Comparison

Echos. vs SongBrief

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

SongBrief

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SongBrief reads play counts, skip counts, last played dates, and other metadata from your iOS Music library to help you understand how you listen. Features - Rankings for songs, artists, and albums - Now-playing details and playback controls - Recaps and trends from daily listening records - Listening maps by release year, weekday, and genre - Rediscovery, rising tracks, rank changes, and album completion - Optional iCloud sync for listening records - Exclusion filters, export, app lock, and simple themes SongBrief is designed to keep detailed music library data on your device. If you enable iCloud sync, listening records are stored in your own iCloud account. Track names and listening history are not intentionally included in ad requests, analytics events, or crash reports.

Screenshots

Echos.4 screens
SongBrief4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Echos. at none against SongBrief's shown. SongBrief's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence 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

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

Echos. ships an update every 2 months, SongBrief every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Echos. versus SongBrief: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchos.SongBrief
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGina VictoriaMIYAJI Masahiro

In-app purchases

None

Echos.

No in-app purchases

None

SongBrief

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Echos. free?
Echos. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SongBrief free?
SongBrief is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Echos. or SongBrief have ads?
SongBrief shows ads; Echos. does not.
Which is updated more often, Echos. or SongBrief?
Echos. ships an update every 2 months, and SongBrief every 5 weeks. Most recently, Echos. was updated on October 14, 2026 and SongBrief on October 4, 2026.

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