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Looking for an Alexa Together alternative?

Amazon discontinued Alexa Together in May 2025, leaving a lot of families without the calm daily reassurance it provided. If you were using it to know an aging parent is okay, here is how Beside Care fills the same everyday role, using the Ring cameras already in their home.

What Alexa Together offered

A remote caregiving subscription built around Echo devices: an activity feed so you could see your parent was up and about, hands-free Urgent Response, and the ability to help manage their Alexa from afar. It was retired in May 2025, and Urgent Response moved to a separate emergency product.

What Beside Care offers

A daily picture of how your parent is doing, built from the Ring cameras they already own. Short clips are reviewed by AI and then discarded, and you get plain-language digests three times a day plus a gentle alert when activity is unusually quiet. Nothing new to buy, nothing for your parent to wear.

What carries over, and what does not

  • The everyday reassurance carries over. Instead of an activity feed from Echo devices, Beside Care reads short camera clips and writes a readable summary of the day, so you keep that sense of how your parent is doing without watching anything.
  • Emergency response does not carry over. Beside Care is not a 911 service and has no panic button. For one-press emergency calling, pair it with a medical alert device or a dedicated emergency service.
  • The setup is lighter. If the Ring cameras are already there, you connect in the Ring Appstore, choose the cameras to include, and keep a Ring Protect subscription so clips are available for review.

A clear, honest disclaimer

Beside Care is an independent product. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Amazon, Ring, or Alexa, and it is not a medical alert system or an emergency response service. It does not call 911 or dispatch responders. What it does well is the quiet, ordinary question Alexa Together answered for so many families: is my parent having a normal day?

See how it works, read our promise, or compare Beside Care to a medical alert system.

Frequently asked questions

Is Beside Care a replacement for Alexa Together?
Beside Care is a privacy-first alternative for the everyday part of Alexa Together: knowing an aging parent is okay day to day. Amazon discontinued Alexa Together in May 2025. Beside Care covers daily awareness from the Ring cameras a family already owns, though it is not an emergency response service and does not replace Urgent Response.
What did Alexa Together do that Beside Care also does?
Both give a remote caregiver a daily sense of how a parent is doing without constant calls. Alexa Together built an activity feed from Echo devices. Beside Care builds plain-language daily digests from short Ring camera clips, then discards the footage.
Does Beside Care include an emergency button like Alexa Together's Urgent Response?
No. Beside Care is not an emergency response service and does not call 911. For one-press emergency calling, pair it with a medical alert device or a service like Alexa Emergency Assist. Beside Care covers the quiet, ordinary days in between.
Do I need new devices to switch from Alexa Together?
No new hardware is required if your parent already has Ring cameras. Beside Care connects in the Ring Appstore, you choose which cameras to include, and it requires a Ring Protect subscription so clips are available for review.