echoAR vs OptimalRouteMaps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
echoAR
This app uses your device's camera to detect floors and obstacles, translating this information into pitch modulation to assist visually impaired users. It offers customizable settings for sweep time, detection width, and pitch scale.
- Real-time camera image analysis
- Floor and obstacle detection
- Pitch modulation output
- Customizable sweep time
- Adjustable detection width
- Scalable pitch modulation
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echoloAR is a support tool for brind people. detects floor and obstacles from realtime camera image, and output them as pitch modulation. Sweep time, detect width, and pitch modulation scale will customize. requirements: iOS11+ iPhone6s+ WARNING: This application is an AUXILIARY TOOL. result is not always correct.
OptimalRouteMaps
This app helps you find the shortest possible car routes by solving the traveling salesman problem. It allows you to select multiple points, calculate optimal paths, and save your routes. You can also transfer route details to Apple Maps for further analysis.
- Select route points by long-pressing map
- Search waypoints via Apple Maps
- Delete route points
- Calculate optimal distance routes
- Save, edit, and delete routes
- Use current location as start point
- Transfer route branches to iOS Maps
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The application is designed to build the shortest distances loop car routes on Apple maps by solving the classic traveling salesman problem. The application allows you to: - select the points of the route directly by long pressing on the map; - search for waypoints using the Apple Maps search engine; - delete route points; - calculate the optimal, minimum in terms of the distance of the automobile route, bypassing route points with a return to the starting point; - save, edit, delete built routes in the application database; - select the current location as the starting point or arbitrary point of the route; - transfer separate branches of the route to the iOS Maps application for a more detailed analysis; - remember intermediate data to continue calculations with a large number of route points; - display distances in miles or kilometers, depending on the application settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: echoAR at Free against OptimalRouteMaps's $1.99. echoAR also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 41 months). OptimalRouteMaps's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On ratings volume, 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
echoAR is free to download; OptimalRouteMaps costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
echoAR holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of echoAR's written reviews are positive against 50% of OptimalRouteMaps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
echoAR ships an update every 2 days, OptimalRouteMaps every 41 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | echoAR | OptimalRouteMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 41 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ELIX Inc | Oleksandr Baibuz |
Customer experience
echoAR
OptimalRouteMaps
In-app purchases
echoAR
No in-app purchases
OptimalRouteMaps
No in-app purchases
