“too many ads, see ya”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 674 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★1,063,009 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
602 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Elevate is a brain training program designed to improve your mind’s focus, memory, speaking abilities, processing speed, math skills, and more. Each person is provided with a personalized training program that adjusts over time to maximize results.
The more you train with Elevate, the more you’ll improve critical cognitive skills that are proven to boost productivity, earning power, and self-confidence. 90%+ report improved vocabulary, math skills, and overall mental sharpness when they frequently use Elevate.
IN THE NEWS
“Elevate comes out ahead” in the battle of the brain training apps. – CNET
Elevate is a “cognitive pick-me-up” with games that are “good for mental breaks throughout the workday.” – Washington Post.
FEATURES…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 5.260.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.260.0, updated 2026-10-05.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 5.258.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.258.0, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 574 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 574 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many ads, because of which I always lose my momentum.”
“THE ADS SUCK. this app was cool and I guess it still is but I am not going to play anymore because of the ads. An ad after every level and it's those ads that you have to play and they take forever before you can x them out ,stupid. it…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.260.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown8
Lowest$4.99
Highest$39.99
Elevate Monthly$9.99
1 Year with 14-Day Trial$39.99
1 Year With 7-Day Trial$39.99
Elevate Subscription$4.99
Elevate Subscription$19.99
Show 3 more purchases
Elevate Subscription$7.99
Elevate Subscription$21.99
Elevate Premium$39.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.