Comparison

ECHOcommunity vs Tonight Above You

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

Head to head
About

ECHOcommunity

Access a vast library of agricultural and community development resources, with a focus on small-scale farming in tropical and subtropical regions. Download materials for offline access and use the Plant Records feature to track crop lifecycle events and trial progress.

Highlights
  • Thousands of print and video resources
  • Offline storage and sharing
  • Plant Records for crop lifecycle tracking
  • Record planting, weather, and interventions
  • Ask questions of the global community
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Through ECHOcommunity you can discover ideas, research, and training on a wide variety of subject matter pertaining to agriculture and community development. ECHO's resources focus on small-scale agriculture in the tropics and sub-tropics and come from ECHO staff, network members, and development partners around the globe. Navigation within the app is available in English, Spanish, French, Swahili, Thai, Haitian Creole, Khmer, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Chinese. This app is designed to allow you to efficiently discover relevant resources and download them on your mobile device. Resources added to your library remain available when there is no internet connection and can be shared with others. The app Plant Records feature records crop lifecycle events from receipt through harvest. Plant Records can be used for any type of planting, whether a trial or production planting, whether an annual or perennial. Users who acquire seeds from the ECHO seed banks can track and report the progress of seed trials seamlessly using this app. The app allows you to record relevant data such as what and when you plant, weather events, interventions such as mulching, cultivation, pruning, and harvest. Along with each entry pictures and notes can be stored for future reference. The data is retained in the cloud, so you will be able to look back at the seeds you have tried and how the trials worked for you. Features - Access to thousands of print and video resources - Offline storage and sharing of downloaded materials - The ability to ask questions of the global ECHO community

About

Tonight Above You

Features
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Point your phone at the night sky and it names every star, planet and constellation you see, and finds tonight's best sight for you: a planet, the Space Station, the odds of a shooting star, with the source behind every number. Keep tonight's sky as a story poster, with its name and one true fact, and send it to a friend who looks up at the same moment. Keep the sky of the night you were born. Walk inside the Milky Way; fall into a black hole. No account, no ads, no tracking. The sky is worked out on your phone. TONIGHT, ABOVE YOU • The one thing most worth seeing in your sky tonight, chosen for your place and your sky, with when and where to look • The Moon and planets from real spacecraft maps — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Viking, Cassini — turned and lit exactly as they are tonight, Saturn's rings at their true tilt • All 8,400 stars the naked eye can see, and the real Milky Way, exactly where they are right now • Make a wish: your honest chance of a shooting star in the next 15 minutes, hour by hour POINT YOUR PHONE UP • Hold your phone to the sky and follow the gold thread; with Sky sounds on, pings quicken as you get close • Find it, and see how many of its photons just landed in your eye • Pinch to zoom in, up to 16× (8× over the camera): the Moon shows its real face, the planets appear as a telescope shows them • Tap any light — planet, star, galaxy — and learn what it is, and which constellation it is in • Keep the moment as a story poster: the sky, its name, one fact and your name (or not), ready to share • The invisible layer: Voyager 1, the Hubble Deep Field, the black hole at the heart of our galaxy • By day, a real photograph of a clear sky with the Sun where it really is — and the stars still there • Red night vision, and the sky described aloud JOURNEYS • Walk inside the Milky Way: ESO's 360° photograph of our whole galaxy around you, to the real sounds of space • Fall into a black hole: watch gravity bend the Milky Way's light, worked out from Einstein's equations, and see how slowly your clock would tick • Through the great telescopes: eight pictures from James Webb, eight from Hubble, three from the Netherlands' LOFAR, and the Dwingeloo radio telescope under the stars, to open full screen and zoom into • Real photographs from Hubble, ESO, NOIRLab and the Event Horizon Telescope LIVE • Sky alerts for the Space Station, aurora, meteor showers and the Blaze Star (T Coronae Borealis), checked whenever the app can • The planes you can really see overhead, where they are flying, and a flight to follow across the sky • Who Earth is talking to right now, from NASA's Deep Space Network, and the Sun as it looked minutes ago • Space Station passes, a dark-sky finder, meteor showers, planets and eclipses to 2030 YOURS • Send tonight's sky to someone far away: they get the picture, where to look from their own town, and a page that works without the app • Keep the nights that matter — the night you were born, a wedding, a goodbye — with the whole sky above them • Send a message toward Andromeda and follow it past the stars • Look up at the same moment as someone far away • Count meteors and send your count to the International Meteor Organization • Your year in light EVERY NUMBER SHOWS ITS SOURCE Every line carries a small mark that says whether it is measured, computed, estimated or debated, and its source. Tap "How we know" to see the source, and how sure we are. HONEST AND PRIVATE The sky is worked out on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. Live features stay off until you turn on Live weather & satellites, and even then your position only leaves your phone rounded (about 1 km for the weather, about 10 km for the planes overhead). Apple Maps names your town. The privacy policy lists every service. For iPhone and iPad, in English and Turkish, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets (clear or cloudy needs Live weather & satellites).

Screenshots

ECHOcommunity4 screens
Tonight Above You4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tonight Above You at every 8 days against ECHOcommunity's every 4 weeks. ECHOcommunity's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ECHOcommunity ships an update every 4 weeks, Tonight Above You every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ECHOcommunity versus Tonight Above You: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterECHOcommunityTonight Above You
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDivine Digital AgencyMahsa Mohammadkhorshiddoust

In-app purchases

None

ECHOcommunity

No in-app purchases

None

Tonight Above You

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ECHOcommunity free?
ECHOcommunity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tonight Above You free?
Tonight Above You is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ECHOcommunity or Tonight Above You have ads?
Neither ECHOcommunity nor Tonight Above You shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ECHOcommunity or Tonight Above You?
ECHOcommunity ships an update every 4 weeks, and Tonight Above You every 8 days. Most recently, ECHOcommunity was updated on October 29, 2026 and Tonight Above You on October 29, 2026.

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