Echo

A microphone listener tuned to the high-frequency clicks & chirps that bats make. Watch the sound in real time, capture the calls, and replay them โ€” or just study the waveforms in silence.

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Bat calls are high-pitched โ€” raise this to ignore voices & noise.
How loud a high-frequency burst must be to count as a call.

Captured calls 0

No calls captured yet. Start listening near a source of high-frequency sound โ€” a jingling set of keys or a hiss makes a good test.

Can a phone really hear a bat?

Most bats echolocate between 20 kHz and 120 kHz โ€” well above the ~20 kHz ceiling that ordinary microphones and audio hardware can capture. Echo listens to the very top of the audible band, so it reliably catches the lower-frequency social calls of some species and the audible portion of a call, plus any high clicks, hisses and jingles. For true ultrasonic detection you'd need a dedicated bat detector that pitches the sound down into hearing range. Everything here runs locally โ€” no audio ever leaves your device.