Total Recall Memory Game vs Cognitive Boost
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Total Recall Memory Game
Test your memory with a simple yet challenging pattern-repeating game. Designed to exercise your brain, it features leaderboards and achievements to track your progress and compete with friends.
- Pattern repetition gameplay
- Brain exercise design
- Leaderboards
- Achievements
- Game Center challenges
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Put your memory to the ultimate test. Very easy to play, hard to master as you progress. The rules are simple, repeat the star pattern shown behind the tiles. Total Recall is designed to help exercise your limbic system and medial temporal lobe to stay sharp. Includes Leaderboard and Achievements. Challenge your friends on Game Center.
Cognitive Boost
This app offers daily brain workouts designed to enhance cognitive abilities and improve memory. Its intuitive, emoji-based games are suitable for all ages and can be played in short bursts, making it ideal for quick mental exercises.
- Daily brain workouts
- Improve cognitive abilities
- Memory training games
- Emoji-based challenges
- Suitable for all ages
- Short game sessions
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Like your muscles, your brain needs regular workouts to stay in shape. Download this app and use it every day to help you stay sharp. You can improve your brain’s abilities. With regular training the brain is able to form new neural connections. Cognitive Boost can be played by all ages, toddlers through seniors. Because each game is short, it is ideal for playing while waiting for a meeting, or for other events. It is a good "calmer downer" if the person for whom you are waiting is late. Because it is highly intuitive, language skills are not required. Emojis tell you visually if you got a correct or wrong answer. The objects used for the game are based on standard emojis, but their looks have been re-imagined by the students and faculty of a historic European design university. While the game resembles the popular "memory match" games it is unique. It has hundreds of emojis that are displayed randomly. To play, you first memorize two to twenty images at a time, and then pick each original image from a "lineup" that has two new images. Start at two images at a time. As you gain momentum increase the number. Psychologists say that, on the average, without training, a person can get to seven. See how you measure up! Another challenge is increasing the rotation speed of the "multiple choice" answers. The objects rotate in three dimensions, all in different directions requiring observation, timing and memory. You can start the movement at a low speed, and as you get experience move up to a higher level. The app is complete. It is free. There are no in-app purchases. There is a button in the app that allows you to make a voluntary contribution of any amount to Parkinson’s Disease(PD) research. There is currently not a cure for PD, just problematic treatments. The button provides a direct link to the research center’s computer. The app was written as a fundraiser, by a software engineer, with 58 years of experience in IT, who has PD. Take part in the search for a cure! Download the program to get started with your memory training!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cognitive Boost at none against Total Recall Memory Game's 1. Total Recall Memory Game's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 11 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Total Recall Memory Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cognitive Boost asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Total Recall Memory Game against 4.7 for Cognitive Boost. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 16 respectively.
Total Recall Memory Game ships an update daily, Cognitive Boost every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Total Recall Memory Game | Cognitive Boost |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Holmgren | 4Genera LLC |
Customer experience
Total Recall Memory Game
Cognitive Boost
In-app purchases
Total Recall Memory Game
- Remove Ads$2.99
Cognitive Boost
No in-app purchases
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