BrainKit vs Roberto App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrainKit
This app assists individuals with prospective memory challenges by breaking down daily tasks into simple, manageable steps. Users and caregivers can define tasks using text, pictures, or audio, and receive real-time guidance through each step of their rehabilitation.
- Define daily tasks with an easy interface
- Describe tasks using text, pictures, or audio
- Step-by-step guidance for task completion
- Improve prospective memory
- Participate actively in rehabilitation
- Schedule tasks on iPad calendar
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BrainKit TaskPlanner™ helps guide those with prospective memory difficulties along their path toward recovery. Through an easy-to-use interface, BrainKit TaskPlanner™ allows users and/or caregivers to define daily tasks, breaking them down into individual, simple steps. It then guides the user, step-by-step, as they perform these tasks in real time. Tasks and steps can be described using text, pictures, or recorded audio, and users can directly schedule tasks on their iPad calendar using the in-app scheduling feature. Key Features: • Define daily tasks with a simple-to-use interface • Use text, pictures or audio to describe tasks and steps • Walk through tasks step by step as you complete them • Potentially improve your prospective memory • Be an active participant in your rehabilitation process -- NOTE: Scheduling tasks by location will enable GPS running in the background. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. -- Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. Case Number 14-2888. ©2014 The MITRE Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Roberto App
This app offers a quick brain health assessment through various modules that challenge cognitive abilities. It provides objective data to help users understand how lifestyle factors impact performance and offers personalized suggestions for optimization. The results empower users to monitor their brain health and make informed decisions.
- 6-minute brain health checkup
- Seven cognitive challenge modules
- Millisecond accuracy performance assessment
- Objective data for decision making
- Personalized suggestions and tips
- Tracks impact of lifestyle factors
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Roberto from RC21X is your personal platform for optimizing performance. Roberto consists of seven different modules, each of which challenges your brain in different ways. Each session takes only minutes to perform and measures and assesses your performance with millisecond accuracy. With objective data from Roberto, you’ll be able to make better decisions about your health and make lifestyle changes that optimize your performance. And, we’ll guide you with suggestions, tips and informative articles based upon your results. You’ll be able to see at a glance how things like stress, sleep, exercise, diet, medications and more impact your everyday performance. Disclaimer: ROBERTO has been identified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a class II medical device exempt from 510(k) premarket notification requirements. ROBERTO is a computerized neurocognitive assessment aid that is not intended for use as a stand-alone assessment of specific diseases or conditions. ROBERTO DOES NOT PROVIDE A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. ROBERTO is not a medical diagnostic tool or clinical treatment. The results from Roberto empower individuals to take personal responsibility in monitoring their brain health and make informed health decisions. This app has an optional auto-renewable subscription available called "Roberto Standard Monthly Subscription Auto-Renew" • Length of subscription is one month. • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable See our terms of use here: http://robertoapp.com/terms_service.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrainKit at none against Roberto App's 1. BrainKit also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Roberto App's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 50%) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Roberto App sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. BrainKit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Roberto App holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roberto App has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of BrainKit's written reviews are positive against 77% of Roberto App's.
BrainKit ships an update every 2 months, Roberto App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrainKit | Roberto App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MITRE Corporation | HOME BASE IMPAIRMENT COMPANY, INC. |
Customer experience
BrainKit
Roberto App
In-app purchases
BrainKit
No in-app purchases
Roberto App
- Roberto Single User14 Days trial$9.991 Month









