CogniFit vs Lateral+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Lateral+
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OUR LINE OF THOUGHT Did you know that children multiply by 10 our capacity to generate ideas to solve problems? Are you one of those who know or suspect that this is not a coincidence? Have you noticed that the traditional education system not only makes us learn the same thing, but that we think in the same way? What is really crucial is, what will we lose and what will ours lose in those 100+ ideas that are left unformulated every moment as we grow up? What opportunities will continue to be wasted? How many of those ideas will be the EUREKA that will change our lives? And more importantly, how many times will we stop being ourselves by repressing those ideas? The funny thing is that the main difference between a great idea and a conventional one is the route we follow when thinking, the way we connect the information and the type of thinking we use. To begin to uncover this creative and genius potential that we all possess, LATERAL has gone back to the basics, and from the simple game it connects you with the self-knowledge of these innate skills and types of thinking, the basis for creating. LATERAL allows you to be more fluid and have those transformative abilities so valued and scarce in today's academic and professional world. LATERAL knows the way, in more than 4 years of development, to expand your IDEAS and proposes you to curiosity, experiment, discover and self-magnify the creative and solutionist GENIUS that has always been inside you. START FOR FREE AND WITHOUT PRESSURE Try it, it has a FREEMIUM system by number of exercises and not by limit of days because LATERAL first of all respects your own speed of exploration. FUNDAMENTAL VERTEXES We have 3 fundamental vertexes that are connected through a journey of self-discovery on the player's thinking. He will be able to know, with respect to other LATERAL players, what his thoughts are like: divergent, lateral, flexible and expressive. He will also have access to see what thinking skills he stimulates when he is inspired, he will get scores for goal accomplishment and solving ability in the games, and he will be able to keep track of all his creations and observe how they become more and more fluid, effective and distinctive. SOLID ACADEMIC, THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS +300 Documented references +24 Specific skills mapped to our games +50 Unconventional thinking strategies identified NEW SELF-KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR THINKING * DIVERGENT Thinking (Mental Fluency) * LATERAL Thinking (Originality) * FLEXIBLE Thinking (Mental Plasticity) * EXPRESSIVE Thinking (Empathy in thinking) GAMIFICATION FROM INSPIRATIONAL LEARNING * Follows the natural order of inspiration: curiosity, experimentation, discovery and recognition from personal experience and interaction with the discoveries of other minds. * It has both stimulating and reflective content in its EXPLORE section to activate your curiosity and experimentation. * More than 6,000 exercises, and growing! between ideation and resolution for your creative discovery. * Difficulty levels, rounds, themes and achievements for skill recognition COMING SOON * You will have feedback on the originality of your solutions, compared to other thinkers on the same exercise. * Daily and weekly quests will be incorporated to unlock the THINKING CHALLENGE * There will be levels per player and elements of personalization and distinction, connecting recognition with your learning process. * And much more content and games! LEARN MORE ABOUT US AT: https://linktr.ee/lateral.org Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTbp6ReSK6fRt-60NgRGr6D34jL2k0AbmdWOlgJ904rnymyERVN8vP93orQ1B52oXlQCH1AbnjkO8_l/pub
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CogniFit at weekly against Lateral+'s every 5 weeks. Lateral+'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 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
Both are free to download. CogniFit sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Lateral+ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CogniFit ships an update weekly, Lateral+ every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CogniFit | Lateral+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 275 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CogniFit | Lateral S.A.C |
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
Lateral+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CogniFit
- 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
- Assessment - Full price$49.99
Lateral+
- Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
- Annual Premium$89.991 Year









