Comparison

Echo Loop vs Meshk

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

Head to head
About

Echo Loop

Enhance English listening and speaking skills through a science-based method. This app uses spaced repetition and AI feedback to guide you from understanding audio to fluent retelling, building long-term memory and vocabulary in context.

Highlights
  • Eight-stage spaced repetition learning
  • AI-assisted sentence repetition with feedback
  • Paragraph retelling with keyword prompts
  • Vocabulary learning in context
  • Flashcard review with progress tracking
  • Learning progress tracking and study streaks
Features
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Echo Loop is a science-based English listening and speaking training app. It helps you turn unfamiliar audio into real understanding and build fluency through repetition and retelling. The app combines a complete listening and speaking training loop with spaced repetition. It automatically schedules review tasks, reminds you to practice, and guides you step by step, so you can focus on listening and speaking instead of managing the process yourself. 【Eight-stage spaced repetition】 Each audio item follows an eight-stage learning cycle: initial learning, same-day review, reviews on Days 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14, and completion on Day 28. The app automatically schedules each review to help turn short-term memory into long-term memory. 【Complete initial learning flow】 The initial learning stage includes four steps: • Blind Listening: Listen to the full audio without the transcript, get the general meaning, and rate the difficulty. • Intensive Listening: Listen sentence by sentence. For difficult sentences, view the transcript and save unfamiliar sentences and words. • Sentence Repetition: Repeat saved sentences with transcript support. The number of repetitions is adjusted based on difficulty, and each recording receives instant AI feedback. • Paragraph Retelling: Listen paragraph by paragraph and retell what you hear in your own words with keywords generated by the app. 【Review stages】 From Day 1 to Day 28, review focuses on blind listening, sentence repetition, and paragraph retelling. Retelling segments gradually become longer, helping you build a stronger link between listening input and speaking output. 【Multiple playback options】 Choose from full audio playback, sentence-by-sentence playback, and saved sentences only. You can also adjust repeat count, pauses between sentences, and retelling length. 【Bookmarked sentences and vocabulary】 • Save difficult sentences with one tap and review them across all your audio materials. • Use a built-in local dictionary with phonetic transcriptions, definitions, pronunciations, Collins star ratings, and exam tags for bookmarked words. • Saved words are linked to their source audio and original sentences, so you can learn vocabulary in context. 【Vocabulary flashcard review】 Review words with flashcards showing the word and pronunciation on the front, and definitions plus the original example sentence on the back. It also supports auto flip, smart sorting, and progress tracking. 【AI-assisted learning】 AI can automatically generate English subtitles. During intensive listening, you can view subtitles, AI translations, and grammar explanations. Subtitles can be shown as full sentences or thought groups, helping you recognize collocations in context instead of memorizing isolated words. 【Learning progress tracking】 Track your study streak, listening input, speaking output, and vocabulary growth. You can also resume anytime from where you left off. 【Free Practice Mode】 Besides the guided learning flow, you can also use Free Practice Mode. You can adjust playback speed, choose whether to show subtitles, and save difficult sentences and words. Import the English audio you want to understand quickly, and start practicing listening and speaking in a more effective way. Subscription Information Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account upon confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.echo-loop.top/privacy

About

Meshk

Master handwriting and calligraphy with a comprehensive trainer. It guides your pen strokes, scores your writing in real-time, and supports over 130 writing systems, from ancient scripts to modern calligraphy styles.

Highlights
  • 139 writing systems supported
  • Real-time stroke scoring
  • Animated stroke guides
  • Structured courses, lessons, and exams
  • Arabic calligraphy with 5 historical styles
  • Kids Zone for playful tracing
  • Import custom fonts as SVG
Features
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Learn to write by hand — really write. Meshk is a handwriting and calligraphy trainer that guides your pen stroke by stroke, scores every stroke in real time, and covers 139 writing systems in one app. From Latin cursive and Arabic calligraphy to Chinese hanzi, Japanese kana, Korean Hangul, Devanagari, Tamil, Thai, Cherokee, Ge'ez and N'Ko — 73 scripts in living use today, 66 historic ones, 169 practice packs and 13,256 characters, every one with authentic stroke order. WHAT YOU PRACTICE 139 writing systems Latin (print, cursive, formal script, school manuscript) and Cyrillic · Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Thaana · Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese kanji and kana, Korean Hangul and hanja, Bopomofo · 39 Brahmic scripts including Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Odia, Sinhala and Tibetan · 17 Southeast Asian scripts including Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, Balinese and Baybayin · African scripts including Ge'ez, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Vai, Adlam and Bamum · Armenian, Georgian and Greek · and 66 historic scripts from Egyptian-era alphabets to Runic, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Brahmi, Linear B and Cuneiform-era writing. Hat — classical Arabic calligraphy Five historical styles taught the traditional way: Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah and Kufi, with right-to-left guides and reed-pen (qalam) simulation that reproduces the angled nib of a real calligrapher. Hat Studio Meşk the way calligraphers learn it: 896 Arabic compositions, from single words and joined words to full lines, stacked compositions, panels, the tughra and mirrored writing, each written stroke by stroke with a reed pen. Eight more pen hands (Foundational, Uncial, Cyrillic and Greek broad pen, Hebrew Ashuri, Hangul Panbonche, Chinese Kaishu, Japanese Kaisho) and a drawing shelf of 84 exercises in line, ellipse, form, perspective, value, contour and construction. Real stroke scoring Not tracing theatre. Every stroke is compared with the master stroke for direction, order, shape and placement, then scored. Hints show exactly where your stroke went off. Animated stroke guides Watch each character written stroke by stroke, replay at your own speed, then write it yourself over a dotted outline, on lines, or on a blank page. Courses, lessons and exams Every script has a structured course: single letters, lowercase and uppercase, connecting letters, words, then an exam that scores you and awards stars. Kids Zone Playful, age-appropriate letter tracing for children — shapes, letters, words, badges and streaks, with a progress map they want to finish. Your own practice material Add your own words, your own texts and blank practice papers. Meshk builds lessons from whatever you want to write — a name, a poem, a vocabulary list. Import your own fonts Bring any writing style in as SVG and Meshk turns it into a guided, scored course. THE PEN RACK 81 pens, open in every lesson: Apple's eight inks and 73 reeds, nibs, brushes, leads and charcoal on ten shelves. Each has its own cut, angle and ink load, so a Thuluth reed behaves like a Thuluth reed. On iPad the rail sits on whichever side you hold the tablet. MADE FOR APPLE PENCIL Low-latency ink, pressure and tilt response, paper-texture haptics and hover support. It feels like a pen on paper, not a finger on glass. Works on iPhone too. PERFECT FOR • Adults fixing their handwriting • Language learners who want to write, not just type • Calligraphy beginners and enthusiasts • Children learning their first letters • Teachers and tutors running handwriting classes • Anyone learning a new alphabet before a trip, a course or an exam MESHK PRO Meshk Pro opens connecting letters, word lessons, unlimited exams and your own words, texts and practice papers in every course. Download Meshk and write your first letter today.

Screenshots

Echo Loop4 screens
Meshk4 screens

Verdict

The call

Echo Loop and Meshk both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Echo Loop's written reviews are positive against 75% of Meshk's. Echo Loop also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Echo Loop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Meshk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 — 4.0 for Echo Loop against 4.1 for Meshk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Echo Loop's written reviews are positive against 75% of Meshk's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echo Loop ships an update every 4 days, Meshk every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Echo Loop versus Meshk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEcho LoopMeshk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (11 ratings)4.1 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size148 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHangzhou Fengchen Hangqi Management Consulting Co., LtdCihat Salik

Customer experience

Echo Loop

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Meshk

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Echo Loop

Subscriptions2
  • Echo Loop Plus Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Echo Loop Plus Annual1 Year trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Meshk

Subscriptions2
  • Meshk Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Meshk Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Meshk Pro — Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Echo Loop free?
Echo Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meshk free?
Meshk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Echo Loop or Meshk?
Meshk is rated higher. Echo Loop averages 4.0 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Meshk averages 4.1 from 12 ratings.
Do Echo Loop or Meshk have ads?
Neither Echo Loop nor Meshk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echo Loop or Meshk?
Echo Loop ships an update every 4 days, and Meshk every 5 days. Most recently, Echo Loop was updated on November 13, 2026 and Meshk on November 13, 2026.

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