BrainHQ

First downloaded. First free session worked like expected. Enjoyed it. Paid the annual subscription Try restore subscription in app. Kept saying invalid. Signed out app. Would not let me sign back it. Deleting and reinstalling the app. No change. Used chat help online. Said it could not help. Two PW resets later logged in finally. It picked up from selecting memory session online, but is spun through the session from start to finish, I think, fast and stopped at early exit. Tried to do the test 3 or 4 times. Not change. Tried to submit a support request through app but it kept saying request could not be sent. Went to check subscription, which online shows active, in app shows invalid. So disappointing after the claimed superiority of this over Luminosity, which I used without glitch for years, and over Cognifit. I do hole the developers can resolve this immediately or refund a not insignificant amount.

Came out interesting enough to play, if you can ever get them to work right. I am using an iPad because as an older person with not the best vision, it’s much too small to see it on my phone. And I don’t use a laptop. I have installed and reinstall the app numerous times and rebooted. Nothing helps. The games are constantly freezing in the middle. The sound goes off and on. And even once it starts to work, instructions very unclear and assume that you have a high-level of gameplay skill in general. it’s like the system was designed for 30-year-olds instead of baby boomers who needed it even more. Finally, my wife uses it on a laptop, and the system is completely different. You can track your progress in a different way. The app and the website need to be more consistent. Nice try. But I won’t be renewing.

I’ve been using for a month or more. I don’t know how to see my progress. I can’t find the screens that are shown in the App Store. Also, their English isn’t the best. For example, you need 10 stars to pass a level. After you get some stars but not all needed, it tells you, “ 1 total stars to pass the level.” It means “1 more.” I then get 5 stars and the response is “… You earned 14 stars. 5 more than you needed…” I’m not an English professor but I am an accountant. It should read “4 more.” Not worth the money I paid.

Until yesterday, I would’ve given this game five stars. However, today I reached an essential game component/level that is broken. At the “Mixed Signals” level, when is the on-screen control that is required to be tapped under certain conditions is not actually visible on the screen, and the area where it should exist cannot be consistently tapped. (Taps made there are not sensed reliably.) Till this is fixed, I cannot play the game with any confidence.

Yeah I didn’t even get to try it and it’s saying my trail one use for the day is used.

I think the exercises are great, but your performance is displayed in stars and it’s not clear what those actually mean. If it is trying to appeal to people who are interested in science, it should give real metrics like milliseconds. There’s also no real clear completion for every day, so it doesn’t really incentivize continuous use. they should add a calendar view that shows the days that you practice in when you didn’t.

There are plenty of apps claiming to exercise your brain, but nearly all of them have no proof supporting their claims. This app has been clinically studied by independent scientists in randomized control trials and shown to be beneficial across a range of cognitive domains. My subjective experience with the app has been that I am more confident driving and have better awareness of what’s going on in my peripheral vision. I feel like my memory is better than most people’s, not to mention my age cohort. I remember names and details much better than before I started using the app. Yes, the app could be better. The instructions could be better. It took me a long time to figure out the exercise with the trains coming and going. I could not do the exercise at first, so my answers were practically random. Once I figured it out, it proved to be a good, challenging exercise. The benefits of this app as proven by a raft of randomized controlled trials by independent scientists far outweigh any of the glitches and complaints about the app. If you’re looking for a way to increase your cognitive function, forget sudoku and crossword puzzles and look no further. You have found it in BrainHQ.

They charge without warning. They charged me $146. It’s very silly games and not helpful I didn’t use it past a few times today several months later without warning charged $146z no response on refund.

This does not start off slowly to facilitate learning. Apparently, the joy of repeated failures is supposed to encourage game play. I have Elevate, Peak, and several others but this one I will not purchase. No thanks.

On my iPad Air 5 and iPhone 12 pro, the audio/video component stutters, making those audio training tasks harder, and some like Rhythm Recall impossible. I need auditory help, so this is frustrating. Video-only tasks are OK, but the performance makes me wonder if the games get unintentionally too hard to train on. I think performance needs to be improved before I can take the iOS versions seriously.