Comparison

Escutando vs Magnetic Echo

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

Head to head
About

Escutando

Features
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Thirty thousand radio stations. One app. And an AI that actually understands what you want to hear. Escutando connects you to over 30,000 live radio stations from every corner of the world — organized by country, filtered by genre, and searchable in plain English. Type "something mellow for a Sunday morning" or "high-energy Latin beats" and the AI finds the right station. No menus to dig through. No guessing. Every station comes with an AI-generated cultural briefing: the city it broadcasts from, the community it serves, the music that defines it. It turns a random frequency into a window onto somewhere real. Escutando classifies every stream by audio quality — HD, Standard, or Low — so you always know exactly what you're hearing. Audiophile Mode filters the catalog to only the highest-quality streams. Live ICY metadata surfaces the current song and artist in real time, updating as tracks change, right on your lock screen. The Now Playing screen is built for long sessions: lock screen controls, AirPlay support for speakers and receivers, and a sleep timer with a gentle fade-out. Whether you're working, cooking, or winding down, Escutando stays out of the way. At the end of each month, a personalized listening report reflects back what you explored — hours logged, countries visited, genres favored — with a short AI-written insight that makes the numbers feel like something worth reading. Escutando is completely free. No trial period. No premium tier. No ads anywhere in the app. No subscription, now or ever. It's made possible by a single sponsor — PCA Airworthiness — whose support keeps the experience clean and the catalog open for everyone. The world is on the air. Tune in.

About

Magnetic Echo

This app offers a vintage-inspired multi-head tape delay and spring reverb effect for mobile devices. It recreates the warm echoes, ambient trails, and analog textures of classic tape echo machines, with adjustable feedback and saturation for unique soundscapes.

Highlights
  • Multi-head tape delay
  • Spring reverb effect
  • Wow and flutter simulation
  • Feedback and saturation controls
  • AUv3 plugin compatibility
  • Dub and ambient soundscapes
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Magnetic Echo is a vintage-inspired multi-head tape delay and spring reverb effect for iPhone and iPad, built for warm echoes, ambient trails, dub feedback, and evolving analog textures. Inspired by classic tape echo machines of the 1970s, Magnetic Echo combines the movement and imperfections of magnetic tape with the flexibility of a modern AUv3 plugin. TAPE DELAY Three playback heads create layered and rhythmic repeats, from short slapback echoes to spacious multi-head patterns. SPRING REVERB A dedicated spring tank with adjustable decay and tone, for that unmistakable splashy, metallic space. WOW & FLUTTER Real tape isn't perfect — subtle pitch drift and mechanical wobble give every repeat organic character. FEEDBACK & SATURATION Push the feedback path from gentle repeats into self-oscillation, with saturation adding color and character on every pass. FROM DUB TO AMBIENT Create warm guitar echoes, psychedelic textures, washed-out ambient trails, rhythmic delays, and dub-style feedback. HOST READY Works as an AUv3 Audio Unit plugin inside AUM, Audiobus, GarageBand, Cubasis, Logic Pro for iPad, and any other AUv3-compatible host. %100 FREE No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.

Screenshots

Escutando4 screens
Magnetic Echo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Escutando and Magnetic Echo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Escutando versus Magnetic Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscutandoMagnetic Echo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcelo FernandesBaturay Koc

In-app purchases

None

Escutando

No in-app purchases

None

Magnetic Echo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escutando free?
Escutando is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magnetic Echo free?
Magnetic Echo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Escutando or Magnetic Echo have ads?
Neither Escutando nor Magnetic Echo shows ads.

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