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Tacet app offers passive cognitive fitness tracking through phone tap analysis

By

Charlotte

10d ago· 2 min readenProduct

Summary

Tacet is a mobile app that passively tracks cognitive fitness and sleep quality by analyzing the timing patterns of how users tap their phone. Developed by Axite and based on neuroscience research from Leiden University, it provides daily cognitive scores without requiring any additional hardware, headsets, or clinic visits. The app detects shifts in tap rhythm that correlate with cognitive sharpness, fatigue, and poor sleep.

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It turns out the way you tap your phone tells you something about your brain.
Not what you type, not which apps you open, but the timing between your taps.
That rhythm shifts when you are cognitively sharp, when you are fatigued, when your sleep has been poor.
We just built the software to read it.
No headset, no expensive hardware, no setup.
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You track your steps. Your heart rate. Your calories. But what about your brain? Tacet gives you a daily cognitive fitness score and sleep quality tracking, drawn from the rhythm of how you tap your phone. Those timing patterns carry a surprisingly accura

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