Mindvara vs Braintide

Mindvara turns mental training into a focused daily practice—not an endless catalog of games to grind. DAILY SIX Each day, open a focused six-round session that adapts to your current level. Daily Six is free and separate from your standard workout, giving you a simple reason to come back without public rankings or pressure. YOUR PLAN, EXPLAINED Choose a training goal—memory, focus, reasoning, or balanced practice—and Mindvara creates a short adaptive workout using your preferences, recent performance, training rhythm, and skill history. Before each workout, see why the plan was chosen. After each session, get a clear review and choose what to prioritize next. PROGRESS THAT STAYS PERSONAL Start with a five-skill baseline, then follow your Mindvara Score, Session Quality, skill levels, personal bests, active days, weekly targets, and training streaks. Progress is measured against where you started—not against other people. Mindvara metrics describe your practice in the app; they are not IQ scores, diagnoses, or medical assessments. 20 ADAPTIVE PRACTICE FORMATS Train across memory, attention, logic, processing speed, and verbal/numeric reasoning. Twenty distinct formats keep practice varied while adaptive difficulty helps each round stay appropriately challenging. PRIVATE ACCOUNTABILITY Invite a private accountability partner, share structured check-ins, create consistency challenges, and encourage one another with lightweight reactions. Blocking and reporting controls are included. YOUR LANGUAGE, AUTOMATICALLY Mindvara supports English, Spanish, and French. System Default follows the language selected for Mindvara in Apple Settings, then your device language. You can choose a manual language override inside Mindvara at any time. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. WORKS OFFLINE. The core workout works offline and without an account. Mindvara is ad-free, has no public leaderboard, and does not use advertising identifiers or cross-app tracking. Optional passwordless sign-in can sync progress across devices using a secure email code. Anonymous analytics stay off unless you choose to share them. MINDVARA UNLIMITED Subscribe through Apple to unlock unlimited workouts, complete progress history, and personalized AI guidance. Monthly and annual options are available. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available at any time. Mindvara is designed for practice, entertainment, and personal habit tracking. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent, or guarantee improvement in any medical or cognitive condition. Privacy Policy: https://nanibastudios.com/privacy/mindvara.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

82 short games across ten mental skills, one daily workout, and a score that means something. TRAINS TEN SKILLS Memory, attention, processing speed, problem solving, language, flexibility, numeracy, spatial reasoning, coordination and listening. Every one of them has at least one game that is free forever, so you can train your whole brain without paying anything. EIGHT WAYS TO ANSWER Most brain trainers are a tap and a swipe. Braintide asks you to tap, flick, drag, draw, turn a dial, spell a word from letter tiles, type a number — and, in five games, to make a sound. Nothing else in the category listens. Some games have no options at all. Set It Straight and Wind Back are scored on how many degrees off you were; On the Mark on how many milliseconds. There is nothing to guess between and nothing to eliminate. A DAILY WORKOUT THAT KNOWS WHAT YOU HAVE NEGLECTED Three games a day, chosen by what you have left longest. The difficulty follows you: every skill has its own level, and the engine holds you near the edge of what you can do rather than where you started. A STREAK THAT FORGIVES ONE MISSED DAY Losing a sixty-day run to one bad night is where people stop opening a training app. Braintide forgives one missed day and ends the run on two — and it tells you that rule on the home screen, because a forgiving streak is only honest if you know what you are being held to. THE CHECKPOINT — THE ONE NUMBER YOU CAN COMPARE Here is the problem every brain trainer has and none of them mentions: an adaptive engine moves the difficulty to keep you at about 78% success. That is right for training and useless for measuring. Your score hovers while the difficulty climbs underneath it. So Braintide has a checkpoint: the same ten short games, at the same fixed difficulty, every couple of weeks, never fed back into your levels. It is the only figure in the app that can honestly be compared with last time, and it says so. WHAT BRAINTIDE WILL NOT DO No percentile. No brain age. No ranking against other players. Braintide has no data about other people and will not invent any — and the app says exactly that, on the screen where every other app would show you a number. YOURS, AND ACTUALLY YOURS • Works completely offline. No account, ever. • No ads, on any plan. • Export every round you have played to a JSON file, in one tap, written on your device and handed straight to your share sheet. • Nothing is sold on. THE FIVE GAMES THAT LISTEN Say When, Hold the Note, Fade Out, Clap Back and Clap the Count use the microphone. What they read is how loud the room is — one number, sixty times a second. Nothing is recorded, kept, or recognised, there is no speech recognition anywhere in the app, and no audio leaves your phone. The daily workout leaves them out unless you ask for them. BUILT TO BE READ Twelve languages, translated all the way down — every game's name and rules, the achievement names, even the notification. A colour-safe palette for red-green and blue-yellow colour vision, checked by simulation rather than by eye. Reduce Motion honoured everywhere. Zen mode eases the clocks right off. Braintide trains focus and memory for fun. It is not a medical device and makes no claim to diagnose, treat or prevent any condition. BRAINTIDE PRO Braintide Pro unlocks all 82 games, the weekly report and full per-skill history. €1.99 per month or €9.99 per year, each with a one-week free trial. Prices vary by region. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends; you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://tritonapps.com/braintide/terms EULA: https://tritonapps.com/braintide/eula Privacy Policy: https://tritonapps.com/braintide/privacy