Comparison

Advanced Dual N vs Echo Ramsey

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

Head to head
About

Advanced Dual N

Features
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Advanced Dual N-Back is the working memory protocol from the research, built to be done every day: one visual stream, one audio stream, and a level that follows you. Inspired by dual n-back working-memory research, including Jaeggi et al. (2008). HOW IT WORKS In each session, a sequence of positions and sounds is presented simultaneously. Your task: identify when the current stimulus matches the one from N steps back. As you improve, N increases, keeping you always at the edge of your capacity. FEATURES • Classic Dual N-Back protocol (position + audio) • Workshop library: all 28 Brain Workshop combinations and 110 variants, from Quad and Pentuple to Crab, multiple objects and cross-modal tasks • Arithmetic, Crab-Back and Image Pairs presets for when classic gets easy • Seven sound sets including piano, Morse and NATO, and grids up to 5x5 • Training profiles, plus session export and import • Adaptive difficulty: N adjusts automatically based on your performance • Detailed session history and progress charts • Customizable session length and number of trials • Daily reminders to keep your training streak • Offline. No internet connection required • Premium features available through an optional one-time in-app purchase. No subscription • Clean, distraction-free interface THE SCIENCE Working memory is the mental workspace your brain uses to hold and manipulate information in real time. This app provides structured working-memory practice. It does not diagnose or treat a medical condition or guarantee improvements in intelligence. You start at 2-back, the level the original study used, after a short tutorial that teaches one stream at a time. Most people aim for 3 to 5 with consistent training.

About

Echo Ramsey

Features
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Echo is a puzzle game built on real open problems in mathematics. Each puzzle is a graph: dots joined by red and blue lines. Your job is simple to learn. Tap a line to flip its color, and break up the "bad cliques" - groups of dots all wired together in a single color. Clear them within your move budget and the puzzle is solved. Here is the twist. Every puzzle is a slice of a genuine research graph, and every solution you find is committed to a shared, growing proof tree. When you solve, your result seeds a brand new puzzle for another player. Their solve seeds the next. Together, the whole community is searching for colorings no person and no computer has ever found. You choose which problem to work on from the home screen: - R(4,4), the practice board - solved long ago, so the search genuinely finishes and you can see the whole engine work end to end - R(4,6), the frontier - an open problem where reaching zero would set a real new record - R(5,5), the legendary one - open for decades, where the prize is the lowest count the network has ever driven it to You do not need to know any of that to play. If you can spot a pattern and tap, you are already contributing. FEATURES - Quick, tactile puzzles you can finish in a minute - Three problems to play, from a winnable warm-up to a famous unsolved one, switchable any time - Five ways to view each graph: circle, spectral, matrix, hub, and density - switch any time to see the structure differently - A living progress screen showing the community's best reach and the proof tree growing in real time - Your lineage: see how many puzzles your solves have seeded for other players - A built-in glossary that explains every term in plain language - No ads, no timers, no pressure Color the graph. Advance the proof. Echo forward.

Screenshots

Advanced Dual N3 screens
Echo Ramsey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Echo Ramsey at none against Advanced Dual N's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Advanced Dual N sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Echo Ramsey asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Advanced Dual N ships an update every 2 weeks, Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Advanced Dual N versus Echo Ramsey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdvanced Dual NEcho Ramsey
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGustavo cesar Sola Barreto MarcelinoSam Rostami

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Advanced Dual N

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$3.99
None

Echo Ramsey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Advanced Dual N free?
Advanced Dual N is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echo Ramsey free?
Echo Ramsey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Advanced Dual N or Echo Ramsey have ads?
Neither Advanced Dual N nor Echo Ramsey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Advanced Dual N or Echo Ramsey?
Advanced Dual N ships an update every 2 weeks, and Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. Most recently, Advanced Dual N was updated on October 25, 2026 and Echo Ramsey on October 25, 2026.

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