Brain training aims to boost your mental health and fitness, and short but targeted sessions can make a big difference. With a variety of exercises at hundreds of different levels, NeuroNation personalises your training to ensure it’s interesting, entertaining and effective.

What we love: NeuroNation gets the difficulty level of its games and exercises just right. They’re not so easy that you quickly lose interest and not so hard that they take all the fun out of playing. The app automatically adjusts the difficulty levels based on your progress, and you can use the onscreen slider to make an exercise easier or more challenging.

Quick tip: Create a training plan that’s totally tailored to you. If there’s a particular kind of brain game or subject you don’t enjoy or find frustrating, you can toggle it off in the app’s settings.

Meet the creator: Synaptikon is based in Berlin and involved in some of the world’s largest trials focusing on healthy ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. NeuroNation is its first app and was awarded the Leonardo Prize by the German Federal Ministry of Health and the AOK for its contribution to improving people’s cognitive abilities and mental health.