Comparison

Roadmap vs Echoes

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

Head to head
About

Roadmap

Organize tasks, goals, and projects with infinite nested lists. Assign smart task types like deadlines, timers, and notes. Ideal for planning, studying, or managing personal goals with a clean, distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Infinite nested lists
  • Smart task types (checkbox, deadline, timer, etc.)
  • Visual overview and detailed views
  • Deadline and progress tracking
  • Clean, distraction-free interface
Read full description

The Roadmap helps you organize your everyday routine. You can create an unlimited number of nested lists and put tasks inside them. You can create different types of tasks: - Task - a checkbox item you can complete manually - Goal - a list with progress tracking in percent - Shopping - a task where you can add a price tag in your chosen currency - Countdown - shows a countdown to a specific date - Counter - helps you count workout reps or books you've read, for example - Stopwatch - start counting days, hours, and minutes from a specific moment, for example smoke-free days - Rating - give anything a star rating, for example build your own ranking of coffee blends **Planning:** Each task can have a deadline or a date range. The app shows your plan for today and for the week, so you don't forget anything. **Notifications:** Set up notifications for each task. Notifications can be one-time or repeating. **Siri:** Ask Siri to do "Roadmap new task" or "Roadmap add shopping" without even opening the app. **Shortcuts:** Advanced users can create their own workflows in Apple's Shortcuts app. Roadmap lets you automate list and task management. The list of available shortcuts will keep growing. **Spotlight Search:** You can search tasks, lists, and goals right from Spotlight. **Application settings:** - Default list to add tasks to - Chose main color - Setup default currency

About

Echoes

Features
Read full description

**Hear the echoes of your past.** What were you doing exactly one year ago today? What about three years ago? Echoes is a minimalist, local-first journal for life designed to help you track your journey named life. Unlike traditional diaries that demand long pages of writing, Echoes focuses on brief, meaningful daily captures. Your writing is not strictly limited to a single line, but the app gives you just enough space to capture the essence of your day without the overwhelming pressure of a blank canvas. ### The Daily Stack Every calendar day gets its own dedicated page. As the years pass, your entries stack vertically — the journal reaches back as far as your very first entry and keeps growing for as long as you write. When you open the app on February 3rd, you will see your thoughts from this year and every year before it, stacked neatly on top of each other. Watch your life evolve, patterns emerge, and memories echo across time. ### Absolute, Uncompromising Privacy Your thoughts belong to you—not a corporate cloud database. Echoes requires no account, no login, and no internet connection. * **100% Offline:** Your journal lives strictly on your device's local database. * **No Tracking:** Zero analytics, zero data collection, and zero third-party SDKs. * **Zero Vendor Lock-in:** Export your entire journal to a clean CSV or JSON file at any time with a single tap — and import it back just as easily. ### Designed for Digital Minimalists We stripped away the modern app bloat. You won’t find aggressive mood sliders, automated weather tags, AI writing prompts, or intrusive social sharing buttons. Echoes is built to look and feel like premium digital stationery, utilizing warm paper tones and elegant typography that lets you focus entirely on your reflections. ### Transparent Pricing No monthly subscriptions. No hidden paywalls. Download Echoes and try it completely free for 14 days. If it helps you build a meaningful reflection habit, unlock unlimited lifetime access forever with a single, one-time purchase of $2.99.

Screenshots

Roadmap4 screens
Echoes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Echoes at every 6 days against Roadmap's every 3 weeks. Echoes also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). 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. Roadmap sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Echoes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roadmap ships an update every 3 weeks, Echoes every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Roadmap versus Echoes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoadmapEchoes
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB24 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMaxim TimokhinFrederik Martin

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Roadmap

One-time4
  • 3000 слов на английском$0.99
  • Weekend checklist$0.99
  • 100 perfect dates$0.99
Show 1 more
  • Куда сходить в Москве$0.99
1 purchases

Echoes

One-time1
  • Echoes — Lifetime Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is Roadmap free?
Roadmap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echoes free?
Echoes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Roadmap or Echoes have ads?
Neither Roadmap nor Echoes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roadmap or Echoes?
Roadmap ships an update every 3 weeks, and Echoes every 6 days. Most recently, Roadmap was updated on October 6, 2026 and Echoes on October 17, 2026.

Other comparisons