Built for the focused hour.
Selective and sustained attention are trainable mechanics, not personality traits. mindima gives you short, deliberate reps for both, and charts which sessions steady your focus, from your own check-ins, on your device.
Free to start. No account needed to play.
The mechanics behind a deep-work block.
Each set of games targets one attention mechanic you lean on every working day. Five-minute reps before the work, not instead of it.
Selective attention
Interference games train picking the signal out of the noise, the filter you use every time a notification, a tab, or a stray thought competes with the task.
Sustained attention
Vigilance games exercise holding one target over minutes, not seconds, the staying power behind a meeting-free morning of real work.
Working memory
Span games practise holding the thread (the requirements, the argument, the half-finished sentence) while you act on it.
Don't take our word for it. Take a turn.
One demo per pillar. This is exactly how a session feels. Nothing to download or sign up for.
Name the ink, not the word
A selective-attention drill: the word fights the colour it’s printed in. Tap the ink and ignore the word. That’s tuning out the noise.
Tap the colour the word is printed in. Ignore the word itself.
Surveys, games, and tools. One loop.
The surveys match you to what works, and each tool’s daily practice keeps you coming back. That loop is what makes the training stick, and what you won’t find anywhere else.
Check in
Thirty-second surveys map your values, stress, traits, and in-the-moment focus and mood.
Train what counts
You get the exact games and tools for your goal, never a generic drill. And every tool comes with its own daily practice, a five-minute rep that makes the habit stick.
See what works
Charts connect sessions to check-ins, and streaks and mastery make showing up feel like winning.
Built like a game. Backed like a study plan.
Every mechanic has a job: streaks build the daily focus habit, mastery marks a sharper filter, and your charts keep the payoff visible.
Streaks build the habit
Show up daily and watch the ring close. A focused rep in a steady context is how the habit sets.
Mastery marks real skill
Badges like Memory Master are weekly titles earned with accuracy, never bought. Clear goals pull performance.
Progress stays visible
Your charts show which sessions lift your focus and mood, so every win counts twice.
Why it works: feeling competent and seeing progress toward clear goals are two of the most replicated motivators in psychology. mindima uses them to keep you training, never to keep you scrolling.
- Motivation & competence: Ryan & Deci, American Psychologist, 2000.
- Goal setting: Locke & Latham, American Psychologist, 2002.
- Habit formation: Lally et al., European Journal of Social Psychology, 2010.
Training that works, by design.
Tested beats re-read.
Recalling something cements it far better than re-reading it.
Every memory game is a recall rep.
Roediger & Karpicke, Psychological Science, 2006Growth lives at the edge.
Learning is fastest just above your current level.
Games adapt every rep to keep you there.
Klingberg, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2010Little and often wins.
Short, spaced sessions beat marathons.
mindima is built around five-minute days.
Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006Play keeps you coming back.
Gamified learning measurably lifts motivation and engagement.
Streaks, mastery tiers, and visible progress do that job here.
Sailer & Homner, Educational Psychology Review, 2020
Honestly measured.
Your progress is charted from your own sessions, on your device. Where the evidence is unsettled, we say so plainly.
Still curious? Fair questions.
Does this actually work?
It makes you measurably better at the games and the mechanics they train, and shows you your own progress honestly. We don’t claim more than that; see The Science above.
What do the surveys actually tell me?
Your values, stress patterns, personality traits, and in-the-moment focus and mood. mindima turns those answers into specific game and tool recommendations, on your device. Self-insight, not a clinical assessment.
How much time per day?
Five minutes is a real session. The app is built around short, daily reps, not marathons.
What’s my data doing?
Your insight report is built from your activity on your device. By default nothing leaves your device; encrypted sync and the web dashboard are optional and off until you turn them on. See our Privacy page for the full detail.
What does it cost?
Free forever, with no ads on any tier: 21 of 55 brain games, 45 of 125 mental tools, 8 of 23 surveys, and the daily puzzle every day. Premium adds the complete catalogue, the hard practice tier on every daily puzzle, your record synced across every device, and your full year of history with the web dashboard. There is a 7-day free trial, and the plans and prices are on the pricing page. See the plans and prices.
Will it spam me with notifications?
One optional daily reminder at a time you pick, and nothing else. No streak guilt, no win-back campaigns. Turn it off in two taps and the app never mentions it again.
Do I need an account?
Not to start playing.
iOS and Android?
Both.
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- Focus
How to improve focus and concentration, realistically.
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- Recovery
Mental fatigue is real, and rest is part of the training.
Mental fatigue and brain fog are real and measurable. Here is what cognitive fatigue does to focus and decisions, why more practice is not always better, and how planned rest makes daily training actually pay off.
- Habits
Daily habits for a sharper mind that actually compound.
Small, repeatable daily habits do more for mental sharpness than any single hack: sleep, movement, focused reps, and honest review. Here is a realistic routine and why each piece works.
- Learning
Adaptive difficulty and the science of staying in the zone.
Learning is fastest at the edge of your ability, not below it or far beyond it. Here is the science of desirable difficulty and flow, and why good practice adapts to keep you in that productive zone.
- Self-awareness
What a ten-second daily check-in reveals about your mind.
A quick daily check-in on your mood, energy, and focus sounds trivial, but self-monitoring is a real psychological tool. Here is what tracking how you feel reveals, and how to turn it into useful patterns.
- Motivation
How your values shape your focus and motivation.
Motivation is not just discipline. Effort comes easier when a task connects to what you actually value. Here is the psychology of values and intrinsic motivation, and how to use it to make focus less of a fight.