Know Your Ethos vs Echovault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI-powered voice journaling
- Personalized inner voice reflection
- Pattern and blind spot identification
- Ethos and values building
- Voice-first transcription
- Searchable journal entries
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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
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.
- AI-trained digital legacy
- Guided AI biographer conversations
- Custodial access control
- Optional voice recording
- Optional avatar creation
- Private until inactivity
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Know Your Ethos ships an update fortnightly, Echovault monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Know Your Ethos | Echovault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alexandria Solutions LLC | Ugochukwu Nwune |
Customer experience
Know Your Ethos
Echovault
In-app purchases
Know Your Ethos
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Echovault
- 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
- Echo Video Avatar$99.99









