Comparison

CogniFit vs Mapling

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

Mapling

Features
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Mapling turns scattered notes into understanding you can see. Most note apps store what you collect. Mapling is about what you actually grasp — because you understand something when you know how it connects to everything else. Every idea becomes a dot on your map; link the dots, and the shape of your understanding appears. Capture, calmly Jot an idea in a tap — a title is enough. Add details, a source, and a colour whenever you like. No folders to fuss over, no pressure. Connect the dots Draw links between ideas that belong together. Watch your map grow into a living graph you can pan, zoom, and rearrange. A lonely, unconnected idea is one you haven't understood yet. Keep it alive Understanding fades. Mapling's review is different: instead of flat flashcards, you walk a thread across your own map — recall each hidden concept from its place in the graph, reveal it, and rate how you did. Spaced repetition brings the fading ideas back exactly when you need them. See your progress A gentle dashboard shows how solid your map is, which concepts are fading, and what's due today. Yours alone Mapling is local-first. Your ideas stay on your device — no account required. Export a backup to your own cloud any time. Perfect for students, lifelong learners, and anyone making sense of a new subject — languages, medicine, system design, a book you're reading. Free to use. Mapling Plus (a one-time purchase) unlocks unlimited maps and removes ads.

Screenshots

CogniFit4 screens
Mapling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mapling at none against CogniFit's 14. Mapling also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Mapling asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CogniFit versus Mapling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniFitMapling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCogniFitAldin Ong

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

Mapling

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
None

Mapling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CogniFit free?
CogniFit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mapling free?
Mapling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CogniFit or Mapling have ads?
Neither CogniFit nor Mapling shows ads.

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