Comparison

Better Brain vs Brainbit App

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

Head to head
About

Better Brain

Enhance your fluid intelligence with challenging memory tasks. Practice remembering simultaneous audio and visual events to improve problem-solving skills. Features adaptive difficulty and customizable training options.

Highlights
  • Fluid intelligence training
  • Simultaneous audio/visual memory tasks
  • Adaptive difficulty control
  • Multiple training task options
  • Dual channel memory tasks
  • Training log export
Features
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Improve your fluid intelligence with Better Brain. Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason and solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge. With Better Brain you practice challenging memory tasks 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. BetterBrain features multiple user controlled settings such as two additional training tasks (audio position, color change, form) and adaptive difficulty control: Once you make sufficient progress, you may work on the more challenging 3-back task and if you make too many mistakes, the level will be reduced. Another advantage of Better Brain is the possibility to practice dual channel memory tasks which are either fully audio or fully visual. You can also export via email or the Finder a complete log file of your training sessions for later analysis.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Real-time EEG brainwave data
  • Monitor functional states (relaxation, concentration)
  • Enhance meditation practice
  • Analyze sleep stages and quality
  • Medical quality EEG
  • Professional grade spectrogram
Features
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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

Screenshots

Better Brain4 screens
Brainbit App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Brainbit App at Free against Better Brain's $2.99. Brainbit App also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.4). Better Brain's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (15 vs 3). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Brainbit App is free to download; Better Brain costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Better Brain holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Better Brain has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Better Brain's written reviews are positive against 50% of Brainbit App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Better Brain ships an update every 6 months, Brainbit App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Better Brain versus Brainbit App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBetter BrainBrainbit App
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (15 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews47.1% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.411.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter SchornBRAINBIT INC.

Customer experience

Better Brain

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive47.1%
Neutral35.3%
Negative17.6%

Brainbit App

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Better Brain

No in-app purchases

None

Brainbit App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Better Brain free?
Better Brain costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brainbit App free?
Brainbit App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Better Brain or Brainbit App?
Better Brain is rated higher. Better Brain averages 4.7 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Brainbit App averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Better Brain or Brainbit App have ads?
Neither Better Brain nor Brainbit App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Better Brain or Brainbit App?
Better Brain ships an update every 6 months, and Brainbit App every 3 weeks. Most recently, Better Brain was updated on August 29, 2026 and Brainbit App on August 18, 2026.

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