Spike Recorder vs EmotivPRO Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spike Recorder
Explore neuroscience with this app, allowing you to view, hear, record, and analyze neural signals from neurons and muscles. It provides tools for students of all ages to conduct hands-on electrophysiology experiments and understand brain communication.
- View neural signals
- Hear neural signals
- Record neural data
- Analyze neural spike trains
- Measure reaction times
- Calculate neuroscience statistics
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Spike Recorder brings hands-on neuroscience recording and analysis to students, educators and researchers. Use compatible Backyard Brains hardware to explore electrical signals from nerves and muscles. Record signals from multiple channels, save recordings, and open them for playback and analysis. Use the Signal, Spike, Events and Spectrum workspaces to examine your data. Measure spike counts and rates for each selected spike train, or compare average power in frequency bands such as alpha. Create named events with colors and keyboard shortcuts. Mark events with on-screen buttons while recording, and keep their names visible on the signal. Adjust channel types, names, colors and filters to suit your experiment. Browse saved recordings with waveform previews, then open, rename or share a recording. New NWB recordings preserve supported channel settings, spike selections, event details and each screen’s scales. Hardware compatibility and connection options vary by device. Explore Backyard Brains experiment kits and learning resources at https://backyardbrains.com.
EmotivPRO Mobile
This application allows researchers to conduct brainwave studies outside of a traditional lab setting. It enables real-world EEG data capture and can connect to a desktop application for experiment building and analysis.
- Real-world EEG data capture
- Conduct research outside the lab
- Connect to desktop application
- Build neuroscience experiments
- Analyze data with cloud computing
- Stream EEG data in real-time
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Pro is EMOTIV’s comprehensive toolkit for professional brain research. Use our mobile app to take your EEG experiment outside of the lab to the real world and capture EEG data in context. Connect to Desktop application to build neuroscience experiments, analyse your data using EMOTIV’s powerful cloud computing and stream EEG data in real time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EmotivPRO Mobile at 5.0 against Spike Recorder's 3.4. EmotivPRO Mobile also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%). Spike Recorder's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EmotivPRO Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Spike Recorder's written reviews are positive against 100% of EmotivPRO Mobile's.
Spike Recorder ships an update every 4 months, EmotivPRO Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spike Recorder | EmotivPRO Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Backyard Brains | EMOTIV Inc. |
Customer experience
Spike Recorder
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In-app purchases
Spike Recorder
No in-app purchases
EmotivPRO Mobile
No in-app purchases
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