EncephalApp vs NBack Game
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.
NBack Game
This game challenges your memory by requiring you to match sounds and positions from a specified number of rounds ago. Regular play has been shown to enhance both short-term and long-term memory recall. Unlock new levels as you successfully complete each stage of increasing difficulty.
- N-back task implementation
- Sound and position matching
- Short and long-term memory improvement
- 25 difficulty levels
- Progressive level unlocking
- In-game tutorial
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NBack game is an implementation of an N-back task where the player needs to match sound and selected position N times ago. It has been proved many times in many types of research that regular playing this type of games help to improve short and long term memory. The game offers 25 rounds with different level of difficulty, you need to decide if the sound or/and position were the same N rounds ago, at the end of the game you will see a summary board with your results. When you complete a level successfully you unlock the next level. If you do not how to play you will find a tutorial explaining how to play with examples.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NBack Game at 5.0 against EncephalApp's 4.6. NBack Game also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 63%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NBack Game holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NBack Game has 27 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of EncephalApp's written reviews are positive against 89% of NBack Game's.
EncephalApp ships an update every 5 months, NBack Game every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EncephalApp | NBack Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jasmohan Bajaj | Kornel Miszczak |
Customer experience
EncephalApp
NBack Game
In-app purchases
EncephalApp
No in-app purchases
NBack Game
No in-app purchases
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