Comparison

JEDWAL vs Echo

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

Head to head
About

JEDWAL

This app automatically generates bilingual meeting notes from recorded conversations. It provides transcripts, AI summaries, and identifies decisions and action items, supporting Arabic and English.

Highlights
  • Bilingual meeting transcription
  • AI-generated summaries
  • Action item identification
  • Live meeting hosting
  • Meeting scheduling and invites
  • Private and encrypted
Features
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JEDWAL turns your meetings into clear, bilingual notes — automatically. Record any conversation in Arabic, English, or both, and JEDWAL gives you a faithful transcript, an AI summary, and the decisions and action items — in seconds. No more typing notes or forgetting what was agreed. WHY JEDWAL • Arabic-first, English-ready — built for how the Gulf actually talks, including dialect and code-switching. • Faithful bilingual transcripts — Arabic stays Arabic, English stays English, speaker by speaker. • AI Notes — beyond a summary: JEDWAL understands what you need and finds real, grounded options with links. • Decisions & action items — captured, owned, never lost. • JEDWAL Rooms — host live meetings and get the minutes automatically. • Schedule & invite — create a meeting, share a link, one-tap join. Calendar invites included. • Private by design — your meetings are yours. Encrypted backup, no ads. Free to use. Built for the Gulf, in Arabic and English.

About

Echo

This app records meetings, calls, and lectures, providing summaries, decisions, and to-dos. It offers full transcripts with timestamps and allows users to ask questions about the conversation. Supports Arabic and English, with templates for various use cases.

Highlights
  • AI-powered meeting transcription
  • Conversation summarization
  • To-do list extraction
  • Ask questions about recordings
  • Arabic and English support
  • Live transcript display
  • Export notes as PDF/Word
Features
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Talk in Arabic, English, or both. Echo hands back what matters. Echo listens to your meetings, calls and lectures, remembers every word, and gives you the summary, the decisions and the to-dos. So you can stay in the conversation, not in your notes. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap to start at the top of a meeting, a lecture or a quick thought. 2. Put your phone down and join the conversation. 3. When you stop, Echo hands back a short summary of what was said and decided, to-dos pulled from the conversation, and the full transcript with timestamps, so you can jump to any moment. BUILT FOR ARABIC AND ENGLISH Speak Arabic, English, or both in the same sentence. Echo understands Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian and Maghrebi dialects as well as Modern Standard Arabic, and the whole app works in Arabic and English. ASK ECHO Ask anything about a conversation, like "What did we decide about pricing?", and get answers drawn from what was actually said. FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR STUDIES Client meetings, team check-ins, interviews, lectures, study groups. Choose a template (meeting minutes, client meeting, lecture notes, interview and more) and keep clients, classes and projects apart in folders. SHAPED AROUND YOUR DAY • Watch the transcript appear live while Echo listens • Live Activity on your Lock Screen • Meeting reminders from your calendar, a minute before each one starts • A dictation keyboard for getting words down fast • Import audio files you already have • Attach photos to a note • Export and share notes as PDF or Word YOU STAY IN CONTROL Echo informs. You decide. It never sends, books or replies on your behalf. ECHO PRO Echo is free to try, with a monthly allowance of minutes. Echo Pro gives you unlimited minutes, unlimited Ask Echo questions and faster processing. • Echo Pro is available as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. The yearly plan includes a free trial. • You'll see the price and any trial length on Apple's confirmation screen before you pay. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. • The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.meetwithecho.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.meetwithecho.ai/terms

Screenshots

JEDWAL4 screens
Echo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JEDWAL at none against Echo's 3. JEDWAL also leads on ads (none vs shown). Echo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Echo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. JEDWAL asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for JEDWAL against 5.0 for Echo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JEDWAL ships an update every 6 days, Echo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
JEDWAL versus Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJEDWALEcho
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMOHAMED SAIFELDIN OMERCNTXT - FZCO

Customer experience

JEDWAL

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Echo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

JEDWAL

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Echo

Subscriptions3
  • Echo Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Echo Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Echo Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is JEDWAL free?
JEDWAL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, JEDWAL or Echo?
JEDWAL and Echo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do JEDWAL or Echo have ads?
Echo shows ads; JEDWAL does not.
Which is updated more often, JEDWAL or Echo?
JEDWAL ships an update every 6 days, and Echo every 2 days. Most recently, JEDWAL was updated on October 14, 2026 and Echo on October 29, 2026.

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