Comparison

CogniFit vs Dementia Guide Expert

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

Head to head
About

CogniFit

Engage in fun mental games designed to test, train, and improve your cognitive functions. Monitor your progress with personalized scores and track improvements in areas like memory, focus, and reaction time. This app offers a scientific approach to brain health for users of all ages.

Highlights
  • Personalized brain training sessions
  • Cognitive score monitoring
  • Improve memory, focus, and reaction time
  • Track cognitive age
  • Guided mindfulness techniques
  • Interactive brain games
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Your mind changes every day. Some days feel clear. Others feel harder to navigate. CogniFit brings a new daily approach to brain health, helping you understand how your mind performs, adapts, and evolves over time. Built on more than 20 years of published research, CogniFit combines cognitive assessment, adaptive training, and daily guidance into a single system designed to support mental clarity, focus, and long-term cognitive wellbeing. ‣ Your Brain Age At the center of the experience is your Brain Age: a simple way to understand how your mind is performing today, and how it changes over time. Monitor your daily and weekly cognitive scores, set goals, and build a personalized training plan around your own rhythm. ‣ Five Abilities, One Evolving Picture Memory, focus, coordination, reasoning, and perception are measured over time to reveal patterns in how your mind performs day to day, alongside up to 22 other cognitive abilities, including processing speed and reaction time. ‣ Built Around You Training sessions adjust gradually, adapting difficulty, pace, and cognitive focus based on how you perform. The more you use CogniFit, the more the experience adapts to you. ‣ Guidance Throughout the Day Gentle reminders, reflections, and quick check-ins help support consistency throughout the day, especially during moments when focus or energy feels lower. ‣ Grounded in Cognitive Science Developed by neuroscience experts, CogniFit's patented Individualized Training System (ITS) is used by the scientific community, universities, hospitals, families, and medical centers around the world. ‣ The Benefits • Track your cognitive score (0-100) daily and weekly • Personalized training sessions based on the areas you want to focus on • A custom weekly plan, built around your routine • Scores across cognitive domains, including reasoning, coordination, memory, perception, and attention • Compare your Brain Age to your actual age • Guided mindfulness techniques to support your mental wellbeing • More than 100 interactive games, including Penguin Explorer, Mahjong, and Reaction Field • Video Coaches to guide you through every step • Brain games and brain teasers for adults and children alike ‣ Designed for Everyday Life A complete redesign brings a calmer, more intuitive experience that fits naturally into your routine. Short sessions, clearer feedback, and a more focused interface make daily cognitive care simple, approachable, and sustainable. Small moments, repeated daily, that's how real change happens. Are you ready to understand your brain a little better, every day? Pricing and Conditions CogniFit offers monthly ($9.99/mo) and annual ($59.99/yr) subscription packages. All amounts are in USD. All subscriptions are processed through the user’s app store account. Currency conversions for user’s outside of the US may apply. All subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. For complete details, please review: https://www.cognifit.com/terms-and-conditions

About

Dementia Guide Expert

This app provides expert guidance and support for individuals with dementia, their families, and caregivers. It offers helpful advice, management tips, and links to resources to improve quality of life throughout the dementia journey.

Highlights
  • Expert-created content
  • Stage-by-stage guidance
  • Dementia-positive approach
  • Management tips
  • Resource links
  • Educational empowerment
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Nationally known dementia experts have created this app as a resource and guide for persons with dementia, families and caregivers. The dementia guide offers helpful advice and support as you travel through each stage of the dementia experience. Our approach is dementia positive and our goal is to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia, families and caregivers. As you travel through the dementia experience our App provides a “Dementia Guide” to help you understand dementia, offers management tips and provides access (links) to information and resources for living with dementia. Our goal is to directly educate and empower all older adults, persons with dementia, families and caregivers while guiding them through the dementia journey. Valerie Gruss, PhD, ANP, CNP-BC College of Nursing vgruss@uic.edu Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD Department of Family Medicine College of Medicine memoona@uic.edu University of Illinois at Chicago

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
Dementia Guide Expert4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dementia Guide Expert at 5.0 against CogniFit's 4.5. Dementia Guide Expert also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). CogniFit's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 1). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. CogniFit sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Dementia Guide Expert asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dementia Guide Expert holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CogniFit has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniFit ships an update weekly, Dementia Guide Expert every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CogniFit versus Dementia Guide Expert: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitDementia Guide Expert
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCogniFitUniversity of Illinois

Customer experience

CogniFit

All ratings1,736 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews538 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral9.7%
Negative19.3%

Dementia Guide Expert

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

CogniFit

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Constant need to restart iPad to get app to work
  • Games freezing and progress not saved
  • Buttons and controls not working as expected
  • Inconsistent loading and crashing issues
  • Personalized training not functioning properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • More language options
  • Ability to skip games during personalized training
  • Option to practice specific weak areas
  • Clearer instructions and tutorials for all games
  • Accommodate for color blindness and visual impairments
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  • More engaging and less repetitive games

Dementia Guide Expert

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

CogniFit

Subscriptions13
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Month
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  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription 50% Off$9.991 Month
  • Subscription Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Monthy Basic$19.991 Month
  • Monthly Basic$19.991 Month
  • CogniFit Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • CogniFit Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription 50% Off$59.991 Year
  • Yearly Basic$119.991 Year
One-time1
  • Assessment - Full price$49.99
None

Dementia Guide Expert

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dementia Guide Expert free?
Dementia Guide Expert is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CogniFit or Dementia Guide Expert?
Dementia Guide Expert is rated higher. CogniFit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Dementia Guide Expert averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CogniFit or Dementia Guide Expert have ads?
Neither CogniFit nor Dementia Guide Expert shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CogniFit or Dementia Guide Expert?
CogniFit ships an update weekly, and Dementia Guide Expert every 10 months. Most recently, CogniFit was updated on October 29, 2026 and Dementia Guide Expert on September 17, 2026.

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