gap you choose, from 5 minutes up to 24 hours.
Each time you start it, the Bee app prompts you to get permission from the people on the call. That matters: in some US states everyone on a call has to agree before it is recorded. The rules are in call recording laws by state; this is general information, not legal advice.
After the call, the Bee app gives you a summary, the key details and suggested to-dos, and you can search past conversations. With Bee Pro it also connects to Alexa+ and Amazon.com.
What Amazon has not said
For a device built around calls, some basic questions are still open:
- How it hears the other person. Amazon describes four microphones and a magnetic mount, but no connection to the call itself. If it hears the caller through your phone’s earpiece or speaker, as clip-on recorders like Plaud’s do, sound quality could depend on how you hold the phone.
- AirPods, car and headsets. Amazon does not say what happens when the call is playing in your earbuds or through your car. A microphone on the back of the phone cannot hear audio that never leaves your ears.
- When it ships, and where. It is listed as “available soon” with no date and no list of countries.
- How well it works. Nobody outside Amazon has used it yet. How accurate the call summaries are is unknown until the first reviews.
We will update this page when Amazon or the first reviews answer these.
What happens to the audio
Like the Frontier, the Eclipse keeps no recordings. Amazon says audio is processed in real time and then deleted. What you keep is the text: transcripts, summaries and to-dos, which it says are encrypted with keys only your device creates, and which you can delete at any time.
For calls that is a real trade-off. If a summary gets a price, a date or an address wrong, there is no recording to check what the other person actually said.
What it costs
The Eclipse is $99.99. Every Bee comes with conversation summaries, recaps and 14 days of memory at no extra cost. Bee Pro is $11.99 a month, with the first 30 days free, and adds unlimited history, suggested to-dos, a chat assistant, daily memories, conversation templates, the desktop app, and the Alexa+, Amazon and other app connections.
Over the first year, the device plus Bee Pro after its free month comes to about $232.
Bee Eclipse vs Bee Frontier
Amazon launched the two together, and they split the job:
- Bee Frontier ($74.99, on sale now) is worn on the wrist or clipped on, with two microphones, made for meetings and conversations in the room. Amazon does not pitch it for calls.
- Bee Eclipse ($99.99, coming soon) stays on your phone, with four microphones and a longer battery, and is the one Amazon says can capture both sides of a call.
Both delete the audio, both start when you press the button, and both use the same app and Bee Pro plan. The Frontier is covered in full in Amazon Bee Frontier: what it remembers, and what it misses.
Bee Eclipse vs Epocra
The Eclipse and Epocra both aim to remember your calls, but they work in opposite ways. The Eclipse is a device that listens to your phone. Epocra records the call itself: calls you make in Epocra go out over its own line, and calls to your normal number reach it through one carrier code. So it starts on its own for every call, in and out, from the first word, and it hears both voices cleanly however you are listening, including a call you answer on your smartwatch.
| Bee Eclipse |  Epocra | |
|---|---|---|
| How a call gets recorded | You press start and stop | Every call, automatically |
| Both sides of the call | Amazon says yes; how is not stated | Yes, recorded from the line |
| AirPods, car or watch calls | Not stated | Yes |
| Recording to replay | No, audio deleted | Yes, with transcript |
| Something to carry | Yes, on your phone, charged | No, just your phone |
| Price | $99.99, plus optional $11.99/mo | Free trial, then $24.99/mo |
| Available | “Soon”, no date | Now, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS |
On a phone, swipe the table sideways.
By default the other person on an Epocra call hears a short recording notice when it connects, which you can switch off in Settings where the law for both of you allows it.
Which one fits you
- Bee Eclipse if you want an Amazon device for the calls and conversations you choose to capture, you are happy pressing a button each time, and you can wait for it to ship.
- Bee Frontier if most of what you want remembered happens in the room, and you would rather wear it than stick it on your phone.
- Epocra if your work happens on the phone and you want every call recorded and written up without thinking about it, with the recording kept.
Other devices that record calls are compared in Plaud One vs Epocra and Plaud vs Pocket.
Sources: About Amazon: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse · Bee Eclipse product page · Forbes · Android Central · Bloomberg. Checked 21 October 2026. Amazon, Bee, Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are trademarks of their owners.
Frequently asked questions
A $99.99 credit-card-sized AI recorder from Amazon’s Bee that attaches magnetically to the back of your phone. When you press its button it listens to your calls and conversations, and the Bee app turns them into summaries and to-dos.
Amazon says it processes both sides of a phone call once you start it with its button, and prompts you to get permission from the people on the call each time. Amazon has not said how it hears the other person, and it keeps no audio, only the text.
Amazon lists it as available soon, with no release date or countries announced as of 21 October 2026.
Amazon has not said. Its microphones sit on the back of your phone, so a call playing only in your earbuds or car may be out of its reach. Reviews will settle it once it ships.
The Frontier ($74.99, on sale now) is worn on the wrist or clipped on, for in-person conversations. The Eclipse ($99.99, coming soon) attaches to your phone and is the one Amazon says can capture both sides of a call.
$11.99 a month, with the first 30 days free. Without it you still get summaries, recaps and 14 days of memory.
Epocra records every incoming and outgoing call on your normal number from the moment it connects, on any iPhone or Android, and keeps the recording, transcript, summary and follow-ups.
James Ritter
Founder of Epocra. Fifteen years in payments, now building call intelligence for people who run their business from their phone.
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