# Bee review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Wearable AI recorder that summarizes conversations and suggests to-dos Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Bee is a small wearable, with a phone app and a Mac and Windows desktop app, that records conversations and turns them into summaries, a daily timeline and suggested to-dos. The desktop app also saves online meetings. The site is operated under Amazon's copyright notice, and a Bee Pro subscription unlocks long history and integrations. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Website:** https://bee.computer - **Runs on:** iOS, Android, macOS, Windows - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 14 days of history, with desktop capture and integrations locked. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Bee has a free plan, and paid plans start at $11.99 per month, billed monthly ($99.99 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Conversation processing and summaries with 14 days of history. - **Free trial:** 30 days of Bee Pro free with every new Bee device. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Conversation summaries with 14 days of history; Pro features such as integrations are locked. | | Bee Pro | $11.99 per month, billed monthly ($99.99 billed yearly) | Unlimited history, daily summaries, templates, suggested to-dos, app integrations and Bee for Desktop. | Read from https://bee.computer/bee-pro on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Bee before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save over 30% with yearly Bee Pro** (Annual discount): Bee's Pro page says the yearly plan at $99.99 saves over 30% against paying $11.99 a month. Source: https://bee.computer/bee-pro ## Key features - **Wearable capture:** Bee Frontier ($74.99) clips to clothing or wears on the wrist; Bee Eclipse ($99.99) attaches to a phone and records calls. - **Summaries and search:** Conversations become summaries and takeaways you can search; the free tier keeps 14 days, Pro keeps all of it. - **Suggested to-dos:** Follow-ups and action items are pulled from daily conversations and can become emails or calendar events. - **Bee for Desktop:** Mac and Windows app that saves Zoom, Meet and other online meetings, including on headphones. Needs Bee Pro. - **Personal timeline and patterns:** A daily timeline of conversations and places, and insights that the vendor says grow the more it is used. - **Amazon and Google connections:** Pro connects Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Photos, Health, Alexa and Amazon Shopping. ## Good for - People who want an always-on wearable memory for daily conversations - Phone-call heavy workers using the Eclipse phone attachment - Users who want meeting notes from a laptop plus a wearable ## Worth knowing - Wearable devices are bought separately, from Amazon, and the page says select features need Bee Pro. - Unlimited history, Bee for Desktop and integrations need Bee Pro at $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year. - Bee Eclipse is listed as coming soon at $99.99, and Bee runs through its apps, with no web dashboard listed. - The vendor says audio is processed in memory and then deleted; the site carries an Amazon copyright notice. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Bee is a small wearable with a phone app and a Mac and Windows desktop app that turns conversations into summaries and suggested to-dos. The free tier keeps 14 days of history, and unlimited history, the desktop app and integrations need Bee Pro at $11.99 a month. - **Value for money: C.** $11.99 a month for Bee Pro, the middle of the category's range, or $99.99 a year. The wearable is a separate buy, $74.99 for Frontier. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free tier with conversation summaries and 14 days of history. New devices come with 30 days of Pro. - **Features: C.** Summaries, search, suggested to-dos, a timeline and desktop capture for online meetings. The desktop app and integrations need Pro, and the listing shows no web dashboard. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You buy a device, pair it with the app and connect accounts. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, with Gmail, Calendar, Outlook and Alexa connections, but no web app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Bee's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI meeting note takers - Bee's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 8 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 9 of 68) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $11.99 a month, against a middle price of $11.99 for the category: 31 of the 62 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 23 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-meeting-notes ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Bee you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 40 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers grade higher. It costs $143.88 a year. - You could make: Tasks: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. - You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Gmail, Google Calendar and Outlook among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Alexa, Zoom, Amazon Shopping **Tags:** Meeting notes, Transcription, AI features, Tasks, Chat assistant ## Alternatives - [Plaud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/plaud): AI voice recorder devices with an app for transcripts and summaries. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bee-vs-plaud) - [TwinMind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/twinmind): All-day transcription and memory app for meetings and conversations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bee-vs-twinmind) - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bee-vs-otter) - [Jamie](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jamie): Bot-free AI note taker with EU data hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bee-vs-jamie) - [Notta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notta): AI notetaker and transcription for meetings, files and recordings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bee-vs-notta) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://bee.computer/bee-pro - https://bee.computer/desktop - https://bee.computer/products/frontier - https://bee.computer/products/eclipse - https://bee.computer/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/bee Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).