# BrainWave: Neuro Trainer ™ — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of BrainWave by Banzai Labs, rated 4.80/5 from 367 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brainwave-neuro-trainer/id405583668/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brainwave-neuro-trainer/id405583668.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 327 · 4★ 29 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of BrainWave? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Works well for fitness - 🧘‍♀️ Promotes tranquility and relief - 🎧 Calming and listenable soundscapes - 🎯 Improves hand-eye coordination - 💡 Game changer for sports - ✨ Helps with meditation - ⚡️ Provides energy - 😴 Aids sleep - 😌 Reduces headaches - ❤️ Highly recommended - 💪 Effective for workouts - 🧠 Supports brainwave entrainment - 🚀 Improves performance - 💯 Worth the price - 🌟 Top-shelf quality - ✅ Does exactly what it says - ⏱️ Quick app support - 🏃‍♀️ Useful for exercise - 📚 Helps with homework - 💡 Improves focus - 📈 Increases output - 😊 Feels better - 🎶 Can play music in background - 📝 Can record affirmations - 🧠 Helps organize ADHD brain - 🌟 Top notch quality - ✨ Cures absent mindedness - 🚀 Interface is quick - 💯 Across the board quality - 👍 Great entrainment - 🚀 Interface is together and quick - 😊 Great for pre-workout - 😴 Great sleep aid - 👍 Very cool app - 💯 Worth downloading - 🤩 Amazing apps **Cons** - 🐛 Stops playing in background - 📉 Makes app useless for workouts - ⚠️ Apps freeze on iOS26 - ⏳ Not being developed further - 🖼️ Outdated graphics - 🔊 Pulsing noise is too low - 🤔 Unclear if it actually works - 🚫 Fails to list frequencies - ❓ Doesn't explain effects of frequencies - 🎧 Needs headphones for binaural beats - 🐛 Speed program crashes - 🐛 App crashes with speed setting **Commonly reported bugs** - App stops playing in the background when not selected - Apps freeze repeatedly under iOS26 - The speed program crashes - App crashes when trying to start a cycle with the speed setting **Most requested features** - Fix background playback issue - Update app for iOS26 - Add a 'rise and shine' program - Add ability to save specific playlists to specific programs - Consolidate apps into one - Allow in-app purchases of sound collections - More background sounds - Greater ability to customize/blend sounds and save them - Update to include similar offerings to AmbiScience for customization - List frequencies or evidence of effectiveness - List frequencies used - Explain all possible effects of using a specific frequency - Offer Isochronic Tones - Allow use with own testing music (like Brain Waves 30) - Choice for specific sports and explanation of benefits - Make Dream Inducers free ## Newest reviews (13 of 38) ### 5/5 — Good Program *2021-12-08* I believe after years of use, binaural tones really work ### 5/5 — Best Brainwave *2020-09-26* This is the very best Brainwave program. I can mix and match with other programs . Put programs from iTunes together.. I can highly recommend this Brainwave program ### 5/5 — Uber-quick App support!!! *2019-10-27* Got an email fix within minutes, cannot beat that!!! Love all of the Brainwave apps! ### 5/5 — Hiking tones *2018-07-30* I use this product every week to get me to the top of Aspen Mountain. It’s very flexible. I use it for exercise and sleep almost every day. ### 5/5 — Binaural at its best! *2018-04-13* This app is fantastic. I use the music for energy and find that it works every time! I have the entire five apps and have not had chance to listen to them all yet, but everything I've listened to so far has met with great approval! I would recommend this product to anyone, especially sufferers of fatigue or lack of confidence! ### 5/5 — Highly recommend *2018-01-22* I have enjoyed using brain waves and used them as a tool to help my children with homework and against negatively altered states. The best and most used app I have purchased ### 5/5 — Increased output, better workouts *2018-01-03* Not a pro athlete, but for the past 6 years I’ve been working out 3 times a week. Definitely love preceding them with 20 minutes of this. Makes all the difference in my calorie burn, enjoyment factor, and recovery. I’m 73 and feel so much better than before. Words aren’t enough. ### 5/5 — Favorite workout ritual *2017-09-20* Let be this app before during and after workout! I ### 5/5 — Great. Use it daily! *2016-03-17* This app does everything it says it does. I use it on a daily basis to help focus, or learn , or to power nap, or to get me off the chair & out exercising. And I love the ability to play music along with the brainwave program. The only thing I'd like added is the ability to save specific playlists to specific programs. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — All of their brainwave apps are great. *2016-02-22* I love the fact that I can play any of my music in the background. I can pre-record hypnosis or affirmations. I can play any kind of music directly out of iTunes or set up playlists and the brainwave apps apps. I bought the entire package. I find that I use NeuroAthlete the most. ### 5/5 — Improve/Empower your life! MUST GET THIS APP!! *2016-01-18* I've been using Brainwave apps for a couple years now. When I found NeuroAthlete, I purchased immediately. This app takes Brainwave usage to the next level. I am a new Zumba instructor and these apps have really helped me focus, gain confidence, and learn new routines much faster and more competently. I also use it every morning just to get my ADHD brain organized for my usually long, busy days. Even in my 60's, my ability to learn and maintain a super high level of activity is fantastic. I run circles around much younger people and keep up with technology as well as any 30 year old, because I keep my brain finely tuned with Brainwave technology. ### 5/5 — Top Notch *2015-11-03* I am curing my absent mindedness by using this app. I had this issue for a few years now & i can see the app's healing effect immediately. Thanks a ton !! :) ### 5/5 — Excellent . *2015-01-23, version 7.3* Across the board quality. The interface is together and quick. Well done. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Probleme *2026-02-06* Apps bleiben unter iOS26 immer wieder hängen und werden nicht mehr weiter entwickelt… Grafik veraltet ⚠️ ### 1/5 — Buyer beware! *2011-07-01* The maker of this app, and other apps by the same developer, fail to list the frequencies used. Unfortunately some of the other similar app developers do the same. There are a few who do list the exact frequencies used in their apps. It's important to know the frequencies used because sometimes developers use the wrong frequency for the purpose that they claim. Sometimes a specific frequency can be used for more than one purpose. Typically developers fail to tell you all the possible effects of using a specific frequency. This is an app that affects you brain. Don't you want to know exactly what you are listening to? Not knowing what frequencies are being used is the equivalent of someone giving you a pill for your headache but they fail to mention what's in that pill. Wouldn't you want to know what you are taking? I would also encourage you to find out the difference between Binaural Beats and Isochronic Tones. Many people describe Isochronic Tones as Binaural Beats on steroids. I find them more effective than Binaural Beats. And you don't need headphones for Isochronic Tones. There's only one app, that I know of, that gives you both in the same app. I can't recall the name but it's made by Ambi Science. It gives you 100 different beats and tones. And they list EVERY single frequency used! ### 2/5 — Used to be Great *2026-03-10* This used to be a great app. However, it now stops playing in the background when it is not the selected app. This makes it useless for working out since it turns off when you’re on another app. If they could fix this issue it would be a five star app again. **Developer response:** I'm sorry you're having an issue with the app. Please restart the device and that will resolve the issue. Over time, background apps accumulate and the available RAM becomes depleted. Eventually, this causes iOS to enter its "memory pressure" mode, which conserves memory by limiting nonessential operations, such as background audio. As this app uses multiple audio players, iOS will suspend its audio when another app begins playing when memory pressure mode is active. Restarting the device with a full shutdown will refresh the RAM and resolve the issue. I'd also like to apologize for the long delay in responding to your review. If you have any further issues or questions please contact me using the Email Support option in the app. I usually respond within a hours to support emails. Best regards, Phil ### 3/5 — Update please ! *2013-11-02* Would love to see updated so we can use it along with our own tesining music; the same wsy you did it with the Brain Waves 30 programs . ### 3/5 — Fun app, but I don't know if it did anything... *2011-08-20, version 1.2* If you are looking for something to make white noise to help you sleep this might be a good option, but there are others that are probably smaller. I ran it and I don't know if it did anything special for. I would agree listing the frequencies or evidence of effectiveness would be nice. ### 4/5 — Helps me sleep! *2017-08-06* I have had a series of major life changing events occur over the last decade and sleep has been difficult – I rarely have had a full night of sleep. I have used this app with ocean sounds in the background with good luck – with a few exceptions, but it's certainly better than any medication that I refuse to take and if I wake up in the night, and hear the sounds of the ocean, I know I haven't had my full eight hours of sleep yet and go back to sleep – it doesn't take long. This is big relief for me! I have used various forms of brain in treatment over the last 20 years and this one, without the lights which I find extremely helpful for other reasons, works fine with just the audio… And that's helpful at night time. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that the brain and treatments it's self – hello pulsing noise – is so low that then I can't hear it very well, even with the volume all the way up. It's that pulsing sound that gives some people I headache, but that's very wear for most people and I'm not one of them. Otherwise, well done guys! ### 4/5 — Great App!!! *2014-12-30, version 7.3* The more the person uses it, the better it works. ### 4/5 — Great Entrainment - Needs More Opions! *2013-08-12* As far as the binaural programs go, these apps are the best (I have several). But there are two problems: 1) Why can't they consolidate these blasted things so that you have ONE app with all the binaural programs you want? Make a giant one with all available sounds and charge more, or, better yet, allow in-app purchases of new collections of sounds. Total PITA to remember which one of this company's apps has the sound you want and way too much unnecessary irritation and clutter on the device. I now have an entire folder just for my Brain Wave apps and it's silly. This problem isn't unique to Brain Wave, but since theirs is the best, I expect better! 2) Needs more background sounds and a greater ability to customize/blend sounds and save them. This developer's entrainment is better than the ones I have on other apps. But AmbiScience, for example, is way ahead customization: Far more sounds, the ability to blend several of them (rain plus forest plus brown noise plus additional layers. Even better, they all are highly customizable, in addition to the blend of sounds, users can add intermittent thunder, the occasional bird, bursts of wind, as often as they want, for whatever duration they like. And then users can save those mini programs they have created.) Brain Wave should update to include similar offerings to truly have the strongest binaural program. Still, four stars for the much stronger and more useful entrainment, which comes in 'stages' to better help users achieve the desired state. But they need to make a better user experience! ### 4/5 — Overdrive experimentation *2011-01-27* I tryed it 1 week and i can't say it does'nt work but i think it's just in our mind the problem...You Should try it but don't think you're gonna be supetman with it. ### 4/5 — Good but... *2011-01-11, version 1.1* When you try to start a cycle with the speed setting the app crashes you should also make a choice for specific sports and explain why it helps your athletic activity please update ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-20* Works !!!!! ### 5/5 — Love This App! *2025-05-17* I’ve had this app for way to long. Never actually thought about writing a review. But it’s very good for fitness, special awareness, tranquility, and relief. I highly recommend just buying the pack for all of them. Sound waves are very calming, listenable which I look allot for in music apps either it’s ASMR, Soundscapes, Ambient music. It gradually helps you with mediation also. If you are beginner just 10 minutes daily is a start. Much love to the developers, hope you are doing well! Thank You! ### 5/5 — Works really really well *2025-04-02* Been useing these apps( 7)they have for over a year🤪🤩😘 I’m very impressed believe it or not. It does exactly what they say. I can keep it working easy with my ear pods all day. Thank you very much of the good work.🤩 Aloha Gil ### 5/5 — Hand eye coordination *2024-02-29* I listen to this on my way to pickleball and I hit reflexively things that otherwise might fly right past me. It’s a game changer for being “in” the games. ### 5/5 — 🫶🏼 *2023-10-20* I absolutely love these! ### 5/5 — Essential. *2023-09-12* State is everything and at the core of any undertaking. Would be cool to see them add a “rise and shine” program that helps you get out of that morning lazy sluggishness and in sync with the idea of a lo ring work out. Quick energy might be that but can’t be sure lol ### 5/5 — Improved my Beat Saber scores. *2023-01-13* Get all the apps by this dev. Worth far more than they are charging. My beat saber scores improved, my headaches go away faster, I sleep better, my BP is down, all my Wellatory stats (another great app) are improved. ### 5/5 — Love it *2023-01-06* So effective! ### 5/5 — ALL YOUR MEDITATION PROGRAMS ARE EXCELLENT!!! *2022-08-23* From “NEURO ATHLETE & BREATHE TROUGH ALL OF YOUR PROGRAMS: EXTREMELY SOOTHING & RELAXING!!! EXCELLENT !!!!! TOP SHELF!!!!!!! Thank You… THANK YOU!!!!!!! 👍👌🎬🫀 ### 5/5 — Super Duper! *2022-01-17* Superb app Got the whole package of apps and they are brilliant. Packed full of features, beautifully designed and honestly, this is one of my best purchases… ever!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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