Better Brain vs Brain Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Fluid intelligence training
- Simultaneous audio/visual memory tasks
- Adaptive difficulty control
- Multiple training task options
- Dual channel memory tasks
- Training log export
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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.
Brain Training
Engage in daily mental fitness with a color-sorting challenge that sharpens reasoning, focus, and planning skills. Enjoy calming, timer-free gameplay with hundreds of unique puzzles designed for steady cognitive progression.
- Daily mental fitness sessions
- Color-sorting logic puzzles
- Strengthens reasoning and focus
- Calming, timer-free gameplay
- Hundreds of unique puzzles
- Instant level restart
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Brain Training – Logic Puzzles is your daily mental fitness session disguised as a color-sorting challenge. Each level strengthens your reasoning, focus and planning skills, helping you build sharper cognitive habits one puzzle at a time. How to play: 1. Tap a tube to lift the top ball. 2. Drop it into another tube only if colors match or if that tube is empty. 3. Keep organizing until every tube holds balls of a single color. 4. Restart any level instantly if you want to refine your strategy. Why you’ll love it: • Pocket-sized brain workouts you can do anywhere, every day • Steady progression—easy warm-ups lead into truly satisfying hurdles • Calming, timer-free gameplay that doubles as mindful practice • Hundreds of unique puzzles keep your mind engaged and evolving
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brain Training at Free against Better Brain's $2.99. Brain Training also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (6K vs 15). Better Brain's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Brain Training is free to download; Better Brain costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Better Brain against 4.7 for Brain Training. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Training has 6K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Better Brain's written reviews are positive against 42% of Brain Training's.
Better Brain ships an update every 6 months, Brain Training every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Better Brain | Brain Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 4.7 (6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better | 42.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Schorn | SocialLoop LLC |
Customer experience
Better Brain
Brain Training
Bugs and requests
Better Brain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Brain Training
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes after completing levels
- Reset and undo buttons not working properly
- Bonus levels not solvable
Requested features
2 requests- Option to remove ads
- Improved stability and performance
In-app purchases
Better Brain
No in-app purchases
Brain Training
No in-app purchases









