5 Trending Apps that Fabulously Improve Your Cognitive Skills

Five Apps to Use to Boost Your Brain

Cognitive skills are the key skills that your brain uses to think, read, remember, reason, learn, and pay attention. They work together, consume incoming information and blend it with a pool of knowledge you have, and enable you to better use it in everyday life, at school,l, and at work.

Every cognitive skill you possess plays a key role in processing new information. You may fail in grasping and retaining the information that is coming your way if even one of these skills is feeble. In fact, most people struggle in learning because of one or more weak cognitive skills they possess.

Some of the top apps for improving cognitive skills include Lumosity, Elevate, and CogniFit. Other apps include Fit Brains Trainer, Eidetic, Brain Trainer Special, and Mind Games.

Popular brain training apps

• Lumosity: Designed by neuroscientists to improve memory, attention, and problem-solving
• Elevate: Designed to improve communication and analytical skills through games and puzzles
• CogniFit: Helps train memory, concentration, attention, and mental agility
• Fit Brains Trainer: Includes games and puzzles that get harder as you improve
• Eidetic: Uses facts you enter to help you memorize them
• Brain Trainer Special: Includes games like solving mathematical problems, playing sudoku, and memorizing letter sequences
• Mind Games: Includes a scheduling feature to remind you to play

Other brain training apps NeuroNation, Peak, MindPal, Vocabulary Builder, and Impulse.

If you’re feeling you’re facing the same or are excited to know more about it, this article is exclusively for you. Today there is an app for everything. Cognitive skills are no exception of this. Mobile apps are changing the way, in fact largely changing the way how we live.

5 Apps to Boost Your Brain Power:

Below I have listed 5 popular mobile apps that can help you improve your cognitive skills to a large extent.

• Eidetic

You can terrifically enhance your cognitive thinking capabilities with Eidetic app. With a technique called “spaced repetition”, Eidetic helps you recall anything in your chosen timeframe. You can memorize things that holds a real meaning and context in your life. This is what differentiates it from other brain training apps. This app is largely helpful for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) affected students. The app helps them memorize vocabulary or definitions for exams or they can use the app to remember every day facts and phone numbers.

Platform: iOS
Price: free

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• Fit Brains Trainer

Fit Brains Trainer is a brain training app, which includes over 360 games and unique training sessions. Each of them lets you improve processing speed, concentration, problem solving, memory and visual skills. According to the mobile app developers who developed it, spending at least a few minutes in a day will enhance your brain’s performance significantly. With Fit Brains Trainer, you can track cognitive performance of other users of the same age. You can even compare your results with them.

Platform: iOS, Android
Price: free

 

•  iThoughts

iThoughts is a solid mind-mapping training tool. The app lets you organize and share your thoughts, information and ideas virtually. The app works superbly for ADHDers who are depended on visual learning. It well organizes your thoughts into practical webs and flowcharts. You can export your mind map to your computer using PowerPoint, Word, or Excel once completing the task. Later you can share it from the device. E-learning app called Byju’s, a front-line mobile app in India mimics some features of CogniFit that help students well grasp the concepts from the visual presentations.

Platform: iOS
Price: $11.99

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•  CogniFit Brain Fitness

CogniFit Brain Fitness is one of the most useful apps used to improve cognitive skills. You will start with a quick quiz that lets you evaluate your cognitive capabilities. In the next step, you can personalize activities to involve in more challenging activities and train your brain. With the CogniFit, you can achieve better focus, memory, and attention. You can also make your friends use the app, which lets you earn “Neurons” to monitor your progress.

Platform (s): Android and iOS
Price: free

•  Brain Yoga

If other apps make your brain strive, Brain Yoga relaxes your brain for a large extent. It lets you meditate while training your brain in multiple cognitive capabilities’ areas like special ability building, pattern matching, vocabulary, numeracy, and memory. The relaxing background music helps you well focus on completing the eight types of puzzles. Each puzzle has ten difficulty levels. It is equally helpful to relax and improve cognitive skills.

Platform: Android
Price: free

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All the above apps are tested against their features, functionalities and performance. If you’ll find it useful, please share your experience in the comment section.