Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 18
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
Cosmos
Design appCosmos is a beautiful idea executed with restraint — a quiet, ad-free sanctuary for visual creatives that mostly earns its 4.7-star store rating. Its ...Great8.2Tiny Bookshop
RPG gameTiny Bookshop takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into a quietly compelling management ...Good7.6Actual Budget
Finance appActual Budget is a principled, privacy-first finance app that gives you real control of your data for free—but its iOS story is a web app in a trench ...Good7.1Feist
Action gameFeist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, frequently mad...Mixed6.0Suika Game
Casual gameA physics puzzler with one rule that turns dropping fruit into a compulsion. It shines on Switch and PC, but the mobile port's ad-riddled monetization...Good7.2Toca Boca World
Education appA safe, open-ended digital dollhouse that hands kids the director's chair and asks nothing of them—until the paywall arrives. Worth recommending to fa...Good7.6Nubby's Number Factory
Puzzle gameA gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, Nubby's Number Factory turns bouncing a ball off pegs into a compulsive buil...Good7.8Ultimate Chicken Horse
Action gameA rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a clever, well-built take on emergent chaos—great with friends...Great8.0
Blinkist
Books appBlinkist is a genuinely useful book-discovery engine wrapped in a subscription model that fights dirty at renewal time. It won't make anyone well-read...Mixed6.6Ivory
News appTapbots took everything that made Tweetbot a benchmark for third-party clients and rebuilt it for Mastodon, and the result is one of the most refined ...Great8.5IRCCloud
Business appIRCCloud wraps IRC's raw text firehose in a modern, always-on client that never sleeps — a genuinely thoughtful take on a 35-year-old protocol. Just k...Good7.6Pythagorea
Education appA ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. For anyone who wants to feel the logic behind a...Great8.2Caliber
Health & Fitness appCaliber is a fitness app that gives away the good stuff for free and reserves its paywall for something worth paying for — a living, breathing human c...Good7.5Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker
Health & Fitness appFabulous is one of the most beautiful habit-builders on mobile, with real behavioral science under the hood—but its aggressive paywall and dark-patter...Mixed6.5How We Feel
Education appA Yale-backed, genuinely free emotional journaling app that treats feelings as a skill you can build rather than a mood you passively log — and it doe...Outstanding9.2Little Nightmares
Adventure gameLittle Nightmares turns childhood dread into a short, atmospheric puzzle-platformer with real craft and real flaws. Solid, unsettling, and worth it fo...Good7.8Dynalist
Productivity appDynalist is a productivity tool that treats structure as the whole point, not a side effect—a keyboard-first outliner built to hold an entire life's w...Good7.7Type:Rider
Action appType:Rider is a beautiful, atmospheric history lesson—a striking platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up to the strength of its concept. W...Good7.1Wingspan
Board gameMonster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a faithful, gorgeous translation of one of the decade's best board games — calming, mechanically deep, and...Great8.0Upscayl
Photo & Video appUpscayl is a solid, well-designed utility that turns muddy, low-res images into crisp assets entirely on your own machine—but it demands a real GPU to...Good7.6BOKURA
Action gameBOKURA turns miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, building a game that structurally demands two people talking to each other. It's inventive and o...Good7.4PictureThis
Education appPictureThis is a capable plant-identification engine wrapped in one of the most aggressive paywalls on the App Store. The identification technology ea...Mixed6.7Co-Star
Lifestyle appA distinctive, sharply written astrology app whose social hooks and daily one-liners carry more weight than its celestial math — a good pick for desig...Good7.8A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
Puzzle gameDraknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. It's a solid, well-craft...Good7.9
