Comparison

Echo vs u up?

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

Head to head
About

Echo

This app allows users to receive and send anonymous questions and confessions from friends and others. Users can respond with text, photos, or stories, and engage with content anonymously. It also features communities and trends for broader interaction.

Highlights
  • Receive anonymous questions
  • Send anonymous questions
  • Answer with text, photo, or video
  • Anonymous commenting and liking
  • Join interest-based communities
  • Participate in daily trends
  • Share personal link for questions
Features
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Echo is a place where people ask you honestly. Friends send you anonymous questions and confessions, and you answer the way you want: with text, a photo or a story. No one knows who asked — so people ask about things they'd never say out loud. Here you can: - Get anonymous questions from friends and from people who've wanted to write to you for a long time. - Ask anyone anything — your name stays with you. - Answer story-style: photo, text, video. - Vote in polls about your friends and find out why they picked you. - Send emotions and crushes when words are hard. - Comment on and like your friends' answers anonymously. - Join communities based on your interests and find people nearby. - Join trends and answer the question of the day together with everyone. - Share your link in your story — and collect questions from there. How it works: 1. Create a profile and get your personal link. 2. Drop it in your story, a chat or your profile bio. 3. Read what people wrote to you and answer. Echo is about curiosity, not rudeness. You can block anyone, turn off questions, and no one can make you publish an answer. Echo Plus is an auto-renewable subscription: see who viewed your stories and get statistics for your posts. The price and period are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://echovibe.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://echovibe.app/privace.html

About

u up?

Connect with others during late-night hours in a unique social space that opens only between 9 PM and 9 AM. Share your thoughts, see who else is awake, and engage in one-on-one conversations with like-minded individuals.

Highlights
  • Nighttime-only access (9 PM - 9 AM)
  • Post thoughts to open feed
  • One-on-one chat with users
  • Express interest with 'roses'
  • Top post feature ('the throne')
  • Private and ephemeral conversations
Features
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see who's up. u up? opens at 9pm and locks at 9am. anonymous. no profiles. gone by morning. HOW IT WORKS 1. create a post anonymously. 2. everyone you see is online right now. 3. start a chat with someone up. 4. at 9am, it's all gone. INSTANT CHATS, THE THRONE & U UP+ send an instant chat and your message sits at the top of their inbox instead of the queue. take the throne and your post holds the top of the feed for an hour, or until someone takes it. free accounts get 4 chat requests a night, reset when the door opens at 9pm. replies are always unlimited. u up+ removes the nightly limit. instant chats and the throne are one-off in-app purchases. u up+ is an auto-renewing subscription at $29.99 per month or $14.99 per week, with no free trial. prices vary by region and are shown in the app before you buy. payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation, it renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. SAFETY 18+ only. block and report from any post or chat. reports are reviewed around the clock. https://uup.world/safety.html terms: https://uup.world/terms.html privacy: https://uup.world/privacy.html

Screenshots

Echo4 screens
u up?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: u up? at 100% against Echo's 3%. u up? also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1). Echo's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Echo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and u up? sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: u up? has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 3% of Echo's written reviews are positive against 100% of u up?'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echo ships an update every 8 days, u up? monthly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Echo versus u up?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchou up?
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.2 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews3.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB72 MB
Age rating+1717+
DeveloperECHOCOM OU42 Studios LLC

Customer experience

Echo

Written reviews61 reviews
Positive3.3%
Neutral14.8%
Negative82.0%

u up?

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Echo

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Cannot register or log in
  • Payments not received
  • Emotions not appearing
  • App not loading/crashing
  • Login issues after update
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  • Authorization problems
  • Balance discrepancies (coins disappearing)
  • Notifications not always received
  • App not loading at all
  • Error on answering questions
  • Cannot cancel subscription
  • Stories hidden in VK
  • Issues with daily trends
  • Free functions becoming paid
  • Cannot search for people
  • Cannot unblock users
  • Login fails repeatedly
  • App crashes on startup
  • Cannot log in via VK

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add unblock user function
  • Integrate VK profile
  • Add VK login option
  • Add more login methods (not just iCloud)
  • Clarify purpose of emotions
Show 1 more
  • Open comments in VK group

u up?

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Echo

Subscriptions1
  • Echo Plus$0.997 Days
One-time5
  • 100 Coins$0.99
  • 300 Coins$2.99
  • 500 Coins$4.99
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  • 1000 Coins$9.99
  • 2500 Coins$24.99
10 purchases

u up?

Subscriptions2
  • u up+ weekly$14.997 Days
  • u up+ monthly$29.991 Month
One-time8
  • 1 instant chat$2.99
  • 1 crown$2.99
  • skip the line$2.99
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  • keep 3 chats$6.99
  • 5 instant chats$11.99
  • 5 crowns$11.99
  • keep 10 chats$19.99
  • 15 instant chats$29.99

Questions

Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is u up? free?
u up? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Echo or u up??
Echo is rated higher. Echo averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while u up? averages 4.2 from 20 ratings.
Do Echo or u up? have ads?
Neither Echo nor u up? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echo or u up??
Echo ships an update every 8 days, and u up? monthly. Most recently, Echo was updated on November 5, 2026 and u up? on November 5, 2026.

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