Brain Groove vs Chain Link Words
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Groove
Engage in a fast-paced brain training experience with 12 unique games across four mental skills. Challenge yourself with 48-second rounds, daily leaderboards, and adaptive difficulty. Designed for accessibility with colorblind-safe puzzles and various support options.
- 12 unique brain games
- 48-second timed rounds
- Daily leaderboard challenges
- Adaptive difficulty
- Colorblind-safe design
- Practice mode
- Game Center integration
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Four skills. Sixteen games. Forty-eight seconds. Now with friends! Brain Groove is a fast, friendly brain trainer built around one simple loop: pick a game, beat the clock, push your score. Every round is a 48-second sprint, perfect for a coffee break, a commute, or a spare minute in line. PLAY TOGETHER Challenge up to three friends to a live race. Share a room code or a link, wait until everyone's ready, and play the same four games with the same puzzles at the same moment. Scores reveal after every round, and the race ends on a podium. Pure skill, no excuses. THE DAILY GROOVE Your daily ritual: three quick sessions, each with one game from every skill, then see how your run stacks up on the daily leaderboard. A fresh challenge every day, in just a few minutes. SIXTEEN GAMES, FOUR MENTAL MUSCLES • Calculate: quick numerical reasoning under the clock. • Memorize: stretch your short-term and working memory. • Analyze: logic and deduction, one fair puzzle at a time. • Visualize: spatial reasoning and seeing what others miss. Each category packs four genuinely different puzzles, not reskins of the same mechanic. What's inside is for you to discover. FAIR BY DESIGN Every puzzle is built to be solved by skill, never luck. Defuse, our no-guessing take on Minesweeper, verifies that every board is solvable by pure logic, so you never lose to a coin flip. In a challenge, everyone gets the exact same puzzles, so the best brain wins. Difficulty adapts as you play: it ramps up when you're on a roll and eases back after a miss, keeping you in the zone. MADE FOR EVERYONE Brain Groove is colorblind-safe by design. No puzzle relies on color alone; every cue also uses shape, count, or position. Paired with clear, minimal instructions, the puzzles stay readable for every kind of vision. MORE TO LOVE • Practice mode: drill any game clock-free before you race the timer. • Game Center leaderboards: climb per game, per category, and overall. • Race notifications: know the moment a friend joins your room. • Satisfying haptics, sound, and bouncy animations that make every tap feel good. • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, reduced-motion support, and full keyboard play. • No ads getting in your way. Minimal data, never sold. Find your groove.
Chain Link Words
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SUN · FLOWER · POT One word sits between two others and links them both. Sunflower. Flowerpot. Find it, and the chain grows. Chain Link Words is a word puzzle built on compound words and everyday phrases. Each answer becomes the anchor for the next, so a chain builds beneath you as you climb — and one wrong turn is the difference between a clean run and a scrappy one. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY DAILY — Five links, once a day. Everyone gets the same chain. Keep the streak alive. LADDER — The long climbs, up to eleven links. No clock. Just how far you can go. BLITZ — Ninety seconds. How much chain can you build before it runs out? RELAY — A finished chain with gaps in it, fillable in any order. Work backwards, sideways, whatever gets you there. HUB — One word in the middle. How many words can you hang off it? RECORDS — Every past daily, still playable. Nothing expires. BUILT PROPERLY Every link in the game is a real compound word or a phrase people actually say — checked against a corpus of billions of words, not a dictionary that treats "leaflove" and "lighthouse" as equals. Stuck? Spend a key to reveal a letter, or give up and move on. You collect keys every day and earn more for solving unaided. No ads. No account. No internet needed. Just words.
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The clearest difference is price: Brain Groove at Free against Chain Link Words's $0.99. Chain Link Words's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On 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
Brain Groove is free to download; Chain Link Words costs $0.99 up front. Brain Groove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chain Link Words asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Brain Groove | Chain Link Words |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Kadir Yazgan | adam rogan |
In-app purchases
Brain Groove
- Brain Groove Pro$4.99
Chain Link Words
No in-app purchases





