It seems you need to be using Windows, Visual Studio and Silverlight to view and work with the downloadable sourcecode, as well as the offline version. That’s way beyond my scope.

If you’re set on a downloadable freeware version, you might want to try Brain Workshop – http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/. I’ve not worked with it extensively, but I was able to download and install it pretty easily.

Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by! I will try my best to point out the differences.

Mind Sparke is a desktop application so there’s no need to be connected to the internet to use it. You can either download your copy or have a physical CDrom sent to you.

Soak Your Head is a free online application, so if you have an internet
connection, you can access it from any computer. It is open source so if you
are the technical type you can download the files to your own computer and
customize them yourself. But, for those of us regular folks who don’t work with code, that’s not an option.

Mind Sparke tracks your progress and computes an average n-back score after
each training session, and then it tracks those averages across your complete
training block. I like this because it allows me to see my progress – I’m
motivated by the scores and they make me want to continue with the training.

Soak Your Head also gives you an average n Level score at the end of your
training session, however during my testing of it, I saw no way to create a
profile to track my progress over days or weeks.

The designs are different, but both follow the testing protocol of the Jaeggi study.

OK. Hopefully that helps! :-)

Thanks!