Brainster vs Guess 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brainster
Test your knowledge and quick thinking in a competitive quiz game. Engage in four fast-paced challenges, from word puzzles to trivia, against friends or random opponents. Earn rewards, climb ranks, and share your achievements.
- Four challenging game modes
- Word puzzles with letters and hints
- Trivia questions with multiple choice
- Connect words to form terms
- Compete with friends or random rivals
- Collect rewards and rank up
- Share scores on social media
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Be smarter, quicker, brainier than your rival. Put your quiz skills to the test with our most popular game ever- The Brainster Quiz. Join our ever-curious community and broaden your knowledge while having lots of fun! Brainster Quiz consists of four swift games, allowing very limited time to think. Challenge your friends, or let us pick you a competitor. Play with letters, hints, secret words, matching terms. Build your character by collecting rewards and grow throughout the game. Ultimately, be proud of your achievement and share it on Facebook. Key features: • Four brain-teasing, highly challenging games • Find the longest word using provided letters • Pick the right answer to the trivia questions • Connect two words and make a meaningful term • Find the secret word by discovering related hints • Move-by-move game type • Challenge friends or compete with a random rival • Collect points and grow through the ranks • Share your scores and achievements on social media
Guess 5
This trivia game challenges you to guess the top five answers to various questions, based on surveys of 100 people. With over 500 levels and regular updates, it encourages creative thinking and offers hints to help you progress. Play in your local language and enjoy hours of fun with friends and family.
- Guess top 5 answers
- Survey-based questions
- 505+ exciting levels
- Text and image questions
- Regular new level updates
- Hints for difficult questions
- Multi-language support
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Guess 5 is a quiz game in which you will have to identify the five most common answers to questions, depending on the answers of 100 people. What do you first think of when hearing the questions, such as: "Things you would never lend to anyone?", "What happens only once a year?" or "Payable things that were once free?". There are 505 exciting levels in this trivia app, with a variety of questions with text and images. The updates with new levels will be added regularly, so you will never get bored! The game will encourage innovative thinking to find the answers to simple questions. Some might be general knowledge, but for others you will have to be resourceful and think "out of the box". But do not worry if you get stuck, there are tips that will help you find the right answers! Choose your local language: currently available are English, German, Polish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak, Serbian, Slovenian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Hindi, Korean, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Malay, Greek, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Arab, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Bengali and Thai. More languages will be added soon! You will enjoy this trivia quiz game even more if you play together with family and friends! Hours and hours of fun are guaranteed! You can contact us or get the latest updates at: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/zebi24games • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zebi24/ • Email: zebi24games@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Brainster at 162 against Guess 5's 24. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Brainster sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Guess 5 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Brainster against 4.6 for Guess 5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainster has 162 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Brainster's written reviews are positive against 44% of Guess 5's.
Brainster ships an update every 2 months, Guess 5 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brainster | Guess 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) | 4.6 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Aparteko | Matija Ozebek |
Customer experience
Brainster
Guess 5
Bugs and requests
Brainster
Reported bugs
33 issues- Game drops connection mid-play
- Endless ads on reconnecting
- Points don't add on or subtract
- Game crashes constantly
- Adverts mid-game causing missed questions
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- Game ends stating loss without playing
- Spelling errors
- Getting booted mid-game
- Actual errors in answers
- Never pays out weekly prizes
- 30-second ads in time-constrained games
- App hasn't worked for a week
- Network Problem error
- App closes itself
- Freezes on 'finding opponent' page
- Not getting daily tokens
- Occasionally freezing up
- Problem after update
- Network problem: unable to connect to Facebook
- Game change: opponent can look up anagram solver
- Spotty game mode, goes in and out
- Losing tokens or missing turns
- Invite for friend requests not working
- Last game opponent can win without a turn
- Obscure/impossible to know questions recycle
- App closing itself
- Crashing problem
- Game freezes
- Chucks you out when playing
- Lagging out of the app
- Resetting progress
- Jumps out midway through a game
- App forces close before loading
Requested features
10 requests- Add a "decline match" button
- Improve matchmaking to pair similar skill levels
- Increase free token/coin rewards
- Implement a way to talk to opponents
- Make text larger for readability
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- Translate the game into Serbian for iOS
- Fix friend invite system for iOS and PC
- Allow players to refuse matchups
- Tweak the last round to prevent instant wins without a turn
- Allow plurals in the last round
Guess 5
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brainster
- 40 Gold Tokens$1.99
- 120 Gold Tokens$3.99
- 300 Gold Tokens$7.99
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- 1000 Gold Tokens$22.99
- 2000 Gold Tokens$38.99
Guess 5
- Get 300 Coins$0.99
- Remove Ads + 150 Bonus Coins$1.99
- Get 1500 Coins$2.99
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- Get 8500 Coins$9.99








