There exists a number of apps that will help you to exercise your brain and make you smarter than others. This, in my opinion, is the beauty of technology these days. Isn’t it just awesome that you can use a fun app and enjoy yourself while stimulating your mind?

These incredible apps go a long way towards reducing your risk of developing memory loss, strengthening your neural networks and improving your cognitive function. Moreover, you will get to learn a lot of interesting things and boost your memory in the process.

Here we take a look at some of the fun apps that will help in making you smarter.

NYTimes Crosswords

One of the best ways of stimulating your brain and improving intelligence is to play crossword puzzles. The NYTimes Crosswords app allows you to solve the same crossword puzzles that are published daily in the newspapers. Upon subscription, you can solve even the next day’s puzzle today. The NYTimes Crosswords app can be downloaded free of cost and offers a week-long free trial of the official puzzle published daily in the New York Times. Once the trial period is over, you have to buy a subscription in order to continue with solving the crossword puzzles and improving your overall brain function.

Lumosity

Lumosity is a free app that can serve to become your personal trainer, helping you train your memory and attention. It was created by neuroscientists with the sole purpose of training the brain in specific areas. Simply select the area that you would like to focus on, such as memory or problem solving, and the app will take care of determining the type of “training session” that you require. The app is capable of tracking changes in your attention, flexibility, speed, and memory, before eventually compiling your problem-solving score. This is one app I love since it allows me to train my mind on a daily basis. Give it a try today and I’m sure you will like it too!

7 Little Words

The 7 Little Words app is not only interesting, challenging, and fun but also incredibly easy to learn! Every puzzle consists of 7 clues, 7 mystery words, and 20 letter groups. Sometimes it can be a little too hard to solve. However, you will not give up on it too easily because the fact that you have failed will go on bugging you till the very end (trust me, it happens!) This is what makes 7 Little Words one of the best apps that is certain to make you smarter than ever before.

Owl

Owl will provide you with some useful and interesting facts on a regular basis. The featured facts found on the app are handpicked from Reddit. Thus you can learn something new on a regular basis. You can even schedule when you would like to receive your daily dose of interesting facts and choose whether you would like to be notified of the same or not. Whenever you are feeling bored, use the Owl app to improve your intelligence. It also comes in handy when you simply want to impress your friends or colleagues.

Duolingo

If you wish to learn a new language such as Portuguese, Italian, French, German, or Spanish, you should consider downloading the Duolingo app. The best thing about this app is that it is available free of cost and does not involve any add-ons or hidden costs. Plus you can also invite friends to use this app and look to compete with them in interesting language challenges. Duolingo allows a translation of any real-world phrase into the language that you wish to learn. An independent study funded by the app makers showed that spending 34 hours with this app was as good as 11 weeks of class or an entire semester spent in a college language course. Still want to wait before fulfilling your desire of learning a new language?