Neural workout · iOS + Android · Free
Train your brain
Five minutes a day
22 fast games for memory, focus, logic and speed, an endless feed, battles with friends and an IQ test — inspired by Prof. Ryuta Kawashima's daily brain-training method.
↑ actual app footage — the home-screen animation Expo & Software Mansion liked on X
The games
Every screen is a workout.
22 games, one rule: short and sharp. Races, puzzles, reflexes and memory. Short, varied exercises — the idea behind Ryuta Kawashima's daily brain-training method.
The system
Built like a feed.
Engineered like a gym.
An endless feed of games
Scroll a vertical feed of quick games, the way you scroll TikTok — except every swipe makes you sharper, not slower.
Race your Shadow
Every run races your past self. Keep ahead of your Shadow's pace and the coins are yours.
Battle a friend
Send a link, play the same cards side by side and see who's sharper. Every move is checked on the server.
Online battle
Invite code
K7Q2MX
IQ test
24 puzzles, easy to hard, in 12 minutes. No words, just patterns, numbers and shapes. An estimate for fun, not a diagnosis.
30 levels for every game
Each game unfolds into a journey of 30 levels. Clear one, unlock the next, watch the map fill in.
Progress you can see
Speed, accuracy and volume per game, streaks for showing up, XP and badges for the milestones.
The catalog
22 ways to load your brain.
Each one has a 30-level journey, and all but Sudoku also deal into the feed and into battles.
What the research says
a day. In randomized trials from Ryuta Kawashima's lab, short daily exercises — simple arithmetic, reading aloud, quick puzzles — improved executive function and processing speed in older and young adults after 4 weeks to 6 months.
people in a Nature study got better mostly at the tasks they practiced. That's why Brain Trainer mixes 22 different games instead of drilling one.
Brain Trainer is a game, not a medical product. The studies tested other programs.
Uchida & Kawashima, 2008 · Nouchi et al., 2012 · Nouchi et al., 2013 · Owen et al., 2010
Start tonight
It's free
Five minutes before bed beats an hour of doomscrolling.