Comparison

CogniFit vs Expercast

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

Head to head
About

CogniFit

This app offers daily brain health exercises and assessments based on scientific research. It helps users understand their cognitive performance, track progress, and improve mental clarity and focus through adaptive training and guided sessions.

Highlights
  • Daily cognitive assessment
  • Adaptive brain training sessions
  • Brain Age tracking
  • Progress monitoring across 5 abilities
  • Personalized weekly training plans
  • Guided mindfulness techniques
  • Over 100 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

Expercast

Transform your commute, exercise, or chores into learning opportunities with this audio app. Listen to curated articles, your favorite blogs, saved web content, documents, and even email newsletters. Track your progress, compete with friends, and master speed listening.

Highlights
  • Listen to curated article collections
  • Convert blogs and websites to audio
  • Save and listen to articles from any source
  • Listen to PDF, Word, and EPUB files
  • Forward email newsletters for audio playback
  • Track listening stats and streaks
  • Speed listening training mode
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Expercast is a spoken audio app that allows you to convert your downtime into knowledge. Start getting more out of the many hours you spend commuting, exercising, or doing housework! CAREFULLY CRAFTED CURATIONS Listen to collections of the all-time greatest articles on any topic, lovingly assembled by our curation team and expert users. SMART FEEDS OF ANY BLOG Struggling to keep up with your favorite blogs? Listen to them via Expercast! It’s like an RSS feed reader, but smarter, and in audio. SAVE ARTICLES FROM ANYWHERE Found a great article on the web or in another app? Save it to Expercast and listen to it later! We also integrate with Instapaper. LISTEN TO PDF, WORD, AND EPUB FILES Save files to Expercast and listen to them during your downtime. We support PDF files, Word documents, EPUB files, and more. CURATE EXPERCASTS OF YOUR OWN Assemble your favorite articles on any given topic by creating article collections of your own, for your friends and followers to subscribe to. LISTEN TO EMAIL NEWSLETTERS Falling behind in reading your email newsletters? Just forward them to Expercast, and we’ll add them to your listening queue! TRACK YOUR LISTENING STATS To help you form a healthy habit around exploiting your downtime, we nudge you to complete 30-day challenges, and to build daily and weekly streaks. COMPETE WITH YOUR FRIENDS Compare your listening achievements with those of your friends. And earn a black belt by joining the top 10% of our listeners! LEARN SPEED LISTENING Expercast features a speed listening training mode that helps you acquire a maximum amount of knowledge in your limited amount of downtime. DOZENS OF VOICES AND LANGUAGES Expercast supports a large variety of male and female voices across virtually any language for you to choose from. Do you have any questions? Ideas for how to improve our app? We’re happy to hear from you! Just drop us a note at support@expercast.com or feedback@expercast.com.

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
Expercast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Expercast at 5.0 against CogniFit's 4.5. Expercast also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). CogniFit's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 6) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Expercast asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Expercast 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 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of CogniFit's written reviews are positive against 100% of Expercast's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniFit ships an update weekly, Expercast monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CogniFit versus Expercast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitExpercast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size222 MB116 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCogniFitRivuspurus

Customer experience

CogniFit

All ratings1,742 ratings
Positive86.9%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews541 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral9.6%
Negative19.4%

Expercast

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
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

Expercast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

CogniFit

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • 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 Basic$119.991 Year
None

Expercast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Expercast free?
Expercast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CogniFit or Expercast?
Expercast is rated higher. CogniFit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Expercast averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do CogniFit or Expercast have ads?
Neither CogniFit nor Expercast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CogniFit or Expercast?
CogniFit ships an update weekly, and Expercast monthly. Most recently, CogniFit was updated on November 6, 2026 and Expercast on November 2, 2026.

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