Comparison

Total Brain vs Sovereign Response

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Measure 12 brain capacities
  • Screen for mental health risks
  • Custom mental fitness programs
  • Digital brain exercises
  • Breathing and meditation exercises
  • Track progress and effectiveness
Features
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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

About

Sovereign Response

This app helps you understand and manage your emotional responses to stress. It provides tools for self-awareness, tracking mood trends, and practicing regulation techniques to navigate challenges with clarity.

Highlights
  • Emotional regulation tools
  • Stress pattern identification
  • Daily mental health check-ins
  • Mood trend visualization
  • Personal reflection journal
  • Regulation reset techniques
  • Conflict awareness strategies
Features
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Emotional Regulation. Crisis Awareness. Personal Clarity. Sovereign Response is a personal mental wellness and emotional regulation tool designed to help individuals understand their stress patterns, regulate emotions, and respond to life’s challenges with clarity and control. DISCLAIMER: This app is for self-awareness and personal development only. Always consult a qualified doctor or mental health professional before making any medical or health-related decisions. Built from real-world crisis communication and de-escalation principles, Sovereign Response gives you practical tools to recognize your internal escalation signals, track emotional trends, and reset your nervous system when stress begins to rise. Whether you're navigating everyday stress, interpersonal conflict, or moments of overwhelm, Sovereign helps you pause, reflect, and respond with intention. Core Features Escalation Profile Discover how your body and mind respond to stress. Identify your unique escalation patterns and learn how to recognize early warning signs before emotions spiral. Daily Mental Health Check-Ins Track your emotional state over time and gain insight into mood patterns, stress triggers, and regulation progress. Mood Trend Insights Visualize how your emotions fluctuate and identify patterns that influence your well-being. Personal Reflection Journal Capture your thoughts, experiences, and emotional responses in a private digital journal designed for self-awareness and personal growth. Regulation Reset Tools Access practical techniques to calm your nervous system and regain control during stressful moments: • Progressive Muscle Relaxation • Mindfulness Practices • Grounding Techniques • Guided Breathing Exercises Conflict Awareness & De-Escalation Strategies Learn practical approaches to navigating interpersonal tension and conflict in healthy and constructive ways. The Speed Limit Analogy Understand how emotional escalation works through a simple framework that helps you recognize when stress levels are rising and how to slow things down before reaching overload. *This app is for self-awareness and personal development only. Always consult a qualified doctor or mental health professional before making any medical or health-related decisions.

Screenshots

Total Brain4 screens
Sovereign Response4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sovereign Response at 100% against Total Brain's 41%. Sovereign Response also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Total Brain's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 3). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sovereign Response holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Total Brain has 1K ratings behind it against 3, 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 Sovereign Response's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Total Brain ships an update fortnightly, Sovereign Response every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Total Brain versus Sovereign Response: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTotal BrainSovereign Response
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSondermind lnc.BYRON MARTIN FIELDS

Customer experience

Total Brain

All ratings912 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive40.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative53.5%

Sovereign Response

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Sovereign Response

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Total Brain

No in-app purchases

None

Sovereign Response

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Total Brain free?
Total Brain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sovereign Response free?
Sovereign Response is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Total Brain or Sovereign Response?
Sovereign Response is rated higher. Total Brain averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Sovereign Response averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Total Brain or Sovereign Response have ads?
Neither Total Brain nor Sovereign Response shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Total Brain or Sovereign Response?
Total Brain ships an update fortnightly, and Sovereign Response every 6 days. Most recently, Total Brain was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sovereign Response on October 24, 2026.

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