Play games to help brain scientists discover the secrets to happiness!
About Happiness Quest
Happiness Quest is an entertainment app developed by Rutledge Lab.
Download Statistics
Happiness Quest has been downloaded 10 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 38 times.
User Ratings
Happiness Quest is rated 4.28 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 110 ratings.
App Information
Happiness Quest is FREE to download. The APK download size is 68.86 MB. The latest version available is 8.54.4. The last update was on November 20, 2025.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play January 2022.
Description
Play short games to help brain scientists study the psychology and neuroscience of well-being!
Created by scientists at UCL and Yale, this app is a citizen science project taking psychology and neuroscience experiments from the lab to your smartphone.
Every 3-minute game that you finish contributes data to real scientific research about how the brain works. The anonymous surveys help us see what causes well-being and understand mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. Be part of a unique citizen science experiment and help us write the equation for happiness!
Dr Robb Rutledge (Yale Psychology) says: "We all want to know what determines happiness. It’s hard to figure it out! In our games, we ask people about their happiness as they make decisions in different situations. We hope people enjoy our app and help us answer some really important scientific questions!"
This citizen science project was supported by the UK Medical Research Council.
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It's very fun, and I enjoy finding strategies for the fruit games, my current one is sticking with one fruit until it fails then switching to the other until it fails. I also find it somewhat difficult to believe that this is actually an experiment to find out gambling effect on the brain, most of these seem like casino games if you replace the points with currency, you'd just have to rig it.
★★★★★Litosha Boynes· Sep 4, 2024
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★★★★★Matt Corriveau· Apr 17, 2024
I never leave reviews or even rate apps, in fact this is a first for me. With a past of undiagnosed mental health issues in myself and my family, I know that far too little is understood about it. The fact that playing the fun mini-games and answering short anonymous surveys also contributes to research that will further our pursuit of knowledge of mental health leads me to give this app a 5-star rating in hopes of getting as many participants as possible for this study. Also, no ads is a plus!
★☆☆☆☆N.J Monsarrat· Mar 8, 2026
This study is very flawed. Being asked daily for my experiences over the past two weeks doesn't make sense. If you get asked the same thing repeatedly every minute, I can assure you that it won't be long before you don't think or care about your choices, you'll just pick one. I feel the need to mention that it's all quite infantilizing. I spent years putting up with this nonsense and the only reason I am now doing this now is due to financial compensation. This entire study is dehumanizing
Google Play Rankings for Happiness Quest
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Technologies used by Happiness Quest
Happiness Quest is requesting 12 permissions and we don't have library information (yet).
Permissions
Network communication
view network connections,
full network access,
receive data from Internet
Hardware controls
control vibration
System tools
prevent phone from sleeping
Extra
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID,
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION,
android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS,
com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE,
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID,
com.rutledge.happinessquest.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION,
Can receive cloud messages
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