Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 15
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
Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7Really Bad Chess
Board gameZach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and produces a genuinely accessible, replayable take on the game....Good7.8Chuchel
Adventure gameCHUCHEL is barely a game and mostly a delight — a brief Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away; if you ...Good7.1Tot
Productivity appTot is a productivity app built around what it refuses to do — seven notes, no more, ever — and that discipline makes it a genuinely effective quick-c...Good7.8Photomator
Photo & Video appFor iPhone-first photographers, Photomator removes the friction that makes most editors exhausting: no import, no duplicate catalog, edits living dire...Good7.8Puzzmo
Puzzle gamePuzzmo is a sharp, thoughtfully designed collection of daily puzzles built by people who clearly love the form. But its slow squeeze on free players m...Good7.4Railbound
Puzzle gameRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...Great8.3Storyteller
Adventure gameA clever narrative puzzle box that turns story logic into a drag-and-drop toy — worth $14.99 for puzzle players who want a mechanic they haven't seen ...Good7.6
VSCO
Lifestyle appVSCO's film-emulation presets and editing tools remain genuinely excellent, but the gutted free tier and an insistent upsell make it hard to recommend...Mixed6.4SoundCloud
Music appSoundCloud remains the internet's most distinctive pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a user-uploaded wilderness no algorithm-polished co...Good7.7ChatGPT
Productivity appChatGPT on mobile is a genuinely capable assistant for writing, coding, and thinking out loud, and it earns its reputation. Just know that the free ti...Great8.7Sky Tonight
Books appSky Tonight is a capable pocket planetarium that pairs an accurate sky map with genuinely useful event forecasting—but its free tier is riddled with v...Good7.3Broadcasts
Music appBroadcasts is a carefully engineered tool that does exactly one job and refuses to apologize for it. It's a solid, focused internet radio app, bes...Good7.7Mela – Recipe Manager
Food & Drink appMela is a recipe app that treats cooking as a craft, not a content-marketing funnel. It's Apple-only, one-time-payment, and among the better-designed ...Great8.1Is This Seat Taken?
Puzzle gameA featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...Good7.4Speak
Education appSpeak is a language app built to make you talk, using large-language-model tech as a tireless conversation partner. The speech recognition occasiona...Good7.4Parcel
Shopping appParcel is a well-designed, carrier-agnostic delivery tracker for Apple platforms with deep courier support and a thoughtful SwiftUI redesign. The catc...Good7.3Dark Noise
Health & Fitness appDark Noise brings real design care to a category full of "good enough" ambient sound apps, with deep Apple integration and genuinely useful mixing too...Good7.3Monarch Money
Finance appA polished money dashboard that suits households juggling several accounts, though bank-sync hiccups and a subscription-only model keep it from being ...Good7.7Ice Cubes
Social appIce Cubes is arguably the most polished way to use Mastodon on an iPhone — a free, open-source SwiftUI showcase that outclasses most paid clients, pro...Outstanding9.4Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Adventure gameA quietly clever little RPG that reads your character by watching what you do, not what you say—and the results can land closer to home than any q...Good7.5Where Cards Fall
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they rarely earn the "puz...Mixed6.6NASA
Education appNASA's official app is a rare thing in mobile software—an authoritative, ad-free, genuinely free educational resource with more content than most user...Good7.9Freeform
Design appFreeform is a free, well-designed whiteboard with a genuinely low-friction canvas—but its Apple-only walls, zero templates, and PDF-only export make i...Mixed6.4
