Comparison

Echo360 vs Acadly

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Echo360

Access lecture slides, on-demand course videos, and in-class polls. Capture and upload instructional videos directly from your device to the platform. Enhance your learning with mobile content sharing.

Highlights
  • View lecture slides
  • Interact with in-class polls
  • Watch HD video lectures on-demand
  • Capture instructional videos
  • Upload video content
  • Share fieldwork videos
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EchoVideo helps learners, educators, and staff stay connected through secure video - whether you're learning, teaching, training or sharing knowledge. From reviewing videos and presentations to recording new content, participating in interactive activities and sharing videos with colleagues or classmates, EchoVideo makes it easy to stay productive from anywhere. Key features: - Watch videos, presentations and recordings on demand - View presentation slides alongside video playback where available - Record and upload videos directly from your mobile device - Upload existing videos from your device's media library - Create notes and bookmarks while watching videos - Participate in polls and interactive activities when available - Record and submit assignments, demonstrations, updates or other video content - Securely access your organization's EchoVideo library from anywhere Important information: - An active EchoVideo account provided by your institution or organization is required. - Available features depend on EchoVideo's configuration and your user permissions. - Supported upload formats include MP4, M4V, 3GP and AVI.

About

Acadly

Enhance classroom engagement with real-time polls, quizzes, and attendance tracking. Facilitate live discussions and share resources seamlessly. This tool aims to make teaching and learning more efficient for educators and students.

Highlights
  • One tap attendance
  • Live in-class polls and quizzes
  • Record class participation
  • Math expression supported chat
  • Real-time analytics
  • File and link sharing
Features
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Now convert every college classroom into a smart classroom with Acadly. Welcome more efficient teaching-learning with - - One tap attendance - Record class participation - Live in-class polls, quizzes - Math expression supported chat What is Acadly? Acadly is a realtime tool for live in-class polling, quizzing, Q&A, attendance and analytics on student behaviour. Compared to clickers and other in-class apps Acadly is free, can save a class of 50 more than $1000 a semester, has a built-in class chat platform so that you don't have to use too many tools for your class. Given the unique course structure that is exclusive to Acadly, it can facilitate various pedagogical methods. An instructor can use Acadly to practice - * Flipped Classrooms * Active Learning Classrooms * Blended Learning * Collaborative Teaching * BYOD teaching Using Acadly, course instructors can - * Conduct Attendance with One Tap * Create and Conduct Live Quizzes * Create Live Polls * Track student attendance during lectures * Conduct live discussions * Share files, videos and links * Make Announcements * Post Lecture Summaries * Create and Grade Assignments Students in the meanwhile can raise queries, as themselves or anonymously. Discussions on Acadly are auto-created and contextual, which means the students don't have to navigate away from the context to make a point. Since Acadly is realtime, all the members of a course get instant in-app and push notifications. 1000+ professors have signed up in the last few months and are using Acadly actively in their classrooms. Acadly aims to be the last ed-tech tool to be ever used and we are only just getting started. Happy teaching and learning!

Screenshots

Echo3604 screens
Acadly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Echo360 at 3.5 against Acadly's 2.5. Acadly's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 15%) and ratings volume (52 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echo360 holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Acadly has 52 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Echo360's written reviews are positive against 41% of Acadly's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echo360 ships an update monthly, Acadly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Echo360 versus Acadly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEcho360Acadly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better2.5 (52 ratings)
Positive reviews15.3% of reviews41.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings252 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB258 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEcho360Acetone Designs

Customer experience

Echo360

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive15.3%
Neutral13.0%
Negative71.8%

Acadly

All ratings52 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative59.6%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative58.8%

Bugs and requests

Echo360

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Playback issues when switching apps
  • Downloaded content disappearing
  • Incompatibility with certain devices and OS versions
  • Streaming quality and buffering problems

Requested features

8 requests
  • Picture-in-picture mode
  • Background audio playback
  • Faster playback speeds
  • Improved offline viewing and download management
  • Better organization and sorting of lectures
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  • Sync progress across devices
  • Annotation and note-taking features
  • Live lecture streaming support

Acadly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Echo360

No in-app purchases

None

Acadly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Echo360 free?
Echo360 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Acadly free?
Acadly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Echo360 or Acadly?
Echo360 is rated higher. Echo360 averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Acadly averages 2.5 from 52 ratings.
Do Echo360 or Acadly have ads?
Neither Echo360 nor Acadly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echo360 or Acadly?
Echo360 ships an update monthly, and Acadly every 2 weeks. Most recently, Echo360 was updated on October 7, 2026 and Acadly on October 11, 2026.

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