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 Proficiency 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 increases by completing multiple training sessions daily. In other words:

• One session gets you started. Completing your daily Today’s Training exercise is the easiest first step of the day.
• More sessions push it higher. Stacking additional short sessions raises the meter further. On the free plan that means the “Try for free” exercises; with Plus, the full library.

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. Complete Today’s Training 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 another quick session or two.
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 multiple sessions within the 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 Proficiency Check for Direction

If the Brain Meter tells you how much to train, the Brain Proficiency Check (available since v1.4.0) helps with what to train. It measures your cognitive abilities across 3 axes and shows the results on a radar chart, along with personalized game recommendations based on your strengths and areas for improvement. When you are deciding which exercises to use for your extra sessions, those recommendations are a useful starting point.

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. Complete Today’s Training 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 all BrainDojo content works offline, any of these sessions can happen on a commute or while traveling. If you want the full exercise library and favorites to build your ideal rotation, 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.