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Echo — Capture easier, think better with AI voice and text notes
Echo is a mobile-first, voice & text, note-taking app that uses AI to organize your thoughts and bring them to life.
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Thomas Felix Officer
Maker
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Hey Product Hunt 🤓
I’m Thomas. Reuben and I teamed up earlier this year to create Echo. Reuben’s a brilliant product manager with a software engineering background, and I’m a lawyer-turned-designer.
Echo is a voice note-taking app that goes beyond capturing your thoughts — it actively helps you engage with them.
⭐ Why Echo exists
Capturing notes is just the starting point. What’s truly valuable is a tool that transforms your scattered thoughts into something real. With Echo, you’re encouraged to think out loud and explore ideas freely, knowing that it will help you build, refine, and expand on them when you’re ready.
⭐ Why people love using Echo
✍️ For writers getting unstuck: Echo organizes jumbled ideas into polished drafts. Just talk through your thoughts, and see your voice transformed into structured text.
💡 For creative thinkers: Jot down half-formed ideas and let Echo spark new connections with prompts and suggestions to keep the inspiration flowing.
📚 For lifelong learners: Capture fleeting insights and revisit them with fresh context or questions. Echo’s design keeps your thoughts interconnected over time.
🚀 For anyone focused on personal growth: Echo is like a self-coaching companion. Track habits, reflect on patterns, and see how your mindset evolves.
⭐ What Echo can do right now:
1️⃣ Voice-to-text transcription — quickly capture ideas on the go.
2️⃣ Automatic organization by topic — build a structured record effortlessly.
3️⃣ One-click note refinement — transform rough thoughts into actionable plans.
4️⃣ Answer any question based on your notes — let Echo synthesize insights or provide deeper understanding.
⭐ Why it's special
Echo isn’t just another note-taking app. It’s designed to help you turn the rough sketches of your mind into a cohesive map for achieving your goals — whether personal, professional, or creative.
Try it out — Echo is free to use! We're excited to hear your feedback.
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congrats on the launch 🚀 I've downloaded the app and put the widget on my lock screen, I look forward to giving it a go!
I think you're onto something here, I can't be trusted to capture or organise my thoughts, so I think lowering that friction and making the structuring passive is a great angle.
It's only a shame that these can't be automatically added to Apple Notes, where I store everything else though I presume that isn't possible.
Maker
@jonnymiles Lowering the friction to capture thoughts is a core value proposition of ours. Glad you're using the widget; I also find it super helpful for 1-click note-taking.
You can export from Echo. From the header of a note, click the export icon (an arrow pointing up out of a box).
Thank you for the kind words. We look forward to hearing more feedback.
Maker
@wpgaurav Definitely possible! But first we'd want to know more about why you need a iPad version. Anything you can share would be super helpful! Thank you
@tomaofficer In addition to being a full-time developer and marketer, I’m also a student. For all these roles, I rely on my iPad for note-taking and quick sketches. Having an app that supports floating multitasking would be incredibly useful for jotting down notes on the go.
Moreover, once you develop an iPad version, the app can also be made available for Silicon Macs with ease. If possible, adding Apple PencilKit support would be a great enhancement for a seamless note-taking experience.
Maker
@wpgaurav This makes sense. And yes, better note-taking is must-have for students. Imagine being able to record lectures and then, later, ask Echo to quiz you on the topic.
The Echo app is helpful and easy to use. I really like the user interface and its simplicity. The Echo version of my notes enhances my voice notes further, which is great!
Maker
@vijay_anand_s Thank you for the kind words! Please reach out with any suggested improvements at support@echonotes.ai (we review and respond to every email)
Congrats @rabraham on the launch!! Real cool stream of consciousness product.
Having built a mobile app before, quick idea for you all: add a QR code to the home page. That way visitors on desktop can quickly download without having to juggle links or try searching on the app store (echo is a competitive keyword) :)
Maker
@cameron_napoli Thanks for the tip, Cameron!! Really appreciate it. Let me know your thoughts on the product as well once you use it for a bit.
I am an early user of Echo. As a founder, there are usually hundreds of things racing through my head at any given moment. I’ve started voice journaling using Echo and it has given me a great outlet to turn rambles into organized and clear structure to help convey my thoughts.
Would highly recommend for any busy professional or founder!
Echo’s been an amazing way to capture inspiration whenever it strikes. I’m especially loving the Topics feature; feels like I’m staring at a second brain
That's exactly what I was looking for. Are you planning to integrate with other platforms? I think a Notion integration would be perfect for my use case (PKM and feelings tracker)
Maker
@lfsmoura Thank you so much! I'd love to learn more about what you're looking for from a Notion integration and how exactly you imagine it working - please email me at reuben@echonotes.ai
Congrats the AI could improve its accuracy in recognizing different accents when transcribing. Otherwise it’s been a fantastic experience. @tomaofficer Great work.
Maker
@alexandergreen98 Hi Alexander. My mother has a thick accent and runs into the same issues. This is something we're thinking about. Thank you for the feedback!
Congrates on launching. @tomaofficer I’d like to know how you handle encryption and data protection. Looking forward to learning more about the security aspects. Great job.
Does Echo offer any customization for how it organizes the notes? @tomaofficer Otherwise it’s been a fantastic experience. Great work.
Maker
@grace_phillips98 Good question! What kind of customization would you like to do for organizing notes?
Echo uses the topic's title and summary when deciding whether to add it to a new note. If you manually edit what notes are attached to a topic (click into the topic, then click "edit" next to 'Related Notes'), the topic summary will eventually regenerate. This updated topic summary will then be used next time you create a note to determine whether the topic applies.
This isn't exactly customizing the organization method of Echo, but it does give you some control over how topics works.
Congrats on the lunch.@tomaofficer can it categorize notes based on different themes or projects? It’d be amazing if users could tailor it to their unique workflows. Great job on this innovative app.
Maker
@matthew_flores98 Excellent question. Out of curiosity, what kinds of themes or projects do you have in mind?
You can create new topics in Echo. You'll have to manually add your notes but wait a couple days and we'll have a feature out that lets you automatically find relevant notes (the reverse of the same process that happens when you create a new note - Echo automatically finds relevant topics).
Love the idea. I think Echo is highly practical. Have used similar apps before. not satisfied with the outcome.
Maker
@salar__davari Thanks for giving us a try. Would love to hear your feedback on how we stack up against similar apps.
Congratulations on the launch Thomas & Reuben! 🔥
Sounds great for those moments when I’m on the go and need to quickly jot down the spontaneous ideas that pop up.
Love the fact that it actually sorts them as well by topics (my notes app is currently a mess)!
Just downloaded it, excited to try it out!
Maker
@davidskr Thank you! Echo is great for spontaneous ideas. My personal favorite mode is to take Echo for a walk. I've created a routine of walks where I allow myself to ramble. I get some of my best thinking done that way, and with Echo I don't have to worry about that thinking dissipating into the ether.
