Echoes App vs WLIW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Echoes App
Listen to a daily two-hour music soundscape featuring a wide array of styles from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music. Explore interviews with modern music figures and live concert recordings.
- Daily music soundscape
- Interviews with musicians
- Live concert recordings
- Explore diverse music styles
- Public Radio International content
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Echoes App: The Echoes App allows you to listen to Echoes and Echoes Online (subscription required) and explore all the great Echoes content! Echoes is a daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California. With host John Diliberto, a writer for Billboard, Pulse and other magazines, Echoes brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future. In addition to the many recordings heard on Echoes, we also produce interview features with popular modern music figures such as Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Enya, as well as less well-known known composers such as Dead Can Dance, Steve Roach, and The Orb. Echoesalso produces Living Room Concerts, live performances recorded in musician’s homes or studios and broadcast on Echoes. Concerts thus far have included Mark Isham, Steve Roach, Patrick O’Hearn, Ottmar Liebert, Michael Brook, Robert Fripp, Nightnoise, R. Carlos Nakai, Ancient Future, Sheila Chandra, Adrian Legg, Michael Hedges and many more. The Echoes App is brought to you by Echoes and built by Public Media Apps.
WLIW
Listen to a live radio stream, pause and rewind audio, and set alarms. Access on-demand podcasts and connect with the station through voice or video messages. Browse social media and other resources directly within the app.
- Live audio streaming
- Pause, rewind, and fast-forward live audio
- Integrated program schedule
- Alarm clock functionality
- On-demand podcasts
- Talk-2-Us messaging feature
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WLIW-FM App: The WLIW-FM App allows you to listen to the WLIW-FM live stream, pause and rewind the live audio, view the program schedule, and wake up to WLIW-FM with the alarm clock! App Features • DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch something you just missed! • Listen to the live stream from WLIW-FM even while traveling! • Integrated program schedule for the WLIW-FM stream! • Listen to WLIW-FM in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails! • Send the station a voice mail or video message via the Talk-2-Us feature! • Listen to WLIW-FM on demand podcasts and programs! • Access Facebook, Instagram, X, and other WLIW-FM resources! The WLIW-FM App is brought to you by the great people at Thirteen/WNET and Public Media Apps. We work to provide our valued listeners with great mobile solutions. https://www.wliw.org/radio/ http://www.publicmediaapps.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WLIW at 4.7 against Echoes App's 3.9. WLIW also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and monetization model (free vs subscription). Echoes App's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WLIW holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Echoes App has 58 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Echoes App's written reviews are positive against 100% of WLIW's.
Echoes App ships an update every 10 months, WLIW every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echoes App | WLIW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (58 ratings) | 4.7 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates Inc | Thirteen/WNET |
Customer experience
Echoes App
WLIW
In-app purchases
Echoes App
No in-app purchases
WLIW
No in-app purchases
