EncephalApp vs Stroop!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EncephalApp
This app presents a series of color-word association tests to measure your mental processing speed and response rate. It tracks your progress through multiple rounds, providing detailed results and allowing score comparison or sharing for review.
- Mental speed testing
- Response rate identification
- Color-word association
- Score tracking and progression
- Result presentation
- Score comparison and sharing
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Stroop Test is a test of a users mental speed. A series of runs will be presented to test the users response rate in identifying the color of printed text. The app will track the users score as they progress through numerous rounds of the runs and present them with the results of their test. The user can then compare their score with others, or send the score to a third-party for review.
Stroop!
This colorful puzzle game challenges your perception and reaction time. Match the color of the word to the word's actual color, not the word itself, under a strict time limit. Compete for high scores in this engaging brain-training experience.
- Color word matching
- Time-limited challenges
- High score competition
- Multilingual word support
- Reverse Stroop Effect gameplay
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Stroop is confusing and colorful Puzzle Game! Don't be misled by the Reverse Stroop Effect! And Touch the color correctly in limited time. Achieve a high score!! *name of color will be written in not only English, but also French and Spanish... How to Play Color name will be shown and Touch the same color speedy! If you touch wrong color or Time is up, the Game is Over... The deadline will come closer!! Choose answer in a moment and get a high score!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EncephalApp at 4.6 against Stroop!'s 3.9. EncephalApp also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 25%) and ads (none vs shown). Stroop!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EncephalApp holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of EncephalApp's written reviews are positive against 25% of Stroop!'s.
EncephalApp ships an update every 5 months, Stroop! every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EncephalApp | Stroop! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 3.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jasmohan Bajaj | Yukihiro Kadono |
Customer experience
EncephalApp
Stroop!
In-app purchases
EncephalApp
No in-app purchases
Stroop!
No in-app purchases
