For people who'd rather act early
Maybe a name takes a beat longer to come back, or you walk into a room and forget why. Synaptiva is for healthy adults, younger and older, who have started to notice small changes like these and want to get ahead of them.
It's built for people with no diagnosis of dementia or another cognitive condition who are motivated to look after their brain and want a clear, daily way to do it.
Worried about your memory? Talk to a doctor. Synaptiva helps you build healthy habits. It doesn't diagnose or treat any condition.
Six habits, one plan
There's no single fix for an aging brain. The strongest evidence points to a handful of everyday habits that work better together, so Synaptiva combines them instead of betting on one. The first four are listed in order of how strongly they're recommended for cognitive health.
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Move
Physical activity is the top recommendation for brain health. Log sessions yourself or let Apple Health fill in your minutes, steps, and workouts. Exercise log
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Eat well
Log food by name, barcode, or a search of a public nutrition database, and track calories and macros against goals you set. Diet log
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Sleep
Record your hours and how the night felt, keep an optional sleep journal, and fall asleep to waves, rain, or noise on a timer. Sleep center
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Keep learning
Twelve games give your brain new challenges, and most get harder or easier based on how you're doing. Games
Also part of your plan
Connect
Time with other people is good for your brain. Your daily plan can include talking to someone, a line you tick yourself since no sensor can see it.
40 Hz listening sessions
40 Hz clicks, white or brown noise, or a binaural beat, on a timer. The app explains what is and isn't known about each one. Auditory stimulation
Thursday
Today's plan
Most lines tick themselves off as you log things elsewhere in the app.
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
A daily plan that keeps track for you
Ticks itself off
Log a meal, a workout, a game, or a night's sleep anywhere in the app and the matching line is checked off, so nothing gets entered twice.
Fits your time
Choose a 5, 15, or 30-minute routine, or save your own under a name like “Gym day.” Tap the bell on any line to get a daily reminder.
Makes room for what no app can see
“Talk to someone” and “Get outside” are worth planning even though no sensor will ever notice them. You tick those yourself.
Twelve games, five kinds of thinking
The games are grouped by what they ask of you. Most get harder when you're doing well and easier when you're not, so the challenge stays useful whether things are getting easier or harder.
- Space and sequence
- Where things were, and in what order.Memory grid, Ring sequence
- Learning and recall
- Holding something new in mind long enough to use it.Digit span, Word recall, Language recall
- Speed and attention
- Seeing it and acting, before you have time to think.Quick tap, Speed sort, Dodge
- Reasoning
- Working an answer out from what you already know.Estimation
- Music and memory
- Songs you know, and what they're attached to.Recall music quiz, Deep cut, Guess the album
Try Memory grid
Watch the squares that light up, then tap the same squares from memory.
Press start when you're ready.
Level: 3 squares
What the research says
The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia estimated that nearly half of dementia cases could, in theory, be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 risk factors that people can change, including physical inactivity, social isolation, and high blood pressure.1
Combining habits matters. In the FINGER trial, older adults at risk of decline who followed a program of exercise, healthy eating, cognitive training, and heart-health monitoring did better on cognitive tests than those who didn't.2 Synaptiva is built on the same multi-habit idea.
40 Hz stimulation is newer. In studies with mice, light and sound pulsing at 40 Hz reduced levels of amyloid, a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease.3,4 Small trials in people have followed, and the conclusions aren't settled. Synaptiva's listening sessions play the sound and record how long you listened. They make no claims about what it will do for you.
- Livingston G, et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission. The Lancet, 2024.
- Ngandu T, et al. A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 2015.
- Iaccarino HF, et al. Gamma frequency entrainment attenuates amyloid load and modifies microglia. Nature, 2016.
- Martorell AJ, et al. Multi-sensory gamma stimulation ameliorates Alzheimer's-associated pathology and improves cognition. Cell, 2019.
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Synaptiva is coming to the App Store soon, free. Send us a quick email and we'll let you know the day it's out.
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