Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 29
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
iA Writer
Business appiA Writer is one of the very best distraction-free writing apps available, stripping away the bloat of modern word processors to prioritize the raw re...Outstanding9.5Structured
Education appStructured is one of the very best digital planners available on iOS — a carefully engineered time-blocking system that makes daily planning visually ...Outstanding9.3DaVinci Resolve
Photo & Video appBlackmagic Design's port of DaVinci Resolve to the iPad is an ambitious and largely successful one, bringing genuine desktop-class color grading and e...Great8.1Dungeon of the Endless
Adventure gameAMPLITUDE Studios' Dungeon of the Endless is a genre-bending hybrid, merging the unforgiving brutality of a roguelike with the tactical demands of...Great8.5Firefox
Productivity appFirefox remains the web's most principled alternative, built around privacy and open standards rather than data collection. It is a solid, worthwhile ...Good7.5Ulysses
Lifestyle appUlysses is a well-built, focused writing environment for Apple users, pairing a distraction-free markup editor with strong organizational and publishi...Good7.7Slack
Business appSlack remains a dominant force in digital team communication and a critical conduit for modern enterprises, but its sometimes-exorbitant cost of entry...Good7.9YACReader
Books appYACReader is a well-designed comic reader with deep desktop integration and strong reading customization, held back by Android gaps like missing SD ca...Good7.6
Strong
Health & Fitness appStrong Workout Tracker Gym Log is a focused, well-built logging tool for serious lifters, and we recommend it for anyone whose training revolves aroun...Great8.6Balatro
Card gameBalatro is a roguelike deckbuilder built with unusual care, turning the humble poker hand into a vibrant, strategic engine through its 150-plus Joker ...Outstanding9.6Return to Monkey Island
Adventure gameReturn to Monkey Island is a carefully crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confidently forging a new path, even with i...Great8.4Headspace
Health & Fitness appHeadspace offers exceptional breadth of accessible mental wellness tools, thoughtfully packaged for the modern digital consumer, though its premium pr...Great8.0SketchAR
Design appSketchAR is an intriguing, technology-forward approach to artistic development through augmented reality, but its finicky AR tracking and aggressive m...Mixed6.1Card Thief
Board gameArnold Rauers' Card Thief distills the tension of stealth gameplay into a remarkably elegant and endlessly replayable solitaire experience that st...Outstanding9.1SimpleLogin
Productivity appSimpleLogin is a strong, open-source email alias service that puts user privacy first, and an easy recommendation for anyone looking to keep their rea...Great8.5Home Assistant
Lifestyle appThe Home Assistant Companion app is not a consumer gadget; it is a serious, open-source control panel for an equally serious smart home platform, dema...Good7.6GDevelop
Developer Tools appGDevelop sets out to make game development accessible to all, and its no-code environment is well suited to rapid prototyping and 2D design, though mo...Good7.2Forager
Action gameForager's early loop of discovery and rapid progression is genuinely compelling, but the design buckles under late-game repetition, settling into a gr...Mixed5.9Grindstone
Puzzle gameCapybara Games' Grindstone is a deceptively deep, compulsively playable puzzle game that turns simple chain-linking into a strategic dance with deat...Great8.8Google Keep
Business appGoogle Keep, while rarely the darling of productivity discourse, remains a remarkably effective, no-frills note-taking application. Its tight fit with...Great8.7Microsoft To Do
Productivity appMicrosoft To Do is a free, dependable task manager that shines inside the Microsoft ecosystem but falls short for power users. For most people, its li...Mixed6.6Microsoft OneNote
Education appMicrosoft OneNote is a free, feature-rich digital notebook with a genuinely brilliant freeform canvas, but inconsistent mobile performance and a deman...Mixed6.7AFK Journey
Adventure gameAFK Journey dazzles with its visual fidelity and accessible idle progression, but familiar mechanics and aggressive monetization hold it back. Hard to...Mixed6.0The Legend of Tartar
Adventure game"The Legend of Tartar" has a genuinely engaging tactical core buried under an idle RPG façade, but RNG-gated progression and monetization pressure mak...Mixed6.7
