Neurotech devices, Wearables, and Wellness Apps
Let's take a look at what they do and don't do.
Wellness Apps
Software-only platforms focused on mindfulness, habits, and education
What they do
- Offer meditation, breathwork, journaling, and educational content
- Support users in recording and understanding lifestyle habits and behaviours
- Provide access to coaching, courses, or additional wellness services
What they don’t do
- Measure brain activity or nervous system signals
- Provide real-time feedback to help improve results
- Stimulate the brain or nervous system
- Assess changes in brain function or performance over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Uses real-time biofeedback to help users learn to regulate their nervous system
- Provides adaptive, non-invasive stimulation to help achieve desired states of mind
- Offers personalized, guided programs to improve calm, focus, clarity, and recovery
- Includes brain function assessments for objective performance measurement over time
Activity Monitors
Wearable devices focused on tracking physical and physiological signals (Smart Rings, Wristbands & Smartwatches)
What they do
- Track sleep, heart rate, HRV, stress patterns, steps, and recovery metrics
- Help users identify lifestyle trends and behavioural patterns over time
What they don’t do
- Train the brain or nervous system
- Provide real-time feedback to help shift mental states
- Stimulate the brain or nervous system
- Assess brain function or cognitive performance changes over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Uses real-time EEG and HRV biofeedback to train nervous system regulation
- Provides adaptive, non-invasive stimulation to support state acquisition
- Offers guided programs to improve calm, focus, clarity, and recovery
- Includes brain function assessments for objective performance measurement
Brain Stimulation Devices
Devices that apply static stimulation to influence how the brain feels
What they do
- Use light or electrical pulses to apply static stimulation
- Create short-term changes in perceived energy, calm, or mood
What they don’t do
- Personalize stimulation based on real-time brainwave activity
- Adapt stimulation parameters during a session
- Measure the impact of stimulation on brain function
- Provide data on learning or progress over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Reads EEG and adapts stimulation in real time (1–1024+ Hz)
- Uses a closed-loop system that responds to each user’s neural activity
- Pairs stimulation with neurofeedback training for multi-state improvement
- Includes Event Related Potentials (ERP) assessments to show measurable improvements in brain processing over time
Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) Devices
Systems that use rhythmic light and sound to guide brain activity
What they do
- Use pulsing lights and rhythmic sound patterns to guide the brain toward a target frequency
- Create short-term shifts in relaxation, focus, or activation
What they don’t do
- Measure real-time brain activity to show impact
- Adapt stimulation to the user’s brain in the moment
- Provide training to improve unassisted state access
- Assess changes in brain function or track progress over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Reads EEG and adapts stimulation in real time (1–1024+ Hz)
- Pairs stimulation with personalized, guided programs
- Provides neurofeedback training to strengthen the neural pathways required to independently reach and sustain desired brain states
- Includes brain function assessments for objective performance measurement
Meditation Headbands
Wearable EEG devices focused on guided meditation and mindfulness
What they do
- Detect distraction during meditation and provide feedback to support a return toward calm
- Help users build meditation consistency through app-guided experiences
- Provide basic session summaries and usage insights
What they don’t do
- Enforce signal integrity required for high-resolution neural measurement
- Create a strong neurofeedback loop, which requires feedback in under 0.5 seconds
- Measure brain activity in regions where calm and alpha-dominant states primarily originate
- Train or differentiate multiple brain states
- Stimulate the brain or nervous system
- Assess brain function or processing changes over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Provides feedback within 300 milliseconds to support high-speed neurofeedback learning
- Uses high-fidelity midline EEG and HRV to measure real-time neural and physiological states
- Trains calm, focus, clarity, creativity, stillness, and recovery
- Delivers adaptive, non-invasive stimulation to support state acquisition
- Includes Event-Related Potentials (ERP) assessments to show measurable improvements in brain processing over time
fNIRS Neurotech
Wearable devices that track changes in cerebral blood flow using fNIRS
What they do
- Use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure changes in blood flow and oxygenation in the prefrontal cortex
- Provide delayed feedback (typically 4–6 seconds) related to blood flow changes
- Offer app-guided exercises that encourage cognitive engagement
- Focus exclusively on the forehead (prefrontal cortex)
What they don’t do
- Create a true neurofeedback loop, which requires feedback in under 0.5 seconds
- Measure brainwave (EEG) activity
- Measure activity outside the prefrontal cortex
- Train or differentiate multiple brain states
- Stimulate the brain or nervous system
- Assess brain function biomarker changes over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Provides feedback within 300 milliseconds to enable high-speed neurofeedback learning
- Uses high-fidelity EEG and HRV to measure real-time neural and physiological states
- Trains calm, focus, clarity, stillness, creativity, and recovery
- Includes Event-Related Potentials (ERP) assessments to demonstrate measurable improvements in brain processing over time
Focus Trackers
Devices designed to monitor attention and engagement
What they do
- Detect attention levels, engagement, and cognitive load (e.g., EEG headphones, motion sensors, oxygenation signals)
- Provide focus monitoring and productivity cues
- Adjust music or audio environments to support task engagement
What they don’t do
- Provide closed-loop neurofeedback for long-term cognitive improvement
- Train brain states beyond dominant prefrontal activity (e.g., creativity, stillness, deep relaxation)
- Deliver stimulation or HRV coherence training
- Assess brain function biomarker changes over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Provides wavelet-based EEG neurofeedback with millisecond responsiveness
- Trains foundational cognitive systems, not just behavioural focus
- Integrates HRV coherence and adaptive stimulation to strengthen neural flexibility
- Includes Event-Related Potentials (ERP) assessments to show measurable improvements in brain processing over time
Neurofeedback Systems
What they do
- Measure EEG signals and provide real-time neurofeedback
- Train a range of brain states
What they don’t do
- Integrate stimulation to support state acquisition
- Adapt feedback and stimulation together as a unified system
- Assess changes in brain function biomarkers over time
How Sens.ai is different
- Integrates brainwave and heart coherence training for full nervous system regulation
- Trains the full spectrum of brain states
- Provides adaptive, non-invasive stimulation alongside neurofeedback
- Includes brain function assessments for objective performance measurement over time
Product Category Comparison Table
Wellness Apps
Activity Monitors
Brain Stimulation Devices
AVE Devices
Meditation Headbands
fNRIS Neurotech
Focus Trackers
Neurofeedback Systems
Personalization
Varies
Tracks Progress With Biometrics
Varies
Stimulates Brain
Trains A Brain State
Non-Real-Time
Non-Real-Time
Full-Spectrum Brain Training
Varies
Objective Brain Function Tests
