Brain Academia vs Thinkie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Academia
This app offers daily and weekly brain training exercises designed to keep your mind sharp and active. It includes a warm-up test and progress tracking to monitor your cognitive improvement over time.
- Daily brain training
- Weekly Stroop Test
- Warm-up tests
- Progress tracking
- Training reminders
- Active brain maintenance
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"If you don't use your brain, it will age quickly." Your brain will not as strong a one with the ideal brain age of 20. Like your body need exercising your brain needs too. With our application can help to train your brain everyday which can aid your brain. Available mode - Daily training Solve the simple calculation everyday to make your brain stay active. - Weekly training Stroop Test is a test of a users mental speed. A series of runs will be presented to test the users response rate in identifying the color of printed text. Quick play - Warm-up test before take the daily or weekly training. My progress - You can view your progress both daily and weekly. Notification - Notify user when training is ready. More feature coming soon!
Thinkie
Engage your mind with a variety of games designed to keep your brain active and alert. Track your cognitive progress in real-time with visual feedback and individualized training insights. This system is guided by extensive research and aims to enhance cognitive sharpness.
- Real-time visual results
- Brain activity tracking
- Variety of brain games
- Individualized training
- Cognitive sharpness enhancement
- Free trial available
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Challenge your brain and track your progress with the industry's first real-time, visual results. The Thinkie app offers a broad range of games specifically designed to engage you and help keep your brain active and alert. You can track your progress with our "Brain Meter" that provides immediate input through an easy-to-use system displaying colors to show level of brain activity. The results provide individualized information for your on-going training. Thinkie is built with fNIRS (Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy), which measures your brain activity through our special headband. Our design is guided by nearly 3 decades of research and development, all packaged into a brain training regimen that will help you stay cognitively sharp. Start your free trial and experience the benefits of cognitive training to reduce your brain age! Unlock more games and more difficulty levels when used alongside your Thinkie Sensor! Subscription options: $8.99/month, $99.99/year. Thinkie sensors are currently intended for United States customers only. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can turn off an auto- renewing subscription at any time from your App Store Account Settings, but refunds will not be issued for any unused portion of the term. Read Apple's terms and conditions (EULA) here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Read our terms of service here: https://www.thinkiesystem.com/terms-of-service Read our privacy policies here: https://www.thinkiesystem.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brain Academia at none against Thinkie's 2. Brain Academia also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Thinkie's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and device support 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
Both are free to download. Thinkie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Brain Academia asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Brain Academia against 5.0 for Thinkie. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thinkie has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Brain Academia ships an update every 3 months, Thinkie every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Academia | Thinkie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 206 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nat Benjarpornbanyat | Thinkie inc |
Customer experience
Brain Academia
Thinkie
In-app purchases
Brain Academia
No in-app purchases
Thinkie
- Thinkie Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$8.991 Month
- Thinkie Annual Subscription1 Month trial$79.991 Year
