Opti Calm vs Brainbit App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Opti Calm
Train your brain to reach optimal performance patterns with this app. It uses a compatible external brain-sensing accessory to provide visual and audio feedback, guiding you to a state of calm for meditation or high-pressure activities. Improve efficiency and recall your best performance brain patterns.
- Brain activity sensing integration
- Visual feedback (score, video, brain representation)
- Audio feedback (music volume)
- Calm brain training algorithm
- Performance optimization
- Meditation and sports training modes
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**This application requires a subscription with Opti Brain to use. **This application also requires an external accessory that senses your brain activity to use. Compatible brain sensing hardware includes: -Muse Headband, -Smith Lowdown Focus Glasses powered by Muse The brain sensing hardware will connect your brain activity to this app and help you BETTER YOUR BEST™ by training your brain to reach its optimum performance pattern! Visit MyOptiBrain.com and purchase a subscription to learn to reach your optimum potential today! The Opti Calm app is produced by Opti Brain, a company dedicated to performance optimization. Opti Calm features our Calm brain training algorithm. Calm (previously know as Serenity in Opti Train) teaches the brain to decrease in activity. This algorithm is popular for daily meditation because less brain activity is reflected by a clear mind. In addition, this algorithm is popular to train with in high-pressure, performance sports because it can help you create more efficiency in your brain. For example, in a repetitive task such as putting a ball or throwing a pitch your goal while practicing can be to decrease your brain activity which increases the efficiency of your brain. Your goal would be to perform the same motion (with a high success rate) with less thought. Opti Calm offers visual feedback to guide your brain to an optimized brain pattern in the form of a percentage score, a playing/pausing video, or a color-changing brain representation. When the video is playing, when your index is higher, when the brain is completely colored you have found your Calm. Visual feedback is ideal to use while sitting still when you are thinking meditatively about an upcoming performance. Opti Calm also offers audio feedback in the form of music increasing or decreasing in volume to guide your brain. When the music is the most quiet you have found your Calm. It is ideally used while in motion to BETTER YOUR BEST™. For example, let your favorite music (chosen from your personal iTunes library) guide your brain while putting a golf ball, shooting at a target, or throwing a pitch. The more you train with Opti Calm, the easier it will be to identify your best performance brain pattern. Then take your Opti Calm best pattern to your performance. If you don't remember, your brain will! Opti Calm's sister app Opti Brain allows you to view the brain maps from your trainings. When you save a training it becomes available to be mapped in Opti Brain. To see how much Calm was present in your training, select the brain icon featuring the same aqua color theme as Opti Calm on the setup screen in Opti Brain.
Brainbit App
This app visualizes your brainwave activity in real-time, helping you enhance meditation, train focus, and monitor sleep. It requires a compatible headband device for full functionality.
- Real-time EEG brainwave data
- Monitor functional states (relaxation, concentration)
- Enhance meditation practice
- Analyze sleep stages and quality
- Medical quality EEG
- Professional grade spectrogram
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BRAINBIT: Use your brain like never before Created by a team of scientists with more than 25 years of experience in professional medical equipment engineering. The free BrainBit app can only be used with BrainBit Headband device - available at https://brainbit.com/ BrainBit app is here to help you to see and understand what is going on inside the brain: enhance meditation practice with brain insight, train focus, monitor sleep, play with your mind! Put on your BrainBit Headband device, it connects to your mobile device via Bluetooth. Once connected, simply start the BrainBit app and choose what you want to do: Get your real time EEG brainwave data * Monitor and control your current functional state (relaxation, concentration, normal) * Meditate and watch your meditation level (we have 3 levels of meditation) (demo) * Analyze stages and quality of your sleep (demo) FEATURES * Medical Quality EEG * Real-time monitoring and recording of electrical bio signals produced by the brain, eye movements and muscles. * Track & measure state monitoring with easy to understand results and analytics * Professional grade spectrogram * Real time Level of delta, theta, alpha, beta rhythms * BrainBit headband is accompanied by Software Development Kit
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brainbit App at 3.7 against Opti Calm's 3.0. Brainbit App also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Opti Calm's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Brainbit App holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Opti Calm ships an update every 2 months, Brainbit App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Opti Calm | Brainbit App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Optiherence | BRAINBIT INC. |
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Opti Calm
Brainbit App
In-app purchases
Opti Calm
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









