AARP Staying Sharp
Companion app to Staying Sharp
How much does AARP Staying Sharp cost?
Prices are current as of 3 Oct 2026.
1 subscription from $20.00
In the United States, AARP Staying Sharp has 1 subscription priced $20.00.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| AARP Membership | Annual | $20.00 |
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| Rating / 5 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
| Reviews | 3.2K | 32K | 11K | 3.8K | 2.1K | 2.1K | 1.7K | 286 | 283 | 146 | 61 |
| Released | 2021 | 2012 | 2024 | 2020 | 2022 | 2025 | 2018 | 2021 | 2019 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Monthly price | — | $13.99 | — | $7.99 | $46.99 | $16.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Annual price | $20.00 | $94.99 | — | $59.99 | — | $99.99 | — | — | — | — | — |
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AARP Staying Sharp reviews
4.7 out of 5, based on 3,231 reviews.
What people like
- Fun puzzles with varying difficulty levels
- Helpful content for keeping your mind sharp
- Doctor recommended it to his patients
- Easy to use and quick exercises
What they complain about
- Games blocked by endless login loops
- Forced to accept privacy policies before playing
- App crashes and goes black on launch
- Support is impossible to reach
Good
Thanks
Doesn’t work
I can never actually play the games. It just asks me to log in over and over. Terribly glitchy.
Good, but…
The app occasionally does not register touch input immediately. During a timed test, I selected the correct answer, but the app did not initially recognize my tap. For timed activities, the touch response needs to be more accurate and consistent, since even a small delay or missed tap can affect the user’s score and overall experience. The answer selection interface should have cleaner input recognition and more reliable feedback when a choice is pressed.
Games
Games will not play. That is the main reason I downloaded it.
App
The app is slow and has glitches. It has many good feature, games and information but does not always want to go forward to the next screen.
Very good exercises 2 stay sharp
I’m enjoying this application and the learning it provides for me are practical, life changing and useful to make my life simpler and more healthy. This is in using their activities to improve what I do, think and practice. Good job AARP!
Only 11 games available
A friend encouraged me to install this app. She has a vast amount of games to choose from yet I only have 11. Why? Fix this or tell me what I’m doing wrong. Is there some “secret” setting I’m not aware of that will make the rest of the games appear? Otherwise I will just uninstall this app.
For some reason I have to keep logging in
Love the information and ways to keep my mind working with great content and ways to keep your mind working, memorization and self awareness of just keeping my brain working
Not sure if it’s me
The developers/app dont give enough instructions on how this app functions. Maybe I’m not getting it but I don’t understand if I’m supposed to do an exercise 10 mins each day why can’t I bypass the video learning phase once I’ve seen it. I’d like to just go to the games once I’ve been thru the “learning”. Makes me not want to use it.
Games
Very helpful.
Useless App
What is wrong with your app?? Created account, sign in and try to initiate an activity. But the initiation sequence then asks to sign-in again. Complete task again and goes into endless loop. I am never, ever able to actually run one of your games/activities! How do you have 4.7 rating on an app that is useless and won’t actually work!
Powering Down
I had to repeat it several times it did not work correctlynorman3
Sharper mind
Easy to use, fun to play, quick brain exercises
Doesn’t work!!!
I downloaded the app and signed in. Once in, I couldn’t find the cognitive test mentioned in the AARP email they sent me. I’m computer literate but this app is not user friendly. Then the app went black and I couldn’t get out of it. I deleted it without getting to use it.
Mind Medicine
This is an excellent way of exercising my gray matter !!!
Games are inaccessible
Click on any game and get sent into an eternal loop of logging in. Maybe that’s the game? Deleted.
Staying sharp
This app is amazzzing…love all the puzzles.. it is so much fun and addicting.. this my favorite app everrrr!!!! These puzzles are very challenging and have different levels of complexity..so there’s some fun for everyone!!!
Games don't work
Only want to use it for the games and they are blocked behind a legal disclaimer. Not usable...
Love it
I showed this ap to my Neurologist at last visit. He was very impressed and said he was going to recommend it to his patients.
Games section is not functional
Downloaded this app to play some possibly interesting games Instead the Games section is frozen in a legal disclaimer Not interested in other parts of this app
Great App
Educational and fun!
Frustrating Experience
Terrible app. I do all my business online and am not so old that I cannot navigate an app. This one has a bug in 2025 and they don’t make it easy to report. No chat. No email. It is impossible to play the games. The user is sent in circles with disclosures and you can never get to the games.
Great tool to help oneself!
This has such a broad range of activities to help keep me motivated and active. There’s no excuse to not being able to get up and move around. Can’t make it to the gym, exercise at home. To relieve stress, anxiety and just relax there are audio and video aids available. Great tool to help oneself.
It disappeared
I loved this app and spent half an hour to a hour playing the games every week. During the December holiday season, because of several family crises, I didn’t play the games. Shortly into the new year I eagerly returned. Everything changed. I was led in circles to privacy policies and TOS. Nowhere could I check anything. I was instructed to download AARP Now app. I did. I signed in and the app recognized me by name. It also has my account and card connection. I still can’t access the games. AARP apparently wants me to allow texts from them and sign up for rewards and newsletters. Why? My emails are useless with so many ads. I try to keep my texts for family, friends; medical communications and specific transactions. I don’t want to clutter this communication app. I am too old for this nonsense. Is AARP really here to help customers with what they ask for or is it just another group out to sell me things and then sell my info? What a shame. A few weeks ago I would have given this app 5 stars and a high praise review. Now I feel lured in and sold out. AARP I am rating this one star. Prove me wrong - let me enjoy keeping my mind alert and responsive with these games without all these additions and I will change this review, admit my error and praise your response.
Great Articles
Just read a few articles and so far loving it. Interesting and informative.
Can’t access games
Figure I would take all the memory tests. Only problem is that it wants me to log in. So I do and then it shoots me back to the quizzes. Ok, click on the quiz and asks me to log in. Tried this FIVE times so now I have deleted your REEE-DICULOUS APP . I can find easy apps to use. Bye
AARP Staying Sharp FAQ
- Is AARP Staying Sharp free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 2 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $20.00 (US), across 1 subscription.
- Does AARP Staying Sharp have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to AARP Staying Sharp?
- BrainHQ (4.6 from 31,952 reviews, premium from $13.99), Bold: Science-backed exercises (4.8 from 11,474 reviews) and Ritual: Spiritual Practice (4.8 from 3,841 reviews, premium from $2.99).
AARP Staying Sharp download
Last updated 6 months ago.
AARP Staying Sharp sells in 2 countries. It was released 5 years ago, on 22 Sept 2021. It holds a 4.7 rating from 3,231 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does AARP Staying Sharp make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- Annual 100%
Revenue by country
- United States 100%