BrainHQ

This product is fantastic and is the only ‘brain training’ application backed by science and has been used in the publishing of many different research papers showing benefits for a myriad of different kinds of people for example those with brain injuries. To top of their high quality product, their customer service is top class. I accidentally paid an extra $100 for an additional year of their premium subscription that I did not need, and customer service replied back to my inquiry within a day with extreme kindness and promptly refunded my purchase in full even though it was my mistake for forgetting to cancel before the automatic renewal. If you want a brain training product that you can trust more than any others to actually be effective in delivering on it’s promises and want to support a wonderfully ethical and caring company BrainHQ is the app for you!

I’ve been diagnosed with MCI, Mild Cognitive Empowerment, and through a program at Emory called Cognitive Empowerment Program which is like no other program for MCI in the nation, I was introduced to Brain HQ. Apparently Emory did a study and determined that this was an effective program and could be beneficial for those with MCI. The program starts out slow and then picks up speed. One looks at two different cars and a highway sign. These items are flashed on the screen and then you select which car and the location of the sign. Sound easy, nope, not for someone with MCI. One is being challenged with peripheral vision, short term memory going to long term memory. There are so many other different exercises which are so very challenging to memory. Items such as several sea birds, one of which has a slightly different wing and after seeing all the birds briefly and then attempt to remember the location of that bird which was among all the others.. Very tough to do. It’s taken me a while typing this as I struggle to find the right words. I still have very limited driving privileges and I’ve noticed I’m more aware of objects in my peripheral vision. Brain HQ in my opinion helps me to be more aware of my surroundings but as good as the program is, it will never cure MCI but it will help me to be more aware which hopefully will help me to more independent.

If you have version 6 of brain HQ I do not recommend upgrading to version 7. I was a paid subscriber and unfortunately I upgraded my version of the Brain HQ app via the app store for their so called bug fixes. I am now with version 7, unable to downgrade, and unable to access the original better versions of Audiory Ace, Card Shark and other games. It’s been now over a month I’ve submitted multiple tickets to the team and never have been given a response as to how to fix this. I’ve also noticed that when you go to select a game the developers now added a completely useless / unproductive 2 to 3 second animation. I’ve also noticed that after you complete a level the developers added a significantly longer animation that shows your result. This all causes more time on the app with less levels being played. I’ve also noticed that when setting a weekly goal the new maximum is 3 times lower than then previous. So I am assuming the developers don’t want you to have high goals. The developers have also gotten rid of the Brain HQ widget that helps to track your progress. This app is now becoming annoying frustrating and unproductive and defeating its own purpose. Version 6 of Brain HQ was a good app with no bugs. Now version 7 is behaving like a -1 star app. Since these issues haven't gotten resolved I’ve received a refund for the rest of my subscription but would rather just have version 6 back.