Echo vs Smoothi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Echo
Connect with friends and fellow music lovers on a social network designed for discovering and ranking new music. Build your personal music profile through engaging activities and unlock achievements.
- Rank albums and songs
- Connect with friends
- Discover new music
- Build music profile
- Engagement-driven achievements
- Social network for music
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Echo is a social network for music enthusiasts to rank albums, songs, connect with friends, discover music, and build their music profile through engagement-driven achievements. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Smoothi
Create personalized music playlists with seamless song transitions. Mix genres, energy levels, and discover trending mixes. Enjoy uninterrupted listening with ad-free playback for various occasions.
- Customized playlists
- Seamless song transitions
- Genre mixing (Pop, Hip-hop, R&B, EDM, etc.)
- Trending mixes from Hot Crate
- Ad-free listening
- Energy level mixing
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Smoothi is a new way to experience popular music: play customized playlists with seamless transitions between songs. Choose your favorite music genres (Pop, Hip-hop, and R&B), extras (including EDM, Pop Rock, K-pop and Latin Hits), mix energy, and more, or select trending mixes from the Hot Crate. Press play and enjoy your music mix of new and past top hits without ads or interruptions. Great for working out, road trips, parties with friends, and all sorts of other occasions! Browse as a Guest to try 10 minute previews. With a Freemium Account, play up to 200 minutes in a two week period. Premium Accounts are $5 per month to unlock unlimited minutes and 3-hour Party Mixes. Available in the USA. App terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Echo at 2.1K against Smoothi's 5. Echo also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Echo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Smoothi sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Echo holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Echo has 2.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Echo's written reviews are positive against 75% of Smoothi's.
Echo ships an update fortnightly, Smoothi every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echo | Smoothi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (2.1K ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.7% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 17+ |
| Developer | Echo Social, Inc | Cuetessa, Inc. |
Customer experience
Echo
Smoothi
In-app purchases
Echo
- Echo Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Echo Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Smoothi
- Smoothi Premium$4.991 Month
