Description
COLOR MEMORY - a short, active mind exercise that sharpens your color memory and attention.
WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
Most apps for kids (and adults) just make you watch: bright colors, repetitive songs, endless looping videos. That keeps attention passive and asks nothing of the brain.
This game does the opposite. A color flashes briefly, disappears, and then YOU have to find it again among shades that are deliberately close to it. Every round makes you decide, compare, and remember - you are not watching, you are thinking.
HOW TO PLAY
- A color appears briefly in the box
- The box goes empty, you wait a few seconds
- Then 2 to 8 colors appear; one is the color you saw, the others are close shades on purpose
- Pick the right one - the higher the difficulty, the closer the shades get
FULLY YOUR SETTINGS
- 4 difficulty levels, from Easy to Very Hard
- Number of colors: 2, 4, 6 or 8
- Display time, wait time, delay before the next round - all adjustable
- Turn on real RGB/HSL values under each option if you want them
- English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Turkish - opens automatically in your device's language
DESIGNED FOR EVERY SCREEN
Built separately for iPhone and iPad - portrait, landscape, small screen, large screen, the interface rearranges itself to whatever device you are holding. Never cramped on a phone, never lost in empty space on an iPad.
WHICH PART OF THE BRAIN DOES THIS EXERCISE?
Right after the color disappears, you carry it for a few hundred milliseconds as a raw impression of your eye (iconic memory). As that impression fades, you have to actually hold the color in memory and tell it apart from similar shades - this engages visual working memory and the areas of the visual cortex responsible for telling hues apart. Feeling unsure between close shades is not random: working memory has limited resolution, and once it is full, colors get represented more coarsely. The more rounds you repeat, the more this information held in short-term memory gets reinforced through repetition - you are also exercising the mechanism your brain uses to move short-term memories into long-term ones. Past a certain age, including preschool and early school years, this kind of short, repeated attention and memory exercise can help strengthen selective attention - the opposite of passive video watching, it demands real mental engagement.
PRIVACY
This app does not pull, collect or send any data about you. No account, no ads, no internet connection needed. Your settings stay on your device, that is it.
A game played in short rounds, with real thinking, built to grow your neurons.
