Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 139
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
Endless Alphabet
Education appEndless Alphabet is a charming early-learning app built on a simple drag-to-spell loop and monster animations that teach. It's really a vocabulary app...Good7.2Medito
Education appMedito offers most of what Calm and Headspace charge for: guided sessions, structured courses, sleep content and a proper timer, with no paywall, no a...Great8.4Tinkercad
Education appTinkercad's shape-and-hole approach remains one of the best introductions to 3D design, but flaky sign-ins, buggy dimension entry and a cramped Androi...Mixed6.5Bloomberg Connects
Education appBloomberg Connects replaces the $8 rental audio guide with a free, ad-free app covering more than a thousand institutions, and its accessibility work ...Good7.4TimeGuessr
Education gameTimeGuessr's two-axis deduction — where and when — is a genuinely smart twist on the GeoGuessr formula, but the app around it is a thin shell: no po...Mixed6.7Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Adventure appThirty years on, Zoombinis remains one of the sharpest pieces of educational software ever shipped to consumers — a set-theory course wearing a blue r...Great8.6italki
Education appitalki solved the hardest problem in language learning — putting a real human on the other end of the call, cheaply, in 150+ languages — and then wrap...Good7.3Hooktheory
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
Chessable
Board appChessable is a highly effective structured chess study tool, and we recommend it with real reservations. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-...Great8.0Speechling
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 ...Good7.6Renshuu
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...Great8.8Sky 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...Good7.3Speak
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...Good7.4NASA
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...Good7.9Star Chart
Education appStar Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums around, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible map o...Good7.1Forvo
Education appForvo remains the most direct way to hear how a word actually sounds in the mouths of real native speakers — an invaluable resource wrapped in a mob...Good7.1Wikipedia
Books appThe official Wikipedia app is a rare thing — a piece of software that respects you. It's free, ad-free, open source, and quietly one of the best-desig...Outstanding9.1Labster
Education appLabster's 3D science simulations are well-built and scientifically faithful, but the mobile app is a cramped companion to an institutional subscriptio...Mixed6.1ELSA Speak
Education appA focused pronunciation coach that pinpoints the exact sound you're getting wrong — and does that one job well. The aggressive paywall and a recognize...Good7.1Ringotan
Education appRingotan is a rare free tool that does one hard thing well — training the hand, not just the eyes, to produce thousands of kanji. It's plain-looking, ...Great8.6Toca 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...Good7.6Blinkist
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...Mixed6.6Pythagorea
Education appA ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. For anyone who wants to feel the logic behind a...Great8.2How 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...Outstanding9.2
