Comparison

Mindful Garden vs Stroop Challenge Go

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

Head to head
About

Mindful Garden

Cultivate a serene digital sanctuary by transforming your focus and calm into blooming flowers. Watch your personal garden evolve with each mindfulness session, creating a peaceful space that mirrors your inner state. This game encourages relaxation, creativity, and a deeper connection with your mind.

Highlights
  • EEG-guided growth
  • Personal garden cultivation
  • Pattern arrangement
  • Sanctuary decoration
  • Relaxation and mindfulness encouragement
  • Creative expression
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Mindful Garden turns your thoughts into growth. Using EEG signals, every moment of focus and calm helps flowers bloom. Plant them in your personal garden, arrange patterns, and decorate a peaceful sanctuary that reflects your inner state. With each session, your garden evolves, encouraging relaxation, mindfulness, and creativity. Grow with your mind and design a world of calm beauty—your garden awaits.

About

Stroop Challenge Go

Features
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Stroop Challenge is a precision cognitive training tool based on the Stroop Effect — one of the most replicated findings in experimental psychology — measuring interference between word reading and color recognition. THE SCIENCE: The Stroop Effect demonstrates that automatic processing (word reading) can interfere with controlled processing (color identification). Regular exposure to Stroop-type stimuli has been associated with improved selective attention, cognitive flexibility, and processing speed. TWO VALIDATED MODES: • Classic (Color-Naming) — Identify the ink color of the presented word. Suppresses automatic reading response. • Word Match (Word-Reading) — Identify the color named by the word. Tests semantic processing independence. METRICS TRACKED: • Score per round (accuracy × speed composite) • Best accuracy rate (percentage of correct responses) • Fastest average reaction time (milliseconds per response) • Session totals: rounds played, correct and incorrect responses • Combo chains: consecutive correct responses DIFFICULTY SCALING: • Easy: 4 color stimuli (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) • Medium: 5 color stimuli (adds Purple) • Hard: 6 color stimuli (adds Orange) DATA PRIVACY: All data is stored locally via UserDefaults. No network requests are made. No personal information is collected, transmitted, or shared. The app functions completely offline. Ideal for daily cognitive warm-up, focus training, or simply exploring one of psychology's most fascinating phenomena.

Screenshots

Mindful Garden4 screens
Stroop Challenge Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mindful Garden at 13.0 against Stroop Challenge Go's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Mindful Garden versus Stroop Challenge Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful GardenStroop Challenge Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size395 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEMOTIV Inc.晓 郭

In-app purchases

None

Mindful Garden

No in-app purchases

None

Stroop Challenge Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindful Garden free?
Mindful Garden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stroop Challenge Go free?
Stroop Challenge Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mindful Garden or Stroop Challenge Go have ads?
Neither Mindful Garden nor Stroop Challenge Go shows ads.

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