Echo vs Pulse
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
Pulse
This rhythm game turns your gameplay into music. Hit blocks to play notes and build combos to unlock richer song layers. Save and share your musical creations with friends.
- Block-smashing rhythm gameplay
- Music composition through gameplay
- Unlock song layers with combos
- Four distinct game modes
- Save and share musical runs
- Offline play
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Every game you play makes a song. Pulse is a block-smashing rhythm game where the music IS your gameplay. Every block you hit plays a note. The longer your combo, the richer your song. ▸ FOUR MODES, FOUR VIBES Old School, Chill, Lo-Fi, Chaos — each with its own audio palette and visual mood. ▸ YOUR PLAY MAKES MUSIC Block hits become melody notes. Different shapes play different instruments. The physics is the composition. ▸ COMBO STREAKS UNLOCK BAND LAYERS ×5 unlocks rhythm. ×10 unlocks groove. ×20 unlocks the full band. Skill becomes sound. ▸ SAVE & SHARE Your top 20 runs are saved as full songs in your library. Tap Share on any of them to send a link your friends can listen to. They tap, the song plays — same melody you played, same drums, same instruments. ▸ NO ADS, NO ACCOUNTS, NO TRACKING Local-first. Play offline. Sharing is opt-in. Built for iPhone. Open shared melody links to drop straight into the playback view.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pulse at none against Echo's shown. Pulse also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). 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 Echo against 5.0 for Pulse. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Echo | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 1.5 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Idan Yehuda Schechter | C4G Productions |
Customer experience
Echo
Pulse
In-app purchases
Echo
No in-app purchases
Pulse
No in-app purchases









