Comparison

Echo vs Can't Forget

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

Head to head
About

Echo

This app helps you remember repetitive daily or weekly tasks with customizable alerts. It blends alarm and habit-tracking features to encourage healthy routines and mindfulness. Track your progress and stay on top of important self-care actions.

Highlights
  • Natural language reminder setup
  • Customizable alert frequency
  • Daily, weekly, or custom day repetition
  • Habit tracking and performance stats
  • Sound pack customization
  • Start reminders on launch
Features
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Simple, frequent alerts scheduled to remind you of repetitive tasks throughout the day (or week). Set beautiful, easy to understand reminders using natural language. Want to be reminded to regularly stand up and move? Be alerted to drink water every day? Take walks on weekends? Or call Mom on Sunday? Echo was born out of necessity. Echo is the perfect blend between an alarm app and a habits app, enabling you to take care of yourself on a daily basis. We are all aware of the things we need to take care of every day, but we frequently forget about the small things that are meant to improve the quality of life. That's where Echo comes in, reminding you to relax from time to time, go for a walk, do some exercises, eat a meal, drink some water, etc. In the end, it's all about developing healthy and mindful habits. Echo can be used for a lot of things, but our main goal was to encourage our users to remember the smaller things in life that can help if done regularly. You can set up reminders as frequently as every 10 minutes, have them start at a particular time or after you launch Echo, and repeat until an end time or until a number of cycles is reached. You can have echoes repeat every day, on weekdays, on weekends, or setup your own custom day frequency. Track how frequently you perform an action from the “Stats” screen and measure your performance. Echo is free to download and supports three simultaneous reminders (echoes) without unlocking. Customize your echoes further with our unique sound pack and add some fun to your reminders.

About

Can't Forget

This app helps you remember recurring tasks that don't fit a traditional calendar, like taking medication or watering plants. It offers flexible scheduling, customizable reminders, and a home screen widget for quick access. Track your progress and history with ease.

Highlights
  • Flexible activity scheduling
  • Customizable push notifications
  • Home screen widget
  • Activity history and calendar view
  • Search functionality
  • Multiple color schemes
Features
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Can't Forget Life is full of tasks that don't belong on a calendar but are genuinely annoying when you forget them — taking your vitamins, watering the plants, rotating your car tires. Can't Forget keeps track of them so you don't have to. Reminders • Create activities with a schedule, or leave them unscheduled and mark them whenever you get around to them. • Schedules can repeat once, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly — with flexible multiples (every 4 weeks, every 3 months, etc.) • "Daily" activities can be set to any combination of days: weekdays, weekends, M/W/F, or any custom mix. • Push notifications remind you when it's time, and the app badge shows exactly how many are overdue for today. • Choose a custom notification sound for each activity — or set it to silent. Widget • Add a Can't Forget widget to your Home Screen to see today's pending activities at a glance. • Subscribers can mark activities Done or Skip them directly from the widget — no need to open the app. Calendar Screen • See what's coming up, what's already done, and what's overdue — all in one place. • Tap an activity to mark it Done, or Skip it to clear the badge without counting it against you. Unskip anytime to restore it. • Browse past days to review your history, or look ahead to see what's coming. • Fine-tune completion times in the Done list for accurate record-keeping. Activity Screen • Full search makes it easy to find any activity, even when your list grows long. • Tap any activity to review its schedule, browse its history, or change its settings. Settings • Eight color schemes to make the app feel like yours. • Control how far in advance weekly, monthly, yearly, and one-time activities appear in the Coming Soon section. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://urgentheadline.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Echo4 screens
Can't Forget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Can't Forget at 4.5 against Echo's 3.8. Can't Forget also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 67%). Echo's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 20) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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. Echo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Can't Forget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per 2 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Can't Forget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Echo's written reviews are positive against 75% of Can't Forget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echo ships an update every 5 weeks, Can't Forget monthly. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Echo versus Can't Forget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchoCan't Forget
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (68 ratings)4.5 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlinky LLCDaniel Guenther

Customer experience

Echo

All ratings70 ratings
Positive68.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative25.7%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral10.4%
Negative22.9%

Can't Forget

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Echo

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Reminders are randomly dropped
  • Notifications are not reliably delivered
  • Purchased sounds do not work on Apple Watch
  • Editing reminders is difficult and requires multiple steps
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  • Stats graph is unclear and lacks labels
  • App does not work for night shift schedules
  • Dismissing a reminder takes the user into the app
  • App sends a second notification asking to continue reminders if not tapped immediately
  • Reminders need to be re-enabled daily
  • App freezes on the input screen for the first reminder
  • App asks to confirm continued reminders if not responded to within 60 seconds
  • Hourly reminders are skipped
  • Does not keep uppercase/lowercase consistent in notifications

Requested features

16 requests
  • Add more sound options
  • Allow custom sound uploads
  • Improve clarity of stats display
  • Add a 5-minute period timer
  • Enable Apple Watch version
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  • Add snooze option for reminders
  • Allow editing of reminder text
  • Improve efficiency of editing existing reminders
  • Add groups or folders for reminders
  • Longer text box for affirmations
  • Add a clear indicator or number for stat completions
  • Allow input of Chinese characters for reminder names
  • Option to disable the 'keep receiving reminders' prompt
  • Integrate iTunes tones
  • Keep uppercase/lowercase consistent in notifications
  • One-touch access to stats

Can't Forget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Echo

One-time2
  • Unlock Sounds$0.99
  • Unlimited Echoes$2.99
1 purchases

Can't Forget

Subscriptions1
  • Gold Subscription$0.992 Months

Questions

Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Can't Forget free?
Can't Forget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Echo or Can't Forget?
Can't Forget is rated higher. Echo averages 3.8 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while Can't Forget averages 4.5 from 20 ratings.
Do Echo or Can't Forget have ads?
Neither Echo nor Can't Forget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echo or Can't Forget?
Echo ships an update every 5 weeks, and Can't Forget monthly. Most recently, Echo was updated on November 2, 2026 and Can't Forget on November 2, 2026.

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