Want to know how your attention is doing? Compare Elevate and Attention Age.
Elevate is a huge, polished brain-training app with dozens of games for reading, writing, speaking and math. Attention Age is narrower: a five-minute test that gives a transparent Attention Index, then practice and focus sessions. Four questions will show which fits.
Which one fits you? 4 quick questions
Elevate vs Attention Age at a glance
| Elevate | Attention Age | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Communication and math skills training | Measuring and practising attention |
| Result | Skill progress across games | 0-100 Attention Index with five explained categories |
| Fair re-tests | See its listing | Same tasks weekly; small changes called "about the same" |
| Privacy | See its listing | No account, no ads, no third-party analytics; CSV export |
| Price | Free, optional Pro | Free daily challenge; optional subscription |
| App Store ratings | 4.8 from about 547,000 ratings | Newer, fewer ratings so far |
Facts from each app's App Store listing, November 2026. Attention Age is made by Honest Little Apps, the studio behind this page.
Try a classic attention test first
The Stroop test and the Schulte table are free to try in your browser and take under a minute.
Attention Age: Focus Test is a five-minute set of attention challenges with a transparent 0-100 Attention Index, weekly re-tests and focus sessions. No account, no ads, results stay on your iPhone.
Free on the App StoreQuestions
Is there an app that tests attention span?
Attention Age gives a five-minute attention test with a transparent 0-100 score and five explained categories.
Where did these comparison facts come from?
From each app's App Store listing in November 2026. Features and prices change, so check the listing before you decide.
Updated November 12, 2026.
- Take the arrow flanker testJudge only the middle arrow and ignore the ones beside it. A one-minute flanker task that shows how much distraction slows you down. Free, no sign-up.
- Daily Signal: 20-second focus challengeTap the green circles, ignore everything else. Twenty seconds, the same pattern for everyone today, and a result grid you can share. A new pattern at midnight.
- Take a two-minute Stroop test and get your result in millisecondsTake a free Stroop colour-word test in your browser. 24 timed trials, about two minutes, with your reaction times, accuracy and Stroop effect in milliseconds.