Comparison

Focus on Today² vs Echocue

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

Head to head
About

Focus on Today²

This time-management tool helps you track your focus and plan tasks to master your time. It's designed for students and anyone looking to improve their focus on high-value activities and track progress.

Highlights
  • Time tracking for daily tasks
  • Unlimited to-do planning
  • Exquisite timer
  • Timeline support
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, annual reports
  • Flip focus support
Features
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Time is precious, focus is more precious. Your achievements lies on what you are focusing. Focus on Today² App helps you to track time, and develop the habit of focusing on things. Focus on Today² is a time-management tool that focuses on the moment, designed for students or anyone who want to master time, by focus tracking and planning tasks. If you are struggling on high-value tasks, like preparing for all kinds of exams, or learning new skills or knowledge to improve yourself, use Focus on Today² to keep focusing and track your progress and achievements! By tracking and reviewing things in our lives, we can focus on the important, and collect dots of life time. Daily scenario - Homework - Important exams - Hobbies - Jogging, Fitness - Travels, event organization - Routines - Housework, accompanying kids - Other activity you want to track and focus on Main function - Time tracking for todos of today - Unlimited to-do planning - Exquisite timer - Timeline support - Flip focus support - Altering any existing time record - Daily summary, experience record - Complete daily, weekly, monthly, and annual time reports Terms of use(Apple Standard Edition): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Echocue

Features
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Echocue is a voice-following teleprompter built for long-form scripts. Read your script and the text scrolls with your voice. Pause, stumble or ad-lib a line — Echocue finds your place again. VOICE FOLLOWING, NOT A FIXED SPEED • Recognizes what you're saying in real time and scrolls to the matching passage • Fuzzy alignment keeps up with slips, rephrasing and near-matches • Works in 20+ languages supported by Apple’s on-device speech recognition, including Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Portuguese and Hindi • Specially tuned for English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, French and Italian • Speech recognition runs on your device; audio and live transcripts are not sent to Prizm MADE FOR THE CAMERA • Large, high-contrast prompter text in portrait and landscape • Mirrored display for beam-splitter teleprompter rigs • Focus mode keeps only the line you're reading on screen • Mark pauses, blocking or camera cuts with 〈cues〉 — they're never treated as lines to read WRITE, ORGANIZE, TAKE IT WITH YOU • Script editor with bold, italic, underline and a section outline • Import plain-text or Markdown scripts, or paste text directly • On supported devices, Apple Intelligence creates summaries and title suggestions on device • Preview Echocue scripts with Quick Look in Files and on Mac • Runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Your scripts stay on your device or in your own iCloud. Terms of Use: https://prizm.com.tw/apps/echocue/en/terms

Screenshots

Focus on Today²4 screens
Echocue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Echocue at every 2 days against Focus on Today²'s every 6 weeks. Focus on Today²'s advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Focus on Today² sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Echocue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus on Today² ships an update every 6 weeks, Echocue every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus on Today² versus Echocue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus on Today²Echocue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer立纲 吴TeHan Liao

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus on Today²

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Month Subscription$0.991 Month
  • PRO Year Subscription$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Permanent$9.99
3 purchases

Echocue

Subscriptions2
  • Echocue Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Echocue Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Echocue Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Focus on Today² free?
Focus on Today² is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echocue free?
Echocue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus on Today² or Echocue have ads?
Neither Focus on Today² nor Echocue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus on Today² or Echocue?
Focus on Today² ships an update every 6 weeks, and Echocue every 2 days. Most recently, Focus on Today² was updated on November 4, 2026 and Echocue on October 31, 2026.

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