Comparison

Brain Boost vs Remindfully

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

Head to head
About

Brain Boost

This app offers a simple, one-tap solution to regain focus and calm when feeling overwhelmed. It uses guided breathing and strong haptic feedback to help reset your nervous system and build momentum for tasks. Designed with ADHD in mind, it removes pressure and complexity.

Highlights
  • One-tap nervous system reset
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Strong rhythmic haptic feedback
  • Supports ADHD-friendly routines
  • Builds momentum for tasks
  • No timers or complex routines
Features
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Brain Boost — A Reset Button for ADHD Minds Brain Boost helps you slow down, breathe, and reset your nervous system when focus feels impossible. Designed by a developer with ADHD, this app removes clutter and pressure. One tap delivers strong, rhythmic haptic feedback paired with guided breathing to help you regain calm and momentum. No timers to manage. No complex routines. Just a simple reset when your brain feels stuck. What Brain Boost Helps With Regaining focus during overwhelm Reducing stress and mental noise Calming your nervous system Supporting ADHD-friendly routines Creating momentum before tasks How It Works Choose how long your reset lasts Follow a brief breathing moment Feel strong, rhythmic haptic feedback Return to your task feeling grounded Free & Premium Start free with a limited number of resets Watch a short video to unlock more resets Upgrade once for unlimited strong resets No subscriptions. No pressure.

About

Remindfully

This app consolidates your Apple Reminders into a single daily digest, reducing notification overload. It intelligently handles urgent tasks and missed recurring reminders, while keeping your existing workflow intact.

Highlights
  • Daily digest notification
  • Time-based interrupts
  • High-priority interrupts
  • Completion sync with Apple Reminders
  • Smart handling of missed reminders
  • Lock-screen card (Pro)
  • Per-list interrupt rules (Pro)
Features
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You already capture reminders the easy way — a quick "Hey Siri," a tap on your Watch, a line typed into Apple's Reminders. The problem isn't capturing them. It's the wall of notifications that follows. Remindfully sits quietly on top of Apple Reminders and changes one thing: how they reach you. Instead of a buzz for every item, you get one calm digest each morning — everything due today, in a single glance. The things that genuinely can't wait still interrupt, at the moment they matter. Everything else simply waits in the digest, where it belongs. Your reminders never move. Remindfully reads from Apple Reminders and writes your changes straight back, so Siri, your Watch, and the Reminders app all keep working exactly as before. Nothing to migrate. Nothing to rebuild. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - One daily digest — a single summary notification each morning instead of a steady drip all day. - The important stuff still gets through — reminders set for a specific time can interrupt at that time, and anything you mark High Priority always breaks through, even when everything else is staying quiet. - Smarter about missed reminders than you'd expect — miss a daily reminder and Remindfully quietly rolls it to today. But miss a weekly or monthly one, and it stays clearly flagged, so a missed bill never disappears for three weeks. - Fix things without switching apps — create a reminder, correct a mistyped title or a wrong date, set or change a repeat, or delete something, all from inside Remindfully. Everything syncs straight to Apple Reminders. - A calm lock-screen card — see today's progress and what's next at a glance, check things off right from the lock screen, and glance at it on your Apple Watch. (Pro) - Per-list rules — let one list always interrupt while the rest stay in the digest. (Pro) FREE FOREVER - The daily digest, time-based interrupts, high-priority interrupts, completion sync, editing, and the full reminder mirror are free — no time limit. REMINDFULLY PRO — $4.99, ONE TIME - Unlock the lock-screen card and per-list interrupt rules with a single purchase. No subscription. Buy it once, keep it. - Remindfully requires access to Apple Reminders to read your items and mark them complete. It does not collect or transmit your reminders anywhere — everything stays on your device and in your own iCloud.

Screenshots

Brain Boost4 screens
Remindfully4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Remindfully at 4 against Brain Boost's 1. Remindfully also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Brain Boost sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Remindfully sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Brain Boost against 5.0 for Remindfully. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Brain Boost versus Remindfully: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain BoostRemindfully
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMaxwell KellyFogarty Holdings LLC

Customer experience

Brain Boost

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

Remindfully

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Brain Boost

One-time1
  • One Time Purchase$2.99
1 purchases

Remindfully

One-time1
  • Remindfully Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Brain Boost free?
Brain Boost is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Remindfully free?
Remindfully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brain Boost or Remindfully?
Brain Boost and Remindfully are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Brain Boost or Remindfully have ads?
Neither Brain Boost nor Remindfully shows ads.

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