Hostfold vs Echoly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Hostfold
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Hostfold is a fast, private file browser for your own servers over SFTP. โข All your machines in one place. Sign in with a password or an SSH key; host keys are verified on first connection and pinned afterwards. โข Browse, search, sort, rename, upload and export files as if they were local. โข Edit config files, scripts and logs in place and save straight back to the server. โข Save a folder or file you open every day and jump straight to it. Hostfold Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription): โข Preview photos, PDFs and rendered Markdown. โข Stream video and music in formats iOS supports, without downloading first. โข Save as many folders and files as you like, on every machine. Passwords and keys stay in the iOS Keychain on your device. Hostfold has no accounts and no servers of its own, and collects no data.
Echoly
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Most transcription apps handle short clips. Echoly is built for the long recordings that matter โ a two-hour lecture, a full interview, an entire meeting. Record directly in the app or import audio you already have. Echoly uploads it, transcribes it on our servers, and hands back text you can actually read and search. LONG RECORDINGS, HANDLED Recording keeps running with your screen locked. Files are written to disk as you go, so a crash never costs you a session. There is no short-clip limit to work around. A TRANSCRIPT YOU CAN READ The transcript is designed to be read, not skimmed past. Generous line spacing, adjustable text size, and the current word highlighted as the audio plays. Tap any word to jump straight to that moment in the recording. Search the full transcript and jump between matches. Follow along, or read it like a document. WHO SAID WHAT Speaker separation labels each voice, so interviews and meetings stay readable instead of collapsing into one wall of text. EXPORT AND MOVE ON Export as plain text or as SRT subtitles. Copy the whole transcript, or share it straight from the app. BUILT FOR REAL WORK Students recording lectures. Journalists working through interviews. Teams turning meetings into notes. Researchers transcribing fieldwork. Anyone who would otherwise type it all out by hand. LANGUAGES Automatic language detection, with support across a wide range of languages including English and Turkish. Choose the language manually whenever you prefer. PRIVACY Your recordings are yours. Audio is uploaded only when you ask for a transcript โ recordings you keep on your device are never sent anywhere. We do not use your audio or transcripts to train AI models. Delete a recording, or your whole account, from inside the app. PLANS Start free with 30 minutes of transcription each month, no account needed to record. Lite โ 8 hours of transcription per month Pro โ 15 hours per month Both paid plans include speaker separation, the most accurate model, and exports. Monthly or annual billing. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. A NOTE ON ACCURACY Transcription is automated, and accuracy depends on audio quality, accents and background noise. For anything consequential, check the transcript against the original audio. Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/terms-of-service-echoly/ Privacy: https://sites.google.com/view/privacy-policy-echoly/
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Verdict
Hostfold and Echoly are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Hostfold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Echoly sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Hostfold | Echoly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ๆๆ ๆ | RAMAZAN BURAK EKINCI |
In-app purchases
Hostfold
- Hostfold Pro$3.99
Echoly
- Lite Monthly Subscriptions$4.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription Pro$9.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription Lite$39.991 Year
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- Yearly Subscription Pro$79.991 Year









