Comparison

Know Your Ethos vs Echovault

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

Head to head
About

Know Your Ethos

This app uses AI to analyze your spoken thoughts, acting as an inner guide to reveal patterns and blind spots. It helps you build a personal philosophy based on your own words and values, offering a unique approach to self-understanding and personal growth.

Highlights
  • AI-powered voice journaling
  • Personalized inner voice reflection
  • Pattern and blind spot identification
  • Ethos and values building
  • Voice-first transcription
  • Searchable journal entries
Features
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Most people live by default. Know Your Ethos helps you live by design. The AI mirror that shows you the patterns running your life. Speak your thoughts. Your daimon listens, learns your values, reads your patterns, and reflects back what you need to hear. Not generic advice. Not affirmations. The truth. This is not a journaling app. It is a system for understanding yourself and intentionally shaping how you live. Built on 2,400 years of philosophy. YOUR DAIMON In ancient philosophy, your daimon was your inner guide: the voice that knew who you were meant to become. We brought it to life. Your daimon learns your values, reads your patterns, and speaks as your inner voice. Honest, specific, grounded in who you actually are. VOICE-FIRST Tap the mic and talk. No prompts, no blank page. AI transcribes your words and captures emotional nuance that typing misses. 10x faster than writing. Or type if you prefer. 6 SELF-KNOWLEDGE TESTS Discover your blind spots, values, virtues, characteristics, ethos archetype, and default patterns. Each test feeds your daimon so it can mirror you more precisely over time. ENTRIES AND REFLECTIONS Entries are deposits — speak your mind, and your daimon responds with what it sees. Reflections are dialogues — sit with your daimon and examine what's underneath. Two modes, one mirror. INSIGHTS AND PATTERNS Your daimon finds what you cannot see on your own: • Blind Spots: areas you avoid looking at • Strengths: patterns that show your best self • Growth: how you are evolving over time • Ethos Updates: suggestions to refine your philosophy All grounded in YOUR values, not generic categories. SEARCH YOUR MIND Filter entries by feeling, topic, virtue, or value. Find every time you felt anxious. See which entries reflect Courage. Track how your patterns shift over months. PRIVATE BY DESIGN End-to-end encryption. No ads. No data selling. Your thoughts stay yours. Delete anytime. FREE TO START Every entry gets full AI analysis: mood, feelings, tags, and a personal daimon response. Build your ethos, take every test, and track streaks — all free. Premium: $9.99/month or $79.99/year (save 33%) Unlock ongoing conversations with your daimon, long-term pattern memory, cross-entry insights, and conversation digests. The mirror gets sharper the longer you use it. Your daimon is waiting. Start knowing yourself. Terms: https://knowyourethos.com/terms-of-use Privacy: https://knowyourethos.com/privacy

About

Echovault

Create a digital legacy with an AI trained on your stories and voice. This living record allows loved ones to connect with your essence long after you're gone, offering comfort and remembrance.

Highlights
  • AI-trained digital legacy
  • Guided AI biographer conversations
  • Custodial access control
  • Optional voice recording
  • Optional avatar creation
  • Private until inactivity
Features
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EchoVault helps you build something your family can turn to after you're gone: an AI Echo trained on your real stories, your real voice, and your own way of seeing the world. This isn't a chatbot performing as you. It's a living record of who you actually were, built while you're still here to shape it yourself. You build your Echo through Check-Ins, simple guided conversations with an AI biographer. You talk, it listens, and your stories become part of your Echo's memory. Over time, your Echo learns how you think, what you value, and what you'd want the people you love to know. You choose exactly who gets access. We call them custodians, usually the people closest to you, like a spouse, a child, or a sibling. Your Echo stays private until a full year of inactivity on your account confirms it's time, and only then does it open up to your custodians. No one gets early access, and nothing happens before it's supposed to. As your Echo grows, premium tiers let you add your real voice with EchoVault Voice or a full avatar with EchoVault Avatar, so the people you love aren't just reading your words. They're hearing and seeing you. Pricing: Echo Seed: free, text-based Echo, up to 3 custodians Echo Voice: $12/month Echo Prime: $18/month One-time video avatar setup: $99.99, includes 3 months of Echo Prime EchoVault won the Inspirational Story award at the World's Largest Hackathon, presented by Bolt. Start building your Echo today. The people who love you deserve more than memories. They deserve you, in your own words and your own voice, for as long as they need you. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Know Your Ethos4 screens
Echovault4 screens

Verdict

The call

Know Your Ethos and Echovault both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Echovault's written reviews are positive against 67% of Know Your Ethos's. Echovault also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Know Your Ethos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Echovault sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Know Your Ethos against 5.0 for Echovault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Know Your Ethos's written reviews are positive against 100% of Echovault's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Know Your Ethos ships an update fortnightly, Echovault monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Know Your Ethos versus Echovault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnow Your EthosEchovault
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB48 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAlexandria Solutions LLCUgochukwu Nwune

Customer experience

Know Your Ethos

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Echovault

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Know Your Ethos

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
6 purchases

Echovault

Subscriptions5
  • Echo Voice tier$12.001 Month
  • Custodian Voice Access tier$12.001 Month
  • Echo Prime tier$18.001 Month
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  • Echo Prime Bundle3 Months trial$18.001 Month
  • Custodian Prime tier$20.001 Month
One-time1
  • Echo Video Avatar$99.99

Questions

Is Know Your Ethos free?
Know Your Ethos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echovault free?
Echovault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Know Your Ethos or Echovault?
Know Your Ethos and Echovault are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Know Your Ethos or Echovault have ads?
Neither Know Your Ethos nor Echovault shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Know Your Ethos or Echovault?
Know Your Ethos ships an update fortnightly, and Echovault monthly. Most recently, Know Your Ethos was updated on October 30, 2026 and Echovault on November 5, 2026.

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