Comparison

Brain Teasers vs IQ

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

Head to head
About

Brain Teasers

Engage in a variety of riddles, logic puzzles, and math challenges to sharpen your mind. Test your lateral thinking and problem-solving skills with hundreds of brain teasers. Share puzzles with friends and track your progress through various difficulty levels.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of brain teasers
  • Riddles, logic, lateral thinking, numerical puzzles
  • Track puzzle progress
  • Save favorite puzzles
  • Challenge friends
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
Features
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Test your brain with these riddles, puzzles and logic training games! Enjoy hours of intriguing, fun, and challenging brain teasers and puzzles. Keep your brain sharp with our challenging riddles and puzzles, improving your mental acuity and lateral thinking skills as you play. Can you think outside the box to find the solutions? Pick a quiz, puzzle or game and put your IQ to the test. These riddles use math, logic, memory and lateral thinking puzzles to help keep your mental health sharp. Get some of the most difficult brain teasers in the palm of your hand, and share puzzles with your friends and family to challenge them to see who's smarter! (Or get their help in case you’re stuck.) Start enjoying riddles and mind puzzles for FREE – no registration required! Just download and enjoy an instant-play puzzling challenge! Are you smart enough to solve our riddles? Download Brain Teasers and put your mind to the test! FEATURES RIDDLES GALORE • Hundreds of puzzles to train your brain! • Pick from Riddles, Logic Puzzles, Lateral Thinking, and Numerical Puzzles! • Classic riddles and new brain teasers alike! TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Keep track of which puzzles you've been able to solve! • Save your favorites to come back to them later! ENJOY AND SHARE BRAIN TEASERS • Challenge your friends (or ask them for help). • Increase the difficulty to test yourself or find less challenging puzzles to relax. Train your mind with some of the best riddles the world has to offer! Download Brain Teasers now and prove your mental prowess!

About

IQ

Enhance your cognitive abilities with a variety of fun and challenging games. Improve memory, focus, logic, and reaction skills through personalized workouts and auto-adapting difficulty levels. Track your progress and compete with friends.

Highlights
  • 17 challenging games
  • Over 100 difficulty levels
  • Personalized daily workouts
  • Progress statistics
  • Online high score competition
  • iMessage challenges
Features
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With thousands of members, IQ offers the most complete and diverse training for your brain. Train your memory, focus, logic and reaction skills with fun and challenging games and personal workouts. 17 games and auto-adapting difficulty levels give you not only endless fun but also help to improve your brain skills greatly. FEATURES AT A GLANCE - Over 100 levels of difficulty in 17 challenging games - Train concentration, memory, focus and logic. - Personalized daily workouts - Statistics help you to see your progress - Compete against your friends with online high scores - Collect brain points to keep track of your improvements - IQ is suitable for persons of all ages - Stunning and beautiful black interface - Play IQ on you iPhone, iPad and iPod touch! iMessage Challenge your friends on iMessage! Who is smarter? SCIENCE AT ITS BEST Your brain can be trained like the rest of your body. Reach your optimum level with IQ. It is designed to make brain training fun. Train your concentration, memory, focus and logic easily. Studies have shown that regular brain training increases intelligence and memory. IQ PREMIUM IQ is, of course, free for our valued customers. However, if you want to improve 66% faster, we can recommend you IQ Premium. It gives you access to all premium games, personalized workouts and all the games we plan to add to IQ in the future. You can upgrade to "IQ Premium" by purchasing one of the following subscription plans: - 3 months for $14.99 - 12 months for $35.99 (These prices are in USD, actual charges might be converted to local currency depending on your country of residence.) The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be provided.
 Subscriptions may be managed by the user. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. For more information: Privacy Policy - http://www.app-pocket.com/iq-privacy-policy/ Terms of use - http://www.app-pocket.com/iq-terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Brain Teasers4 screens
IQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Brain Teasers at 2.5K against IQ's 16. Brain Teasers also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 42%). IQ's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7). On price, update cadence, 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. Brain Teasers sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and IQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IQ holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Teasers has 2.5K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Brain Teasers's written reviews are positive against 42% of IQ's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brain Teasers ships an update every 2 months, IQ every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Brain Teasers versus IQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain TeasersIQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (2.5K ratings)4.0 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5K — better16
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB58 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGames for Friends LLCJan-Niklas FREUNDT

Customer experience

Brain Teasers

All ratings2,492 ratings
Positive63.5%
Neutral14.6%
Negative22.0%
Written reviews375 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral16.3%
Negative31.7%

IQ

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative41.7%

Bugs and requests

Brain Teasers

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Answers not matching the given information
  • Screen going black after ads
  • Inability to navigate between questions

Requested features

3 requests
  • More variety of brain teasers
  • Ability to save progress and return to previous questions
  • Option to disable ads or pay for ad-free version

IQ

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Brain Teasers

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Go PRO$2.99
  • Unlock 150 Questions$2.99
4 purchases

IQ

Subscriptions4
  • Premium$8.993 Months
  • Premium$14.993 Months
  • Premium$17.991 Year
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  • Premium$35.991 Year

Questions

Is Brain Teasers free?
Brain Teasers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IQ free?
IQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brain Teasers or IQ?
IQ is rated higher. Brain Teasers averages 3.7 out of 5 from 2.5K ratings, while IQ averages 4.0 from 16 ratings.
Do Brain Teasers or IQ have ads?
Both Brain Teasers and IQ show ads.
Which is updated more often, Brain Teasers or IQ?
Brain Teasers ships an update every 2 months, and IQ every 6 weeks. Most recently, Brain Teasers was updated on October 29, 2026 and IQ on October 26, 2026.

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