Comparison

Mind Games vs Transaction Trainer

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

Transaction Trainer

Features
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In school we learned about coins and bills, but this is a plastic card! Where’s the money? Where does it come from? How do I know how much I have? Transaction Trainer is a tool designed to help demystify the Card! Explore the intricacies of using a debit card to make purchases at a wide selection of example storefronts; practice the use of both chip-enabled or swipe only point of sale terminals; learn what buttons are important and which you can safely ignore; and take a peek behind the curtain by keeping track of your purchases in a virtual ledger. Transaction Trainer is a research-based app that will help make concrete the abstract world of the Card.

Screenshots

Mind Games4 screens
Transaction Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mind Games at Free against Transaction Trainer's $1.99. Mind Games also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Transaction Trainer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Mind Games is free to download; Transaction Trainer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mind Games ships an update every 3 weeks, Transaction Trainer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mind Games versus Transaction Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind GamesTransaction Trainer
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (12K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings12K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindware Consulting, IncSimcoach Games

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

Transaction Trainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mind Games

No in-app purchases

None

Transaction Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mind Games free?
Mind Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Transaction Trainer free?
Transaction Trainer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mind Games or Transaction Trainer have ads?
Mind Games shows ads; Transaction Trainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Mind Games or Transaction Trainer?
Mind Games ships an update every 3 weeks, and Transaction Trainer every 6 months. Most recently, Mind Games was updated on October 23, 2026 and Transaction Trainer on October 11, 2026.

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