Comparison

Brain Challenge vs IQ Test

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Brain Challenge

Engage in a comprehensive brain training program with fun and challenging games. Improve memory, focus, logic, and reaction skills through personalized daily workouts and auto-adapting difficulty levels. Compete with friends and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • 15 challenging games
  • Personalized daily workouts
  • Auto-adapting difficulty
  • Track progress with statistics
  • Compete with friends
  • Apple Watch compatibility
Features
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With thousands of members, Brain Challenge offers the most complete and diverse training for your brain. Train your memory, focus, logic and reaction skills with fun and challenging games and personal workouts. 15 games and auto-adapting difficulty levels give you not only endless fun but also help to improve your brain skills greatly. APPLE WATCH Brain Challenge is tailored to your Apple Watch. Play every single game on your wrist without ever needing to grab your iPhone or iPad. iMessage Challenge your friends on iMessage! Who is smarter? FEATURES AT A GLANCE - Over 100 levels of difficulty in 15 challenging games - Train concentration, memory, focus and logic. - Personalized daily workouts - Statistics help you to see your progress - Compete against your friends with online high scores - Collect brain points to keep track of your improvements - Brain Challenge is suitable for persons of all ages - Stunning and beautiful black interface - Play Brain Challenge on you iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple Watch! SCIENCE AT ITS BEST Your brain can be trained like the rest of your body. Reach your optimum level with Brain Challenge. Brain Challenge is designed to make brain training fun. Train your concentration, memory, focus and logic easily. Studies have shown that regular brain training increases intelligence and memory. BRAIN CHALLENGE PREMIUM Brain Challenge is, of course, free for our valued customers. However, if you want to improve 66% faster, we can recommend you Brain Challenge Premium. And because we want brain training to be accessible for everyone, it’s just $4.99. It gives you life-time access to all premium games, personalized workouts and all the games we plan to add to Brain Challenge in the future.

About

IQ Test

Engage in a free IQ test and brain-training exercises designed to boost cognitive skills. Scientifically developed, this app offers various tasks to improve processing speed, memory, and logical thinking. Compare your scores with friends and track your progress.

Highlights
  • Free IQ test
  • Brain booster tasks
  • Exercise mode with solutions
  • Compare results with friends
  • Improves logical thinking
  • Enhances working memory
Features
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How smart are you really? Take a free, full-length IQ test, see your IQ score on the bell curve right away and find out where you stand compared to others. No sign-up needed. Developed with students of the University of Rostock and inspired by the WAIS-IV. WHAT YOU GET - A complete IQ exam with realistic tasks from many categories – free, with your result at the end - Your IQ score on a bell curve (normal distribution) – instantly see how you compare - Detailed statistics for every category: discover your strengths and weaknesses - Review your right and wrong answers after each category - Puzzles and exercises in three difficulty levels, with hints, solutions and explanations - Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Dutch - Pro without ads – as a one-time purchase, so you don't need a subscription WHAT THE IQ TEST MEASURES Inspired by the WAIS-IV (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale), the test covers six areas: - Perceptual reasoning - Processing speed - Working memory - Verbal comprehension - Numerical reasoning - Logical thinking You solve tasks such as matrix reasoning, number sequences, cube folding, image memory, patterns, analogies, estimation, ordering numbers and letters, logic questions and more. WHAT IS AN IQ TEST? An IQ test shows how you perform compared to other people. Intelligence itself is not clearly defined – it is simply what an IQ test measures. That's why only results of the same test can be compared: an IQ above 100 means you solved the tasks better than average, below 100 means worse. So don't take your score too seriously – see it as an exciting comparison with others! BRAIN TRAINING AND TEST PREPARATION Preparing for an aptitude test, an assessment center or a psychological test? Use the puzzles and exercises to train your brain and sharpen your logical thinking, memory and math skills. QUICK BREAKS: IQ TEST CHALLENGE Looking for short brain teasers on the go? Try our second app IQ Test Challenge: over 5000 quick IQ tasks, and for every task you see how others solved it – plus daily challenges and modes like Sudden Death. In short: IQ Test is the full IQ exam, IQ Test Challenge is for a quick break. PRO: UNLOCK EVERYTHING The IQ Test app is free to download. Pro is optional and unlocks: - All IQ tests - All explanations and solutions - All exercises - Detailed statistics With Pro there are no ads. You can get Pro as a one-time purchase that stays unlocked forever – no subscription needed. A subscription is also available if you prefer: it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://iqtest-app.de/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://iqtest-app.de/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Brain Challenge4 screens
IQ Test4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: IQ Test at none against Brain Challenge's shown. IQ Test also leads on ratings volume (8K vs 66). Brain Challenge's advantage is review sentiment (61% vs 34%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Brain Challenge sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and IQ Test sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Brain Challenge against 4.4 for IQ Test. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IQ Test has 8K ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Brain Challenge's written reviews are positive against 34% of IQ Test's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brain Challenge ships an update every 10 days, IQ Test every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brain Challenge versus IQ Test: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain ChallengeIQ Test
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (66 ratings)4.4 (8K ratings)
Positive reviews61.3% of reviews — better34.4% of reviews
Number of ratings668K — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan-Niklas FREUNDTPaul Stelzer

Customer experience

Brain Challenge

All ratings66 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive61.3%
Neutral14.5%
Negative24.2%

IQ Test

All ratings8,013 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews334 reviews
Positive34.4%
Neutral16.8%
Negative48.8%

User reviews

Brain Challenge

From 66 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🧠 Great for brain training
  • 💡 Creative and fun challenges
  • 💰 One-time premium purchase
  • ⏱️ Quick daily workouts
  • 🏆 Duel feature for competition

Room to improve

  • ❓ Lack of clear instructions
  • 😵 Tutorials are obscure
  • 💸 Premium version is expensive
  • 😩 Some games are hard to understand
  • 📉 Graphics are a bit basic

IQ Test

From 8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤔 Challenging and engaging
  • 💡 Interesting concept for an IQ app
  • 👍 Good for brain exercise

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Grammatical errors and poor translations
  • 💸 Paywall for answers and explanations
  • 🤯 Confusing and unclear instructions
  • 🤖 Inaccurate or inconsistent IQ scoring

Bugs and requests

Brain Challenge

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App closes immediately
  • App crashes
  • Game won't start
  • Incorrect results in math games
  • Tracking game not working
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  • Welcome mode not progressing
  • Bug with game not starting resolved

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more tutorials
  • Provide explanations for errors
  • Include a help function
  • Allow sound to be turned off in-app
  • Explain which part of the brain is trained
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  • Add more levels
  • Allow playing entire sessions against friends
  • More games playable against friends
  • Add more games
  • Clarify pricing discrepancies

IQ Test

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Questions with no logical correct answer
  • Inability to see questions/content properly
  • Crashes and freezes during tests

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved English language support
  • More detailed explanations for questions
  • Ability to review past performance
  • Pause/resume functionality

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Brain Challenge

One-time2
  • Premium$4.99
  • Premium$9.99
10 purchases

IQ Test

Subscriptions2
  • IQ Test Pro$3.991 Month
  • IQ Test Pro Year$19.991 Year
One-time8
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Complete Statistics$0.99
  • Premium 1$3.99
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  • Explanations$4.99
  • Premium Plus Young people$5.99
  • Pro Forever$8.99
  • Pro Forever Super Sale$17.99
  • Pro Forever$29.99

Questions

Is Brain Challenge free?
Brain Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IQ Test free?
IQ Test is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brain Challenge or IQ Test?
Brain Challenge and IQ Test are both rated 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, from 66 and 8K ratings respectively.
Do Brain Challenge or IQ Test have ads?
Brain Challenge shows ads; IQ Test does not.
Which is updated more often, Brain Challenge or IQ Test?
Brain Challenge ships an update every 10 days, and IQ Test every 6 weeks. Most recently, Brain Challenge was updated on October 16, 2026 and IQ Test on October 15, 2026.

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