RelaxEye vs GaborPatchGame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RelaxEye
This app offers short video exercises designed to relax your eye muscles and stimulate your brain's visual cortex. By focusing on Gabor waves for 3 or 5 minutes, users may experience clearer contours and reduced eye strain.
- Eye muscle relaxation exercises
- Visual cortex stimulation
- Gabor wave video patterns
- 3 and 5 minute sessions
- Improved contour clarity
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Approach to the Eye First, start with a '3 minutes' or '5 minutes' video and stare intently. The image is not in focus. After a while, you will stop trying to focus and your eye muscles will relax. Approach to the Brain The video uses Gabor waves. This image can be easily recognized by the primary visual cortex (V1), but lacks information in the secondary visual cortex (V2). The aim is to stimulate V2 to work more actively to compensate. After watching for '3 minutes' or '5 minutes', you will feel the contours become clearer.
GaborPatchGame
Engage with visually stimulating Gabor Patch patterns through three distinct game modes. Track your progress on a goal calendar and aim for daily streaks to enhance your visual acuity.
- Three unique Gabor Patch games
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Visual pattern recognition challenges
- Daily goal tracking
- Progress calendar
- Visual cortex stimulation
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A simple game app using Gabor Patch images. This app is a simple game app aimed at continuously watching Gabor Patch images without getting bored. 〇What is Gabor Patch? It is a kind of striped pattern created by mathematical processing called the Gabor transform. It was developed by Dr. Dennis Gabor, the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics winner for his invention of holography. Originally, it was thought that looking at Gabor Patch transform images is likely to act on the visual cortex of the brain, and improvements were observed when used to restore eyesight with its adaptability. Looking at Gabor Patch images is said to be effective not only for myopia but also for presbyopia, astigmatism, and hyperopia, due to their effects on the visual cortex of the brain. 〇Game level Each of the three games has three levels (difficulty): Light, General, and Many. Choose your favorite game and your favorite level and challenge yourself so that you can continue playing every day. 〇Gabor Patch Game(Gabor Touch) Tap on the Gabor Patch image with the same pattern to erase it, and a new screen will appear when all are erased. 〇Gabor Scope Game(Gabor Scope) Find and tap the same Gabor Patch image as the image in the top Scope, it will disappear. When all disappear, you can move on to the next level. 〇 Gabor One Game(Gabor One) Display multiple Gabor patch images. I have a single image with no identical images. The game will be cleared by tapping all of the single images. 〇Goal calendar When you clear one side of each game, the number will be counted and displayed on the goal calendar. When you set and clear a daily goal, the number displayed on the goal calendar will turn red. Make it your goal to have all of your favorite games and levels displayed in red every month. 〇Daily calendar You can check the calendar every day when you used this app. It might be a good idea to try and aim for 30 days first.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GaborPatchGame at 4.6 against RelaxEye's 2.7. GaborPatchGame also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 40%) and ratings volume (27 vs 3). RelaxEye's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
GaborPatchGame holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GaborPatchGame has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of RelaxEye's written reviews are positive against 75% of GaborPatchGame's.
RelaxEye ships an update every 5 days, GaborPatchGame every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RelaxEye | GaborPatchGame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keiichi Ota | SHUUICHI WATANABE |
Customer experience
RelaxEye
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In-app purchases
RelaxEye
No in-app purchases
GaborPatchGame
No in-app purchases
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