Total Brain vs Homethrive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Total Brain
This app helps you understand and train your brain's 12 core capacities to enhance mental health and wellness. It offers a clinically validated assessment to identify strengths, weaknesses, and potential health risks, followed by personalized mental fitness programs. Track your progress and improve cognitive function through daily exercises, breathing, and meditation.
- Measure 12 brain capacities
- Screen for mental health risks
- Custom mental fitness programs
- Digital brain exercises
- Breathing and meditation exercises
- Track progress and effectiveness
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Total Brain helps you understand and train all your brain capacities to improve your mental health and wellness. Founded on the principle that our mental health can be measured, improved and managed like our physical health, Total Brain measures the 12 brain capacities that define your mental health and screens for the risk of common mental conditions. Then, based on that assessment, Total Brain provides you with specific mental fitness programs designed to strengthen your brain capacities and improve your mental health. Scientific, Simple and Convenient to Use: Measure Monthly - Take our easy to use, 20 minute, confidential, clinically validated assessment. Understand Totally - Get results showing 12 brain capacities that identify strengths/weaknesses and potential health risks. Train Specifically – Start a custom mental fitness program with digital brain exercises, breathing and meditation for just 15 minutes a day, then reassess and track progress. Benefits: Self-Awareness – Learn about your strengths, weaknesses and risk of mental conditions Effectiveness Monitoring – Monitor the impact of mental fitness programs and treatment Confidentially Screen – Screen for risk of common mental conditions and receive immediate, in-app referrals to third party health services Improved Performance [1] – Measurable improvement across each of the 12 brain capacities, yielding an improvement in overall mental health
Homethrive
This app provides comprehensive support for family caregivers, offering personalized coaching and digital tools. It helps users manage caregiving tasks, track medications, and receive expert recommendations to improve well-being.
- Personalized coaching
- Digital support tools
- Live expert chat
- Medication tracking
- Instant recommendations
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Homethrive is transforming family caregiving with inclusive solutions that make caring for yourself or a loved one smarter, easier, and more rewarding. Our app seamlessly blends one-on-one and digital support to deliver highly personalized coaching. Download now to chat live with experts, track medications, and get instant recommendations to help you start thriving at home, at work, and in life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Homethrive at 100% against Total Brain's 41%. Homethrive also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Total Brain's advantage is ratings volume (912 vs 37) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Homethrive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Total Brain has 912 ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Total Brain's written reviews are positive against 100% of Homethrive's.
Total Brain ships an update fortnightly, Homethrive monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Total Brain | Homethrive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (912 ratings) | 5.0 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 912 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sondermind lnc. | HomeThrive, Inc. |
Customer experience
Total Brain
Homethrive
User reviews
Total Brain
From 912 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💫 Relaxing and calming
- 🧠 Helpful for mental health
- 🤸♀️ Effective brain training
- 🎧 Great audio tools like NeuroTunes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 🤒 Inaccurate assessment results
- 🤯 Frustrating exercises
- 🔋 Battery draining
- 🔒 Restricted access without referral
Homethrive
From 37 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Advice and support when needed
- 👍 Convenient and helpful
- 👍 Caregiver support at the tip of fingers
- 👍 Exceptional care
- 👍 Easy accessible information
Bugs and requests
Total Brain
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues and 403 errors
- Blank screens during assessment
- Exercises not functioning properly
Requested features
3 requests- Landscape mode support
- More variety in assessment images
- Clearer instructions and feedback
Homethrive
No bugs or feature requests surfaced in reviews.
In-app purchases
Total Brain
No in-app purchases
Homethrive
No in-app purchases
