Brain Training
Mindigo has been renamed MyRin: same app, same store listings, progress kept. Why the name changed, what is new (30 games, 18,000 levels, free ebook) and what to do next.
If you searched for "Mindigo" and landed here, you are in the right place. In 2026 Stika Studio renamed the app MyRin. It is the same app, from the same team, on the same App Store and Google Play listings, and everything you had in Mindigo (progress, ranks, streaks, personal bests) is still there after the update. This post explains why the name changed, what is new, and what stayed exactly as it was.
Mindigo started as a compact collection of logic puzzles. Over two years it grew into something with a much clearer identity: a Japanese-themed brain-training app with a daily omikuji fortune, 201 Japan culture facts, a 40-rank progression that borrows its names from the dojo (Minarai, Shodan, Tenkabito), and a full ebook on the mind games of Japan. The name Mindigo, a blend of "mind" and "indigo", no longer described what the app had become.
Rin (凛) is a Japanese word that is hard to translate in one English term. It covers dignity, composure and a kind of quiet, cold clarity: the feeling of a calm mind in the middle of a hard problem. My Rin is your own composure, built a level at a time. The kanji now sits on the app icon, and you will see it throughout the interface.
MyRin now has 30 games across six cognitive areas: logic, memory, math, speed, language and attention. Each game has 600 levels: 200 easy, 200 medium and 200 hard, for 18,000 levels in total. The newest additions include Temari (thread-pattern logic), Kamon (family-crest matching), Bricks and Infinity Loop, plus the four Rin Japanese originals: Karuta, Kakuro, Hashi and Nurikabe.
You can now try MyRin without installing anything. Ten games run free in your browser with five levels each: Memory Match, Reaction Speed, Sangaku, Sequence, Arithmetic Blitz, Flip Match, Simon Says, Balance Scale, Word Scramble and Kana Scout. The demos use the same rules and difficulty ramp as the app.
Inside the app you will find The Mind Games of Japan, Essential Edition: a full ebook with the complete, playable rules of Go, Shogi, Mahjong, Hanafuda and Karuta, a section on the Nikoli puzzle tradition behind Sudoku, and chapters on where Japan plays, the games of the Ainu, legends, and the design of Japanese game cafes. It is free with the app.
Every day MyRin draws an omikuji, a fortune slip from Japan's shrine tradition, with six tiers from 大吉 (great blessing) to 凶 (caution), each paired with a haiku. Between games the app surfaces short facts from Japanese history, philosophy, art, nature and innovation, 201 of them in total.
Progression runs through 40 ranks in three tiers: Awakening (Minarai to Kakusha), Refinement (9th kyu to 1st kyu) and Sharpening (Shodan to Tenkabito, "ruler of all under heaven"). XP comes from every game and every daily challenge.
Ten MyRin games, five free levels each, straight in your browser. No account, no download.
Play free in the browserNothing special. Search either name on the App Store or Google Play and you will reach the same listing; the store pages keep "Mindigo" in their history so old links and reviews still resolve. Our website redirects stikastudio.com/mindigo to /myrin automatically. Articles written under the Mindigo name (for example Does brain training work? and Mindigo vs Lumosity) are still online; the product they describe is MyRin.
MyRin trains your brain the way Japan trains its craftsmen: small, deliberate steps, every day, for years. Ten minutes a day at the edge of your ability, rotating between logic, memory, math, speed and attention, beats an hour on Sunday. The rename gives that idea a name that fits. If you want the science behind the routine, start with five brain training habits that actually work, then open the app and draw today's omikuji.
Yes. Mindigo was renamed MyRin in 2026. It is the same app from Stika Studio, on the same App Store and Google Play listings, and your progress, ranks and streaks are kept.
No. If you already have Mindigo installed, the normal app update turns it into MyRin. New users download MyRin from the same store pages.
Rin (凛) is a Japanese word for dignity, composure and quiet strength, the way a calm mind feels while solving a hard puzzle. My Rin is your own composure, built one level at a time.
Yes. MyRin is free to download and play on iOS and Android, with no account required.