Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 14
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 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
Tapestry
Social appThe Iconfactory has built a humane way to read the fractured social web on iOS — a strictly chronological, algorithm-free timeline that treats attenti...Great8.4Due
Productivity appDue does one thing — refusing to let you forget — better than most reminder apps on Apple's platforms, and its persistent auto-snooze remains hard to ...Good7.8Card of Darkness
Adventure gameZach Gage and Pendleton Ward built a genuinely clever risk-reward loop, then locked it behind a subscription wall. If you already pay for Apple Arcade...Good7.7Outlanders
Simulation gamePomelo Games has built one of the more approachable strategy games around — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is the whole poin...Good7.2Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Crossy Road
Action gameA decade on, Hipster Whale's voxel hopper is still the model for free-to-play arcade design done right — instant to learn, hard to master, and monetiz...Great8.3Alto's Adventure
Action gameA decade on, Alto's Adventure remains one of the strongest arguments for premium mobile design — a one-touch snowboarding game that plays like meditat...Great8.6Speechling
Education appSpeechling does the one thing most language apps quietly avoid — it makes you speak, then has a real human tell you what you got wrong. The interface ...Good7.6
Amazing Marvin
Productivity appAmazing Marvin is an unusually flexible productivity system built around how ADHD brains actually work — but its mobile apps trail the desktop experie...Good7.2AutoSleep
Health & Fitness appAutoSleep is one of the most complete sleep trackers on Apple Watch — automatic, obsessively detailed, and yours for a one-time $8.99. It earns a reco...Good7.8Google Maps
Food & Drink appGoogle Maps is the most complete navigation and local discovery tool available, and it isn't close. Its real rivals are its own bloat, its appetite fo...Great8.9Clash of Clans
Action gameA well-built strategy game with a strong clan layer and a progression system that asks for patience by the week. We recommend it to players who want a...Good7.7inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9Hoplite
Puzzle gameTwelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains a benchmark-free but genuinely excellent take on turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars b...Great8.3Renshuu
Education appRenshuu is the rare language app where the free tier isn't a demo — it's the product. Dense, occasionally overwhelming, and built by two people who cl...Great8.8Pestle
Food & Drink appPestle is a recipe manager that pulls clean, structured recipes out of TikToks, cookbooks, and ad-choked blogs alike, then walks you through cooking t...Great8.4Longplay
Music appLongplay is a love letter to the LP amid algorithmic slop — a gorgeous, opinionated Apple Music front-end built to make listening to your library the ...Good7.4Consume Me
RPG gameConsume Me is the rare autobiographical game that makes its subject playable rather than merely narrated — a caustic, funny, quietly devastating sim...Great8.5Expelled!
Adventure gameinkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...Great8.2Rytmos
Music gameRytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a clarity few rhythm hybrids manage, and its world-music curriculum is enriching. A shaky iOS port an...Good7.4CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6Freedom
Health & Fitness appFreedom treats self-control as an infrastructure problem rather than a motivational one, and its cross-device sync is the strongest argument in its ca...Good7.2Scriptable
Developer Tools appScriptable hands you the keys to iOS's native APIs through nothing more than JavaScript, with a polish most paid developer tools can't match. If you c...Great8.8
