Could be better
The speech is terrible. On some tests it makes it unplayable.
Mediocre app but decent tool overall
The app is a good exercise. One must recognize a few exercises have terrible instructions but most are adequate. The app is buggy in that it fails to always register your responses correctly leading tostrikes against you. That will piss you off. Using AI to explore the clinical trials one does not find a validation regarding the exercises efficacy, but after using it one does feel sharper while driving for example.
Is it worth it? Yes, I think, once one knows the peculiarities. You may end up using the website rather than the app as I have. Support is mediocre. BrainHQ may also delete your review here.
Is it worth it? Yes, I think, once one knows the peculiarities. You may end up using the website rather than the app as I have. Support is mediocre. BrainHQ may also delete your review here.
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Mediocre app but decent tool overall
The app is a good exercise. One must recognize some exercises have terrible instructions but most are adequate. The app is buggy in that it won’t always register your clicks leading to a strike against you.
Is it worth it? Yes, once one knows the peculiarities. You may end up using the website rather than the app as I have.
Support is mediocre. BrainHQ may also delete your review here.
Again, is it worth it? Yes.
Is it worth it? Yes, once one knows the peculiarities. You may end up using the website rather than the app as I have.
Support is mediocre. BrainHQ may also delete your review here.
Again, is it worth it? Yes.
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Too fast
The feedback after completing exercises goes way too fast for me to read and you can’t go back to it anywhere. Please fix this!
I understand now
A few days ago I wrote whining about how there was no way to progress part a point in the memory test with sound cards.
I understand now.
Thanks
I understand now.
Thanks
Visual Sweeps
The instructions for the visual sweeps exercise make absolutely no sense whatsoever. It’s utterly impossible to do it.
okay but..
I’ve tried to like this but at a certain point in the daily training it starts going too way to fast- is it realistically made for humans? I have to literally position my fingers millimeters from screen in order to hit it fast enough? then it becomes just stress. it’s no on this one
Over charged
I purchased a 1 year subscription for $99.99 in March 2026 and I’ve been over charged. Once in April 26’ for 94.99 and twice in May. I want a refund!!! Unfair
Nice App
Works well on my iPhone 12 but I downloaded it on my mom’s Google Pixel (2025) and the navigation task bar (the info, pause and exit buttons) when playing games is completely gone, so she can’t exit or pause any games
Brilliant… but there is a huge accessibility problem.
The tests are great. The system works very well, encouraging you to keep trying until you figure it out.
However.
There is no option for accessibility. Not even in the audio practice, which requires working ears.
I wrote support and asked, and they told me directly that they have no plans to address this. The brains of those with disabilities apparently are a very low priority.
I’m hoping it gets fixed eventually. This really is the best brain training game… but I don’t want to give my money to a company that views some humans as worth less effort.
However.
There is no option for accessibility. Not even in the audio practice, which requires working ears.
I wrote support and asked, and they told me directly that they have no plans to address this. The brains of those with disabilities apparently are a very low priority.
I’m hoping it gets fixed eventually. This really is the best brain training game… but I don’t want to give my money to a company that views some humans as worth less effort.
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Great, but….
I’m only using the daily free version. Challenging, but fun! My only quibble is that the card memory game doesn’t give enough time to respond! Even hovering fingers over the thumbs up and down buttons doesn’t allow enough time to tap
Erratic performance
The sounds only work about 60% of the time, and they’re sporadic. Sound Sweep, for example, plays two tones for each challenge, and sometimes only the first one is audible, sometimes only the second one, sometimes both, and sometimes neither one. It beck
Ea. Guessing game, which is not helpful. There are other challenges that exhibit erratic performance as well.
There are also some games - Card Shark being one example - that have very confusing and unclear instructions on how to play.
So far, this app is not proving very useful or worth the money for the paid version, although it IS helping me learn how to deal with frustration!
The similar app Impulse has proven better and more reliable.
Ea. Guessing game, which is not helpful. There are other challenges that exhibit erratic performance as well.
There are also some games - Card Shark being one example - that have very confusing and unclear instructions on how to play.
So far, this app is not proving very useful or worth the money for the paid version, although it IS helping me learn how to deal with frustration!
The similar app Impulse has proven better and more reliable.
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また不具合おきてる！
トレーニング始めても、なにもやってないのに強制終了されたり、画面固まってリセットされてしまったりの繰り返しです！早めに直してほしい！
Response from developer
それは大変申し訳ございません。サポートさせていただきますので、support@brainhq.com まで直接ご連絡いただけますでしょうか。
Poor sound quality affects training
i’ve been doing one free daily training round, and enjoyed the first few, but then I got to treating where I have to listen to a conversation and answer questions about what was said. The problem that the sound quality of the app is so bad, I cannot understand that people are saying. My hearing is excellent, it’s not that. And the names that are chosen, are unusually spelled or uncommon, and that compounds the problem. I’m pretty disappointed with that
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can’t get past start
I wish that every game presented had a clear demo or tutorial. I have little experience with video games and find myself completely puzzled at times, lost in terms of how to proceed. I’ve quit many tasks without making it past the “start” button, which is incredibly demoralizing. Is there a point to not providing more explanation?
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No allowance for colorblindness
This app seems to be very good and helpful until you get to a spot where you’re depending on color and shades of color which it does a lot. I have sent messages and they tell me to adjust my phone, so ,they make no allowances. My phones colorblind options don’t seem to be helpful. unfortunately there are many visual and optic challenges.on this app
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Too repetitive, not enough feedback
I wish it provided more feedback on whether I was getting any better at the games. What feedback it does give flashes up so quickly, I can’t read it. I’m also getting a bit bored as there’s only a handful of different games.
It’s ok
It might improve focus a little, but is no match for simply reading a book. This app doesn’t provide thinking puzzles/problems, it focuses on more fundamental aspects of thinking that feed into the intelligence required to solve problems, understand complex ideas, etc., like attention, focus and more. Except the facial expressions. What is that? Didn’t someone else prove that many facial expressions can be misinterpreted out of context? And many of the games seem to test the speed of your vision, which has always been fast for me, based on what my friends tell me compared to them. How does this help? I just played the flower matching game for the first time and was immediately in the top 1%. This hasn’t helped me in my everyday. And many of the games seem to have foreground and background designed similarly to confuse what you’re seeing. How does this help?
And there’s way too much animation between screen transitions. WAAAYYY too much!!!
Just read a book and track your own focus, attention and comprehension while you read and you’ll get better benefits than these games.
And there’s way too much animation between screen transitions. WAAAYYY too much!!!
Just read a book and track your own focus, attention and comprehension while you read and you’ll get better benefits than these games.
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Unpolished
OK, but it needs work. For example, the voice in the to-do list exercise is extremely unnatural and hard to understand. In that same exercise, the instructions are sometimes ambiguous; it’ll say something like “You need item A after item B and then item C.” That could mean either B, A, C, or B, C, A. Of the exercises I’ve tried so far, that one is the worst, but others could use some polishing too. There’s one (I can’t remember the name) where there’s an image with blurry lines that either converge or diverge. The speed advances so quickly to such a rate that it’s just a wild guess. I understand that it needs to get more difficult, but it goes from easy to impossible almost immediately.
I really want to like this app enough to subscribe, but the one-per-day free exercises I’ve seen so far are not encouraging.
UPDATE: the ambiguity in the to-do list exercise instructions is fixed, but the voice quality is still comically bad.
I really want to like this app enough to subscribe, but the one-per-day free exercises I’ve seen so far are not encouraging.
UPDATE: the ambiguity in the to-do list exercise instructions is fixed, but the voice quality is still comically bad.
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Nur in Englisch
Grundsätzlich tolle App, da nur in englischer Sprache, habe ich mich gegen die kostenpflichtige Version entschieden.
Response from developer
BrainHQ ist tatsächlich in 13 Sprachen verfügbar, darunter Arabisch, Niederländisch, Französisch (Kanadisch), Deutsch, Griechisch, Hebräisch, Italienisch, Japanisch, Koreanisch, Mandarin, Portugiesisch, Russisch und Spanisch. Bitte beachten Sie, dass nicht alle Übungen in jeder Sprache verfügbar sind, aber wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie es ausprobieren! Bei Fragen können Sie uns gerne unter support@brainhq.com (mailto:support@brainhq.com) kontaktieren.
