Comparison

Echosy vs Bubbly Thoughts

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

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.

Highlights
  • Speech-to-text organization
  • Automatic thought categorization
  • List parsing
  • Date recognition
  • Private data storage
  • Searchable thought history
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Echosy4 screens
Bubbly Thoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echosy ships an update weekly, Bubbly Thoughts daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Echosy versus Bubbly Thoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchosyBubbly Thoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPong Ning WongYehuda Green

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Echosy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
1 purchases

Bubbly Thoughts

Subscriptions1
  • Bubbly+$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Echosy free?
Echosy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bubbly Thoughts free?
Bubbly Thoughts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Echosy or Bubbly Thoughts have ads?
Echosy shows ads; Bubbly Thoughts does not.
Which is updated more often, Echosy or Bubbly Thoughts?
Echosy ships an update weekly, and Bubbly Thoughts daily. Most recently, Echosy was updated on October 1, 2026 and Bubbly Thoughts on October 3, 2026.

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