Populi vs Better Brain Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Populi
This app connects to a college management system, allowing faculty and students to manage coursework, attendance, and communication. It offers features for grading, submitting assignments, checking grades, and accessing course materials.
- Automatic attendance via Bluetooth beacon
- Grade assignments and run discussions
- Submit assignments and take tests
- Check grades and view course bulletin boards
- Manage admissions leads
- View and pay balances, show ID card
- Search library and place holds
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For use with the Populi college management system. * Uses the same Populi login you use at your school. * Use your iPhone’s Bluetooth beacon to automatically take attendance. * Faculty can grade assignments, run discussions, take attendance, and post to course Bulletin Boards. * Students can check grades, submit assignments, take tests, contribute to discussions, and check in for attendance. * Faculty and students can join course conferences. * Add new admissions leads. * View and pay your balance, show your ID Card, view your calendars, look up school contacts, and keep up with To-Dos. * Search your Library and place holds on resources. * Browse, join and interact with groups. As a group administrator you can also manage group members and content.
Better Brain Lite
Enhance your fluid intelligence with a challenging memory task. This app trains your ability to solve new problems by remembering simultaneous audio and visual events. A scientific study indicated a positive impact on fluid intelligence from this training.
- Fluid intelligence training
- Memory task practice
- Simultaneous audio/visual event recall
- 2-back task (letter and grid position)
- Training session log export
- Scientific study validation
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Improve your fluid intelligence with Better Brain Lite. Fluid intelligence is your ability to reason and solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge. With Better Brain Lite you practice a challenging memory task where you have to remember simultaneously audio and visual events. A scientific study has shown a positive effect of this training on the fluid intelligence of a test group. The memory task you need to practice is the 2-back task where you must remember the letter you heard two steps back in the past and simultaneously the position of a square on a three by three grid. You can also export via email or the Finder a complete log file of your training sessions for later analysis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Better Brain Lite at 3.6 against Populi's 2.5. Better Brain Lite also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 28%). Populi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (26 vs 5). 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. Better Brain Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Populi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Better Brain Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Populi has 26 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Populi's written reviews are positive against 67% of Better Brain Lite's.
Populi ships an update every 7 months, Better Brain Lite every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Populi | Better Brain Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (26 ratings) | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Populi, Inc | Peter Schorn |
Customer experience
Populi
Better Brain Lite
Bugs and requests
Populi
Reported bugs
41 issues- App stays on 'continue' page
- App is hacked
- App does not work on opening
- Assignments won't submit
- Files no longer open
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- App logs out users
- Cannot open files through the app
- Application feels stuck at v1
- App works only half the time
- App is full of bugs and crashes
- App frequently loses ability to view lessons and tests
- Error message: needs to be updated, but no update available
- App signs out every time it's opened
- Unable to access posted files
- Unable to login after iPhone update
- White screen of death after login
- App logs out constantly
- White screen of death when trying to log back in
- Cannot access lessons page
- App crashes when scrolling
- App freezes when navigating
- Cannot access lessons page on classes
- Inability to stay logged in
- Random logouts
- Developer claims issue fixed, but it's not
- App keeps logging out 3-4 times a day
- Problems with staying logged in
- Last update was 6 months ago
- Institution does not populate on login screen
- App is useless, like using a browser
- App not designed for iPads
- App uses center of screen on iPad
- Menu missing after upgrade
- Files no longer visible, 'unable to connect to Populi'
- App broke after iOS update
- App pops open and closes immediately
- New app update crashes immediately upon opening
- App doesn't communicate well with Populi server
- App doesn't offer same features as website
- App is slow
- Attendance feature is time consuming
Requested features
27 requests- Overhaul UI
- Add tabs to navigation
- Enable location and Bluetooth
- Accessibility support (font/icon size)
- Dark mode
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- Upload assignments from OneDrive/Dropbox
- Integration with online meeting apps
- Face ID unlock
- Save payment information
- Deep link push notifications
- Comment on assignments from app
- iPad version
- Print lessons
- Submit assignments
- Take tests
- Make all website features available on app
- Update app to include more website features
- Allow files to be opened in other programs
- View attendance
- View grades for all classes
- View past terms
- View degree audit
- View class dashboard
- Post/respond to class dashboard
- Save attendance default to 'present'
- Mail functionality
- Full complement of Populi features (bill paying, news feed, rosters, calendars)
Better Brain Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Populi
No in-app purchases
Better Brain Lite
- Upgrade to BetterBrain Pro$2.99
