Comparison

Advance vs Critical Thinking

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

Head to head
About

Advance

Learn to identify misinformation and develop critical thinking skills. This app uses fun quizzes to teach you how to evaluate information sources, understand biases, and protect yourself from manipulation. Improve your decision-making and reduce stress by relying on reliable facts.

Highlights
  • Learn through fun quizzes
  • Evaluate information sources
  • Understand biases and motivations
  • Improve critical thinking skills
  • Choose difficulty levels
  • Instant feedback and progress tracking
  • Openly sourced information
Features
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Our freedoms and security are stressed by deliberate misinformation. Be part of the solution by learning how reliable facts are discovered before these facts get twisted by bias. You can only spot misinformation if you know: • What good information looks like • How misinformation tricks your brain Our app teaches both; there is no other app like this out there! Make a difference today and try the app now! Avoiding misinformation with your improved critical thinking skills can boost your health, finances, and relationships — and lower your stress too! Don't fall behind – Advance today and protect your freedom! Through fun quizzes, you'll learn: • How to compare different information sources • How humans invented ways to generated reliable facts • How biases, motivations, and conflicts of interest can hurt information reliability • How the human brain reacts to information • How instincts can be exploited by others You'll discover fascinating insights through our deep comparisons of your typical information sources like talk show hosts, social media, journalists, scientists, the media, politicians, and the judicial system. AMAZING POTENTIAL BENEFITS 1. Protect yourself and your freedom by recognizing how others try to manipulate you. 2. Save time and protect your security by avoiding conspiracy theories and fake news. 3. Make better life decisions by finding good sources and understanding the facts. 4. Better choices can improve your health, finances, work, and relationships. 5. Reduce societal divisions by believing in more reliable facts instead of incorrect ones. 6. Educate yourself to avoid depending on censorship and manipulation. 7. Reduce the chance of being tricked by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. 8. Improve your critical thinking, analysis, and research skills. 9. Gain an advantage by understanding biases and motivations in yourself and others. 10. Handle stress from ads, media, news, social media, and politicians competing for your attention. 11. Help solve problems by making sure your communication is based on evidence and honesty. 12. Adapt by learning how substances and stress affect your brain's decisions. 13. Learn how the world works, both the good and the bad. 14. Get more immediate benefits for life decisions compared to other brain training apps. AWESOME FEATURES • Learn by doing! Our fun quizzes help you remember better than just reading or watching videos. • There's no other app like this! Get the full picture with quizzes in four key areas: 1. Which information sources can you trust, and why? 2. What makes information more trustworthy? 3. Who shows bias and why? 4. How does your brain influence decisions? • Choose your challenge: Easy, Medium, or Hard levels available! • Get instant feedback and level up your skills! • Curious? Tap on resources to see where our facts come from. We're all about being open! • Keep score and see how you improve. Share your progress if you want! • Track your info stress: See how learning helps you worry less about fake news and manipulation! Info, TOS, and Privacy Policy: http://knowledgeadvances.org

About

Critical Thinking

Features
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Most bad arguments are not stupid. They are convincing — that is exactly why they work. This is a practice app, not a lecture hall. Every morning you get three questions built on a real case: a report that quietly leaves out the bad weeks, a headline that implies more than it says, an argument that almost holds. You answer, you see why the wrong options feel right, and you keep the move that defuses that trick next time. WHAT'S INSIDE Daily practice Three questions a day, each with a full breakdown. Three minutes, and the reasoning stays with you. Three courses, 66 lessons • Critical Thinking — 21 lessons with video and notes: testing arguments and sources, spotting manipulation, making better-balanced decisions. • Critical Thinking and Health — 21 lessons on telling evidence from persuasive stories, checking health claims and deciding without panic. • Cognitive Biases — 24 lessons on the most common thinking traps: how each one works, where it catches you in money, work and the news, and the move that defuses it. 50 quizzes Five topics — logic, biases, media, data and sources. Ten questions each, about five minutes. AI analysis Paste a news story, a claim or a situation you are stuck on. You get it taken apart: what is actually being claimed, what the facts support, where the weak points are, what is worth checking, and a balanced conclusion — plus one question to ask yourself. Progress you can read XP, a streak and skill bars by topic, so you can see which kind of reasoning keeps catching you out. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the daily practice, the first two lessons of every course, five quizzes and five AI analyses. Premium: all 66 lessons, all 50 quizzes, the random quiz mix and unlimited AI analyses. SUBSCRIPTION Premium is available as a monthly or an annual auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase with no renewal. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm, and payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Advance4 screens
Critical Thinking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Advance at 3 against Critical Thinking's 1. Advance also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Advance versus Critical Thinking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdvanceCritical Thinking
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB748 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKnowledge Advances Inc.Alexander Senin

In-app purchases

None

Advance

No in-app purchases

None

Critical Thinking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Advance free?
Advance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Critical Thinking free?
Critical Thinking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Advance or Critical Thinking have ads?
Neither Advance nor Critical Thinking shows ads.

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