GameTactic vs Gateway Process
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GameTactic
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GameTactic leverages game theory to determine the best strategies, including dominant plays and Nash equilibria, in two-player normal-form games. Users can select from preset games like the prisoner's dilemma, pure coordination, battle of the sexes, rock-paper-scissors, and game of chicken. After selecting a game, GameTactic identifies its optimal strategies and equilibria, allowing users to adjust payoffs and evaluate their implications. Additionally, you have the flexibility to design a custom game, defining strategies and associated payoffs. Currently, our platform focuses on identifying strict dominant strategies and pure and completely mixed Nash equilibria, with plans to expand to weakly dominant strategies and for partially mixed Nash equilibria in future versions.
Gateway Process
Explore a declassified U.S. Army intelligence assessment on consciousness alteration techniques. This app breaks down the 29-page document into 13 files across 5 stages, offering guided learning and a built-in binaural beat generator for brainwave synchronization.
- Declassified U.S. Army intelligence assessment
- 13 files across 5 progressive stages
- Clear, structured sections: explanations, instructions, field notes
- Progress tracking and sequential stage unlocking
- Built-in binaural beat generator
- 8 target brainwave states
- Privacy-focused: no accounts, tracking, or network requests
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The Gateway Process is a 1983 U.S. Army intelligence assessment of the Monroe Institute's techniques for altering consciousness — originally classified, now fully declassified by the CIA. This app turns that 29-page document into something you can actually read, understand, and follow. 13 files. 5 stages. One guided path from "what is this?" to advanced practice. THE DOCUMENT In 1983, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell was asked to evaluate a program called the Gateway Experience — a set of audio techniques designed to synchronize the brain's hemispheres, induce deep relaxation, and ultimately move consciousness beyond the physical body. His assessment, filed under CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5, draws on neuroscience, quantum physics, and holographic universe theory to explain why and how the techniques work. It was declassified in 2003. THE APP Gateway breaks the document into 13 tappable files organized across five progressive stages — Understand, Learn the Method, Grasp the Theory, Practice, and Operate. Each file presents the original content in clear, structured sections: prose explanations, numbered step-by-step instructions, and highlighted field notes from the original text. The Progress tab tracks what you've read and unlocks stages sequentially — because every concept in the Gateway Process builds on the one before it. BUILT-IN BINAURAL BEAT GENERATOR The document's core mechanism is Hemi-Sync: two slightly different audio frequencies, one in each ear, that cause the brain to generate a third frequency internally. This app includes a real binaural beat synthesizer — not recordings, but live audio generated on your device using AVAudioEngine. Choose from 8 target states (Delta through Focus 21) and listen through headphones. Stereo separation is required for the effect to work. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No network requests. Your reading progress and bookmarks are stored on your device and never leave it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gateway Process at $0.99 against GameTactic's $1.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
GameTactic costs $1.99 and Gateway Process $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | GameTactic | Gateway Process |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bart Morsink | Paul Martinez |
In-app purchases
GameTactic
No in-app purchases
Gateway Process
No in-app purchases
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