FloatNative vs echoFT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FloatNative
Stream content from your favorite creators with a native iOS design. Enjoy features like background playback, video downloads, and picture-in-picture. The app also offers watch later functionality and enhanced search capabilities.
- Native iOS design
- Background playback
- Video download
- Picture-in-Picture support
- Watch Later and Playlists
- Auto Re-Login
- Tappable timestamps
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Stream your favourite creators in a beautiful app that includes the following features: * Clean, streamlined, native iOS design * Watch Later and Playlists (through supplementary API) * "Enhanced LTT Search" (through supplementary API) * Auto Re-Login * Token login and QR code token login (to workaround the shut down V2 auth) * Native Picture-in-Picture support * Background play * Video download * Tappable timestamps * Light/Dark mode * iPad styles/support * Full-featured tvOS app from same codebase * Long press menu * Custom player controls * Screen stays awake during playback * Pretty icon that supports clear/tinted variants * Watch progress is saved very regularly * Live support
echoFT
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echoFT — explore the Internet Archive's audio universe Millions of free songs, live concerts, old-time radio shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and historic recordings — all from archive.org, all in one beautifully simple app. No account. No ads. No tracking. Just press play. What you'll find • Live Music Archive — fan recordings of thousands of bands, from Grateful Dead to indie tours • Old Time Radio — classic radio dramas, mysteries, and comedies from the 1930s–60s • 78rpm Records — historic shellac recordings digitized by collectors • Community Music — uploaded music across every genre imaginable • Podcasts — archived shows from around the web • LibriVox Audiobooks — free public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers • George Blood Audio — professionally digitized historic recordings Built for discovery • Discovery feed — curated sections refresh with new finds every time • Surprise Me — one tap drops you into something you'd never have searched for • Smart search — filter by collection, sort by popularity, rating, date, or pure chance • Multi-genre filters — pick up to four genres at once • Filter by year, era, language — narrow a century of audio into exactly what you want A proper player • Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls • Full queue management — reorder, shuffle, repeat • Autoplay continues into related items when your queue ends • Dynamic player backgrounds that adapt to album art • Mini-player follows you across tabs Your library, on your device • Favorite anything in one tap • Listening history with quick replay • Everything stored locally — your taste stays yours Privacy you can actually verify echoFT has no user accounts, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no servers of its own. Your favorites and history live on your device and nowhere else. The only network traffic is fetching catalog data and streaming audio from archive.org — exactly what you'd expect. About the Internet Archive archive.org is a non-profit digital library preserving millions of audio recordings, films, books, and websites. echoFT is an independent client that makes its audio collection easier to explore on mobile. We're not affiliated with the Internet Archive — just big fans of what they do. Questions, feedback, or a feature request? info@echoft.com echoFT is made with care by Logic FT Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: echoFT at 15.6 against FloatNative's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FloatNative ships an update every 10 days, echoFT fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FloatNative | echoFT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Maplespace Inc. | Logic FT Inc |
In-app purchases
FloatNative
No in-app purchases
echoFT
No in-app purchases









