Who doesn’t enjoy being the smartest person in any conversation... or at least pretending to be?! With these apps in your pocket, there’s no need to fake it. They’ll help you boost your mental game just enough to outsmart everyone at your next family trivia night or friends’ get-together. You’ll be dropping vocabulary bombs, citing sources you learned on your commute and organising your thoughts with precision. All with a priceless sense of satisfaction.

Think of Impulse as your brain’s personal trainer. Its goal-based, science-backed brain-training exercises, games and puzzles are designed to help improve your memory, attention and problem-solving skills. Every task in the app becomes more challenging as you progress, giving your grey matter a proper workout.

Being articulate makes your communication clear and confident – especially useful in the family group chat if you’re trying to persuade your family members about what movie to see or a preferred cuisine to order for Friday night takeaway! Grammarly is the perfect tool to polish your prose, fix grammatical errors and impress (and hopefully persuade) everyone.

Learn a new word every day and you’ll have a huge store to choose from when the moment calls for it. Vocabulary is an elegant teacher – this Apple Design Award finalist has a beautiful minimalist style, modern typography and subtle haptics. Expanding your lexicon not only makes you sound more erudite (yep, we learned that one from the app!), it also comes with a bonus: you’ll turbocharge your Scrabble skills!

Hot topic to discuss? You don’t need to be an expert, just focus on the segments that help you look cool and knowledgeable. Headway provides actionable insights and 15-minute summaries covering a wide range of subjects such as business, self-growth and fiction. For those wanting to learn a lot in a short period of time, this is an efficient, productive and enjoyable way to do it. Right, let’s talk about the seven habits of highly effective people...

Notion offers extra brainpower to help you store information, facts and everything else in between, because the biggest challenge with learning is forgetting. The app is your space to organise your thoughts, reading lists and anything else you want to store away, such as beautifully written quotes. This way, you can easily recall facts or ideas, impress your friends when you do and, maybe, remember your anniversary.