Comparison

True ESP vs ciniq

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

True ESP

Explore collective consciousness through synchronized brain waves and multi-sensory stimulation. Engage in real-time telepathy tests, track your progress, and refine your abilities in a unique interactive environment.

Highlights
  • Multi-user telepathy testing
  • Synchronized brain wave entrainment
  • Multi-sensory stimulation (haptic, audio)
  • Real-time telepathy challenges
  • Interactive practice mode
  • Live leaderboards and performance metrics
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With multi-sensory stimulation and crowd-scale telepathy testing, True ESP creates an immersive experience that synchronizes the brain waves of users who are located around the world – enabling them to tap into a collective consciousness and push the boundaries of what was thought to be possible. Recent studies have demonstrated that binaural music and haptic stimulation at specific frequencies can induce neural entrainment throughout the brain – facilitating the interaction of users in real-time as they transmit and receive mental images with each other. Imagine touching a cello as it resonates, or hearing the echoes of waves crashing against rocky cliffs. Multi-sensory stimuli such as these have a powerful effect on brain waves, and can significantly strengthen our perceptual abilities. Before each testing round, binaural music and vibrotactile stimulation are used to synchronize the brain waves of all users. The iPhone's haptic engine can generate richly-textured resonance patterns, and True ESP utilizes acoustic algorithms to stimulate fingertip neurons with extraordinary detail. During each four minute telepathy test, users are divided into two equal groups of senders and receivers – with senders trying to mentally transmit an image – while receivers attempt to imagine what the other group is visualizing. Receivers select two images from a set of 9 cards – after which the groups switch roles, and then repeat the process again for a total of 3 rounds during each real-time telepathy challenge. A new test is conducted every 10 minutes around-the-clock, and users can participate as often as they want. From real-time test scores to live leaderboards, users can view the results of their telepathy challenges using interactive tools that keep them both informed and engaged. These detailed performance metrics enable users to track their progress, identify areas for improvement, and refine their ESP skills. Users can also compare their performance to that of other participants, gaining a better understanding of their relative strengths and weaknesses. True ESP presents telepathy scores as odds-to-one against chance, providing an intuitive and meaningful way to convey test results – as it allows users to easily understand the probability of correct answers, and appreciate the magnitude of their performance relative to chance. To help you develop and refine your telepathic abilities, True ESP features an interactive practice mode. A neural network and machine learning algorithms simulate the behavior of virtual participants, allowing you to sharpen your skills in a controlled environment that does not affect your cumulative ESP score. Featuring the same multi-sensory stimulation and interactive features as the live crowd test, the practice mode delivers an on-demand experience that you can use anytime. Invite your friends and family to participate in the Global Telepathy Study. True ESP was developed with infinitely-scalable architecture and deployed on high-performance servers in redundant data centers. This robust system enables the simultaneous testing of an unlimited number of users located anywhere in the world. Invite others to join you for an unforgettable experience.

About

ciniq

Discover acclaimed films from global festivals and award ceremonies, curated based on your unique taste. Explore your viewing history as a visual map and share your film insights with friends.

Highlights
  • Festival and award-winning film selection
  • Personalized film recommendations
  • Multi-dimensional film rating system
  • Interactive film and talent universe map
  • Voice and text search for films
  • Cross-device syncing (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV)
  • Friend comparison of film ratings
Features
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ciniq picks your next film from the juries, not the crowd. Its canon is the world's festival and academy winners — Cannes, Berlin, Venice, the Oscars, BAFTA, César, India's National Film Awards, the Golden Horse and fifty more. Every winner, every year, with the jury's own words where they exist. No crowd scores and no critic quotes, anywhere. TONIGHT A short queue chosen from your own taste, each film with the reason it was picked. RATE, BLIND Score a film on ten dimensions — story, direction, camera, acting, music, the ending, its social canvas and more. Your ratings teach ciniq what you value, and the Taste page shows what actually drives your score. YOUR UNIVERSE — NEW Every film you've rated, with its directors and actors, laid out as a map you can walk. Tap a person to see their films; tap a film to see who made it. ASK Ask by text or by voice: "What have I rated highest?" or "Get Adoor Gopalakrishnan films". Speech is recognised on the device and answers are composed on the device. YOUR PHONE AND YOUR TV Pair with ciniq on Apple TV or Google TV: your taste syncs both ways, and any film, director or actor goes to the big screen. Play on TV sends a film straight to a Roku on your Wi-Fi. CARDS WITH FRIENDS Send your reading of a film. Your friend scores it blind before seeing yours, then you both see how close you were. WHERE TO WATCH Powered by your own free Watchmode key, so the lookups and the quota are yours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your ratings stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. FREE FOR 14 DAYS Everything, from the first minute. Then one purchase unlocks ciniq on every Apple device you own — iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. No subscription.

Screenshots

True ESP4 screens
ciniq4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: True ESP at none against ciniq's 2. True ESP also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ciniq sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. True ESP asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for True ESP against 5.0 for ciniq. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: True ESP has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
True ESP versus ciniq: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrue ESPciniq
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetroGroup, LLCLabham LLC

Customer experience

True ESP

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ciniq

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

True ESP

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ciniq

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Unlock ciniq$4.99

Questions

Is True ESP free?
True ESP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ciniq free?
ciniq is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, True ESP or ciniq?
True ESP and ciniq are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do True ESP or ciniq have ads?
Neither True ESP nor ciniq shows ads.

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