Comparison

Root vs Echoed

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

Head to head
About

Root

Connect with communities through text, voice, and video chat. Customize your profile and server with free themes and animated elements. Enhance your experience with integrated apps for collaborative activities.

Highlights
  • Text, voice, and video chat
  • Screen sharing
  • Free profile and theme customization
  • Integrated community apps
  • Server template import
  • Community discovery
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Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience. FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own. VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up. APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid. BRING YOUR SERVER Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles. FIND YOUR PEOPLE Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.

About

Echoed

A private space for close-knit groups to connect through servers, direct messages, and voice/video calls. Organize events, manage tasks, and customize your experience without ads or algorithms.

Highlights
  • Servers and DMs
  • Voice and video calls
  • Event and task management
  • Customizable profiles and themes
  • Real-time messaging
  • No ads or algorithms
Features
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Not an office, not a feed, not another thing trying to sell you something. A private space for the people who matter — your friend group, your gaming crew, your small community — built warm and weird on purpose. — WHAT YOU GET — Servers and DMs Drop into a server for your crew or slide into DMs. Channels, categories, roles, pins, replies, reactions, threads, stickers, custom emoji — everything you'd expect, none of the enterprise bloat. Voice and video calls One-tap voice for quick chats, group video for movie nights, and full server voice channels so you can keep the conversation going while you play. Events and tasks, right in the chat Plan the next session without leaving the server. Calendar channels for events and RSVPs, task boards for coordinating who's doing what. No more third-party schedulers. Make it yours Custom status, per-server profiles, themes, activity indicators, stickers, emoji packs. The app feels like your space, not ours. Real-time and reliable Built on a modern realtime stack so messages, calls, and presence just work — fast, live, no refresh-button energy. Quiet by default No ads. No algorithm. No "people you may know." We don't data-mine your conversations. You choose who sees what. — THE VIBE — Echoed is dark-first, warm, and a little bit rebellious. Golden accents because we're not sterile-corporate-blue. Late-night-basement vibes because that's where the good conversations happen. Design that respects the fact that you're talking to people you actually know. — FOR — • Friend groups that want a private place that feels like home • Gaming squads coordinating raids, drops, watch-parties • Small communities, book clubs, study groups, creative collabs • Anyone tired of platforms that treat a chat app like a billboard — COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION — • Belarusian translation revised and enhanced by @lenify Echoed is free, private, and built with care. Your people. Your space. Your echo.

Screenshots

Root4 screens
Echoed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Echoed at 5.0 against Root's 4.2. Echoed also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Root's advantage is ratings volume (146 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echoed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Root has 146 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Root's written reviews are positive against 100% of Echoed's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Root ships an update weekly, Echoed monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Root versus Echoed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRootEchoed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (146 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings146 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB62 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperRoot Communications, IncMashrafi Rahman

Customer experience

Root

All ratings146 ratings
Positive81.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative13.7%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive69.9%
Neutral9.7%
Negative20.4%

Echoed

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Root

No in-app purchases

None

Echoed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Root free?
Root is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echoed free?
Echoed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Root or Echoed?
Echoed is rated higher. Root averages 4.2 out of 5 from 146 ratings, while Echoed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Root or Echoed have ads?
Neither Root nor Echoed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Root or Echoed?
Root ships an update weekly, and Echoed monthly. Most recently, Root was updated on October 30, 2026 and Echoed on October 24, 2026.

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