Keel vs. Neurotrack: Which Is Right for You?
Neurotrack uses eye-tracking technology for clinical cognitive assessment. Keel uses daily self-administered tests for longitudinal monitoring. Both are serious tools for different questions.
What each tool does
Neurotrack is a clinical-grade cognitive assessment tool that uses eye-tracking technology to measure visual paired associates learning — a task linked to hippocampal function and early Alzheimer's risk. It is designed to be administered in clinical or research settings and produces results intended for use by healthcare providers. Neurotrack's approach is grounded in significant neuroscience research.
Keel is a self-administered daily cognitive monitoring tool for individuals. Five short tests taken each morning build a personal trend across memory, attention, processing speed, executive function, and visuospatial cognition. Keel is not a clinical assessment — it is a personal health tracking tool, similar in spirit to a fitness tracker but for cognitive function rather than physical activity.
Key differences
Neurotrack and Keel operate in different contexts and for different purposes. Neurotrack is a clinical and research tool; Keel is a personal wellness tool. They are not in direct competition — they answer different questions.
- Neurotrack: clinical/research setting, requires specialized hardware; Keel: consumer self-monitoring, works on any device
- Neurotrack: produces clinical results shared with healthcare providers; Keel: personal trend data for self-monitoring and optional doctor sharing
- Neurotrack: sophisticated eye-tracking methodology; Keel: brief standardized cognitive tasks requiring no special hardware
- Neurotrack: periodic clinical assessments; Keel: daily self-administered monitoring
- Neurotrack: focuses on hippocampal-linked visual memory for Alzheimer's risk; Keel: covers five cognitive domains for broad personal baseline
- Neurotrack: not designed for daily consumer use; Keel: designed specifically for daily habit formation
Who each is best for
Neurotrack is genuinely better suited for clinical evaluation contexts — if a physician is using it as part of an Alzheimer's risk assessment, or if you are participating in a research study that uses it. Its eye-tracking methodology is sensitive to hippocampal function in ways that self-report and simple cognitive tasks are not. In a clinical or research setting, Neurotrack's approach has real value.
Keel is better suited for personal longitudinal monitoring outside of clinical settings. If you want to track your own cognitive baseline at home, daily, without a clinical visit — and build a record over weeks and months that tells you whether you are changing — Keel is the right tool.
The case for daily baseline tracking
Neurotrack is a powerful clinical tool for a specific purpose: assessing hippocampal-linked cognitive function at a point in time. Like all clinical assessments, it produces a snapshot — what the data showed on the day of the assessment, interpreted against population norms.
What clinical assessments, including Neurotrack, cannot provide is the personal longitudinal trend. You do not know whether the assessment result represents a change from three months ago or six months ago, because you did not have a three-month-old baseline to compare it against.
Keel's daily tracking fills this gap. Even if you have access to clinical tools like Neurotrack, the daily monitoring baseline that Keel builds over months makes any future clinical assessment more interpretable. You arrive at the clinical evaluation with a history, not just a snapshot.
Frequently asked questions
Is Neurotrack available to consumers, or only through clinical providers?
Neurotrack's clinical-grade eye-tracking assessment is primarily designed for clinical and research use. Their consumer offerings have varied over time. For personal daily monitoring without clinical overhead, Keel is designed specifically for that use case.
Does Keel measure hippocampal function like Neurotrack does?
Keel's memory tasks engage episodic and working memory in ways that are sensitive to hippocampal function, but Keel does not use eye-tracking and does not produce the same kind of clinical measurement. Keel's value is in the daily longitudinal trend, not in the clinical precision of any single measurement.
Should I do both Neurotrack (through a doctor) and Keel at home?
Yes — if your doctor recommends or offers Neurotrack as part of your cognitive evaluation, continuing daily Keel monitoring alongside that is a sensible complement. The clinical assessment gives your doctor a validated clinical measure; the Keel history gives them longitudinal context that clinical assessments alone cannot provide.
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