Comparison

BrainKit vs My Good Ideas

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

My Good Ideas

This app helps you reinforce positive thoughts and ideas by repeating custom or pre-set affirmations. You can set the frequency and duration for spoken affirmations to aid personal change and idea retention.

Highlights
  • Customizable affirmations
  • Spoken affirmations
  • Adjustable repetition frequency
  • Adjustable repetition duration
  • Built-in affirmation library
Features
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My Good Ideas is a simple, calming app for saving personal affirmations, repeating helpful principles, and giving your mind a gentle place to return. Create up to 20 personal affirmations and keep them saved on your device. Start any affirmation as a spoken repetition session, rearrange your affirmations, edit them, or delete them whenever your ideas change. Also has general and special built-in affirmations, including Exercises/Stretches , Meditation Ideas, and an I Ching reading.

Screenshots

BrainKit4 screens
My Good Ideas4 screens

Verdict

The call

BrainKit and My Good Ideas both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of My Good Ideas's written reviews are positive against 50% of BrainKit's. BrainKit's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for BrainKit against 4.0 for My Good Ideas. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of BrainKit's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Good Ideas's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BrainKit versus My Good Ideas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainKitMy Good Ideas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMITRE CorporationMind Body Aware Games LLC

Customer experience

BrainKit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

My Good Ideas

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BrainKit

No in-app purchases

None

My Good Ideas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BrainKit free?
BrainKit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Good Ideas free?
My Good Ideas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BrainKit or My Good Ideas?
BrainKit and My Good Ideas are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do BrainKit or My Good Ideas have ads?
Neither BrainKit nor My Good Ideas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrainKit or My Good Ideas?
BrainKit ships an update every 2 months, and My Good Ideas every 2 months. Most recently, BrainKit was updated on October 7, 2026 and My Good Ideas on October 7, 2026.

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