How to Use the Brain Meter in BrainDojo

“Have I trained enough today?” The Brain Meter is BrainDojo’s answer to that question. In this post I will explain what the Brain Meter shows, how it goes up, and how to use it together with the Stamp Calendar and the Brain Dojo Check to keep your daily brain training on track.

What Is the Brain Meter?

The Brain Meter is an indicator that represents your level of brain activation. It is not a lifetime score. It reflects how much you have activated your brain through training. By keeping the Brain Meter at a high level, your brain becomes sharper, which is why I think it works well as a daily reference point for anyone building a brain-training habit with BrainDojo.

How the Brain Meter Increases

The Brain Meter is based on how many different trainings you have completed that day. It works like this:

• Each training adds about a third. Every training you complete raises the meter by roughly 33%. Three different trainings fill it to 100%.
• Repeats count once. Playing the same training several times on the same day only raises the meter the first time.
• It resets at midnight. When the date changes, the meter goes back to 0%. You build it up again each day.

On the free plan, finishing your two daily Try games takes the meter to about 67%. Filling it with a third training needs BrainDojo Plus, which opens Today’s Training and the full game list.

Since each session takes so little time, raising the meter does not require carving out a big block of time. A few quick sessions spread across the day are enough.

Using the Brain Meter as a Daily Target

The simplest way to use the Brain Meter is as a soft daily goal:

1. Play your daily games first. This anchors the habit, whatever else the day brings.
2. Glance at the meter during the day. If it is lower than you would like, add one or two trainings you have not played yet today.
3. Aim to keep it high, not perfect. The point is steady daily activation, not chasing a number. On a busy day, one session still counts.

Framed this way, the meter turns “I should do more brain training” into a concrete, visible target you can act on in seconds.

Pair It with the Stamp Calendar

The Brain Meter and the Stamp Calendar answer two different questions:

• The Brain Meter answers “how much have I activated my brain today?” It rises as you complete different trainings within the day, and starts again from 0% the next day.
• The Stamp Calendar answers “have I been showing up every day?” You earn completion stamps for daily training, so the calendar shows your consistency over weeks at a glance.

Used together, they cover both halves of a habit: daily effort and long-term consistency. If you are just setting up your routine, our guide Getting Started with BrainDojo walks through the first steps.

Add the Brain Dojo Check to See Where You Stand

If the Brain Meter tells you how much you trained today, the Brain Dojo Check shows how your brain is doing right now. It measures processing speed, inhibitory control and working memory, and shows the results as a radar chart and a rank. Results are saved by date, so you can look back at them from the calendar. You can take the check once a day, on the free plan too.

Routine Ideas for Keeping the Meter High

The following are simply suggestions for structuring your own day. They are habits you set for yourself, not app settings:

• Morning starter. Play your daily games with your morning coffee, so the day starts with the meter already moving.
• Spread it out. Add one quick session at lunch and another in the late afternoon to raise the meter in natural breaks.
• Evening wind-down. Finish with a session before putting your phone away, and use the meter as a quick end-of-day check.

Because the BrainDojo games work offline, any of these sessions can happen on a commute or while traveling. If you want the full game library and a daily set picked for you, see BrainDojo Free vs Plus. More questions about the Brain Meter are answered in the Help Center.

The Brain Meter works best when you check it daily, so give it something to measure. If you want to try BrainDojo, it is on the App Store. Complete a session and watch the meter respond.