Comparison

TimeGuessr vs EchoChambers

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

Head to head
About

TimeGuessr

Test your history and geography knowledge by guessing the time and location of historical photographs. Compete with friends and players worldwide in daily challenges and climb the leaderboards. Explore moments across continents and centuries with new photos added daily.

Highlights
  • Guess historical photo locations
  • Guess historical photo dates
  • Daily photo challenges
  • Global leaderboards
  • Challenge friends
  • Create custom rounds
Features
Currently charting
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TimeGuessr is the game that challenges both your geography and history knowledge in one addictive experience. Using real historical photographs from around the world, your task is simple: guess when and where each photo was taken. Think you know your 1960s from your 1980s? Can you tell Paris from Prague just by a grainy street scene? Whether you're a casual player or a history buff, TimeGuessr will put your deduction skills to the test. Each photo is carefully selected, showcasing moments that span continents and centuries. Place a pin on the map to guess the location, choose the year, and see how close you were. The closer your guess, the more points you earn. New photos are added daily through the popular daily game mode, where players from around the world compete to get the highest score. You can also challenge your friends, compare your progress on the leaderboard, and even create your own shareable rounds. TimeGuessr is more than just a guessing game - it's a journey through time and place, blending curiosity, memory, and discovery in a way that keeps you coming back for more.

About

EchoChambers

Navigate a dark maze using only sound. Tap to send out pulses that reveal walls, but be aware that enemies can also hear your movements. Strategize your sounds to survive and escape.

Highlights
  • Sound-based maze exploration
  • Stealth mechanics
  • Enemy AI that reacts to sound
  • 70 hand-built levels
  • Daily mazes with streaks
  • Endless descent mode
  • Leaderboards
Features
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There is no light in here. The maze is drawn only by the sounds you make. Tap, and a pulse spreads out from you — walls flare where it touches them, then fade back into the dark. Hold, and a low hum shows you further, and costs you more. Throw a distracting stone, and listen to where it lands. Everything that hunts you hears exactly the same sounds. That is the whole game. Sound is how you see, and it is how you are found. Every sound spends breath, and breath does not always come back. The player who lights the maze up cannot get out of it; the player who creeps through in near-silence can. SEVENTY HAND-BUILT LEVELS, in seven sets that each teach you something new: • Origins — learning to see with sound • Echoes — things that hunt, and things on rails • Hollows — crossings over what is not there • Thresholds — closed doors need a key to open them • Spiral — rings and spokes, not corridors • Honeycomb — six ways on from everywhere • The Famous — mazes that exist, or did, or never did! THE FAMOUS ONES ARE REAL, MOSTLY. Hampton Court, Bridge End Gardens, Horta, Versailles and Schönbrunn are traced from their published plans: the same hedges and the same wrong turns, in the dark. Villa Pisani and Ashcombe are reconstructions built on what is documented of them. Chartres is the pattern rather than the floor. Hawara is gone, so it is built from what Herodotus wrote down. And the Minotaur's is ours, because his never existed! Every one of them says on screen which it is. A MAZE A DAY. Everyone in the world gets the same daily maze, built from the date. Clear it on consecutive days to build a streak. The daily is free, always, and it draws on everything the paid sets contain — doors, rings, honeycombs — so you can see what the rest of the game is like before deciding whether you want it. AN ENDLESS DESCENT. Deeper and darker, without end. Your breath carries from one depth to the next, so how far you get is decided by how much sound you were willing to spend twenty levels ago. THREE LEADERBOARDS through Game Center: today's maze by fastest time, resetting every day; the longest daily streak you have ever run; and the deepest anyone has gone. THINGS THAT HUNT. Three of them, and they are not the same. One is blind and wanders towards noise. One waits, silent, for you to come to it. One runs a fixed route and does not care about you at all — until it does. ALSO: a relic hidden in every level, awards for finding half of them and then all of them, colour themes that unlock as you go, and a full tutorial, because almost nothing here can be worked out by poking at it. FREE TO PLAY, AND HONEST ABOUT IT. Thirty levels and the daily maze are free forever. One payment unlocks everything else — the later sets, the famous mazes, the endless descent. It is a single purchase, not a subscription. There are no adverts anywhere in this game, no tracking, and no analytics. Play with headphones if you can. It is a game about listening.

Screenshots

TimeGuessr4 screens
EchoChambers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: EchoChambers at none against TimeGuessr's shown. EchoChambers also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). TimeGuessr's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. TimeGuessr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and EchoChambers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
TimeGuessr versus EchoChambers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeGuessrEchoChambers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#103 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB4 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTIMEGUESSR LIMITEDTony Turner

Customer experience

TimeGuessr

All ratings2,666 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative15.7%

EchoChambers

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

TimeGuessr

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sometimes game doesn't load properly, just shows a white screen
  • Doesn't save progress if you close and reopen the app during a game

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add score sharing function
  • Add ability to view past game scores and breakdowns
  • Add option to start a game with a friend/timer
  • Add ability to zoom in further on map

EchoChambers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TimeGuessr

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly TimeGuessr Ad Free$3.991 Month
  • Annual TimeGuessr Ad Free$24.991 Year
1 purchases

EchoChambers

One-time1
  • Full version$1.99

Questions

Is TimeGuessr free?
TimeGuessr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EchoChambers free?
EchoChambers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeGuessr or EchoChambers have ads?
TimeGuessr shows ads; EchoChambers does not.

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