r/EchonVoice

Hey everyone, big update drop for Echon.

Payments are live

• Echon Premium ($3.49/mo), Premium+ ($7.99/mo), and Founders Edition ($209 lifetime, limited to 1,000 seats)
• Powered by Stripe — we never see your card details
• Founders get lifetime access to everything. If we ever shut down, the code is open source (MIT) so you can self-host

Screen sharing improvements

• Native Electron capture path for higher framerate streaming
• H.264 High profile for hardware-accelerated encoding (uses your GPU, not CPU)
• Removed server-side bandwidth throttling that was killing viewer framerate
• 1080p streaming for Premium, 4K for Premium+ and Founders

Security hardening

• Rotated all secrets (TURN, JWT, refresh tokens)
• Removed hardcoded credentials from source code
• All Stripe keys server-side only, webhook signature verification
• Desktop app: permissions locked to echon-voice.com origin

Code quality

• Split 1,500-line settings modal into 7 focused components
• Created shared CSS utility classes (no more 1,200 inline styles)
• Added useIsMobile hook replacing 20+ raw window.innerWidth checks
• Cleaned up GitHub repos — removed boilerplate, old scripts, duplicate icons

Bug fixes

• Fixed double sound when switching voice channels
• Silent auto-rejoin after server restart (no disconnect/join sounds)
• Fixed DM notification click disconnecting from voice
• Fixed voice crackling caused by shared AudioContext routing
• Fixed Android keyboard overlapping text input
• Fixed mobile members icon (was just 2 dots)
• Fixed poll button cut off on mobile
• Fixed settings not opening on Android

Legal

• Updated Terms of Service for payments, refund policy, and Founders Edition
• "Lifetime" = lifetime of the service, 30-day refund window
• Open source code always available regardless of hosted service status

Still free. Still private. Still open source.

Try it: echon-voice.com
GitHub: github.com/pkapral2-droid/echon