Comparison

CogniLoom vs Cold Case Bureau

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

Head to head
About

CogniLoom

Engage in four quick, science-backed micro-games designed to assess focus, memory, distraction resistance, and reaction speed. Track your progress over time with personalized insights that compare your performance to your own baseline, not external standards.

Highlights
  • Four science-backed micro-games
  • Measures focus, memory, distraction resistance, reaction speed
  • Games under 60 seconds
  • Personalized performance insights
  • Builds a unique cognitive baseline
  • No penalties or lost progress
Features
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CogniLoom uses four science-backed micro-games to measure the cognitive skills that matter most — focus, memory, distraction resistance, and reaction speed. Each game takes under 60 seconds. Pick whichever one feels right, play at your own pace, and step away whenever you need to. There are no penalties and no lost progress. After each session, you'll get a personal insight into how you performed. As you play over days and weeks, CogniLoom builds a baseline unique to you — so every score is compared to your own patterns, not someone else's. The more you check in, the clearer the picture of how your mind is doing.

About

Cold Case Bureau

Engage in a slow-paced mystery game where you analyze case files, evidence, and suspect testimonies to uncover contradictions. Piece together clues on your investigation board to solve crimes and advance your detective career through increasingly challenging tiers.

Highlights
  • Analyze case files and evidence
  • Identify contradictions in testimonies
  • Use an investigation board
  • Progress through difficulty tiers
  • Offline play
  • Reputation system
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One case a day. The same case for everyone. Nothing to buy, no ads, no account. Cold Case Bureau puts a case file on your desk: the victim, the suspects, the evidence, and somewhere inside it, one story that doesn't hold together. Read the file. Find the two statements that can't both be true. Pin them on the board and watch the string pull tight. Then build your theory, not a guess from a menu, but an argument, element by element. Get part of it right and that part locks in. Get part of it wrong and the case tells you exactly which part, and lets you keep working. THE DAILY CASE Every day the Bureau opens one case, and it's the same case for every player in the world. Solve it, keep your streak alive, and share your result. A spoiler-free grid that shows how you did without giving anything away. INVESTIGATE Four Case Hours, and a case that offers more than four hours of leads. Press a suspect with a piece of evidence and what they say depends on what you chose to show them. Pull records nobody asked for. Send evidence to the lab. Earn a warrant with proof from your board. A wasted half hour is on you, but the case can always be closed from the file alone. Nothing is ever locked behind a guess. THE INVESTIGATION BOARD Real red string. Connect two pieces of evidence that contradict each other and the connection is established permanently. The board is where you prove people are lying. THE ARCHIVE More than ninety past Daily cases, free to work in any order, from quick Rookie files to five-suspect Senior investigations with paper trails that close like a net. FAIR PLAY, GUARANTEED Every case is verified solvable from its own evidence before it ships. Every question has exactly one answer the file supports. If you reason correctly, you win - that's the whole promise. No ads. No purchases. No timers that want your money. Just cases.

Screenshots

CogniLoom3 screens
Cold Case Bureau4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CogniLoom at 100% against Cold Case Bureau's 50%. CogniLoom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Cold Case Bureau's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CogniLoom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of CogniLoom's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cold Case Bureau's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CogniLoom ships an update every 5 months, Cold Case Bureau every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CogniLoom versus Cold Case Bureau: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCogniLoomCold Case Bureau
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.1 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB21 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperKety AdenewThomas Masters

Customer experience

CogniLoom

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

Cold Case Bureau

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

CogniLoom

No in-app purchases

None

Cold Case Bureau

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CogniLoom free?
CogniLoom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cold Case Bureau free?
Cold Case Bureau is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CogniLoom or Cold Case Bureau?
CogniLoom is rated higher. CogniLoom averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Cold Case Bureau averages 4.1 from 8 ratings.
Do CogniLoom or Cold Case Bureau have ads?
Neither CogniLoom nor Cold Case Bureau shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CogniLoom or Cold Case Bureau?
CogniLoom ships an update every 5 months, and Cold Case Bureau every 2 months. Most recently, CogniLoom was updated on October 13, 2026 and Cold Case Bureau on October 6, 2026.

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