iBand+ vs Brainbit App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iBand+
This smart wireless headband uses EEG and health sensors to track your sleep cycles. It analyzes your brain waves and body movement to intelligently adjust audio-visual signals, helping you fall asleep, wake up naturally, and induce lucid dreams.
- Wireless Bluetooth EEG headband
- Laboratory-level brain wave sensing
- Health tracking sensors
- AI auto-learning software
- Intelligent audio-visual stimuli
- Lucid dream induction
- Natural waking
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Dreams and sleep play an important role in our health and happiness. While sleep rejuvenates the body, dreams rejuvenate the mind. Meet iBand+, the headband that helps you sleep and dream! A truly smart wireless Bluetooth EEG headband, iBand+ senses your brain waves with laboratory level accuracy. It also conceals special health tracking sensor to measure body movement. iBand+ tracks and analyzes information about your brain and body throughout the sleep cycle with an advanced AI auto - learning software algorithm. It then uses this information to play and intelligently adjust the audio-visual signals to: - Induce lucid dreams - Help you fall asleep easily - Wake up naturally The RGB LEDs on iBand+ headband and the compact iBand+ pillow speakers work together to effectively deliver audio-visual stimuli while providing optimum user comfort.
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 update cadence: Brainbit App at every 3 weeks against iBand+'s every 7 months. Brainbit App also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.3). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of iBand+'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Brainbit App's.
iBand+ ships an update every 7 months, Brainbit App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iBand+ | Brainbit App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arenar B.V. | BRAINBIT INC. |
Customer experience
iBand+
Brainbit App
In-app purchases
iBand+
No in-app purchases
Brainbit App
No in-app purchases
