Echo vs Voice Reminder Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Voice Reminder Planner
Effortlessly manage your tasks and schedule with voice commands. This app intelligently extracts details from your spoken input, offering multilingual support and customizable reminders. Stay organized with clean views and smart AI features.
- Voice reminders
- Multi-task input
- Multilingual support
- Customizable repeats
- Notes and priorities
- Smart AI integration
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Echo — Key features: • Voice Reminders: Speak naturally; Echo pulls out the task, due date, and time—no typing. • Free, No Ads: Focus on your day—not paywalls or clutter. • Multi-task input: Say several tasks at once; Echo splits and schedules each correctly. • Multilingual friendly: Mix languages in one sentence and Echo still understands. • Clean views: Today & Upcoming at a glance; separate Overdue and Completed for quick triage. • Timely reminders: Stay on track with on-time notifications. • Custom repeats: Set flexible schedules (e.g., weekdays, every 3 days, every 8 hours). • Notes & priorities: Add notes to any reminder and set color-coded priority levels. • Smart AI: Add research, web search, and drafting capabilities to reminders. Terms of Service: https://echoreminder.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Voice Reminder Planner at 5.0 against Echo's 3.8. Voice Reminder Planner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). Echo's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 9) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Echo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Voice Reminder Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Voice Reminder Planner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Echo has 68 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Echo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Voice Reminder Planner's.
Echo ships an update every 5 weeks, Voice Reminder Planner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echo | Voice Reminder Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blinky LLC | Luca Kato |
Customer experience
Echo
Voice Reminder Planner
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
Voice Reminder Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Echo
- Unlock Sounds$0.99
- Unlimited Echoes$2.99
Voice Reminder Planner
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Annual$34.991 Year
Questions
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