Why is the app still available in the Apple Store if it’s discontinued for iOS?

It’s just a website link

This is for Echo Meter 2 which requires a part that isn’t made and costs money. It is not the free original Echo Meter and is nothing but s promotional pitch for other products. Won’t do business with this company again.

It is important to note that this App is only useful when used in conjunction the specified ultrasonic microphone. My review is based on using the App in that setting. I purchased an Echo Touch 2 Pro last fall and I love it. The device is very small and coupled with an inexpensive short stubby extension it easily plugs into my iPhone without a need to remove the case. When I’m not actually using it I keep it in and the extension within its small case and carry it in the pocket of my favorite jacket for ready access. I originally bought the device for a purpose unrelated to monitoring bats. I had an interest in testing ultrasonic rodent repellers and had no way to compare the intensity of their output or the character of their sound. They light up when you turn them on but you have no direct way to verify what they are actually doing beyond that and no way to tell if they stop working. An internet search for ultrasonic sound detectors brought me to the Echo Touch 2 and I was sorry to see that they no longer offered the lower price base model. The higher price for the Pro model looked a bit daunting but after a couple of days of debate I went ahead and ordered. It was a great purchase, coupled with the App it provided everything I needed to contrast ultrasonic emitter models; their output levels and detailed characteristics of the sounds they emitted. It was also useful in mapping volume levels throughout an area and at a distance. I especially appreciated it when checking mobile repellers installed under the hood in vehicles. That location may sound weird but rodents can cause expensive damage to engine wiring and penetrate into vehicle interiors, even cars normally kept in a garage are at risk when parked away from home for a few hours. Although I had no particular interest in bats when I purchased it, I thought it only appropriate to give it a try for its intended purpose too. What an eye opener that was. The first time I went into the backyard and turned it on I heard and then saw a bat almost immediately. I’d been living here 25 years and never noticed any bats before that night. The sound and visual information presented was incredible. Over the next few days I made a point to closely investigate the user information available about the various settings and I became much more adept at getting the most from the device and the App. While the occasional backyard bat was interesting, I decided to explore other locations in my area and started doing

We bought the echo-meter 2 ultrasonic mike and downloaded this app. It’s been a lot of fun listening to the bats, but a bit frustrating in a number of ways. So a 4-star review, but they should fix the code. 1. This isn’t their fault, but on an iPhone you can’t use anything audio at the same time as the app so e.g. no headphones of Bluetooth speakers. This would be OK, except that: 2. The echo-meter appears to pick up output from the speaker (why isn’t it either cancelled in software, or given a setting to block everything below e.g. 15 kHz?). The result is low-frequency “echoes” of the bat signals. At least, I think that that’s what’s going on. 3. There’s no way to get the app to show you what it thinks that the species sonograms are. The code apparently uses a clustering algorithm, so it could display the characteristic patterns that it’s looking for. Why would you do that on the app not a computer you might ask: 4. While you can download your recordings, the free version of your application that they recommend (kaleidoscope) is less capable than the iOS app and has no ability to ID bats. For a $170 piece of kit that’s really annoying. I can see why they don’t give a full pro license, but a version that’s as good as the app would be reasonable and appreciated. Oh, and Kaleidoscope can’t display the GPS info either (I could probably do that myself as the metadata is transferred), and it sorts incorrectly. And doesn’t read all the fields in the csv files (maybe the pro version does???)

Been using this for ages with my echometer touch. From way back when the app cost 200 dollars. The latest version no longer works on any of my devices. It just continuously stutters. Support has given no help even though my hardware is listed as being supported. The only response from support I received was to never update my iPad or iPod touch. Very disappointed.

App looks promising but you can’t even try it out without buying their $200 microphone. I wish they would add a feature to use the built in iPhone microphone instead. It obviously doesn’t have the same frequency range but would allow someone to play around with it before making a large investment.

As someone who enjoys bat-watching, I’m very happy that there is a fairly affordable bat-detector with an auto-ID feature. I just wish there were more phyllostomid representation in the auto-ID.

The last few weeks I have had hours of background recordings with very few bat signatures. Last night had basically 1 hour and 45 minutes of continuous background recordings with only two identified bat calls. The only reason quit recording is because device ran out of memory. Can I uninstall the recent updates?

What a great idea and innovation. The suggested ID based on different chirp signatures is amazing. However, it says for North America, there are only seven bats that do not have classifiers. However, when I plug in my home state (Florida) I count 29 species that do not have classifiers. Please correct!