Brain Battle vs Just Talking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Battle
This app makes test preparation engaging through competitive challenges and social features. Practice thousands of questions, track progress, and earn rewards to master SAT and ACT exams.
- Thousands of practice questions
- Real-time quiz duels
- Competitive leaderboards
- Personalized review and feedback
- Study groups and social challenges
- Reward system for daily practice
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Brain Battle – Study Smarter Through Competition Brain Battle is a powerful and engaging SAT/ACT preparation app designed to make lessons and education social, fun, and competitive. With thousands of carefully crafted lessons, quizzes, flashcards, and real-time study challenges, this app transforms test prep into an interactive experience that motivates students to practice daily. Whether you’re working on math, reading, or English grammar, Brain Battle helps you sharpen your skills through smart education, strategic feedback, and multiplayer motivation. Built around a massive database of over 50,000+ questions, Brain Battle offers full coverage of both the SAT and ACT exams. Every question includes a detailed explanation and strategy guide, making it a true vocabulary builder and problem-solving companion. From mastering vocab and complex reading passages to improving your math speed and precision, students can target every lesson through dynamic gameplay. Real-Time Competitions The heart of the Brain Battle preparation app is live, head-to-head education. Challenge your friends or random opponents to fast-paced quiz duels across all test topics. Experience the thrill of competition while reinforcing your education goals. - Live challenges with friends and classmates - Dynamic match-ups and instant feedback - Earn points and climb leaderboards Competitive Leaderboards - Track your progress locally and globally. Brain Battle turns test preparation into a personal and social mission. - Compete with friends - Earn badges and status - See where you stand in your school, city, or country Reward System - Consistency and effort are rewarded. Keep up your daily practice and unlock exclusive content with our progressive reward system. - Open reward boxes with rare items - Earn collectible badges Personalized Review & Smart Learning After each battle or quiz, review your results and focus on areas that need improvement. The app identifies weak points and offers targeted lessons and strategies, so you can turn mistakes into mastery. Every question includes a detailed explanation and strategy guide, making it a true vocabulary builder and problem-solving companion. - Analyze your past games - Get personalized study tips - Focus on your improvement areas Social Exam Preperations & Study Groups - Studying doesn’t have to be lonely. Invite friends, form study groups, and compete together. Share your scores, motivate one another, and learn in a supportive environment. Create study groups Share progress and stats Collaborate on challenges Daily Streaks Build a strong habit with daily practice. Earn streak bonuses that keep you motivated while reinforcing core concepts from English grammar and vocab to math. - Maintain daily study goals - Unlock streak rewards Strengthen test-day consistency Master All SAT/ACT Sections Brain Battle covers all test topics through interactive modules, including: Critical reading comprehension Academic vocabulary builder sets English grammar drills Advanced and basic math problems Full sets of flashcard-style vocab review Every section is supported by flashcards, explanations, and adaptive practice lessons that scale with your performance. Whether you’re working on vocab, math, reading, or English grammar, Brain Battle helps you sharpen your skills through smart education, strategic feedback, and multiplayer motivation. Privacy Policy: https://brainbattle.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Just Talking
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The Just Talking app from Michigan State University’s Sociolinguistics Lab continues the work started in the MI Diaries app, and expands it out for a wider audience, opening the door for usage by classes, research projects, and community projects - anything where capturing audio from participants has been a tedious exercise in the past. Thanks to utilizing CILogon as the service for signing in, you can use your existing logins with most universities or schools, or regular services like Microsoft or Github. Once signed in, you can now create profiles in multiple projects at once, and have the profiles synced between devices to make it easier to record for the same project on multiple devices. Once a professor/teacher/researcher has requested a project with the app, users receive an application code to create new profiles - allowing classes to better track group assignments or capture recordings by semesters/sessions, researchers to run multiple groups at the same time, and community projects to target specific events (e.g. art installation tours with rotating themes, historic walking tours with different sites, etc) Audio is automatically uploaded to the project's secure server, and if no internet is available when your recording is done, no problem - recordings are stored locally along with any selected pictures, and can be uploaded later once you have internet again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Just Talking at none against Brain Battle's 13. Brain Battle's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Brain Battle sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Just Talking asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brain Battle ships an update weekly, Just Talking every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Battle | Just Talking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (69 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brain Battle LLC | MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY |
In-app purchases
Brain Battle
- Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Monthly$15.991 Month
- Brain Battle Pro7 Days trial$15.991 Month
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- Yearly$119.991 Year
- Yearly3 Days trial$143.991 Year
- 3 Lives$1.29
- 6 Lives$1.99
- 12 Lives$3.49
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- Life Cap +2$5.99
- Life Cap 10$9.99
- Premium Box 6x$11.99
- Life Cap 12$11.99
- Ultra Box 2x$24.99
Just Talking
No in-app purchases
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