Comparison

Sleep Cue vs BrainLink Dual

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Cue

This app serves as an interactive companion for a wireless brainwave headband. It displays real-time EEG signals and brainwave power spectrograms, enabling users to trigger custom cues based on sleep stages and brainwave activity for lucid dreaming.

Highlights
  • Real-time EEG signal viewing
  • Brainwave power spectrogram
  • Customizable cue triggering
  • Lucid dream induction techniques
  • Research collaboration opportunities
Features
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An interactive companion app for the Enchanted Wave wireless brainwave headband. 1. The app allows users to view the raw EEG signal, and the power spectrogram of brainwave signals in real time. 2. The protocols allows the user to trigger pre-selected cues with a specific logic combination defined by time, sleep stage, and EEG band power strength. 3. The existing protocols include popular and novel techniques for lucid dream induction. We are open to work with both individual and institutional researchers on customized protocols. Please visit https://enchantedwave.square.site/ for more details.

About

BrainLink Dual

Features
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What do you know about your own brain? Do you want to have your brainwave data in real time? BrainLink Dual is a brain wave detection device that supports dual-channel detection. The data collected by this software includes: Raw data, EEG Bar, low-frequency to high-frequency distribution map, Delta, Theta, Alpha, SMR, MidBeta, HighBeta, Gamma,, Attention, etc. As an all-in-one professional brainwave data collection, analysis and recording tool, BrainLink Dual can help you collect and record brainwave data, whether you are working or learning, or you want to use it to record the state of your brain when you are doing something alone. So, you can organize your work and study more appropriately in your life. – Note BrainLink Dual device should be worn to interact with this application. – Contact us For more information about BrainLink, you can access: Official Website: http://o.macrotellect.com/ Facebook: Macrotellect Instagram: macrotellect Twitter: BrainLink

Screenshots

Sleep Cue4 screens
BrainLink Dual4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sleep Cue at 11.0 against BrainLink Dual's 13.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleep Cue ships an update every 3 months, BrainLink Dual every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sleep Cue versus BrainLink Dual: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep CueBrainLink Dual
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnchanted Wave LLCShenzhen Macrotellect Limited

In-app purchases

None

Sleep Cue

No in-app purchases

None

BrainLink Dual

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleep Cue free?
Sleep Cue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BrainLink Dual free?
BrainLink Dual is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleep Cue or BrainLink Dual have ads?
Neither Sleep Cue nor BrainLink Dual shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sleep Cue or BrainLink Dual?
Sleep Cue ships an update every 3 months, and BrainLink Dual every 2 months. Most recently, Sleep Cue was updated on October 10, 2026 and BrainLink Dual on October 6, 2026.

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