Comparison

CogniFit vs Brainquire

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

Brainquire

Enhance and track your cognitive skills through engaging games and personalized exercises. This platform assesses your strengths and weaknesses in areas like logic, memory, and verbal abilities, adapting to your learning style with machine learning.

Highlights
  • Cognitive skill assessment
  • Personalized brain exercises
  • Adaptive learning platform
  • Machine learning improvement
  • Verbal, quantitative, visual, logical, memory, attention games
Features
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Improve and monitor your abilities in respective fields by making use of games and applications in various categories (verbal, quantitative, visual, logical, memory and attention). Personalized brain exercises guiding the assessment of cognitive skills and evaluation of advantages and inadequacies. Our “Smart Platform” working at the background observes the performances of each player during gameplay and figures out personalized learning characteristics. Brainquire, which is supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey also continuously improves itself by using machine learning techniques to provide game options that will increase learning speeds of its users. Brainquire is developed in the light of Emrehan Halıcı’s 40 years of experience in preparing mind games and intelligence competitions. Scientists, engineers, psychologists, educators and outstanding contestants of various mind game competitions took part in its development. GET HELP: http://www.brainquire.com/#contact VISIT US: http://www.brainquire.com/ FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/brainquire/ FOLLOW US: https://twitter.com/Brainquire BRAINQUIRE PREMIUM PRICING & TERMS Brainquire offers the following subscriptions: Monthly Individual Subscription: $3.99/1 Month Annual Individual Subscription: $28.99/1 Year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. Your Brainquire Membership subscription will be charged through your iTunes account. At the end of the term, your subscription will automatically renew through your iTunes account. You will be charged for the regular price of your subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of any term. Privacy Policy: http://www.brainquire.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: http://www.brainquire.com/terms_of_service/

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
Brainquire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: CogniFit at free with in-app purchases against Brainquire's subscription. CogniFit also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 37%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Brainquire's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. CogniFit sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Brainquire sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brainquire holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CogniFit has 1.7K ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of CogniFit's written reviews are positive against 37% of Brainquire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniFit ships an update weekly, Brainquire every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CogniFit versus Brainquire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitBrainquire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)4.7 (85 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews — better37.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1.7K — better85
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB195 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCogniFitHalıcı Bilgi İşlem A.Ş.

Customer experience

CogniFit

All ratings1,735 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews535 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral9.7%
Negative19.3%

Brainquire

All ratings85 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive37.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative45.1%

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

Brainquire

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
5 purchases

Brainquire

Subscriptions5
  • 1 Month Membership$3.991 Month
  • 1 Month Family Membership$7.991 Month
  • 1 Year Off-Price Membership$28.991 Year
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  • 1 Year Family Membership$57.991 Year
  • 1 Year Membership$59.991 Year

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brainquire free?
Brainquire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CogniFit or Brainquire?
Brainquire is rated higher. CogniFit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Brainquire averages 4.7 from 85 ratings.
Do CogniFit or Brainquire have ads?
Neither CogniFit nor Brainquire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CogniFit or Brainquire?
CogniFit ships an update weekly, and Brainquire every 2 months. Most recently, CogniFit was updated on October 14, 2026 and Brainquire on October 8, 2026.

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