Comparison

CogniFit vs Memo

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

Memo

Engage in daily 5-minute brain training exercises grounded in neurobiology. Improve memory, focus, and logic with a variety of games and mindfulness sessions. Track your progress and compete globally.

Highlights
  • 5-minute daily brain workouts
  • Neurobiology-based exercises
  • Memory, math, and logic games
  • Mindfulness and breathing sessions
  • Progress tracking charts
  • Global leaderboard competition
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Daily fitness for your brain — grounded in neurobiology research! Memo shows how short, 5-minute daily practices develop your brain's capacity across working memory, mental math, Sudoku, 2D & 3D geometry, and selective attention. Memo works in two complementary directions — active Brain Training and restorative Mindfulness sessions — giving you a clean, intuitive interface to track your cognitive progress over time, plus an atmosphere of friendly competition on the Global Leaderboard. Why Choose Memo? Grounded in Neurobiology & Cognitive Science Every exercise in Memo is built on established neurocognitive research — from visuospatial working memory and Stroop inhibitory control to mental rotation, deductive reasoning, and paced autonomic breathing. Short, consistent 5-minute daily workouts stimulate cognitive agility without overwhelm. 6-Step Daily Brain Challenge Start your day with a curated 5-minute brain fitness workout combining word recall, arithmetic, visual equations, angle geometry, and 3D spatial cube counting. Complete the Daily Challenge to build your calendar streak and compare streaks on the Leaderboard. Direction 1 — 8 Cognitive Brain Training Games: - Mental Math & Visual Equations (Level 1 & Level 2) - Master rapid arithmetic, number bonds, multi-step chains, and visual algebraic icon puzzles. - Geometry / GeoLogic (Level 1 & Level 2) - Solve interactive 2D triangle and angle-chaser puzzles plus 3D orthographic cube projections with step-by-step hints. - Sudoku (6x6 & 9x9) - Train deductive logic with fast 2x3 boards or classic 3x3 number grids. - Chimp Test - Challenge your working memory and spatial recall inspired by the famous primate cognition benchmark. - Dots Link - Connect matching color pairs across the grid with smooth continuous paths without crossing lines. - Brain Speed - Test and improve your visual reaction time, inhibitory control, and decision speed. - Mind Flip - Sharpen selective attention, spatial updating, and cognitive flexibility. - Word Memory - Strengthen short-term verbal recall by memorizing word lists under time pressure. Direction 2 — Mindfulness Sessions, Sleep Tracker & Apple Health Peak cognitive fitness goes hand in hand with mental recovery. Use guided Breathing sessions (4-4-4 Box Breathing and 4-7-8 Relaxation), the Do Nothing stillness timer, and the Activity & Sleep Tracker with optional Apple Health synchronization to log Mindful Minutes and Sleep Analysis (including Awake and Asleep stages). Convenient Progress Tracking & Friendly Competition - Intuitive Progress Charts - Easily track your daily growth in a clean visual UI comparing your current scores, speed, and accuracy against your personal First Try baseline. - Friendly Competition on the Global Leaderboard - Enjoy a welcoming, motivating atmosphere of friendly competition across Daily, Weekly, and All-Time rankings for every game and difficulty level. Key Features at a Glance: - Short 5-minute daily brain fitness workouts grounded in neurobiology - Dual-direction system: 8 Brain Training games + Mindfulness & Sleep recovery - Apple Health integration for Sleep Analysis and Mindful Minutes - Clean, intuitive UI for visual progress tracking against your personal baseline - Global Leaderboard fostering friendly daily competition and streak sharing - Available in 8 languages Download Memo now and start your first 5-minute brain fitness workout! -- https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Memo at 5.0 against CogniFit's 4.5. Memo also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). CogniFit's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Memo sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Memo 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 3, 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 Memo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniFit ships an update weekly, Memo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CogniFit versus Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitMemo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size222 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCogniFitSiarhei Keller

Customer experience

CogniFit

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

Memo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 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

Memo

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
10 purchases

Memo

Subscriptions9
  • Memo Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Memo Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Memo Premium +7d Free7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Memo Premium +30d Free1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Memo Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Memo Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Memo Premium +7d Free7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Memo Premium +30d Free1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Memo Premium +30d Free1 Month trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Memo Premium Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memo free?
Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CogniFit or Memo?
Memo is rated higher. CogniFit averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Memo averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CogniFit or Memo have ads?
Neither CogniFit nor Memo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CogniFit or Memo?
CogniFit ships an update weekly, and Memo every 3 days. Most recently, CogniFit was updated on November 6, 2026 and Memo on November 7, 2026.

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