Side by side

    Epic's Echo vs Epicly

    The closest thing to this on the market. On the two questions that matter most — what happens to your recording, and whether your game trains a model — they answer well. Here is where we actually differ.

    What Epicly says, in its own words

    “Tabletop games without the work.”
    playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    The recording

    “We don't hold onto your recordings after your session is transcribed.”
    playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    What this one does

    The same, as of this month: the recording is deleted when the recap finishes. Fourteen days only if your table asks for it — and there is a button to delete it sooner.

    Training on your game

    “Your story is not used to improve AI models — not ours, not anyone's.”
    playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    What this one does

    They print that promise. We don't, yet: no written contract with our model vendor covers it, and putting the line up before the contract exists would be exactly the kind of claim this site is built to avoid.

    What you get without paying

    “Upload up to 2 sessions per month”
    playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    What this one does

    Thirty days and eight Echoes — your first two sessions run end to end, not a thirty-minute sample. After that the archive stays readable and exportable for nothing.

    Buying extra sessions

    “Extra audio session credits that never expire and can stack with your plan”
    playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    What this one does

    Echo packs need an active subscription here, so we struck “never expire” from our own copy rather than sell around it.

    Where Epicly is ahead of us

    • Epicly's free tier never ends — two sessions a month, indefinitely. Ours is a thirty-day trial: it's generous while it runs, but it does run out.

      “$0.00 forever”
      playepicly.com·checked 2026-08-16

    Quotes are copied word for word on the date shown, and other people ship changes too. If something here has gone out of date, tell us: the page gets corrected or it comes down.

    Try it on your recording

    30 days, and the clock starts at your first upload — not at signup.