Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 12
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 952
Top rated on iOS
- 01AmphetamineAmphetamine fundamentally corrects macOS's energy management, offering professional-grade automation for a price that d…9.7Outstanding
- 02Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 03NetNewsWireFor anyone tired of algorithmic feeds and ad-choked reading, NetNewsWire is the cleanest way back to an intentional web…9.7Outstanding
OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Adventure gameSIGONO has built one of the more emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...Good7.7Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Teamfight Tactics
Action gameRiot's auto-battler is a deep economic strategy game that survives the port to touch largely intact — but years in, its interface still treats a 6-inc...Good7.7Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7Ground News
Magazines & Newspapers appGround News is a news app built to make readers uncomfortable — it shows who covered a story, who ignored it, and who owns the outlet doing the tellin...Good7.6Hooktheory
Education appA compact, ear-first theory course that makes functional harmony legible through color-coded piano rolls, Hooktheory I is worth the $14.99 for songwri...Good7.2
Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
Action gameA Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...Good7.5Isle of Arrows
Board gameDaniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced a quietly clever strategy game worth a look — provided you can mak...Good7.6Micro.blog
Photo & Video appMicro.blog trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own, and charges honestly for the privilege. The iOS a...Good7.6Substack
Lifestyle appAs a reader, Substack's mobile app is among the best-built content clients on either store — chronological, ad-free, and genuinely pleasant to read in...Great8.4Good Sudoku
Puzzle gameZach Gage and Jack Schlesinger took the most solved-out puzzle in human history and fixed everything around it, building a sudoku app that actually te...Good7.8Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
RPG gameA Sharp has built the rarest thing in strategy gaming — a systems-heavy clan simulator whose chief draw is the writing — then wrapped it in enough r...Great8.2Athena Crisis
Strategy gameSolid, systems-first grid tactics with one genuinely fresh idea — Invasions — held back by a short campaign, exploitable AI, and a cramped mobile inte...Good7.2King of Dragon Pass
Adventure gameDecades on, King of Dragon Pass remains a high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic and every decis...Great8.3I Love Hue
Board gameI Love Hue turns colour sorting into something close to meditation, and it does so with more craft than its simple premise suggests. The free version'...Good7.2Dream Quest
Card gameDream Quest looks like it was drawn during a boring meeting, and it plays like one of the smartest card games on either storefront. This is the roguel...Good7.8868-HACK
Adventure gameMichael Brough packed remarkable strategic depth into a 6x6 grid, and 868-HACK still makes one of the sharpest cases that constraint — not content...Great8.5Wizard of Legend
Action gameWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...Good7.3PeakFinder
Navigation appNaming the mountain in front of you, offline and without a subscription, is the whole job here, and PeakFinder does it with a precision that earns its...Great8.2Tripsy
Navigation appTripsy is a polished trip organizer for iOS, with email import designed to do the heavy lifting and collaboration built in from the start rather than ...Good7.7MusicHarbor
Music appMusicHarbor does one job — telling you when the artists you actually care about release something new — and does it with a thoroughness the big stream...Good7.8HabitKit
Productivity appHabitKit takes one great idea — the GitHub contribution grid — and builds a disciplined, privacy-first habit tracker around it. It won't coach you, sy...Good7.4
