PartyNoodle vs EchoVision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PartyNoodle
Create vibrant, animated light shows to set the perfect atmosphere for any occasion. Customize colors and movements to bring your space to life.
- Customizable illuminating colors
- Animated light effects
- Mood setting for events
- Intuitive color control
- Dynamic visual displays
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Be the party! Set the mood right with brilliant illuminating colors that animate any way you want.
EchoVision
Experience the world through the eyes of a bat with this mixed reality art installation. Using a bat-shaped mask and your smartphone's LiDAR, visualize echoes and understand echolocation. It offers a unique perspective on non-human sensory perception and promotes ecological appreciation.
- Simulates bat echolocation
- Mixed reality art experience
- Handheld bat-shaped masks
- Smartphone LiDAR integration
- Visualizes propagating echoes
- Promotes ecocentric design perspective
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EchoVision is an interactive mixed reality art experience that simulates bat echolocation using custom-designed, handheld, bat-shaped masks based on the open-source HoloKit headset. As users initiate sounds, they experience echolocation—the remarkable navigation method bats employ in darkness—through visual representations of propagating echoes mapped onto the real-world 3D shape of the surrounding environment, scanned in real-time by the LiDAR sensor of a smartphone mounted on the masks. By providing a unique glimpse into how non-human creatures perceive their sensory world, EchoVision promotes an ecocentric design perspective, fostering interspecies understanding and appreciation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: EchoVision at every 2 months against PartyNoodle's every 41 months. PartyNoodle's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PartyNoodle against 5.0 for EchoVision. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of PartyNoodle's written reviews are positive against 83% of EchoVision's.
PartyNoodle ships an update every 41 months, EchoVision every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PartyNoodle | EchoVision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 41 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Hemingway | Holo Interactive |
Customer experience
PartyNoodle
EchoVision
In-app purchases
PartyNoodle
No in-app purchases
EchoVision
No in-app purchases
