Better Brain Lite vs N'Back
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
N'Back
Enhance sensory and working memory with this brain training application. It offers various modes to test your ability to recall sequences of numbers, progressing through different 'N' levels.
- Sensory memory improvement
- Working memory enhancement
- N'Back exercises
- Flash Mode
- Slow Mode
- Step Mode
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Improve Sensory Memory & Working Memory using N'Back. ◆Flash Mode / Slow Mode / Step Mode Tap the number key matches the one from N steps earlier in the sequence. In 1'Back 1 task1: count & memorize 2 task2: count & memorize 3 __keyboard__: answer for task1 4 task3: count & memorize 5 __keyboard__: answer for task2 6 task4: count & memorize : In 2'Back 1 task1: count & memorize 2 task2: count & memorize 3 task3: count & memorize 4 __keyboard__: answer for task1 5 task4: count & memorize 6 __keyboard__: answer for task2 7 task5: count & memorize :
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Better Brain Lite at none against N'Back's shown. Better Brain Lite also leads on device support (3 vs 1). N'Back's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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 and N'Back sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
N'Back holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Better Brain Lite's written reviews are positive against 70% of N'Back's.
Better Brain Lite ships an update every 10 months, N'Back every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Better Brain Lite | N'Back |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Schorn | Yasuyoshi Ota |
Customer experience
Better Brain Lite
N'Back
In-app purchases
Better Brain Lite
- Upgrade to BetterBrain Pro$2.99
N'Back
- Add Levels (3'Back-10'Back) and Remove Ads$2.99
