Lumosity alternatives

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R1] Lumosity 2/5 · US Not Actually Free: Like Impulse and every single one of these apps, it's not actually free. You have a limited selection of things you can do unless you pay an unfair amount of money per month. Just make the app a one time purchase instead of lying about being free and helping.
2. [R7] Lumosity 1/5 · US Liars: It costs a fortune you learn only after a huge time waste. It data mines worse than the fed. Only good to age 55.
3. [R12] Lumosity 3/5 · US Paying 😔: I wish you didn’t have to pay to use Lumosity. Most people try to find websites to better them selves and we shouldn’t have to pay to do that
4. [R15] Lumosity 3/5 · GB Too expensive.: I love it. I do hope you will be able to make it more affordable
5. [R10] Lumosity 1/5 · US Not working at all: I have been using the paid this app for several years. However, in the past week I have not been able to log on, being sent in cereals by AI, not getting responses to my email, etc. VERY FRUSTRATED- PLEASE FIX THIS!
6. [R28] Lumosity 2/5 · US App prob: This is the second time in as many weeks that my progress has not been counted ! I’m at almost 1500 days and it’s frustrating trying to get answers from the app
7. [R31] Lumosity 1/5 · US Lost 126 day streak: I lost my 126 day streak along with all my badges simply because I wanted to change my email address. Now they are acting as if I am brand new and having me start all over. Support is absolutely the worst I have ever dealt with.
8. [R37] Lumosity 1/5 · US Sign in: Ridiculous!!!!!! Hardest time ever on an app to reset password !!!!!!!
9. [R4] Lumosity 2/5 · US PLS FINISH MAKING HIGHWAY HAZARDS: PLS FINISH MAKING HIGHWAY HAZARDS
10. [R13] Lumosity 2/5 · US New games: They keep saying new games coming it’s been over a year and nothing!
11. [R24] Lumosity 3/5 · GB Update a real letdown: The recent update and fresh new look has, for the most part, diminished an app I used to really love and enjoy for many years. Legacy scores are viewable, but to not carry them forward is really crushing (especially when the “score” isn’t the key figure but rather the “amount” achieved in a particular game). There are concurrently a lot of new games that aren’t all that clea
12. [R25] Lumosity 2/5 · US Used to love it: I renewed my subscription every year for at least 4 years because I enjoyed the challenge of many of the games and especially LOVED the train game. I worked my way up to the top level & managed 60 trains every day. I competed against my personal best each day & used that to judge how my brain was functioning each time. However, recently they changed the program & you only got the
13. [R6] Lumosity 3/5 · US ADHD puzzles need improvement: I am diagnosed with ADHD and so I was pleased to see Lumosity’s devotion it. However, I find the puzzle to be very confusing.
14. [R9] Lumosity 3/5 · US Maybe: Some games are great and too many don’t explain the how well enough. Its frustrating too often.
15. [R19] Lumosity 2/5 · US Quite silly and basic: The games are very simplistic. One is shown directions but then once one begins to play the games move faster and there are more moving parts. Why not just show the games as they are meant to be played? The games are very rudimentary with poor graphics. I paid before I had tried it enough. It is not worth the price. A five year old may enjoy them.
16. [R30] Lumosity 3/5 · GB Yes, but…: It’s a nice little app but I have one tip for the creators: make it possible to switch game as some of them are rather boring and not being able to switch is quite frustrating and it’s precisely what made me stop.
17. [R52] Sudoku.com 5/5 · US Lots of FUN: Learning new patterns and getting faster at this game
18. [R53] Sudoku.com 3/5 · US Too many ads!: I really like this game and would love to give it 5 stars but the amount of ads and the length really take away from it. Sometimes the ads are so frequent and so long that I don’t even know what I was looking at when they interrupted me. Can you control some of that? Please!
19. [R54] Sudoku.com 1/5 · US Ads: I wish I could give this more stars. I liked it at first, but I can’t go two minutes without an intrusive ad popping up on my phone. You have to watch an ad before you play and after you play and even though you just watched one after you played it immediately shows one before you play so there’s two ads between each one.
20. [R55] Sudoku.com 5/5 · US Yay: I love sudoku and this make playing easy and fun
21. [R66] Impulse 5/5 · US Tutor: This game is awesome for adults and children
22. [R67] Impulse 3/5 · US Its alright: Its good, but too much payments.
23. [R69] Impulse 5/5 · US Best I’ve found!: More like IQ tests- tests & strengthens my thinking ability more than my subject matter experience 👍🏼
24. [R70] Impulse 3/5 · US Not enough updates: After a year, have already completed all the puzzles and some of the games, and there haven’t been any new ones added. I’m also not convinced of the value of some of the exercises. I probably won’t renew my subscription.
25. [R79] Elevate 1/5 · US Not free like the ads claim: Yeah, it's free to download but you can't do anything unless you pay. You can play about five minutes worth of games and everything else is behind a pay wall. I only downloaded this app because the ad said that it was completely free. False advertising! Too bad because it did seem like it could have potential.
26. [R83] Elevate 5/5 · US Great for my mind: This app helps me think faster. It challenges me. I love it.
27. [R84] Elevate 3/5 · US nice, but you need premium.: Theres only 1 game available if you dont have premium, which is the DAILY game that you can only play ONCE a day. How lame.
28. [R86] Elevate 5/5 · US Daily Habit: Love this app since it only takes me a few minutes. Bummed when I miss a day
29. [R93] Peak 1/5 · US Too much ads: Can’t even play 2 game without dealing with all these ads. Am I really getting an experience out of this game when most of the time is spent on watching ads? No thank you
30. [R94] Peak 5/5 · US Car Accident: A few years ago, I experienced a devastating car accident that resulted in the loss of my short-term memory. It was one of the most frightening times of my life. In my search for recovery, I began playing Peak almost every day, often for hours, to help my brain heal and regain some of its function. I'm not an expert, but I found that I improved beyond where I was before the accident,
31. [R95] Peak 3/5 · US Used to love this app: I’ve been using this app off and on for several years and have absolutely loved it. This week, every time I’ve tried to use my pro subscription, it will not allow me. I’ve contacted support but have had no response. Just an app I pay for I cannot use. I tried restarting my phone, I tried deleting the app, I tried restoring the purchase, I tried creating a new account - I get
32. [R96] Peak 1/5 · US No support????: So when you select app support there is actually NO support. You may only see answers to certain questions. I just purchased the pro version and the GROW game it is not working properly (Beginning letters of words are not showing) on iOS ipad and there seems to be no way to contact support. I’m sad I purchased something that has NO support. Ridiculous!
33. [R107] MindPal 2/5 · US Old content and can’t advance: The games are fun at first but then they get boring. They use the same puzzles over and over again, such as word search. There might be 10 word search puzzles that they cycle over and over and it’s so boring to solve the same things again and again. Also, you can get up to level 399/400 but it doesn’t seem like you can ever get to level 400. The scoring is also wo
34. [R108] MindPal 4/5 · US So Good: This app is so good and I've seen so much improvement in myself.
35. [R109] MindPal 3/5 · US review: wish it was free but otherwise fun
36. [R110] MindPal 1/5 · US Not free: I'm not opposed to paid apps. I am opposed to dark UX that draws you in with a series of questions only to then present you with the option to pay; timed trials are designed with the expectation that you'll forget to cancel. Dark UX at its finest.