Comparison

Echo vs Echo Journal

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

Head to head
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Echo

Features
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Echo is a private voice diary - built for people who want to journal every day but hate typing. Speak your thoughts, capture your day, and keep a personal audio journal that lives entirely on your device. No account. No cloud. No compromise on privacy. SPEAK, DON'T TYPE Recording a diary entry takes less than ten seconds. Open Echo, tap record, speak freely. Your voice memo is saved instantly as a private diary entry - timestamped, organised by date, and ready to replay whenever you want. OFFLINE AI TRANSCRIPTION Echo converts your voice recordings to text using on-device AI. No audio ever leaves your phone. No internet required. Your words stay with you. Choose from three quality levels - Low, Medium, or High - depending on the storage you can spare. A CALENDAR BUILT FOR YOUR MEMORIES Every entry lives on your personal calendar. Jump back to any day, week, or month and relive your thoughts exactly as you recorded them. Echo also surfaces past entries from the same date in previous years - your own "this day in history." CATEGORIES & COLOUR CODING Create custom categories - Work, Family, Travel, Health, Ideas, Mood - and colour-code every entry. Your calendar fills with colour as your diary grows. Filter any category to find the right moment in seconds. PRIVACY FIRST - ALWAYS - Everything stored on your device only - Optional PIN lock for extra security - No account, no sign-up, no login - No ads, no tracking, no analytics - Full GDPR compliance - Your voice recordings never leave your phone DAILY REMINDER Set a personalised reminder at any time of day. Echo will nudge you to record your thoughts - so building a daily journaling habit becomes effortless. LOCK ENTRIES UNTIL A DATE Write yourself a message for the future. Lock a diary entry until a specific date and rediscover it when the time comes. BEAUTIFUL & MINIMAL DESIGN Echo is designed with a clean, distraction-free interface. Full dark mode, light mode, and automatic system theme support. Set your display name and make Echo feel personal from day one. WHY ECHO? Most diary and journal apps require an account and sync your private thoughts to a cloud server you don't control. Echo doesn't. There is no account to create, no server to trust, and no subscription to pay. Your voice, your words, your memories - they exist only on your device, and nowhere else. Echo is not just a voice recorder. It is a private, personal audio journal built for everyday life - quiet, honest, and completely yours. Download Echo and start speaking your mind. Privacy Policy: https://7oaker.github.io/echo/privacy-policy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Echo Journal

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Echo is a voice journal for people who never quite got journaling to stick. Instead of a blank page and the pressure to write, you speak. A minute a day. No editing, no polishing, no anxiety over the perfect words โ€” just your voice, exactly as it sounded on the walk home, before the meeting, or in the late-night quiet. Then something soft happens. A week later, Echo plays your entry back. A month later, another. A year later, the passing thought you almost forgot becomes a time capsule you never meant to make. WHY PEOPLE STAY WITH ECHO โ€” Talk, don't type. Done in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. โ€” Automatic transcripts. Search your voice, read it as text, or just listen. โ€” Moods, gently. Tag how you feel with a single tap. Build a picture of your months. โ€” Time-capsule playback. Rediscover past entries at the moments they'll mean the most. โ€” Reflections. Record a new entry in response to an old one. Watch a quiet conversation form with yourself. DESIGNED TO BE KIND โ€” One gentle daily reminder. No streaks. No shame. โ€” Face ID lock. Your entries are yours only. โ€” On-device transcription. Your voice never leaves your phone. โ€” Dark, quiet interface. No feed, no notifications you didn't ask for. FREE VS UNLIMITED Free: entries up to 30 seconds, with the occasional ad. Unlimited Recording (ยฃ5.49, one-time purchase): remove the 30-second cap, remove all ads, and speak for as long as you like. PRIVACY, HONESTLY Your entries live on your device. No cloud accounts. No servers reading your words. Just you and the small, patient archive you're quietly building of your own life. Echo is for the mornings you can't find the words to write, the afternoons you almost said something, and the nights you'll want to hear back on a walk five years from now. Start today. Speak for a minute. See what your future self hears.

Screenshots

Echo4 screens
Echo Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Echo at none against Echo Journal's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 4 level
Echo versus Echo Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchoEcho Journal
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size43 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKlaus SiebeneicherCKC Technologies Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Echo

No in-app purchases

None

Echo Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echo Journal free?
Echo Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Echo or Echo Journal have ads?
Echo Journal shows ads; Echo does not.

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