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Head-to-head

Elevate vs Peak

Elevate 4.8★ · Free + IAP 75
Winner Elevate
Peak 4.7★ · Free + IAP 55

Elevate is generally preferred for its game quality and customer support, while Peak struggles with pervasive ads and unresponsive support.

Full reviews: Elevate · Peak

Elevate and Peak both offer brain training games, but Elevate is praised for its engaging content and responsive support, despite complaints about its free tier. Peak, on the other hand, faces significant criticism for excessive ads, poor customer service, and bugs in its games.

Head to head

Features and Content Variety edge: ElevateR2R6R8R14
Elevate Elevate users appreciate the variety of games that challenge different skills like language, math, and memory, with many noting improvement over time R2R8R14R17. However, some long-term users find the content repetitive and desire new games R6.
Peak Peak offers diverse brain training games that users find challenging and engaging . However, a significant number of users complain about a lack of new content and repetition, with some games being buggy or poorly designed .
Ease of Use and User Experience edge: ElevateR9R11R17R20
Elevate Elevate is generally seen as easy to use, with many users integrating it into their daily routines R11R17R20. Some users find the scoring inconsistent and demotivating R9, or experience issues with sound cutting in R43. There are also complaints about American-centric content .
Peak Peak's user experience is marred by several issues, including unclear game instructions , inability to switch out disliked games , and accessibility problems like small, light fonts . Some users also report bugs with specific games not working R64.
Reliability and Performance edge: ElevateR2R23R40R43
Elevate Elevate generally performs well, with users reporting long-term engagement R2R23. However, some users report issues with incorrect math answers R40 and app updates causing problems like sound issues or app restarts on certain devices R43.
Peak Peak users frequently report significant bugs, such as games not working R64, inability to access purchased subscriptions R63R70, and being stuck on ad screens R76. The app is also noted for draining battery quickly .
Price and Value (Free vs. Paid) edge: ElevateR4R7R12R13
Elevate Elevate's free version is heavily criticized for being severely limited, with many users feeling that most content is locked behind a paywall and bombarded with ads and pop-ups to subscribe R4R7R12R13. Paid users generally find it worth the money .
Peak Peak's free tier is widely condemned for being almost unusable due to excessive and unskippable ads R61R76R81R87 and locking nearly all content behind a subscription R69R75R79. Users feel misled by claims of being free R79.
Customer Support edge: ElevateR3R19R28R37
Elevate Elevate's customer support receives mixed reviews. Some users praise quick responses and refunds for billing issues R47. However, others report difficulty canceling trials, being charged unexpectedly, and unresponsive support for these issues R3R19R28R37.
Peak Peak's customer support is a major point of failure, with numerous users reporting no response to emails, slow replies, or inability to resolve issues like subscription access or account deletion R63R64R70R73.
Pick Elevate if

you want a brain training app with a good variety of engaging games, generally reliable performance, and decent customer support, and are willing to pay for a subscription to avoid limitations and ads R2R8R14.

Pick Peak if

you are looking for a brain training app with creative and challenging puzzles and are prepared to endure significant ads and potential bugs in the free version, or hope for better luck with customer support if you pay .

Evidence note: Both apps have a significant number of negative reviews related to their free tiers and subscription models, making it challenging to compare the core paid experience directly. Peak's issues with customer support and game bugs appear more widespread and severe.

Frequently asked

Is Elevate truly free?
No, while Elevate offers a free trial and some limited content, the majority of its games and features are locked behind a paid subscription, and the free experience is often described as being bombarded with ads and prompts to pay R4R22R24R25.
How much does Elevate cost?
Elevate's subscription price is not consistently stated across reviews, but users mention being charged around $40 R10 or $20 R47 for a subscription, with some noting that coin costs increase with updates R18.
Does Peak have good customer support?
No, Peak's customer support is widely criticized for being unresponsive, slow, and unhelpful, with many users reporting no replies to emails or inability to resolve issues like subscription access and account deletion R63R64R70R73.
Are there many ads in Peak?
Yes, users frequently complain about an excessive number of long, unskippable ads in Peak's free version, often getting stuck on ad screens, which makes the app frustrating and almost unusable without a subscription R61R76R81R87.
Can you play Peak for free?
While Peak has a free tier, it is severely limited, offering only a few daily games and bombarding users with ads, making most content inaccessible without purchasing a 'Pro' subscription R69R75R79R97.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] Elevate 5/5 · US Here since 2017!: I love the way that the game has adapted and continues to give us ways to elevate and stretch. Our minds. Definitely my go to for years. Still here in 2026. Loyal and in love!
  2. [R6] Elevate 3/5 · US Good but repetitive!: Elevate has been excellent for this 71 year-old male to improving maintain memory skills, math calculations, and improved speaking and writing. However, after almost a year, the program seriously needs some updating. Some of the puzzles I have done at least four or 5 or maybe 10 times.
  3. [R8] Elevate 5/5 · US Incremental challenges: I’m refreshingly confronted with new and intriguing pushes toward my pursuit of perfection.
  4. [R14] Elevate 5/5 · US Sharpens language skills and mental math ability: I enjoy these short games. I think that my verbal communication and mental math calculation skills have improved. I am able to more quickly retrieve words before speaking. Too often I am quick to revert to a handy calculator in real life though. I need to force myself to use my mental math brain more.
  5. [R9] Elevate 3/5 · US Inconsistent: The games are fun but scoring is inconsistent and frustrating. Losing points already earned is demotivating. Fix the scoring system and I would give a higher rating.
  6. [R11] Elevate 5/5 · US A daily treat: First thing I accomplish in the morning before breakfast
  7. [R17] Elevate 5/5 · US Daily Learning: Currently I’m up to 89 days! I’ve developed a schedule to include elevate. I’ve come to realize that when I get answers wrong, stop and read what its incorrect. The vocabulary is a gem for me. There’s so much I can say, but I want to emphasize the learning while having fun. Plus it helps in my daily business.
  8. [R20] Elevate 5/5 · US Love it: Love the game girlfriend has me stuck on it 111 days streak at the moment. Great to keep your kind sharp
  9. [R23] Elevate 5/5 · US honestly so worth it imo!: this actually works so many different areas of your brain and works on so many different skills! i actually really love this a lot! as of today i have a 681 day streak going!
  10. [R40] Elevate 1/5 · US The app is giving incorrect answers: I don’t know what’s wrong with this application but checked with the calculator on an answer and the app is giving the wrong answer for some math questions. I used to enjoy this application. I hope it gets fixed.
  11. [R43] Elevate 1/5 · US Changed annoyingly: Sound comes bursting on without warning making jump, heart pounding. Or, worse still, if I am listening to local radio news, it cuts into and cuts off the radio. Not good. I have used this app daily for years and really enjoyed it. But, when the sound cuts in, I cut out.
  12. [R4] Elevate 1/5 · US all paid content: everything shown in ads is paid content, free version of the app is just bombardment with pop ups asking you to pay them on a subscription basis in order to access 95% of the app
  13. [R7] Elevate 1/5 · US Payment: If it’s to help with cognitive function and it’s for helping with disorders, why isn’t it free
  14. [R12] Elevate 3/5 · US Ads: Ads ads ads
  15. [R13] Elevate 1/5 · US Royal Match ruins it: I enjoy Elevate, and I am ok with ads. It is actually a really good app. Unfortunately, Royal Match ads ruin it. They don’t seem to have an end. I even added that app to see if it would help. Please at least make those ads end in a reasonable amount of time.
  16. [R3] Elevate 3/5 · US Cannot contact: I received a free trial and started to play a couple games. The games that I played were pretty fun. I just didn’t like it enough to pay the full price. So I decided after a day to delete the app. Usually I can delete an app and then go to my apple settings and opt out of the free trial. But I couldn’t find it in my settings for some reason. Then after a couple weeks, my card was c
  17. [R19] Elevate 2/5 · US Don’t get free trial unless you know how to end it: I can’t end my free trial and it keeps charging me money but it never gave me a option to end it
  18. [R28] Elevate 1/5 · US Complete scam: They charged me twice and won’t refund my money. Apple isn’t helping. The app is redundant and not challenging. This is a waste of time and they don’t care about their consumers, just the one-and-done (excuse me, two-and-done) profit. DON’T DO IT.
  19. [R37] Elevate 1/5 · US horrible billing problems: it never emailed me to end my subscription and continue to charge me multiple times and when i went to press manage subscription it told me to contact customer service and i’m still waiting to hear back
  20. [R22] Elevate 1/5 · US Ads are lying: Claims it’s “absolutely free” yeah… for a week? That’s a free trial, not that the app is free. Don’t try to scam people.
  21. [R24] Elevate 3/5 · US Good..... But just one thing: This is an amazing app and it does help my vocabulary. But it limits you soo much if you don't pay money. Its like you do the lesson and after that everything is locked down exept one thing that is nothing compared to all the others. It says 40 plus games but you have to pay for all of them. So basically please unlock more things and I will be happier.
  22. [R25] Elevate 1/5 · US MUST pay: Nothing to do accept the three little daily challenges if you dont buy the premium.
  23. [R10] Elevate 1/5 · US overpriced: overpriced for some learning app 😅 took $40 from me
  24. [R18] Elevate 3/5 · US Money grabs on premium subs: I like this app a lot and have been a premium subscriber for years. However, every time there is an update the coin cost increases. The introduction of this design made it feel too much like “fee” or non-subscription games, except these creators want both. This commoditization makes it feel less like a proper brain training app and more like a gimmick.
  25. [R47] Elevate 5/5 · US Great App: This app provides great games to strengthen the brain. When I cancelled a while back and later got charged $20 - they replied quickly, refunded the $20 and resolved the matter. They have great customer support
  26. [R63] 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
  27. [R64] 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!
  28. [R70] Peak 1/5 · US Subscription does NOT work and Poor Customer Service: Purchased the annual pro plan 1 week ago and made several attempts to log in. Followed all the online instructions and reach out to the customer service. Peak’s customer service response is excruciatingly slow, I had to remind and follow up 6 times and wait more than 24 hours to get a simple response on what to do next. Highly recommend for f
  29. [R73] Peak 1/5 · US Zero support: 3 emails to support asking for help with resetting password - no response at all
  30. [R61] 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
  31. [R76] Peak 1/5 · US Completely unusable without subscription: When I first got this app, I could play the daily sample games without a subscription. Over time I had to watch more videos to play free. After several months hiatus, I tried to play today. I could not get through two short games of the "daily workout" without watching 4 videos. The problem is that after the video ad ends, you are stuck in a screen that yo
  32. [R81] Peak 3/5 · US Terrible ads: Love the app but not worth it for the disgusting amount of ads.
  33. [R87] Peak 3/5 · US Ads easy to long: The games are fun and engaging and I understand that the free version includes ads. However, when the ads are three and four times longer than the actual gameplay, it becomes excessive and frustrating. There are times I get stuck in an ad and can’t get out. I’ll stick with Elevate and Lumosity. Elevate has ads but not nearly as bad as this app.
  34. [R69] Peak 3/5 · US Subscription: Every time I come across a brain training app, there is a subscription and a free tier, and I HATE IT!! Good games though.
  35. [R75] Peak 3/5 · US No: Absolutely not. I got this game as a fun way to get smarter. I planned to not get “PRO” because I don’t need to spend that money. So I didn’t. Now any games I can play on pro so I can’t play anything other than the daily workout. I’m so disappointed
  36. [R79] Peak 1/5 · US Waste of time: Spent like half an hour doing tests just to not get any result unless I pay $40 or whatever? What the hell, man? What’s the damn point of letting me take the test if I have to spend all my money to see the result? Also, I can only play ONE game, and it’s boring and easy as hell. Useless waste of time.
  37. [R97] Peak 1/5 · US Horrible: It forces me to have to buy a subscription to do anything but 3 of the random games in the daily practice. And that doesn’t even covert the fact that even if I have WiFi, it won’t let me take the General IQ test that they provide because I apparently am not connected to the internet

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store