BrainHQ vs Sojourner +
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrainHQ
This app offers a scientifically-backed brain training program designed to improve cognitive functions like memory, attention, and processing speed. It features adaptive exercises that adjust to your performance, fitting into your daily routine with sessions as short as five minutes.
- Scientifically validated brain exercises
- Improves memory and processing speed
- Adaptive training adjusts to performance
- Daily free exercise
- Personalized brain fitness goals
- Flexible training sessions
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Train your brain with BrainHQ from Posit Science—the most rigorous program available for better brain health, and the only one backed by more than 100 scientific papers showing benefits - including the breakthrough NIH-funded ACTIVE study. Now with new features that contribute to your brain fitness success! BrainHQ represents the culmination of 30 years of research in neuroscience and brain health. Top scientists from around the world helped to develop and test the BrainHQ exercises. The result: a training system that comprehensively improves brain performance, from the most basic elements of perception through the most complex elements of memory, attention, and cognitive function. No other brain fitness program can match BrainHQ in scientific proof. More than 100 publications from independent, randomized controlled trials have shown that the exercises and assessments in BrainHQ drive real change. These changes include: • cognitive improvements, such as better memory and faster processing speed • real-world improvements, including safer driving and improved quality of life • physical brain changes, like healthier white matter and more coordinated neurons. All of this means that BrainHQ works—in laboratory studies, and in the lives of everyday people: •"BrainHQ is a no-brainer must-have in my book…This training has expanded my visual, fine-tuned my audio and even my reflexes seem to be getting faster. BrainHQ is fun and gives me the challenges I need to keep my brain working out on a daily basis." - C. MacDonald •"Only a few months into the BrainHQ exercises the difference is clear, this isn’t left to speculation, I saw drastic improvements…and my family has noticed a strong improvement." - A. Amitrano And leading publications agree: “Our testers concluded that Posit's product—one of the few so far to undergo clinical trials and peer-reviewed research—had the firmest scientific grounding.” - Wall Street Journal The BrainHQ app helps you set and achieve your brain training goals—so it not only works, it works for you. Each exercise adapts to your performance and gets more challenging as your performance improves, just like a personal trainer for your brain. The training is designed to fit into your life: train for just 5 minutes in your spare time, or do a complete workout in an hour. BrainHQ is a free download, and includes a free exercise every day. For full access, we offer the following recurring subscription options: 1 month: $13.99 1 year: $94.99 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 or residence. Monthly subscription are billed once per month, and an annual subscriptions are billed once per year. 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 prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.brainhq.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.brainhq.com/terms
Sojourner +
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Sojourner turns the walking you already do into a pilgrimage. There is nothing to start and nothing to stop. Your steps come quietly from Health while the app is closed, and they carry you along a real route — the roads Abraham, Israel, our Lord and the apostles actually travelled, drawn on the map with the distances they actually covered. When you reach a place, Sojourner tells you, and the account of what happened there is written into your journal for good. TWENTY JOURNEYS The Journeys of Israel — Abraham and Sarah's move out of Ur, Jacob's flight and return, Joseph's caravan into Egypt, the Exodus in three parts, Elijah's flight to Horeb, Jonah's flight, and the exile to Babylon and back. The Journeys of our Lord Jesus Christ — the flight into Egypt, the Galilean ministry, the road to Jerusalem, and the Passion and Resurrection. The Journeys of the Early Church — the road to Emmaus, and Philip's route out from Jerusalem. The Journeys of St. Paul the Apostle — the road to Damascus, and all four missionary journeys, from Cyprus to the shipwreck on Malta and the last miles up the Appian Way. Two hundred and twenty-two places in all, each with its chapter and verse and an account of what happened there. READ THE PASSAGE Every place that names chapter and verse opens the text itself, set as prose the way a printed Bible sets it. The whole Bible travels with the app in four translations — King James, World English, American Standard and Douay-Rheims — and is read offline, with no connection needed. A PACE THAT FITS The journeys run from twenty miles to two and a half thousand. Each one suggests a pace so it lands somewhere you can actually finish — a week for the road to Emmaus, a season for Paul's third journey. A JOURNAL THAT KEEPS Finished journeys stay in a library you can reopen and read again. Nothing you have walked is ever thrown away. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget shows where you are and how far to the next place, in small and medium sizes and on the lock screen. ON YOUR WRIST An Apple Watch companion shows the same thing at a glance — where you are, how far to the next place, and your streak — with a complication for the watch face too. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Walking alone, there is no account and nothing you do in Sojourner leaves your device. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. Health is read, never written. WALK WITH FRIENDS Invite up to three friends to walk the same journey side by side. You see one another on the route, the places each of you has reached, and can send a nudge. Only your name, pace and progress along the journey are shared, and only with your group. Never your step counts, individual walks or location. HONEST ABOUT ITS SOURCES Where Scripture gives only an outline, Sojourner says so rather than inventing detail. The flight into Egypt follows the route Coptic tradition preserved and Egyptian pilgrims still walk. The Exodus follows the itinerary set down in Numbers 33, and says plainly that many of its stations are unidentified and that both the crossing of the sea and the site of Sinai are disputed. Distances are estimates, and land within a few percent of the figures historians cite. For iPhone. Requires iOS 17. Reads step count and walking distance from Health, with your permission. An Apple Watch companion is optional and requires watchOS 10.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sojourner + at none against BrainHQ's 2. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. BrainHQ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $13.99 per month. Sojourner + asks for nothing beyond the download.
BrainHQ ships an update every 2 months, Sojourner + every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrainHQ | Sojourner + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (22K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Posit Science | Abanoub Ghipriel |
Bugs and requests
BrainHQ
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Audio issues on iOS
- Inconsistent performance across devices
- Progress reset issues
Requested features
5 requests- Apple Watch app
- Apple TV app
- Better progress tracking in-app
- Customizable difficulty levels
- More diverse representation in exercises
Sojourner +
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BrainHQ
- BrainHQ$13.991 Month
- BrainHQ$94.991 Year
Sojourner +
No in-app purchases









