EncephalApp vs Lights
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.
Lights
A modern take on a classic electronic memory game with over 15 modes. It challenges your memory, reflexes, and speed, offering local multiplayer and online leaderboards. Improve your cognitive skills with daily play reminders and unlockable achievements.
- Over 15 game modes
- Local multiplayer
- Online leaderboards
- Unlockable achievements
- Daily play reminders
- Multiple sound options
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A fresh take on a classic electronic game. Easy to play, difficult to master. Over 15 game modes, including local multiplayer. Up to 12 buttons, and a variety of sound options. Lights offers much more than a simple "repeat after me" challenge by testing your memory, reflexes, and more. Can you conquer them all? Unlock Achievements and see how you compare to friends or the world with online Leaderboards. Improve your memory by challenging yourself regularly. Set a schedule in the app to remind you to play for a few minutes daily, weekly, or anything in between. Now translated to 11 languages, including Ukrainian!
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Verdict
EncephalApp and Lights both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 63% of EncephalApp's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lights's. EncephalApp also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Lights's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (130 vs 5). On price, rating 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. Lights sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EncephalApp asks for nothing beyond the download.
EncephalApp holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lights has 130 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 0% of Lights's.
EncephalApp ships an update every 5 months, Lights every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EncephalApp | Lights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.4 (130 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 130 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jasmohan Bajaj | Lee Phillips |
Customer experience
EncephalApp
Lights
In-app purchases
EncephalApp
No in-app purchases
Lights
- Disable ads$1.99
