Mind Games vs BrainPower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Brain training games
- Mental skill practice
- Score history tracking
- Progress graphs
- Standardized score conversion
- Personalized training center
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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.
BrainPower
Enhance your cognitive abilities with daily brain training exercises and a variety of games. This app offers over 380 challenges designed to improve memory, attention, math skills, and flexibility. Track your progress and enjoy a fun way to boost your brainpower.
- Memory games
- Attention games
- Math games
- Flexibility games
- 380+ brain games
- Daily challenges
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BrainPower is a brain training app with 17 games and more than 500 levels to exercise your memory, attention, math and mental flexibility, a few minutes a day. DAILY TRAINING Every day you get a short training session with games picked for your level. Complete it, keep your streak going and turn mental exercise into a habit. FREE PLAY Choose any game and work through its levels at your own pace. Each game starts easy and becomes more challenging as you improve. FEATURES • 17 games in 4 areas: Memory, Attention, Math and Flexibility • 500+ levels • Daily training and daily streak • Earn points and move up through the categories • Quick rounds that fit into any break • Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Dutch Try BrainPower and tell us what you think! Website: www.brandedbrothers.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrandedBrothers.Gaming
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mind Games at 84% against BrainPower's 14%. Mind Games also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, 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
Both are free to download. BrainPower sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Mind Games asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mind Games holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mind Games has 12K ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Mind Games's written reviews are positive against 14% of BrainPower's.
Mind Games ships an update every 3 weeks, BrainPower every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind Games | BrainPower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (12K ratings) — better | 3.8 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mindware Consulting, Inc | Branded Brothers |
Customer experience
Mind Games
BrainPower
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
BrainPower
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mind Games
No in-app purchases
BrainPower
- Hints X20$0.99
- Remove ads$1.99
- Full game$7.99
