IQ Test vs Brain Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IQ Test
Engage in a free IQ test and brain-training exercises designed to boost cognitive skills. Scientifically developed, this app offers various tasks to improve processing speed, memory, and logical thinking. Compare your scores with friends and track your progress.
- Free IQ test
- Brain booster tasks
- Exercise mode with solutions
- Compare results with friends
- Improves logical thinking
- Enhances working memory
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How smart are you really? Take a free, full-length IQ test, see your IQ score on the bell curve right away and find out where you stand compared to others. No sign-up needed. Developed with students of the University of Rostock and inspired by the WAIS-IV. WHAT YOU GET - A complete IQ exam with realistic tasks from many categories – free, with your result at the end - Your IQ score on a bell curve (normal distribution) – instantly see how you compare - Detailed statistics for every category: discover your strengths and weaknesses - Review your right and wrong answers after each category - Puzzles and exercises in three difficulty levels, with hints, solutions and explanations - Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Dutch - Pro without ads – as a one-time purchase, so you don't need a subscription WHAT THE IQ TEST MEASURES Inspired by the WAIS-IV (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale), the test covers six areas: - Perceptual reasoning - Processing speed - Working memory - Verbal comprehension - Numerical reasoning - Logical thinking You solve tasks such as matrix reasoning, number sequences, cube folding, image memory, patterns, analogies, estimation, ordering numbers and letters, logic questions and more. WHAT IS AN IQ TEST? An IQ test shows how you perform compared to other people. Intelligence itself is not clearly defined – it is simply what an IQ test measures. That's why only results of the same test can be compared: an IQ above 100 means you solved the tasks better than average, below 100 means worse. So don't take your score too seriously – see it as an exciting comparison with others! BRAIN TRAINING AND TEST PREPARATION Preparing for an aptitude test, an assessment center or a psychological test? Use the puzzles and exercises to train your brain and sharpen your logical thinking, memory and math skills. QUICK BREAKS: IQ TEST CHALLENGE Looking for short brain teasers on the go? Try our second app IQ Test Challenge: over 5000 quick IQ tasks, and for every task you see how others solved it – plus daily challenges and modes like Sudden Death. In short: IQ Test is the full IQ exam, IQ Test Challenge is for a quick break. PRO: UNLOCK EVERYTHING The IQ Test app is free to download. Pro is optional and unlocks: - All IQ tests - All explanations and solutions - All exercises - Detailed statistics With Pro there are no ads. You can get Pro as a one-time purchase that stays unlocked forever. A subscription is also available if you prefer: it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://iqtest-app.de/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://iqtest-app.de/privacy-policy/
Brain Challenge
Enhance your memory, concentration, logic, and reaction skills with a variety of fun and challenging games. This app offers personalized daily workouts and tracks your progress with detailed statistics. Compete with friends and enjoy brain training designed for all ages.
- Memory, concentration, logic, and reaction training
- 15 challenging games with over 100 difficulty levels
- Personalized daily workouts
- Progress tracking with statistics
- Online high score competition
- Suitable for all ages
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With thousands of members, Brain Challenge offers the most complete and diverse training for your brain. Train your memory, focus, logic and reaction skills with fun and challenging games and personal workouts. 15 games and auto-adapting difficulty levels give you not only endless fun but also help to improve your brain skills greatly. iMessage Challenge your friends on iMessage! Who is smarter? FEATURES AT A GLANCE - Over 100 levels of difficulty in 15 challenging games - Train concentration, memory, focus and logic. - Personalized daily workouts - Statistics help you to see your progress - Compete against your friends with online high scores - Collect brain points to keep track of your improvements - Brain Challenge is suitable for persons of all ages - Stunning and beautiful black interface - Play Brain Challenge on you iPhone, iPad and iPod touch! SCIENCE AT ITS BEST Your brain can be trained like the rest of your body. Reach your optimum level with Brain Challenge. Brain Challenge is designed to make brain training fun. Train your concentration, memory, focus and logic easily. Studies have shown that regular brain training increases intelligence and memory. BRAIN CHALLENGE PREMIUM Brain Challenge is, of course, free for our valued customers. However, if you want to improve 66% faster, we can recommend you Brain Challenge Premium. And because we want brain training to be accessible for everyone, it’s just a couple of dollars. It gives you life-time access to all premium games, personalized workouts and all the games we plan to add to Brain Challenge in the future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: IQ Test at none against Brain Challenge's shown. IQ Test also leads on ratings volume (8K vs 40) and review sentiment (35% vs 22%). Brain Challenge's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. IQ Test sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Brain Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for IQ Test against 4.4 for Brain Challenge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IQ Test has 8K ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of IQ Test's written reviews are positive against 22% of Brain Challenge's.
IQ Test ships an update every 6 weeks, Brain Challenge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IQ Test | Brain Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8K ratings) | 4.4 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8K — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #193 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Stelzer | Freundt Consulting GmbH |
Customer experience
IQ Test
Brain Challenge
Bugs and requests
IQ Test
Reported bugs
3 issues- Questions with no logical correct answer
- Inability to see questions/content properly
- Crashes and freezes during tests
Requested features
4 requests- Improved English language support
- More detailed explanations for questions
- Ability to review past performance
- Pause/resume functionality
Brain Challenge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
IQ Test
- IQ Test Pro$3.991 Month
- IQ Test Pro Year$19.991 Year
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Complete Statistics$0.99
- Premium 3$3.99
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- Premium 1$3.99
- Explanations$4.99
- Premium Plus Young people$5.99
- Pro Forever$8.99
- Pro Forever Super Sale$17.99
- Pro Forever$29.99
Brain Challenge
- Premium$5.99
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