Comparison

CogniFit vs MindPal

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

MindPal

This app offers a daily brain training program with over 40 games designed to improve memory, attention, language, and problem-solving skills. It provides personalized workouts and tracks your progress with detailed insights and comparisons to other users.

Highlights
  • Over 40 brain games
  • Personalized daily workouts
  • Trains memory and attention
  • Improves language and math skills
  • Tracks progress and scores
  • In-depth performance insights
Features
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Join over 20 million users! MindPal is your daily brain trainer that challenges your memory, attention, language, and problem solving skills. Enjoy a personalized daily workout of entertaining games based on the skills you'd like to improve. MindPal includes 40 educational games that train 7 key cognitive areas: Memory, Attention, Language, Math, Flexibility, Speed, and Problem Solving. Track your progress and compare your brain scores with others now! FEATURES - Over 40 games and 1000 levels to train your brain in different skills. - Personalized daily workout based on your training goals. - Expand your vocabulary and writing skills with word games. - Improve your memory, attention, math, and problem solving skills. - Track your performance and get smarter everyday! - Get in-depth insights and compare your scores to other users. MINDPAL PRO MindPal is free to use, but you can get even more from your brain training by upgrading to a Premium training program. MindPal Pro offers unlimited access to all games and advanced insights into your brain’s performance. MINDPAL PRO PRICING & TERMS For MindPal Pro upgrades, we offer the following subscriptions: 1 month: $7.99 1 year: $39.99 Lifetime: $99.99 * Prices displayed are in USD, actual charges might be converted to local currency depending on your country of residence. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be provided. Subscriptions may be managed by the user. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. For more information: 
Terms of Use - http://www.mindpalapp.com/terms 
Privacy Policy - http://www.mindpalapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
MindPal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CogniFit at none against MindPal's shown. CogniFit also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). MindPal's advantage is ratings volume (86K vs 1.7K) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 MindPal sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MindPal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MindPal has 86K ratings behind it against 1.7K, 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 80% of MindPal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniFit ships an update weekly, MindPal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CogniFit versus MindPal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitMindPal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)4.7 (86K ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews79.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K86K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB227 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCogniFitElektron Labs Inc.

Customer experience

CogniFit

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

MindPal

All ratings86,097 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral3.6%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews1,460 reviews
Positive79.9%
Neutral9.0%
Negative11.0%

User reviews

CogniFit

From 1.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Varied and interesting
  • 👍 Great design, learn about strengths and weaknesses
  • 👍 Challenging and engaging
  • 👍 Amazing app
  • 👍 Comprehensive assessments and personalized training

Room to improve

  • 💰 Free but not free, locked features require payment
  • 🐛 Freezes and crashes, app not working properly
  • 🐛 Inconsistent audio, issues with Bluetooth devices
  • 🐛 Confusing instructions, difficult to understand some games
  • 🐛 Glitchy controls, unresponsive buttons

MindPal

From 86K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Daily brain workouts
  • 🚀 Challenging yet fun games
  • 📈 Tracks progress and performance
  • 🧠 Helps improve cognitive abilities
  • 🤓 Variety of skill-testing games

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive premium version
  • 🔒 Limits free version access
  • 📢 Too many ads in free version
  • 🤔 Inconsistent scoring/percentiles
  • 🐛 Technical issues with some games

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

MindPal

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Glitches in Slicer and Word Trim games
  • Streak resets unexpectedly
  • Wordle game loses streak incorrectly
  • Percentile scores change drastically

Requested features

5 requests
  • More free game access
  • Customizable difficulty levels
  • Ability to compare to general population
  • Improved instructions for game mechanics
  • Accessibility options for color-blind users

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
12 purchases

MindPal

Subscriptions10
  • MindPal Pro$4.997 Days
  • MindPal Pro$6.997 Days
  • MindPal Pro3 Days trial$6.997 Days
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  • MindPal Pro$7.991 Month
  • MindPal Pro$9.991 Month
  • MindPal Pro$29.991 Year
  • MindPal Pro$39.991 Year
  • MindPal Pro7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
  • MindPal Pro$49.991 Year
  • MindPal Pro7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • MindPal Pro$49.99
  • MindPal Pro$74.99

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindPal free?
MindPal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CogniFit or MindPal?
MindPal is rated higher. CogniFit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while MindPal averages 4.7 from 86K ratings.
Do CogniFit or MindPal have ads?
MindPal shows ads; CogniFit does not.
Which is updated more often, CogniFit or MindPal?
CogniFit ships an update weekly, and MindPal every 3 weeks. Most recently, CogniFit was updated on November 1, 2026 and MindPal on November 3, 2026.

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