Elevate - Brain Training Games 4+

Great app for challenging your brain!

I have been using Elevate for about 6 years. It’s great because it challenges your brain across a wide range of skills. Now I’m retired many of the skills I used in the workplace don’t get much use, so I find Elevate provides that mental challenge I need. I find the incremental nature, where challenges get slowly harder or you have less time as you progress, keeps it interesting and fun. It’s also great to feel a sense of progress, for example gradually getting better at the various memory games. I find many of the skills practiced transfer to everyday life. I’ve noticed I’m better at remembering things and at quickly adding up prices in the supermarket to get an approximation of total cost. Over the time I’ve used the app it has been constantly improved with newer interfaces and addition of new games or modification of existing games to enhance their functionality. Overall, it’s one of my favourite and most used apps, and I’ve suggested it to many of my friends as a way to get a daily fun mental challenge.

(Used to love this)… revised review

I’ve been away for some time but now enjoying this app again. Unfortunately many of the games won’t load even though the internet is fine. Yes I’ve deleted and downloaded again and turned computer off and on. Please fix. Cheers

Revised review: The support team reached out and the problem solved. You can’t run a vpn whilst playing the game and ,probably more importantly, don’t download the app whilst the vpn is on. The app won’t work at all.
This is an app you’ll come back to over and over. I got the lifetime subscription years ago… not disappointed . I don’t know if the still offer that though.
Thankyou

Developer Response ,

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Very US-centric, and simple and repetitive

A lot of the skills tested aren’t really relevant outside of the US. For example, converting ounces or yards, calculating tips, and mixing up pronunciations of phrases that only sound the same in an American accent.

Some of the skills tested are very useful, like trying to remember people’s names, or synonyms for words. A lot of the games end up feeling very formulaic though, like the one correcting sentences that have clearly been generated to be more complicated than they need to by just substituting a phrase for a word that you would never say. And the mathematics games were a bit disappointing and didn’t become more challenging over time, for example the only games I found about multiplication were one with fractions that kept asking me to triple a whole number like 2, and one involving budgeting where you only multiplied numbers by parts of a year like 12 and 52.

Overall it was fun for a week but very expensive and I don’t see how it would stay fresh and challenging in the long term.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for sharing your kind and helpful feedback! We'll share this with our team. If you have any further questions or feedback, please reach out to us at support@elevateapp.com.