Comparison

Mind Games vs Brainquire

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

Head to head
About

Mind Games

Engage in a variety of brain-training games designed to exercise different mental skills. Track your progress with score histories and standardized scales. A training center helps select personalized exercise routines.

Highlights
  • Brain training games
  • Mental skill practice
  • Score history tracking
  • Progress graphs
  • Standardized score conversion
  • Personalized training center
Features
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Exercise your brain! Mind Games is a great collection of games based in part on principles derived from cognitive tasks to help you practice different mental skills. This app includes many excellent free games. There are many trial games from Mind Games Pro that allow you to play 3 times. All games include your score history and a graph of your progress. Using some principles of standardized testing, your scores are also converted to a standardized scale so that you can see where you need work and excel. Not sure where to focus? Training Center does the work for you by picking the perfect mix of exercises to keep you engaged. Mind Games is intended to be brain challenging entertainment. No research has yet been conducted to determine if this app has cognitive benefits.

About

Brainquire

Enhance and track your cognitive skills through engaging games and personalized exercises. This platform assesses your strengths and weaknesses in areas like logic, memory, and verbal abilities, adapting to your learning style with machine learning.

Highlights
  • Cognitive skill assessment
  • Personalized brain exercises
  • Adaptive learning platform
  • Machine learning improvement
  • Verbal, quantitative, visual, logical, memory, attention games
Features
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Improve and monitor your abilities in respective fields by making use of games and applications in various categories (verbal, quantitative, visual, logical, memory and attention). Personalized brain exercises guiding the assessment of cognitive skills and evaluation of advantages and inadequacies. Our “Smart Platform” working at the background observes the performances of each player during gameplay and figures out personalized learning characteristics. Brainquire, which is supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey also continuously improves itself by using machine learning techniques to provide game options that will increase learning speeds of its users. Brainquire is developed in the light of Emrehan Halıcı’s 40 years of experience in preparing mind games and intelligence competitions. Scientists, engineers, psychologists, educators and outstanding contestants of various mind game competitions took part in its development. GET HELP: http://www.brainquire.com/#contact VISIT US: http://www.brainquire.com/ FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/brainquire/ FOLLOW US: https://twitter.com/Brainquire BRAINQUIRE PREMIUM PRICING & TERMS Brainquire offers the following subscriptions: Monthly Individual Subscription: $3.99/1 Month Annual Individual Subscription: $28.99/1 Year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. Your Brainquire Membership subscription will be charged through your iTunes account. At the end of the term, your subscription will automatically renew through your iTunes account. You will be charged for the regular price of your subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term. You can turn off automatic renewal in your iTunes account settings, but you must do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of any term. Privacy Policy: http://www.brainquire.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: http://www.brainquire.com/terms_of_service/

Screenshots

Mind Games4 screens
Brainquire4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mind Games and Brainquire both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 84% of Mind Games's written reviews are positive against 37% of Brainquire's. Mind Games also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (12K vs 85). Brainquire's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Brainquire sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Mind Games asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Mind Games against 4.7 for Brainquire. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mind Games has 12K ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Mind Games's written reviews are positive against 37% of Brainquire's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mind Games ships an update every 3 weeks, Brainquire every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mind Games versus Brainquire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind GamesBrainquire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (12K ratings)4.7 (85 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews — better37.3% of reviews
Number of ratings12K — better85
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB195 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindware Consulting, IncHalıcı Bilgi İşlem A.Ş.

Customer experience

Mind Games

All ratings12,454 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral6.7%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive83.9%
Neutral5.8%
Negative10.3%

Brainquire

All ratings85 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive37.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative45.1%

Bugs and requests

Mind Games

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Screens going blank or freezing
  • Answers/instructions being cut off
  • Inconsistent scoring and percentile calculations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a tutorial for new users
  • Provide more language and region options
  • Improve scoring and feedback system
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow users to track and review past performance

Brainquire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mind Games

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Brainquire

Subscriptions5
  • 1 Month Membership$3.991 Month
  • 1 Month Family Membership$7.991 Month
  • 1 Year Off-Price Membership$28.991 Year
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  • 1 Year Family Membership$57.991 Year
  • 1 Year Membership$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Mind Games free?
Mind Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brainquire free?
Brainquire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mind Games or Brainquire?
Brainquire is rated higher. Mind Games averages 4.6 out of 5 from 12K ratings, while Brainquire averages 4.7 from 85 ratings.
Do Mind Games or Brainquire have ads?
Mind Games shows ads; Brainquire does not.
Which is updated more often, Mind Games or Brainquire?
Mind Games ships an update every 3 weeks, and Brainquire every 2 months. Most recently, Mind Games was updated on October 13, 2026 and Brainquire on October 8, 2026.

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