Cycles vs Echos.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cycles
Explore curated music playlists and share your own collections. Preview tracks and connect with other music lovers, regardless of your streaming service. Find new inspiration or share your favorite songs.
- Discover curated playlists
- Share music collections
- Preview tracks
- Connect with music lovers
- Cross-platform music sharing
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Discover a new way to connect with music lovers! With our app, you can explore curated playlists, share your own music collections, and even preview tracks before diving in. Whether you’re a Spotify user or not, enjoy a seamless music-sharing experience that’s designed to bring people together through the love of music. Perfect for finding inspiration, exploring genres, or sharing your latest favorites with friends!
Echos.
Explore global music by genre, country, or year. Discover trending playlists and top tracks, and create custom playlists. Find local music events and enjoy DJ mode for unique mixes.
- Discover music by genre and country
- Find top tracks by country
- Search tracks by year or decade
- Create custom playlists
- DJ mode for custom mixes
- Find music events
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**A Spotify Premium account is highly recommended to take advantage of all features, including the ability to create playlists** Echos lets you explore the world by searching for genres, tracks, and playlists in your chosen country! Highlights: - Select a genre and a country to get a list of popular playlists in that country. - Discover music by selecting a country to get a list of their current top tracks. - Search for tracks by year or decade. - Have fun playing with DJ mode to combine genres, BPM, and key to create a custom playlist with those parameters. - Browse through your recently played tracks to create custom playlists with similar tracks. - Custom playlists can be created with any selected track. - Search for events related to music in your area or by city/country.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Echos. at none against Cycles's shown. Echos. also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). Cycles's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cycles against 5.0 for Echos.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cycles ships an update every 3 months, Echos. every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cycles | Echos. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cycles Studios Inc. | Gina Victoria |
Customer experience
Cycles
Echos.
In-app purchases
Cycles
No in-app purchases
Echos.
No in-app purchases
