Best FocusCalm alternatives: apps like FocusCalm - Brain Training

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

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9 free apps
Updated October 2026

FocusCalm is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to FocusCalm

3.7(13 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Visualize and map your brain activity using compatible headbands. Record, save, and compare brain data to understand your cognitive patterns. Discover your optimal performance state and analyze brain activity during various activities.

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Semse Aware: Be Present Now by Semse World Kft

Well-Being with Neurofeedback
Strong Contender
💪 Health & Fitness
4.4(5 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app uses EEG data from a compatible headband to provide interactive audio-visual feedback for mindfulness and self-discovery. It transforms meditation into a game-like experience, helping users achieve inner calm and awareness.

4.3😐(201 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app offers scientifically validated meditation lessons and guided breathing exercises to improve stress resilience and focus. It features a goal tracker and a free timer mode compatible with other audio apps, allowing you to record practice from any source. Biofeedback and detailed reports provide insights into your progress.

What We Love

  • 👍 Functionally rich and well thought out
  • 👍 Good design makes it intuitive
  • 👍 Helps find and strengthen coherence and flow states
  • 👍 Takes meditation to the next level
  • 👍 Amazing learning device for meditation flow
  • 👍 Measures brainwaves and heart coherence
  • 👍 Allows leaving app for own meditations
  • 👍 Can journal and record mood
  • 👍 Deepens understanding of meditation effects
  • 👍 Great for advanced meditators
  • 👍 Excellent way to deepen meditation practice
  • 👍 Easy to use and setup
  • 👍 Great value in improving meditation
  • 👍 Well-designed accompanying program with feedback and data
  • 👍 Easy to read with excellent detail
  • 👍 Prompt delivery with no extra customs charges
  • 👍 Gives extra boost to motivation and knowledge
  • 👍 Freaking wild progress tracking
  • 👍 Helps visualize and focus during meditation
  • 👍 Fine-tune meditation by wavelength
  • 👍 Feels magic, impressive improvement in flow
  • 👍 Great hardware and software
  • 👍 Easy to use and comfortable
  • 👍 Great verification for meditation practice
  • 👍 Provides variety of metrics correlating with inner states
  • 👍 Easy to use and reliable
  • 👍 Good for most users
  • 👍 Great potential, better than Muse 2
  • 👍 Fascinating insights into brainwaves
  • 👍 Elegant and comfortable headset
  • 👍 Easy setup and training
  • 👍 Improvements in mental health and well-being
  • 👍 Great app, improving with time
  • 👍 Excellent app, accurate measurements
  • 👍 Good sign with app improvements
  • 👍 Headband is great, comfortable, connects well
  • 👍 Customer service exists
  • 👍 True gift, helps feel more like oneself

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Loses contact between sensors and skin
  • 🐛 Not sturdy enough
  • 🐛 Cannot export brainwave data after 1 hour
  • 🐛 Charts not colorblind accessible
  • 🐛 Typos in interface
  • 🐛 Device doesn't keep reading for more than 10 minutes
  • 🐛 Claims great connectivity until meditation starts
  • 🐛 Difficult to manage device-specific issues
  • 🐛 Can't even log in, network error
  • 🐛 Cannot purchase via app with free trial
  • 🐛 Company ignores emails
  • 🐛 Loses signal, never keeps signal
  • 🐛 Worthless without reliable signal
  • 🐛 Frustrating for curly hair, pulls hair out
  • 🐛 Difficult to get a good connection
  • 🐛 Accuracy of brainwave measurements questionable
  • 🐛 No support, missing instructions
  • 🐛 App says to pay after purchasing with headband
  • 🐛 Seems much poorer than previous release
  • 🐛 EEG wave depiction suspect and unrelated to other data
  • 🐛 Stopped working after latest Apple update
  • 🐛 Heart rate measurement inaccurate
  • 🐛 Just won't work anymore after about a month
  • 🐛 Crashes upon opening after June 1 update
  • 🐛 Software in failure mode, data lost
  • 🐛 Head sensor constantly disconnecting
  • 🐛 App won't open, no support outside of app
  • 🐛 Norman's speaking style disliked
  • 🐛 Can't get report after meditation, support unresponsive
  • 🐛 Application needs internet connection
  • 🐛 GPS location required, unacceptable
  • 🐛 Lost all data twice
  • 🐛 Forced to do their meditations to see data
  • 🐛 Buggy interface, loops to information screen
  • 🐛 App assumes users know how to read charts and meditate
  • 🐛 Device not working, faulty
  • 🐛 Rubber strap broke, no replacement
  • 🐛 Needs more ways to explore data on Mac/PC
  • 🐛 Inability to custom label meditation sessions
  • 🐛 Hard to login sometimes
  • 🐛 Missing neuro feedback feature

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This app visualizes your brainwave activity in real-time, helping you enhance meditation, train focus, and monitor sleep. It requires a compatible headband device for full functionality.

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This app helps you achieve peak performance by training your brain patterns. It uses a compatible brain-sensing accessory to provide audio and video neurofeedback, guiding you to a personalized optimized state for any activity.

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