Brainbit App vs ThoughtBeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
ThoughtBeam
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Random thoughts. Meet clarity. A passing thought. A voice note. A photo worth keeping. Capture it in the moment. ThoughtBeam automatically brings the pieces together into a daily ThoughtBundle, ready whenever you want to look back. No need to write everything at the end of the day or organize your entries yourself. Come back when you want to remember, reflect or make sense of what you recorded. CAPTURE YOUR WAY Tap a thought bubble, type a few words, record your voice or add a photo. Log a mood when you want to. Choose the format that fits the moment. YOUR DAY COMES TOGETHER AUTOMATICALLY Your saved entries are grouped by day in a ThoughtBundle. Revisit your notes, thoughts, photos, recordings and mood check-ins together. Your original words stay at the heart of the bundle. FIND A THOUGHT AGAIN Use Search to return to saved entries and the details you recorded. Bring a half-remembered moment back into view with its original context. MAKE ROOM TO REFLECT Follow Self Reflection prompts and put an experience into your own words. Return to your responses in your own time. AUTOMATIC SUMMARIES. ILLUSTRATED DAYS. Optional paid features add automatic daily summaries and AI-generated cover images. Summaries offer a short account of your saved entries, while covers add a symbolic illustration. Generated content can be inaccurate, so check it against your original entries. MEET BEAM BOY Beam Boy is your little purple companion in ThoughtBeam, a familiar face as you capture and revisit your day. Capture the moment. Your day comes together. ThoughtBeam supports personal journaling and reflection. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent medical conditions. Consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thoughtbeam.synapsis-x.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brainbit App at none against ThoughtBeam's 4. Brainbit App also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. ThoughtBeam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Brainbit App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brainbit App | ThoughtBeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRAINBIT INC. | Synapsis Medical Technologies Inc. |
In-app purchases
Brainbit App
No in-app purchases
ThoughtBeam
- Thoughtbeam Monthly Premium2 variants$4.991 Month
- Thoughtbeam Yearly Premium2 variants$19.991 Year
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