BrightYears trains the parts of memory that real life uses: names, lists, faces, focus. Science-backed drills, gentle pacing, real measurable gains in 4 weeks.
Working memory peaks in your 20s and slips for the next forty years. The good news: a meaningful share of that decline is modifiable, and short, daily training is the format the evidence keeps pointing back to.
per decade after 30, in working-memory span and processing speed.
Salthouse's longitudinal data shows measurable cognitive decline begins decades before any clinical concern. The earlier you start training, the gentler the slope.
Source: Salthouse, 2009 (Neurobiology of Aging)more retention from spaced 5-min sessions vs. one massed session of equal total time.
The spacing effect is one of the most replicated findings in cognitive science: memory consolidates between sessions, not within them. We tuned every drill around that.
Source: Cepeda et al., 2008 (Psychological Science)modifiable lifestyle factors account for ~45% of dementia cases globally.
The Lancet's 2024 commission attributes nearly half of all dementia cases to modifiable factors, including cognitive engagement and education throughout adulthood.
Source: Livingston et al., 2024 (Lancet)Each session mixes all three so your memory gets challenged from every angle. Difficulty climbs as you do.
Two scenes flash. One thing changes. Train the eye that catches what your brain almost missed.
Memorize a list. Solve a quick distraction. Now recall. Exactly what your brain has to do at the grocery store.
Pictures fly past. Tap the matches. Builds the recognition speed that recall runs on.
He celebrates your wins, walks you through the science, and reminds you tomorrow's another day. He's never disappointed. He's never grading. He's a brain in a sweater vest who wants you to succeed.
A quick onboarding sets your baseline and your goals: names, focus, lists, all of the above.
Three short drills, mixed and progressive. Done before your tea cools.
Recall speed, accuracy, focus span, all measured and graphed every week so you see the gains.
Coach Cortex nudges, celebrates, and keeps you going. Most users feel sharper by week two.
“I used to lose names instantly. After a month, I introduced eight people at a dinner without a single blank. My husband noticed.”
“I was watching my memory get worse and quietly hoping it was nothing. Five minutes a day is the right shape of effort. I feel like I'm meeting it on purpose, not avoiding it.”
“I'm a teacher. I wanted to model good habits for my students. Now I model walking into a room and remembering why.”
The FTC fined Lumosity $2 million in 2016 for advertising that brain games could prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s. The science didn’t support those claims then, and it doesn’t support them today. So here is what we will and won’t say.
That’s the pitch. Memory practice that respects what the evidence does and doesn’t support, for adults who’d rather hear the truth than be sold a brain-age fantasy.
If you want the deeper science before downloading anything, these are the pages we would read first.
Try it for 30 days. If your memory practice doesn’t feel different, we refund every cent. No email chain, no hold music, no cancel maze.
7 days free, then $4.99/month or $39/year. Annual saves 35%.