MuralArtsAR vs EchoVision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MuralArtsAR
Explore augmented reality murals brought to life through art and music. This immersive experience is a collaboration between artists, musicians, and students, offering a unique way to engage with public art.
- Augmented reality mural exploration
- Interactive art and music
- Student artist collaboration
- Public art engagement
- Immersive digital experience
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An augmented reality experience created by Mural Arts Philadelphia and Blue Visual Effects, representing a multi-layered, year-long collaboration between Joshua Mays (muralist), King Britt (music producer/DJ) and student artists from Mastery Charter - Shoemaker campus and The Haverford Schools in Philadelphia, PA.
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 rating: EchoVision at 5.0 against MuralArtsAR's 4.0. MuralArtsAR's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
EchoVision holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of MuralArtsAR's written reviews are positive against 83% of EchoVision's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MuralArtsAR | EchoVision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 11.3 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 337 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dream Syndicate Inc. | Holo Interactive |
Customer experience
MuralArtsAR
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In-app purchases
MuralArtsAR
No in-app purchases
EchoVision
No in-app purchases
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