10 Android & iOS apps for enhancing your logic, concentration, and memory skills

Do you enjoy the occasional cross-word or sudoku? While fun, these brain twisters are fairly mundane. Thanks to their portability, our smartphones and tablets can become awesome brain exercise machines that fit in our pockets. In addition, mind training apps' colorful interfaces, game-like nature, and quick, touch-based controls can make interacting with them not only beneficial, but very fun. Brain exercise apps don't require you to spend hours in training or solve complex scientific problems. They need 10 to 15 minutes of your time every day, or as much time as you want to devote to them, actually.

The 10 Android & iOS apps we've presented here feature colorful graphics, creative puzzles in different categories, rank-lists and awards. They offer a more meaningful way to distract yourself from boredom than besting Flappy Bird records, and will actually help you improve your memory and concentration in the long run. Have fun with these!