Comparison

Messenger Yandex Telemost vs Echoed

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

Head to head
About

Messenger Yandex Telemost

This app combines messaging, audio, and video calls for seamless communication. It allows for unlimited chats and meetings, screen sharing, and meeting recordings. Integrate with other services for a unified communication experience.

Highlights
  • Private and group chats
  • Audio and video calls
  • Unlimited video meetings
  • Screen sharing
  • Meeting recordings
  • Yandex 360 integration
Features
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Need to call a family member quickly, hold a work meeting, or discuss an important issue with your team? Yandex Telemost brings messaging, video and audio calls, and online meetings together in a single app. Talk without a time limit, create meetings via a link, and stay in touch from any device. Communicate however works for you Start chatting, and when text isn't enough, switch to an audio or video call. Communicate with your friends, family, colleagues, and clients in a single app without switching between other services. In private and group chats, you can send text and voice messages with transcripts, react to messages, share stickers, and create polls. Create a meeting in just a few seconds Need to gather a team together, hold a consultation, or call a family member? Just create a meeting and send the link. Participants can join meetings quickly, and meetings have no time limit, so you don't have to worry about the conversation being cut off at the most important moment. Share your screen During a call, you can share your screen to show a presentation, document, or photos, or you can help a family member figure out how to set up a device. If you need to return to the conversation later, save a recording of the meeting and revisit the important moments. Working with Yandex 360 services Yandex Telemost is part of Yandex 360. Schedule meetings via Yandex Calendar, join them from Yandex Mail, keep recordings on Yandex Disk, and continue the conversation in your chats. All these tools work together, which means you don't have to switch between apps. If you've used a different service before If you've got experience with other messaging and call apps, you won't have to get used to anything new. Yandex Telemost makes it easy to create meetings, message others, make audio and video calls, and invite participants via a link. App features ● Private and group chats. ● Audio and video calls. ● Video meetings with no time limit. ● Voice messages with transcripts. ● Screen sharing. ● Recorded meetings. ● Works with Yandex 360 services. Download Yandex Telemost to communicate with your friends and family in a single app. Yandex Privacy Policy: http://legal.yandex.ru/confidential/

About

Echoed

A private space for close-knit groups to connect through servers, direct messages, and voice/video calls. Organize events, manage tasks, and customize your experience without ads or algorithms.

Highlights
  • Servers and DMs
  • Voice and video calls
  • Event and task management
  • Customizable profiles and themes
  • Real-time messaging
  • No ads or algorithms
Features
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Not an office, not a feed, not another thing trying to sell you something. A private space for the people who matter — your friend group, your gaming crew, your small community — built warm and weird on purpose. — WHAT YOU GET — Servers and DMs Drop into a server for your crew or slide into DMs. Channels, categories, roles, pins, replies, reactions, threads, stickers, custom emoji — everything you'd expect, none of the enterprise bloat. Voice and video calls One-tap voice for quick chats, group video for movie nights, and full server voice channels so you can keep the conversation going while you play. Events and tasks, right in the chat Plan the next session without leaving the server. Calendar channels for events and RSVPs, task boards for coordinating who's doing what. No more third-party schedulers. Make it yours Custom status, per-server profiles, themes, activity indicators, stickers, emoji packs. The app feels like your space, not ours. Real-time and reliable Built on a modern realtime stack so messages, calls, and presence just work — fast, live, no refresh-button energy. Quiet by default No ads. No algorithm. No "people you may know." We don't data-mine your conversations. You choose who sees what. — THE VIBE — Echoed is dark-first, warm, and a little bit rebellious. Golden accents because we're not sterile-corporate-blue. Late-night-basement vibes because that's where the good conversations happen. Design that respects the fact that you're talking to people you actually know. — FOR — • Friend groups that want a private place that feels like home • Gaming squads coordinating raids, drops, watch-parties • Small communities, book clubs, study groups, creative collabs • Anyone tired of platforms that treat a chat app like a billboard — COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION — • Belarusian translation revised and enhanced by @lenify Echoed is free, private, and built with care. Your people. Your space. Your echo.

Screenshots

Messenger Yandex Telemost4 screens
Echoed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Echoed at 100% against Messenger Yandex Telemost's 65%. Echoed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Messenger Yandex Telemost's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echoed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Messenger Yandex Telemost has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Messenger Yandex Telemost's written reviews are positive against 100% of Echoed's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Messenger Yandex Telemost ships an update every 4 days, Echoed monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Messenger Yandex Telemost versus Echoed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMessenger Yandex TelemostEchoed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#131 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size570 MB62 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDirect Cursus Computer Systems TradingMashrafi Rahman

Customer experience

Messenger Yandex Telemost

All ratings1,227 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews235 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral8.5%
Negative26.8%

Echoed

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Messenger Yandex Telemost

No in-app purchases

None

Echoed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Messenger Yandex Telemost free?
Messenger Yandex Telemost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echoed free?
Echoed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Messenger Yandex Telemost or Echoed?
Echoed is rated higher. Messenger Yandex Telemost averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Echoed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Messenger Yandex Telemost or Echoed have ads?
Neither Messenger Yandex Telemost nor Echoed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Messenger Yandex Telemost or Echoed?
Messenger Yandex Telemost ships an update every 4 days, and Echoed monthly. Most recently, Messenger Yandex Telemost was updated on November 12, 2026 and Echoed on November 9, 2026.

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