Comparison

Braincup vs QuackyBrush

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

Head to head
About

Braincup

Enhance memory, focus, and math abilities with this open-source brain training app. It offers a variety of engaging puzzles designed to keep your mind agile and motivated through quick, effective sessions.

Highlights
  • Memory and focus enhancement
  • Math skill development
  • Observation puzzles
  • Spatial reasoning challenges
  • Mental calculation practice
  • Visual memory training
Features
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Train your brain with 43 fun mini games that challenge your memory, focus, logic and math skills. Braincup gives you quick, sharp workouts that fit into any break. No ads, no tracking, and fully open source. MATH Mental Calculation: follow the expressions, using each result as the base for the next. Chain Calculation: solve complex formulas step by step. Sherlock Calculation: reach the goal using only the given numbers and operators. Fraction Calculation: solve the fractions. Value Comparison: pick the expression with the highest value. Bubble Sum: add the numbers on the floating bubbles. Quick Sum: numbers flash one at a time, add them up. Missing Operators: find the operators that make the equation true. Matchstick Riddles: move matchsticks to fix broken equations. MEMORY Visual Memory: memorize the shapes, then name the hidden one. Ghost Grid: watch the tiles light up, then tap them back in order. Digit Memory: memorize digits, solve a problem, then recall them. Simon Says: each round adds a pad, tap the whole sequence back. Spot the New: tap the animal you have not seen before. N-Back: watch the shapes flash by, then tap the one asked for. Orbit Tracker: track the highlighted balls as they move. FOCUS Anomaly Puzzle: find the figure that stands out. Color Confusion: tap the cells where word and font color match. Colored Shapes: add up the points from the correct statements. Flash Crowd: tap the side that flashed more dots. Schulte Table: tap the numbers in order as fast as you can. Flags: identify the country by its flag. Mental Flex: the pair at the top says which trait counts, shape or color. LOGIC Pattern Sequence: work out the rule in each row and complete the matrix. Mental Rotations: decide if the second block is the first one turned, or mirrored. Path Finder: follow the arrows to the destination. Mini Sudoku and Sudoku: classic number placement, small grid or full size. Mini Chess, Solo Chess and Chess: endgame puzzles, capture chains, or a full game against the CPU or a friend. Lights Out: turn off every light. Sliding Puzzle: slide the tiles back into order. Shikaku: split the grid into rectangles, one number each. Nurikabe: paint the sea around numbered islands. Cat Queens: one cat per row, column and zone, never touching. Knot: connect the colored dots without crossing. Tower of Hanoi: move the stack, never a larger disk on a smaller one. Peg Solitaire: jump pegs until one remains. Prism Clear: swap tiles to clear lines and empty the board. Trio: find three cards that share a shape, a count or a fill. Wordle: guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. Bulls & Cows: crack the secret 4-digit number. Every exercise has medals to chase, and achievements track how far you have come. No tracking. Open source.

About

QuackyBrush

Features
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QuackyBrush 3D is a freestyle 3D modeler and painter. Tap to place primitives — sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, capsule, cone, frustum, torus, box. Move, resize, rotate, mirror, group, and carve them into anything you can picture. When the shape is right, bake to fuse the primitives into a single smooth model. Then paint directly on the surface. Save as a Creation. Place it in a Scene with a movable light and other models. Render the scene to your camera roll. Built for everyone - ideal for 7+ (kids who play Minecraft/Roblox or other 3D games performed well in UX testing). The interface respects your time. Drag-first input on top of an SDF + smooth-min CSG engine. Premium creative ownership - buy once, no subscription. What you can make. Stuffed animals, cute characters, low-poly game assets, 3D-print-ready props, game mascots, geometric sculpture, snowmen, ducks, chess pieces, mushrooms, robots. The primitive set composes into more than its parts. Negative-space carving. Switch any primitive to Carve mode and it becomes a subtractive ghost - eye sockets, mouth slots, embossed details, cavities. Smooth-min CSG fillets the boundary so carves feel hand-shaped, not Boolean-clean. Groups + pre-bake. Build a head, group its parts, pre-bake the group into a single fused unit. Drag the head as one piece while you keep adding to the body. Mirror. X, Y, or Z. Place one ear, get the other automatically. Place one eye, get the second symmetric. Free trackball rotate. Drag in any direction - the model rotates around the axis perpendicular to your finger. Need axis-locked rotation? Switch to X / Y / Z sub-tools. Orthographic toggle: Faux-orthographic camera for design-grade views.

Screenshots

Braincup4 screens
QuackyBrush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: QuackyBrush at Free against Braincup's $0.99. Braincup's advantage is iOS requirement (15.3 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

QuackyBrush is free to download; Braincup costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Braincup versus QuackyBrush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBraincupQuackyBrush
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.3 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon SchubertPorter360, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Braincup

No in-app purchases

None

QuackyBrush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Braincup free?
Braincup costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuackyBrush free?
QuackyBrush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Braincup or QuackyBrush have ads?
Neither Braincup nor QuackyBrush shows ads.

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