gbrainy

gbrainy is an entertaining and educational software application that contains a small collection of games designed for mind training. These revolve around logic, calculations, memory, and verbal activities.

After a fast setup operation, you are greeted by a user-friendly interface, represented by an attractive window with a neatly organized structure, where you can explore the logic puzzles, mental calculation tests, memory trainers, and verbal analogies.

There are three levels of difficulty for each game, and the default is set to medium. It's possible to pick a specific category or ask the tool to take you through all of them. Everything is timed and gbrainy reveals your score at the end. The session can be paused anytime (during which the sheet is hidden from display), or you can exit it.

It shows drawings and asks you questions that can be answered by typing text in the bottom part of the screen. Worth mentioning is that the questions are scrambled every time you start a new game, and that you can ask gbrainy for tips if you encounter difficulties.

The games can be exported to PDF format, and you can pick the game types (logic, calculation, verbal), difficulty level, total number of games, and number of pages per side. It's possible to switch to full screen mode, hide the toolbar, view or delete the session history, and skip games that use colors (for colorblind users).

The tool didn't put a strain on computer performance in our tests, running on low CPU and RAM. It didn't hang, crash or display error messages. Gbrainy comes in handy to all users who want to keep their minds sharp by regularly playing healthy games, especially the younger ones.