Echo vs GeoListen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Echo
A tactile rhythm game that combines sound, timing, and instinct. Listen to patterns, match sounds, and sharpen your rhythm skills through thousands of handcrafted levels. Progress by earning coins and mastering complex patterns in this engaging and responsive experience.
- Tactile rhythm gameplay
- Thousands of handcrafted levels
- Focus on sound and timing
- Offline play supported
- No login required
- Haptic feedback emphasis
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Welcome to Echo! Echo is a tactile rhythm game where sound, timing, and instinct come together. Listen to a rhythm pattern, feel its flow, and match the correct sound. Each level challenges your sense of timing and musical intuition, helping you sharpen your rhythm skills through play. With thousands of handcrafted levels, Echo offers a smooth difficulty curve that rewards focus, accuracy, and consistency. Earn coins, progress through levels, and experience the satisfaction of mastering increasingly complex patterns. Designed to be minimal, responsive, and deeply engaging, Echo focuses on how rhythm feels, not just how it looks. Play anytime, anywhere. Echo works amazing offline and requires no login. * Echo is mostly haptic dependent, but an alternative approach is available! It is still not a main medium of the app, and we do recommend experiencing the app with haptics if possible
GeoListen
Explore global music and cultures through an interactive puzzle-like experience. Discover new artists and expand your horizons with every play. This app connects musical adventure with geographic challenges.
- Interactive music discovery
- Geographic challenges
- Cultural learning
- Emerging artist promotion
- Puzzle-like gameplay
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Discover Music - Explore the World! GeoListen was created to make discovering music from around the world as interactive and fun as solving a puzzle. Driven by a mission to blend musical adventure with geographic challenge, GeoListen helps users expand their horizons—learning about different cultures and places with every play. Along the way, the app also opens doors for emerging artists, connecting their sounds to new audiences globally. GeoListen is a one-puzzle-per-day game with custom leaderboard features. Unlock past puzzles in the archive by watching a rewarded ad, or subscribe for unlimited, ad-free archive play. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Echo at none against GeoListen's 2. Echo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). GeoListen's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, review sentiment and update cadence 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. GeoListen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Echo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Echo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GeoListen has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Echo ships an update every 10 days, GeoListen weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echo | GeoListen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Idan Yehuda Schechter | GeoListen, LLC |
Customer experience
Echo
GeoListen
In-app purchases
Echo
No in-app purchases
GeoListen
- Monthly ad-free archive play$1.991 Month
- Annual ad-free archive play$10.991 Year









