Bushnell Connect vs ECHO Water
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bushnell Connect
Record and store your outdoor adventures, including hikes, backpacking, and hunting trips. Manage your saved locations and routes within a digital library, and share them with others. View and edit your trip data directly on your smartphone's map.
- Track hikes, backpacking, and hunting trips
- Save trips and waypoints
- Manage trips in a digital library
- Share trips and waypoints with friends
- View and edit data on smartphone map
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Track your hike, backpacking or hunt trip with the Bushnell BackTrack Mini, then save those trips or waypoints to Bushnell Connect. Save storage space by managing the trips and waypoints in the Bushnell Connect Library. From the library, trips and waypoints can be shared with a friend. Trips and waypoints can be viewed or edited within the smartphone on-board map.
ECHO Water
This app provides a streamlined and dependable interface for operating your Echo Flask. It offers a simplified user experience for managing hydrogen water generation.
- Simplified operation
- Reliable performance
- Echo Flask management
- Hydrogen water generation
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We rebuilt the ECHO Water app from the ground up to deliver a simpler, more reliable way to use your Echo Flask.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ECHO Water at 4.6 against Bushnell Connect's 1.3. ECHO Water also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (20% vs 0%). Bushnell Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ECHO Water holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ECHO Water has 138 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Bushnell Connect's written reviews are positive against 20% of ECHO Water's.
Bushnell Connect ships an update every 3 months, ECHO Water every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bushnell Connect | ECHO Water |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (18 ratings) | 4.6 (138 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 138 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bushnell Outdoor Products | Echo Water |
Customer experience
Bushnell Connect
ECHO Water
Bugs and requests
Bushnell Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ECHO Water
Reported bugs
3 issues- App unable to sync with water bottle
- Inconsistent flask counting
- Bluetooth pairing problems
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to manually log water intake
- Scheduling options for hydrogen water
- Improved app performance and stability
In-app purchases
Bushnell Connect
No in-app purchases
ECHO Water
No in-app purchases
