Comparison

Echosy vs Secretary Agent

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

Head to head
About

Echosy

Features
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Stop taking notes. Start listening. Echosy records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings, lectures, and interviews — so you can focus on the conversation instead of scribbling. Everything runs on your iPhone, using Apple Intelligence and on-device speech recognition. No cloud required. No subscription. No account. KEY FEATURES • On-device transcription in 60+ languages Powered by iOS 26's new continuous speech engine for English, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Cantonese, Hong Kong), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese — with seamless long-form recording and no 60-second break points. Other languages use Apple's built-in speech framework, supporting Hindi, Thai, Dutch, Vietnamese, Arabic, Russian, and many more. • Automatic AI summaries The moment you stop recording, Echosy drafts a structured summary — overview, key points, decisions, action items — using Apple Intelligence on-device. No prompt engineering, no API juggling. Just tap record, speak, and read the summary. • Ask AI about your recordings Got a question about what was discussed? Open the chat drawer and ask. Echosy answers using the full transcript as context — completely offline. • Bring your own AI (optional) Prefer a cloud AI provider instead of the on-device engine? Echosy supports a range of services through a standard API endpoint — including DeepSeek, local Ollama servers, and any compatible provider you configure. Flip one switch in Settings and Echosy routes summaries and chat through your preferred service. • Fully private by default Audio never leaves your iPhone unless you explicitly enable a cloud provider. No account creation. No analytics on your voice. No training data. Just transcription. • Re-transcribe, edit, and export Saved recordings can be re-transcribed in a different language, edited inline, and exported as Markdown, plain text, or the native .echo bundle. • Beautiful, distraction-free interface Glass-morphism design, dark and light modes, onboarding that gets out of the way. LANGUAGES SUPPORTED English (US, UK, AU, CA, IE, IN, NZ, SG, ZA), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Hong Kong, Cantonese), Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Spain, Mexico, US, Chile), French (France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland), German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Hindi, Thai, Dutch, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Catalan, Arabic, Russian, and more. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone running iOS 17 or later • iOS 26 required for the new continuous transcription engine and on-device Apple Intelligence summaries • iOS 17–25 uses the classic speech recognition engine (still works, no downgrade) PRIVACY FIRST Echosy is designed so your voice never leaves your phone. No telemetry on your recordings. No cloud uploads unless you opt in. No sign-in. Delete the app and every trace is gone. Record better. Listen more. Let Echosy handle the rest.

About

Secretary Agent

This AI-powered assistant answers your calls, identifies callers, and intelligently routes or summarizes interactions. It provides structured intelligence from every call, ensuring you never miss important information or connections.

Highlights
  • Intelligent AI call screening
  • Real-time voice detection and natural conversation
  • Smart call routing and prioritization
  • Call summaries with transcripts and audio
  • Global spam database
  • Customizable assistant personality and voice
  • Context integration from calendars and documents
Features
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For most of history, having a personal secretary was a privilege reserved for the elite. Someone who knew your schedule, screened your calls, took notes, followed up, and kept the noise away — so you could focus on what only you could do. We think everyone deserves that. Secretary Agent is a conversational AI that answers calls on the user's behalf, identifies the caller, assesses urgency, and routes the outcome intelligently. We do not block and forget — we engage, understand, and empower the user with structured intelligence from every interaction. Intelligent Screening: Our AI agent answers unknown calls, identifies the caller, and assesses intent through real-time natural conversation — no scripts, no robotic menus. Smart Routing: Trusted contacts bypass the agent and ring directly. Spam is terminated and logged. Non-urgent calls are summarized and stored. Urgent calls are escalated immediately. Structured Intelligence: Every screened call produces a plain-language summary, full text transcript, and audio recording — stored in a searchable, growing personal knowledge base. Uncompromising Reliability: Our fail-safe architecture ensures that if our service is ever unavailable or a quota is reached, calls continue reaching the user normally. We never let a user miss a call because of us. MVP Features: Intelligent AI call screening with real-time voice detection, speech recognition, and natural-language conversation. Multilingual support for callers across different languages and accents. Call summaries with notes, action points, full text transcripts, and audio recordings stored per call. Call prioritization by urgency and sentiment — the most important calls always surface first. Folder system for organizing and categorizing call summaries. Global Spam Database with robocall, phishing, and nuisance-call protection — crowd-powered and continuously improving. Whitelisting and bypass controls so trusted contacts skip the AI and reach the user directly. Number blocking to prevent specific callers from ever being processed. Custom assistant name, personality, tone, and text instructions — fully personalized to each user's needs. Secretary voice selection: choose from 10 distinct voices (5 male, 5 female) to define how your Secretary sounds. Context integration from calendars and uploaded reference documents for superior handling accuracy. Multi-factor authentication with phone verification, account passcode, and recovery code. Fail-safe call continuity — if our service is ever unavailable or a quota is reached, calls continue reaching the user normally. Push notifications for all important call activity.

Screenshots

Echosy4 screens
Secretary Agent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Secretary Agent at none against Echosy's shown. Secretary Agent also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Echosy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Secretary Agent sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Echosy versus Secretary Agent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchosySecretary Agent
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB104 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPong Ning WongELAGENT, INC.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Echosy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
2 purchases

Secretary Agent

One-time2
  • Quota Tier$4.99
  • Premium$29.99

Questions

Is Echosy free?
Echosy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Secretary Agent free?
Secretary Agent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Echosy or Secretary Agent have ads?
Echosy shows ads; Secretary Agent does not.
Which is updated more often, Echosy or Secretary Agent?
Echosy ships an update weekly, and Secretary Agent weekly. Most recently, Echosy was updated on September 12, 2026 and Secretary Agent on September 17, 2026.

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