Comparison

NŌVÉ vs Echo

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

Head to head
About

NŌVÉ

This app guides you through personalized audio experiences based on your desired reality, beliefs, and dreams. It offers meditations, journaling prompts, and affirmations to help you embody your future self. Create a unique visual sigil and even use your own generated voice for sessions.

Highlights
  • Personalized audio experiences
  • Voice-led meditations
  • Dream logging and reflection
  • Guided journaling
  • Future self affirmations
  • Generated voice sessions
  • Sacred geometry sigil creation
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NŌVÉ is a voice-led ritual app for becoming the version of yourself you are choosing. Instead of giving you generic affirmations or one-size-fits-all meditations, NŌVÉ is built around your Chosen Timeline Foundation: your desired reality, your beliefs, your memories, your patterns, your dreams, and the future self you are practicing becoming. From there, NŌVÉ creates personal listening experiences that help you return to your chosen timeline again and again — through meditation, journaling, dream reflection, Storytime NŌVÉs, Pep Talks, affirmations, and your generated voice. Your voice. Your reality. Your NŌVÉ. WHAT’S INSIDE • Chosen Timeline Foundation Create a living map of your chosen timeline. Your Foundation holds the desires, beliefs, identity statements, memories, and inner world details that shape your personal sessions. • Storytime NŌVÉs Listen to long-form narrative sessions based on your Chosen Timeline. Morning NŌVÉs help you enter the day from your future self. Evening NŌVÉs help you wind down into that reality. Your Chosen Timeline NŌVÉ lets you return to the full vision whenever you need it. • Sit A seated meditation experience designed around your current focus, your Foundation, and the version of yourself you are becoming. • Walk A walking meditation experience for taking your chosen timeline with you while you move through the world. • Regulate A gentle nervous system regulation space for slowing down, grounding, and returning to yourself. • Sleep NŌVÉ A nighttime listening experience designed to help you rest inside the reality you are choosing. • Pep Talks Short future-self messages for moments when you need to remember who you are and where you are going. • Dream Log Record and reflect on dreams, emotions, symbols, and subconscious patterns. NŌVÉ helps connect dream material back to your Foundation. • Guided Journal A private space for reflection, processing, and deepening your relationship with your chosen timeline. • Affirm Personal affirmations connected to your Foundation and inner world. • Speak Spoken-word style personal sessions for expression, embodiment, and identity practice. • Library Save and revisit your NŌVÉs, Pep Talks, recordings, and personal sessions. • Sacred Geometry Sigil Create a visual symbol connected to your current Foundation and chosen timeline. YOUR GENERATED VOICE NŌVÉ can create a generated voice from your own voice recordings, so selected sessions can be spoken back to you in a voice that feels personally familiar. Voice setup is optional where available, and your recordings are used only to provide app functionality. PRIVACY NŌVÉ is designed for deeply personal material. Your voice recordings, journal entries, dreams, beliefs, and Foundation are private to your account. They are not sold, not used for advertising, and not shared with other users. IMPORTANT NŌVÉ is a self-reflection, meditation, journaling, and personal development app. It is not a medical device, therapy service, crisis service, or substitute for professional care. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Echo

This app offers a structured 90-day program to help users navigate the emotional challenges of a breakup. It provides daily exercises, a no-contact tracker, guided journaling, and AI-powered support to foster healing and self-discovery.

Highlights
  • 90-day structured healing program
  • Daily CBT/ACT-based exercises
  • No-contact streak tracker
  • Guided journaling with 300+ prompts
  • Private 'Letters You'll Never Send' feature
  • AI-powered chat and call support
  • Visual progress tracker ('The Garden')
Features
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Echo is a breakup recovery companion built around a research-informed 90-day healing program. It combines structure, reflection, and small daily actions so you can feel grounded, regain momentum, and move forward one day at a time. Instead of overwhelming you, Echo gives you a clear path: A 90-Day Program That Meets You Where You Are. A step-by-step recovery path designed for real life. Each phase helps you stabilize, process emotions, and rebuild healthy routines with small, consistent actions. WHAT'S INSIDE: Today — Your Daily Practice: Short morning and evening exercises drawn from CBT, ACT, and attachment theory. Spot your triggers, quiet the thought spirals, and understand your patterns — in five minutes a day. No Contact Tracker: Track your streak in real time. Log resists and relapses without shame. Set your own goal — 7, 30, 90 days — and get gentle support during the 2 a.m. urges. Journal + Discover: Open writing plus 300+ guided prompts, curated for where you are — anger, rumination, anxious attachment, identity loss, closure, and rebuilding self-worth. Letters You'll Never Send: Say the thing you couldn't. Write the goodbye you didn't get. Get it out of your head — safely, privately, with no risk of hitting send. The Garden: A living reflection of your consistency. Every check-in, entry, and no-contact day grows something. A quiet reminder that healing is happening. Echo Chat and Call: Chat or call support that actually knows your story. Echo draws on your journal entries, check-ins, and patterns to help you understand yourself more clearly — why this trigger keeps showing up, what your reflections reveal about your attachment style, where you've grown since week one. Not generic advice. A companion that's been paying attention. WHY IT WORKS Echo is designed around approaches used in evidence-based emotional skills work, including CBT and ACT principles: Naming thoughts and feelings clearly Reducing rumination loops Building acceptance and self-trust Taking values-aligned action, one day at a time Users in this category consistently look for: Structured programs (not just open-ended chat) No-contact accountability Guided journaling Visible progress over time Echo is built around exactly those needs. PRIVACY & CONTROL Your story is yours. We ask for clear consent before messages are used with AI providers, and we keep control in your hands. Echo is for reflection and emotional support. It is not therapy or medical care. If you’re in crisis, contact local emergency services or a trusted person immediately. Terms of Use (Apple): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NŌVÉ4 screens
Echo1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NŌVÉ at none against Echo's shown. NŌVÉ also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Echo's advantage is ratings volume (435 vs 11) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NŌVÉ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month and Echo sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Echo has 435 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of NŌVÉ's written reviews are positive against 82% of Echo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NŌVÉ ships an update every 4 days, Echo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
NŌVÉ versus Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNŌVÉEcho
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)4.8 (435 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better81.8% of reviews
Number of ratings11435 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB112 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPlea OUAI Echo Corp.

Customer experience

NŌVÉ

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Echo

All ratings435 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative13.6%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

NŌVÉ

Subscriptions2
  • NŌVÉ Monthly7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • NŌVÉ Yearly7 Days trial$199.991 Year
12 purchases

Echo

Subscriptions12
  • Echo Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Echo Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Echo Weekly3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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  • Echo Pro Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Echo Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Echo Premium Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • 90 Day Program3 Days trial$29.993 Months
  • 90 Day Program$29.993 Months
  • 90 Day Program3 Days trial$39.993 Months
  • Echo Pro Annual7 Days trial$134.991 Year
  • Echo Premium Annual7 Days trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is NŌVÉ free?
NŌVÉ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NŌVÉ or Echo?
Echo is rated higher. NŌVÉ averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Echo averages 4.8 from 435 ratings.
Do NŌVÉ or Echo have ads?
Echo shows ads; NŌVÉ does not.
Which is updated more often, NŌVÉ or Echo?
NŌVÉ ships an update every 4 days, and Echo weekly. Most recently, NŌVÉ was updated on October 14, 2026 and Echo on October 13, 2026.

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