Bee Frontier is a $74.99 wristband (or clip) that remembers your in-person conversations. Press its button and it listens, then the Bee app turns what was said into summaries, to-dos and reminders. The audio itself is deleted once it is processed. It is on sale now on Amazon. Amazon does not pitch it for phone calls; its call device is the Bee Eclipse, which is not out yet.
Epocra turns the smartwatch you already wear into an in-person recorder. Start a voice note from the Epocra app on your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch, or from the keypad on your phone, and you get the same intelligence as a call: the recording, the transcript, a summary, action items as tasks, custom analytics, and a searchable history you can ask questions across.
Epocra is designed for phone calls as its primary use case. It records every call on your normal number, automatically, on any iPhone or Android. After you hang up you get the recording, the transcript, a summary and the follow-ups, 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. No hands-on review of the Frontier has been published 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 Frontier at a glance
| Spec | Bee Frontier |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI recorder you wear on the wrist or clip to a belt or pocket |
| Price | $74.99, on sale now on Amazon |
| Microphones | Two, with noise filtering |
| Battery | Up to 7 days, USB-C charging |
| Water resistance | IP67: rain, sweat and splashes |
| Starts recording | When you press the button; a green light shows it is on |
| Keeps the audio? | No, it is processed and deleted |
| App | Bee for iPhone and Android |
| Subscription | Optional Bee Pro, $11.99 a month |
What Bee Frontier is
Bee started as a small startup making a $49.99 wristband that listened to your day and wrote it up. Amazon agreed to buy the company in July 2025, without saying what it paid, and on 15 October 2026 it relaunched the line as two devices: the Bee Frontier, a wearable, and the Bee Eclipse, a clip for the back of your phone.
The Frontier is a small recorder that sits in a soft silicone wristband, or comes out of the band and clips to a belt or pocket. It comes in Onyx, Lavender and Sage. Amazon pitches it as a “personal AI” that remembers what you said in meetings, the plans you made over lunch and the things you told yourself to pick up later, so you do not have to.
How it works day to day
You stay in control of when it listens. One press starts it and a green light comes on; another press stops it. A long press records a voice note to yourself, and a double press bookmarks a moment so you can find it later. If the room goes quiet, the microphones switch off on their own after a gap you choose, from 5 minutes up to 24 hours.
It is made to be worn all day, and it can hear most of it. One press keeps it listening until you stop it or the room stays quiet for as long as you have set, so with the auto-off at 24 hours a single press can cover a whole day, and the battery lasts up to a week. Bee Pro’s “daily memories” and routine patterns are built around exactly that. The original Bee, before Amazon bought the company, was sold as an always-listening wristband; the Frontier only starts when you press it.
What it heard ends up in the Bee app as short summaries, key takeaways and suggested to-dos, and you can search past conversations. Amazon says the two microphones filter out background noise and that it understands more than 40 languages. With Bee Pro it also connects to Alexa+ and Amazon.com.
What happens to the audio
Bee does not keep recordings. Amazon says audio is processed in real time and then deleted, so what you keep is the text: transcripts, summaries and to-dos, which it says are encrypted with keys only your device creates. You can delete any of it at any time.
That is good for privacy, and it has a cost: there is nothing to play back. If a summary gets a number or a name wrong, you cannot go back and hear what was really said.
The Frontier records everyone near you while it is on, not just you. In some US states everyone in a private conversation has to agree before it is recorded. Amazon does not mention consent for the Frontier, so that part is up to you. The rules are in recording laws by state; this is general information, not legal advice.
What it costs
The Frontier is $74.99. 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, 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 $207. Without Bee Pro it is just the $74.99, but anything older than two weeks is gone.
What it misses
- Conversations you forget to start. It only listens after you press the button, so the talk that matters most is often the one you did not think to capture.
- The original audio. Summaries only. No recording to check a quote, a price or a promise.
- Your phone calls. Amazon describes the Frontier for conversations in the room, not calls. It can only hear what is audible around it, so a call in your AirPods, in the car or held to your ear is out of its reach.
- Proof it works well. It is new, and no hands-on review of how it hears a busy room has been published yet.
What about phone calls?
If you are looking at the Frontier because you want an AI that remembers your conversations, the conversations you might care about most are the ones on the phone: clients calling back, quotes given, dates agreed. There are two ways to cover those.
Bee Eclipse: Amazon’s answer for calls
The Bee Eclipse is a credit-card-sized device that snaps magnetically onto the back of your phone, for $99.99. Amazon says it “processes both sides of every phone call” when you start it with its button, and the app prompts you to get permission from the people on the call each time. Like the Frontier, it keeps no audio. Amazon has not said how it hears the other person, and it is listed as “available soon” with no date.
Epocra: every call on your number
Epocra works the other way round. Instead of a device listening to your phone, it 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. After you hang up you get the recording, the transcript with each speaker labelled, a summary and the follow-ups as tasks, and you can ask questions across all your calls.
For a conversation in person, tap the voice note button on Epocra’s keypad, or start one from the Epocra app on your smartwatch (Apple Watch and Wear OS), and you get the same intelligence as a call: the recording, the transcript, a summary, action items as tasks, custom analytics, and a searchable history you can ask questions across. So the watch you already wear can do part of the Frontier’s job. It uses the phone’s or watch’s single microphone rather than dedicated hardware, though, so it works best one-on-one, not across a room full of people. If your day is meetings and group conversations, the Frontier is built for that.
| Bee Frontier | Bee Eclipse |  Epocra | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | In-person conversations | Calls and conversations | Phone calls, plus one-on-one voice notes |
| Phone calls | Not part of Amazon’s pitch | When you press start | Every call, automatically |
| AirPods, car or watch calls | No | Not stated | Yes, it records the line |
| In-person conversations | Yes, two microphones, made for meetings | Yes, four microphones | Yes, best one-on-one (phone or watch microphone) |
| Smartwatch app | It is the wearable | No | Yes, Apple Watch and Wear OS voice notes |
| Recording to replay | No, audio deleted | No, audio deleted | Yes, with transcript |
| Something to carry | Yes, worn and charged | Yes, on your phone | No, just your phone |
| Price | $74.99, plus optional $11.99/mo | $99.99, plus optional $11.99/mo | Free trial, then $24.99/mo |
| Available | Now | “Soon”, no date | Now, iPhone and Android |
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 Frontier if most of what you want remembered happens in the room: meetings, site visits, conversations over lunch. You will need to remember to press the button.
- Bee Eclipse if you want one Amazon device for the calls you choose to capture, and you can wait for it to ship.
- 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. Your smartwatch covers quick in-person notes.
- Frontier and Epocra together if your day is split: the Frontier for the room, Epocra for every call.
Other ways to capture calls with a device are compared in Plaud One vs Epocra and Plaud vs Pocket.
Sources: About Amazon: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse · Bee Frontier product page · Bee Eclipse product page · Bloomberg · CBS News. Checked 21 October 2026. Amazon, Bee, Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are trademarks of their owners.
Frequently asked questions
A $74.99 AI wearable from Amazon’s Bee that you wear on the wrist or clip to a belt or pocket. When you press its button it listens to the conversations around you, and the Bee app turns them into summaries, takeaways and to-dos.
Amazon does not describe it for phone calls. It can only hear what is audible around it, so calls in AirPods, in the car or held to your ear are out of its reach. Amazon’s call device is the Bee Eclipse, which clips to your phone and is not out yet.
No. Amazon says audio is processed in real time and then deleted. You keep the transcripts, summaries and to-dos, which you can delete at any time.
$11.99 a month, with the first 30 days free. Without it you still get summaries, recaps and 14 days of memory.
The Frontier ($74.99, on sale now) is a wearable for in-person conversations. The Eclipse ($99.99, coming soon) snaps onto the back of your phone and is the one Amazon says can capture both sides of a call when you start it.
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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