Comparison

Strong Mind Puzzles vs Visual Recall Challenge

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

Head to head
About

Strong Mind Puzzles

This game challenges your brain with progressively difficult puzzles designed to enhance cognitive skills. It helps users reduce impulsivity, improve planning, and develop introspection through unique gameplay mechanics.

Highlights
  • Progressively difficult puzzle variations
  • Internal dialogue for skill building
  • Reduces impulsivity
  • Enhances planning behavior
  • Encourages introspection
  • Error-detection reflex training
Features
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Strong Mind Puzzles update provides progressively difficult variations. This encourages deliberate rehearsal and enhances learning. The rules, graphics, number of icons, and abstract images become more complex. Individuals must use the voice in their head to match the goal and complete the game. The voice in our head (internal dialogue) builds executive skills because it helps: * reduce impulsivity * contributes to planning behavior * encourages introspection and reflection * provides a system to generate alternatives This updates include all previous Strong Mind Puzzle Variations. The user is able to control their starting point and progression. The user has the flexibility of moving between games to individualize their learning experience. — Strong Mind Puzzles is a game designed to challenge your brain. In her 35 years of cognitive restructuring practice, Dr. Markus created a series of paper-and-pencil puzzles to explore new ways to challenge the brain and rehearse cognitive abilities. To reach beyond her clinical practice, these puzzles were converted to a mobile format which provide numerous, varied opportunities for learning. Effective problem-solving and decision-making is based, at least in part, on the number of variables a problem solver or decision maker is capable of evaluating. With deliberate rehearsal, individuals can learn to increase the number of variables that they use to make a decision. -- Why Finding Mistakes Develops Critical Thinking Behaviors Strong Mind Puzzles can help reduce mistakes. Think about what happens when you make a mistake. You become emotionally attached to the mistake. As a result, this emotional investment makes it difficult to examine results objectively. Such reasoning helps explain why we are better at catching other people's mistakes than our own errors. These puzzles give you practice in identifying and learning to anticipate errors. When you are comparing and contrasting images you search for mistakes. With practice, this develops an error-detection reflex.

About

Visual Recall Challenge

Test your visual memory with this addictive puzzle game. Memorize patterns and match images through increasingly difficult levels. Improve your concentration and visual retention skills while having fun.

Highlights
  • Visual memory testing
  • Pattern memorization
  • Image matching
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Concentration training
  • Visual retention improvement
Features
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Put your visual memory to the test in this addictive puzzle game! Challenge yourself with a series of mind-bending levels that will push your recall abilities to the limit. Memorize patterns, match images, and advance through increasingly challenging stages. Train your concentration and improve your visual retention skills while having fun. Can you conquer all the levels and become a master of visual memory? Download now and start the ultimate puzzle challenge!

Screenshots

Strong Mind Puzzles4 screens
Visual Recall Challenge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Recall Challenge at Free against Strong Mind Puzzles's $29.99. Visual Recall Challenge also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (67% vs 45%). Strong Mind Puzzles's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, 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

Visual Recall Challenge is free to download; Strong Mind Puzzles costs $29.99 up front. Strong Mind Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Visual Recall Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Recall Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Strong Mind Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 67% of Visual Recall Challenge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strong Mind Puzzles ships an update every 5 weeks, Visual Recall Challenge every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Strong Mind Puzzles versus Visual Recall Challenge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrong Mind PuzzlesVisual Recall Challenge
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (10 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDonalee MarkusMagicDevs LLC

Customer experience

Strong Mind Puzzles

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative40.0%

Visual Recall Challenge

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Strong Mind Puzzles

One-time1
  • Levels 4-9$1.99
1 purchases

Visual Recall Challenge

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Strong Mind Puzzles free?
Strong Mind Puzzles costs $29.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Visual Recall Challenge free?
Visual Recall Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strong Mind Puzzles or Visual Recall Challenge?
Visual Recall Challenge is rated higher. Strong Mind Puzzles averages 4.1 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Visual Recall Challenge averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Strong Mind Puzzles or Visual Recall Challenge have ads?
Neither Strong Mind Puzzles nor Visual Recall Challenge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strong Mind Puzzles or Visual Recall Challenge?
Strong Mind Puzzles ships an update every 5 weeks, and Visual Recall Challenge every 2 months. Most recently, Strong Mind Puzzles was updated on October 14, 2026 and Visual Recall Challenge on September 30, 2026.

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