Visual Memory Training vs Cognitive Boost
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Memory Training
Enhance your visual memory with a number sequence recall game. Practice on your iPhone or Apple Watch across five difficulty levels, from easy to expert. Challenge yourself to reproduce increasingly longer sequences.
- Visual memory exercises
- Number sequence recall
- iPhone and Apple Watch support
- Five difficulty levels
- Expert mode
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Improve your visual memory skills Practice this brain exercise on your iPhone and on your Apple Watch (NEW!!!) Observe a sequence of numbers that are shown for a few seconds and reproduce it after the numbers disappear. How many sequences in a row will you be able to reproduce ? 5 levels of difficulty, from very easy to expert mode
Cognitive Boost
This app offers daily brain workouts designed to enhance cognitive abilities and improve memory. Its intuitive, emoji-based games are suitable for all ages and can be played in short bursts, making it ideal for quick mental exercises.
- Daily brain workouts
- Improve cognitive abilities
- Memory training games
- Emoji-based challenges
- Suitable for all ages
- Short game sessions
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Like your muscles, your brain needs regular workouts to stay in shape. Download this app and use it every day to help you stay sharp. You can improve your brain’s abilities. With regular training the brain is able to form new neural connections. Cognitive Boost can be played by all ages, toddlers through seniors. Because each game is short, it is ideal for playing while waiting for a meeting, or for other events. It is a good "calmer downer" if the person for whom you are waiting is late. Because it is highly intuitive, language skills are not required. Emojis tell you visually if you got a correct or wrong answer. The objects used for the game are based on standard emojis, but their looks have been re-imagined by the students and faculty of a historic European design university. While the game resembles the popular "memory match" games it is unique. It has hundreds of emojis that are displayed randomly. To play, you first memorize two to twenty images at a time, and then pick each original image from a "lineup" that has two new images. Start at two images at a time. As you gain momentum increase the number. Psychologists say that, on the average, without training, a person can get to seven. See how you measure up! Another challenge is increasing the rotation speed of the "multiple choice" answers. The objects rotate in three dimensions, all in different directions requiring observation, timing and memory. You can start the movement at a low speed, and as you get experience move up to a higher level. The app is complete. It is free. There are no in-app purchases. There is a button in the app that allows you to make a voluntary contribution of any amount to Parkinson’s Disease(PD) research. There is currently not a cure for PD, just problematic treatments. The button provides a direct link to the research center’s computer. The app was written as a fundraiser, by a software engineer, with 58 years of experience in IT, who has PD. Take part in the search for a cure! Download the program to get started with your memory training!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cognitive Boost at 4.9 against Visual Memory Training's 4.5. Cognitive Boost also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). Visual Memory Training's advantage is iOS requirement (8.2 vs 16.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cognitive Boost holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cognitive Boost has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Visual Memory Training | Cognitive Boost |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 11 days |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KIDELIA | 4Genera LLC |
Customer experience
Visual Memory Training
Cognitive Boost
In-app purchases
Visual Memory Training
No in-app purchases
Cognitive Boost
No in-app purchases





