Echosy vs Bubbly Thoughts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Echosy
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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.
Bubbly Thoughts
This app allows you to speak your thoughts, which are then automatically organized into distinct, named items. It can parse lists, recognize dates, and answer questions based on what you've said, all while keeping your data private on your device.
- Speech-to-text organization
- Automatic thought categorization
- List parsing
- Date recognition
- Private data storage
- Searchable thought history
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Speak your mind. Bubbly sorts it. Say everything at once. The errands, the dates, the half-formed worry, the question you keep meaning to look up. Bubbly breaks it into separate thoughts, names each one, and files them where they belong. Everything happens on your iPhone. Your words are never sent anywhere to be read, summarised, or trained on. • Speak once, get many. One rambling paragraph becomes separate bubbles. • Lists stay lists. Say five things to buy and they arrive as five items. • Ask your own thoughts. "Did I ever pay the dentist?" Answered from what you actually said. • Dates that hold up: "every Tuesday", "before the 30th", "moved to Friday". • Nothing is capped. Nothing is filed by hand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bubbly Thoughts at none against Echosy's shown. Bubbly Thoughts also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Echosy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bubbly Thoughts sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Echosy ships an update weekly, Bubbly Thoughts daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echosy | Bubbly Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pong Ning Wong | Yehuda Green |
In-app purchases
Echosy
- Remove Ads$2.99
Bubbly Thoughts
- Bubbly+$4.991 Month









