Find the mental skill that's holding you back and train exactly that. Plus meditation and a journal. No ads, no tracking, no account. Built by Jonas alone.
Most brain games just hand you a score. SynapseGym shows you something more useful: where your mind is actually sharp, where it slips, and exactly what to train next.
A REAL COGNITIVE PROFILE
Take a short check and see yourself across six core skills — working memory, attention, processing speed, flexibility, impulse control and planning. No vague number. A clear picture of your strengths and your blind spots.
TRAIN WHAT ACTUALLY HOLDS YOU BACK
SynapseGym finds your weakest skill and builds a short daily session around it. No random games — focused practice aimed at the one thing that moves the needle for you.
SEE REAL, MEASURABLE PROGRESS
Re-check every couple of weeks and watch the numbers move. Track your reaction time, follow your streak, and learn the hours when your mind is at its sharpest.
GROUNDED IN REAL SCIENCE
The exercises are built on established cognitive tasks — Stroop, N-Back, Go/No-Go, digit span and more — turned into quick, sharp sessions that feel like play, not homework.
MORE THAN GAMES
A sharper mind needs a calmer one. Built-in meditation, gratitude journaling and habit tools help you stay focused and steady, every day. Leaderboards and achievements keep you coming back.
66 EXERCISES — NEVER THE SAME WORKOUT TWICE
• Mental math, arithmetic drills and number sequences
• Digit span, sequence memory and episodic recall
• Stroop, Flanker, Go/No-Go and vigilance for attention
• Single and dual N-Back for working memory
• Reaction time, processing speed and visual tracking
• Trail making, task switching and card sorting
• Anagrams, verbal fluency and mental rotation
NO ADS. EVER.
38 exercises are free. Premium unlocks all 66 — monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Train a few minutes a day. See your mind get measurably sharper.
SynapseGym is a training and self-assessment tool — not a medical device or a diagnosis.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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The biggest update yet: every exercise rebuilt, plus new exercises, a meditation voice and a journal for your reflections.
Exercises
• Every exercise reworked. An incoming notification no longer ends a round, and higher levels are noticeably harder.
• Before you start, you see the exercise's actual board.
• New exercises:
– Tower of London: plan in as few moves as possible, with planning and execution time measured separately
– Multi-Interference (MSIT)
– Color & Shape: bind features together
– Choice reaction with 2 to 4 fields
– Counting on Places
– Color or Word: sometimes the color counts, sometimes the word
– Resource Management: a new planning puzzle
• More detailed results:
– The attention networks test shows alerting, orienting and control separately, in milliseconds
– Stroop, Flanker and Multi-Interference show how much time distraction costs you, task switching shows what switching costs you
– Trail Making scores parts A and B separately
• Memory:
– Dual N-Back with spoken letters
– Episodic memory now also asks, after a pause, where things were
– Elite working memory: every round can be solved
– Digit span and number sequences fit even the smallest iPhone
• Word games: in Anagram, every word you can build from the letters counts. Word Sprint recognizes words in your app language and has a new first-letter level.
• New results screen with your numbers instead of grades. Records and starting levels are now kept per exercise.
Calm & Meditation
• New meditation voice in German, English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Korean, female or male.
• Meditations keep playing when your iPhone is locked and can count as Mindful Minutes in Apple Health.
• Guided sessions with silence between the words, in 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
Reflection
• Thought Log, Activity Planner, if-then plan and Values Compass are saved and appear in your journal.
• The Thought Log shows what changed, e.g. "Anxiety 80% → 45%".
• Optional reminders for planned activities.
Around the app
• New: daily ritual, "Your mind, measured", skill history and monthly letter.
• Settings and profile tidied up, plus data export as JSON and the option to store data only on this device.
• You can now go back during setup, and Premium is only offered after day seven.
• Better translations in all 34 languages.
Questions or ideas? Write to me, I answer every email. Jonas
Version 3.2
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Information
Seller
Jonas Hoettler
Size
70.3 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.