Lumosity costs money only if you want Premium. The Basic account is free, with three games a day for as long as you have an account. Lumosity shows Premium prices only after you sign in, but its US App Store listing shows purchases from $11.99 to $89.00, mostly without naming the plans. The $59.99 a year it listed in September 2025 is no longer among those items. Premium comes in monthly, yearly, two-year, and lifetime plans, and a family plan covers up to five people.
If you searched for Luminosity, you are in the right place: the app is spelled Lumosity. It is easy to try for free and oddly hard to price, because the company publishes no price list. So here is what we could confirm from its help center, payment policy, and store listings in November 2026, and what we could not.
Does Lumosity cost money?
Only if you want Premium. A free Basic account gives you three games a day for as long as you have the account. Lumosity picks the games and changes them daily, and you can replay each day’s three as often as you like. You have to finish Lumosity’s Fit Test first.
Premium unlocks all 40-plus games and full five-game workouts, along with the extras listed further down. So you never have to pay to use Lumosity, but you will if you want more than three games a day.
Lumosity pricing at a glance
How much does Lumosity cost? Plans and prices
In the US App Store, Lumosity Premium items run from $11.99 to $89.00, but Lumosity publishes no price list, so we cannot give you one number. It sells monthly, yearly, two-year, and lifetime individual plans, plus family plans, and its help center says only that the price depends on your plan and its length. Here is where prices do appear.
On Lumosity’s website, you see prices only on the purchase page, after you sign in.
In the US App Store, the listing shows ten purchases: $11.99 three times, $14.99, $35.99, $54.99, $69.99, and $89.00 three times. Only the $14.99 item names a period, as One Month Subscription. The other nine are all called Lumosity Premium.
On Google Play, the US listing shows in-app purchases of $0.99 to $239.99 per item, with no plan names.
What those ranges mean. Do not read them as one price per plan. Going by the product labels in a 2025 copy of the App Store listing, the spread looks like monthly plans, yearly plans, and discount offers, though Lumosity does not say so. Apple also appears to show only ten items per app, so the list may not be every price.
What happened to $59.99? You may still see $59.99 a year quoted. An archived copy of the US App Store listing from September 2025 named $11.99 a month and $59.99 a year. Today’s listing states neither in its description, no $59.99 item appears among the ten it shows, and three $89.00 items have appeared. That may mean the yearly price went up, but no official page says so. Treat $59.99 as an older price we can no longer confirm and $89.00 as the top of the list shown, not as a confirmed yearly price.
To see what you would pay, sign in on Lumosity’s website and open the purchase page. We could not confirm whether the phone apps show every plan length. Lumosity’s payment policy says pricing can vary by promotion, device, plan, and length. It charges in several currencies, prices may vary by country, and it may add US sales tax.
What about Platinum? Lumosity’s purchase-page text also names a yearly Platinum plan, for individuals and families, with extras such as an annual cognitive assessment. We found no US price for it, and no public page says who is offered it.
Is there a Lumosity lifetime plan?
Yes. Lumosity sells a lifetime plan for a one-time payment, but no official page gives its current price, so you need to sign in to see it. The only official figure we found is old: the FTC’s 2016 release listed lifetime memberships at $299.95. Google Play’s top item of $239.99 is unnamed, so we cannot say it is the lifetime plan.
Read the terms before you pay. Lumosity’s payment policy says the plan covers the services for as long as they are available, that they could change or end, and that you cannot assign the plan to someone else.
Lumosity family plan
Yes, Lumosity has a family plan, officially called the Friends and Family Plan. One buyer shares Premium with four other people, so five in total. Each person needs their own account and a unique email address, and children 13 and older can join.
We cannot give you a price. It appears only on the purchase page after you sign in, and nothing on the US App Store list is labeled as a family plan. Lumosity’s help center lists monthly, yearly, and two-year family plans, though one newer article mentions only yearly and two-year, so check what the page offers. There is no lifetime family plan.
Is there a free trial?
Sometimes, but Lumosity does not spell out the terms. Its app text mentions both a 7-day trial and a 14-day Premium offer, but no public page says how long trials last today or who qualifies. The same app text describes a separate free pass, with no credit card needed, that lasts a varying number of days. We could not confirm who gets one.
If you start a trial through Apple or Google, note the end date and the renewal price. Lumosity’s store listings say a subscription renews on its own unless you stop auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the period ends.
The free Basic account is there either way. For the full detail, see our Lumosity free trial guide.
Refunds
Lumosity’s help center says it refunds any purchase or renewal made through Lumosity.com or Google Play within 30 days, except monthly subscriptions. You write to Lumosity to ask for one. Lumosity does not refund App Store purchases, so ask Apple instead.
The website is the best-supported route. Lumosity’s older payment policy names only Lumosity.com, and the Google Play listing says refunds are not given for the unused portion of a term. So if the refund matters to you, pay for a yearly or longer plan on the website.
How Lumosity compares on price
| App | Annual price (US) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Peak Pro | About $34.99, period not named | Looks like the lowest price here |
| Elevate | $39.99 | Practical skills focus |
| Lumosity | Not published; top App Store item shown is $89.00 | Broad library, cross-platform |
| BrainHQ | $96 on its website | Cites hundreds of published studies |
| CogniFit | $59.99 to $119.99 in app; $119.99+ on web | Clinical, assessment-heavy |
Without a published yearly price, any comparison with Lumosity is rough. It appears to cost more than Peak and Elevate. The highest App Store item shown, $89.00, is under BrainHQ’s $96 and CogniFit’s $119.99 web price, though CogniFit’s App Store description lists a lower $59.99 a year. Lumosity’s longer plans may cost more. Peak’s listing does not name the period for its $34.99 price, so treat that figure as approximate too.
Zenelia is a brain training app made by Mindkindly’s owner, so we don’t rank or score it here. It costs $6.99 a month or $44.99 a year, has a 7-day free trial, and is iPhone only for now; read more about Zenelia or see it on the App Store.
What you get with Premium
All 40-plus games, across memory, speed, attention, problem solving, and flexibility.
Full five-game workouts, chosen by a training algorithm that weighs your preferences, game length, and how recently and often you have played each game.
Tailored insights and tracking tools, including your LPI percentile against others in your age group, which the help center says is only for paid subscribers. The free Fit Test also shows how your scores compare with your age group.
Early access to new features, plus NCPT, Lumosity’s NeuroCognitive Performance Test.
Phones, tablets, and computers, as with the free account. Lumosity runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, and desktop browsers on Windows and Mac. Linux is not supported, though the help center says Linux users have the option of Chromium. An April 2025 help center note warned of temporary sync hiccups during a move to a new version, and said progress would then sync across devices.
Downsides to weigh before you pay
You cannot see the price up front. Lumosity asks you to sign in first, and its store listings mostly do not name the plans. BrainHQ, Elevate, and CogniFit all state their prices publicly.
Its evidence is weaker than its marketing once suggested. In 2016, Lumos Labs, the company behind Lumosity, settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it made unfounded claims about its games’ cognitive benefits. It agreed to pay $2 million, with a $50 million judgment suspended because of its financial condition, and the order bars it from making such claims again without competent and reliable scientific evidence.
BrainHQ has a stronger research foundation. BrainHQ says its Double Decision exercise is an updated version of the speed training used in the ACTIVE Trial, a large randomized trial of cognitive training in 2,832 older adults.
Personalization is hard to judge from the outside. Lumosity’s help center says its algorithm weighs your training preferences, game length, and how recently and often you play, and each game adapts its difficulty as you play. Lumosity also says its program adapts to your strengths and weaknesses, but it does not publish how far your results change the plan.
It isn’t the biggest library. Lumosity has 40-plus games. Peak offers 45-plus, and CogniFit’s top web plan advertises 100-plus.
Is Premium worth the price?
Worth it if you want a familiar, polished app you can use on your phone and your computer, you enjoy a broad mix of abstract games, and the price you see at checkout suits your budget.
Not worth it if you want the strongest research foundation, more clearly explained personalization, or the lowest price. For practical skill training, Elevate costs $39.99 a year. For research, BrainHQ cites hundreds of published studies, though it costs $96 a year. Peak looks like the cheapest major option, at about $34.99 a year. For the full verdict, see whether Lumosity is worth it.
How to save on Lumosity
Start with the free Basic account. Three games a day is enough to know whether you will stick with it. To compare it with other free versions, see our guide to the best free brain training apps.
Compare plan lengths on the website. Sign in and check the monthly, yearly, two-year, and lifetime prices on the purchase page before you choose.
Look for a promotion, and check the renewal price. Lumosity’s payment policy says a renewal rate may be higher than a promotional first rate.
Buy a yearly or longer plan on the website if you want the 30-day refund window.
Price the family plan if several people will use it.
Common questions
Do you have to pay for Lumosity? No. The free Basic account gives you three games a day for as long as you have an account. You pay only if you want Premium.
How much does Lumosity cost per month? In the US App Store, most likely $11.99 to $14.99, though Lumosity does not state a current monthly price. The listing named $11.99 a month in September 2025. Today it still shows $11.99 items without naming the period, plus a One Month Subscription at $14.99.
How much does Lumosity cost per year? Lumosity does not state a current yearly price. Its US App Store listing named $59.99 a year in September 2025, but no $59.99 item appears there now, and the highest item shown is $89.00. The yearly price may have gone up, but no official page says so. Sign in on Lumosity’s website to see what you would pay.
How much is the Lumosity app? The app is free to download and free to use with a Basic account. The US App Store listing shows Premium purchases from $11.99 to $89.00, though it may not list every price, and Google Play lists in-app purchases of $0.99 to $239.99 per item.
Does Lumosity work? You will likely get better at its games, but evidence that this carries over to everyday life is limited. See our guide on whether brain training apps work, and our verdict on whether Lumosity is worth it.
The bottom line
Lumosity does not have to cost anything, because the Basic account is free with three games a day. Premium’s price appears only after you sign in, so use the $11.99 to $89.00 App Store range as a rough guide to monthly and yearly plans, and check the purchase page before you pay.
It is a polished, genuinely cross-platform app. Its weaknesses are a price it does not show up front and a thinner research foundation than some rivals, some of which appear to cost less. We rate it 7.4 out of 10 after hands-on use against our five-criterion framework.
Try the free account first, take a trial if one is offered, and compare it with Elevate and Peak before you commit. For the full picture, see our Lumosity review and best brain training apps roundup.
Sources
- Lumosity Help Center: where are the free games?
- Lumosity Help Center: differences between a free account and Premium
- Lumosity Help Center: what is the cost of a subscription?
- Lumosity Help Center: types of subscriptions
- Lumosity Help Center: share Lumosity with family and friends
- Lumosity Help Center: can I purchase a Lifetime Family Plan?
- Lumosity Help Center: how do I get a refund?
- Lumosity Help Center: supported browsers and operating systems
- Lumosity Help Center: why stats differ between the app and the website
- Lumosity Help Center: how you compare to other members
- Lumosity Help Center: how workout games are chosen
- Lumosity Help Center: the new Lumosity
- Lumosity: payment policy
- Lumosity: home page (how its program adapts)
- Lumosity: gift page (skills trained and game count)
- Lumosity: purchase page (sign-in required)
- Lumosity on the US App Store
- Lumosity on the US App Store, archived copy from September 7, 2025 (Internet Archive)
- Lumosity on Google Play (US)
- Peak on the US App Store
- Elevate: The Mind Company
- BrainHQ Support: subscription plans
- BrainHQ: the ACTIVE study
- CogniFit: pricing
- CogniFit on the US App Store
- Federal Trade Commission: Lumosity to pay $2 million to settle deceptive advertising charges
- Effects of cognitive training interventions with older adults: a randomized controlled trial (Ball et al., JAMA, 2002)