Comparison

Eye vs Galaxy Vision Training

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

Head to head
About

Eye

This app helps expand your peripheral vision and reduce eye and neck strain caused by prolonged focus on a narrow area. It guides you to detect subtle visual cues while you work, training your brain to be more aware of your surroundings.

Highlights
  • Expand peripheral vision
  • Reduce eye and neck tension
  • Detect moving bar cues
  • Customizable reaction time
  • Adjustable cycle lengths
  • Adjustable animation speeds
  • Break reminders
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Eye-Opener is a simple app to help you expand your peripheral vision field. When we work on a computer or read a book, quite often we tend to concentrate too much on a very narrow area in our visual field. That creates a tension, both mental - in our mind - and physical - in the muscles around our eyes and neck. This app is designed to expand your visual field and reduce this tension. When you work on a computer, place your phone within a hand's reach somewhere in your peripheral vision. You should be able to see the phone if you shift your eyes without moving your head. Tap the start button. The app will show a moving bar. Start working on the computer. At the same time expand your peripheral vision, so you could detect the movement on your phone. After a while the moving bar will disappear. When you notice it, tap the screen of your phone. The moving bar will reappear and a new cycle will start. Continue working on the computer. If you wait too long after the moving bar disappears and don't tap the screen, the app will notify you with a sound or vibration. You can set up the reaction time - how much time you need to react before the sound starts. In the beginning, you may feel distracted. That's ok. Your brain needs time to unlearn this bad habit of staring too much in one spot. Be patient! After a while, you will find this new way of seeing much more dynamic and comfortable. After all our ancestors survived because they had excellent peripheral vision! Available settings: - Minimum cycle length - Maximum cycle length - Animation speed in one direction - First pause - Animation speed in the opposite direction - Second pause - Moving bar color - Moving bar thickness - Moving bar direction - You need to react when: the bar disappears, the bar changes direction, the bar changes direction - Reaction time - Remind me to take a break at the following intervals

About

Galaxy Vision Training

This app challenges your brain's visual processing using gabor patches to improve how you see. Regular practice increases difficulty and strengthens visual processing, akin to exercising your eyes. It's designed to enhance your perception of the world around you.

Highlights
  • Gabor patch visual challenges
  • Increasing difficulty with progress
  • Strengthens visual processing
  • Regular practice recommended
  • Designed for brain challenge
Features
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Can you improve your vision? Vision research says yes! Our brain is capable of many things. If you've ever played an instrument or a sport, you already know that the more you practice or train, the better and stronger you get. Much of this has to do with how your brain coordinates your activity. But beyond these activities, the brain is capable of improving in almost every area. This includes improving the way we see the world around us. When we look at an object, our eyes take all that visual information that we see and pass it on to the brain for processing. This information passes into the visual cortex of the brain where we interpret what we see. It turns out that the brain processes this visual information through distinct patterns. These patterns can be closely approximated by something called gabor patches. Challenging your brain by looking at these patterns can strengthen the way we process vision. It's like practice for your eyes. Galaxy Vision is a fun vision training app utilizing these gabor patches. Instructions are pretty simple. Identify the correct orientation of the image. As you successfully select the correct image, the difficulty will increase significantly. This won't be easy; this is meant to be challenging. The best way to use Galaxy Vision is to use it regularly. The more work you put in, the more work you can get out. Take your vision to the next galaxy! Note: This app is not intended to be used for the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease. This app is solely designed to challenge your brain’s visual processing.

Screenshots

Eye4 screens
Galaxy Vision Training3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Galaxy Vision Training at 4.6 against Eye's 1.0. Galaxy Vision Training also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (63 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Galaxy Vision Training holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galaxy Vision Training has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eye ships an update every 13 months, Galaxy Vision Training every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Eye versus Galaxy Vision Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEyeGalaxy Vision Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (63 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings163 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimur BaytukalovBarrett Eubanks

In-app purchases

None

Eye

No in-app purchases

None

Galaxy Vision Training

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eye free?
Eye is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Galaxy Vision Training free?
Galaxy Vision Training is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Eye or Galaxy Vision Training?
Galaxy Vision Training is rated higher. Eye averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Galaxy Vision Training averages 4.6 from 63 ratings.
Do Eye or Galaxy Vision Training have ads?
Neither Eye nor Galaxy Vision Training shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eye or Galaxy Vision Training?
Eye ships an update every 13 months, and Galaxy Vision Training every 3 weeks. Most recently, Eye was updated on November 3, 2026 and Galaxy Vision Training on November 3, 2026.

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