Comparison

MindBenchmark vs MindForge

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

Head to head
About

MindBenchmark

Measure your cognitive abilities with a variety of short, repeatable tests including reaction time, memory, focus, and mental math. Track your progress, compare your scores anonymously with others, and challenge yourself daily.

Highlights
  • 20 cognitive tests
  • Unlimited plays
  • Performance tiers
  • Personal bests and trends
  • Daily challenges
  • Anonymous score comparison
  • Offline play
Features
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How fast are you, really? MindBenchmark measures your performance across 20 short, repeatable tests: reaction time, memory span, focus, typing, aim, mental math and more. Then it shows you where you land. WHAT YOU GET • All 20 tests, unlimited plays, free • Your score the moment you finish, with a performance tier • Personal bests and recent-run trends for every test • Achievements as you work through all four categories • A new Daily challenge every day, the same test for everyone HONEST NUMBERS Turn on score sharing and your results are compared against a pool of real attempts, validated on our servers with rate limits, plausibility checks and trust scoring. No bot-filled leaderboards. No inflated numbers. Sharing is optional, anonymous, and off until you switch it on. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU • No ads, ever • No account, no sign-up, no email • Works offline. Comparing scores is the only thing that needs a connection • A random device ID you can reset any time. No name, no tracking across apps THE TESTS Speed: Reaction Time, Click Speed, Aim Trainer, Typing Speed, Number Reaction, Visual Reaction Time Memory: Sequence Memory, Number Memory, Visual Memory, Verbal Memory, Paired Memory, Chimp Test Focus: Stroop, Attention Span, Task Switching, Hidden Numbers, Peripheral Vision Reasoning: Pattern Recall, Mental Math, Spatial Reasoning MindBenchmark is for measurement and entertainment. It does not diagnose, treat or screen for any condition.

About

MindForge

Features
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MindForge is a small collection of brain-training games that runs entirely on your phone. Two of the four are the app's own — built on things this app had to solve anyway, and not found elsewhere. FOUR GAMES Digit Bridge. The same number, written in two different numbering systems. One side shows it in the digits you read; the other shows it in the digits you don't. Find the match among six candidates, where the wrong ones are near-misses: a transposition, a substituted digit, a reordering. It exists because this app already had to render Latin and Eastern Arabic numerals side by side, and it turns that into the question. False Light. One imaginary light falls on the whole board. Most tiles stand raised under it; a few are pressed flat. Sweep the pressed ones before the field resets. There is no text and no colour on this board at all — depth is the only channel — so it plays identically for everyone, and identically in every language. Stroop Rush. The word "BLUE" is printed in red ink. Tap the colour, not the word. Your reading reflex fires first and you have to override it, and that override is the whole exercise. A streak multiplier rewards holding your nerve. Schulte Grid. The numbers 1 to 25, scattered across a five-by-five board. Tap them in order, as fast as you can. Fix your gaze on the centre tile and hunt with your peripheral vision. Each runs at three difficulties, and each difficulty keeps its own personal best, so a Blitz record never overwrites the Chill run you were proud of. NO NETWORK CODE AT ALL Not "we don't sell your data". There is nothing in this app that can reach the internet: no HTTP client, no socket, no remote config, no fonts fetched at runtime. Nothing can be sent because there is nothing to send it with. So there is no account, no sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics and no crash reporting. Your scores live in one database file on your device. MindForge is open source under the Apache License 2.0, which means that claim is checkable by reading the code rather than something you have to take on trust. PLAYABLE WITHOUT COLOUR VISION In a game whose entire mechanic is naming colours, colour-blind support is a correctness requirement rather than a preference. Every Stroop answer key carries a fill pattern as well as a colour — solid, diagonal stripes, dots, concentric rings — and the stimulus word repeats its own pattern in ink. You can play the whole game by matching patterns and never discriminate a colour at all. The patterns are always on. There is no setting to find. False Light goes further: it carries no colour information whatsoever. Settings also offers a colour-blind-friendly palette, which changes the colours a round is generated from, not merely how they are painted. FOUR LANGUAGES, TWO RIGHT-TO-LEFT English, German, Persian and Kurdish Sorani. Right-to-left is not a mirrored stylesheet applied at the end. Every inset, alignment and text direction is written directionally, so the layout is correct by construction. Persian and Kurdish also render Eastern Arabic numerals, which matters more here than in most apps: in Schulte Grid the numerals are the game, and in Digit Bridge the two systems are the question. ALSO IN THE BOX A Daily Mix that picks your session so you can start training without deciding anything first. A streak that counts the days you showed up. Stats holding your personal bests, games played, total time trained and a chart of recent runs. VoiceOver labels throughout, Dynamic Type support, and a reduce-motion setting that collapses animation to zero rather than merely shortening it. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS MindForge is a game. It is not a medical device, a diagnostic tool or a treatment. It makes no claim that playing it will improve your memory, attention, intelligence or academic performance, or that it will prevent or delay cognitive decline. Your score measures how you did in this app, and nothing further.

Screenshots

MindBenchmark4 screens
MindForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: MindForge at 3 against MindBenchmark's 1. MindForge also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MindBenchmark versus MindForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindBenchmarkMindForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandomFuse LLCZakaria Fatahi

In-app purchases

None

MindBenchmark

No in-app purchases

None

MindForge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MindBenchmark free?
MindBenchmark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MindForge free?
MindForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MindBenchmark or MindForge have ads?
Neither MindBenchmark nor MindForge shows ads.

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