Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 84
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
Geneva
Lifestyle appGeneva solved a problem Discord and iMessage both fumbled — giving a real-world community a home that isn't a server or a 200-person group text — and ...Good7.5Splitwise
Finance appSplitwise remains the most capable shared-expense tracker ever built for normal people, with split math and debt-netting logic nobody has beaten. But ...Mixed6.7Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Micro.blog
Photo & Video appMicro.blog trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own, and charges honestly for the privilege. The iOS a...Good7.6Are.na
Productivity appAre.na is the rare social platform that respects your attention instead of strip-mining it, and the recent mobile rebuild finally gives it an app wort...Great8.5Tapestry
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...Great8.4SoundCloud
Music appSoundCloud remains the internet's most distinctive pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a user-uploaded wilderness no algorithm-polished co...Good7.7Ice 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...Outstanding9.4
Fastmail
Productivity appFastmail's mobile app is a well-built, privacy-respecting email client that asks a fair price for the radical act of not selling you out—but it's a po...Good7.7Ivory
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...Good7.6Co-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...Good7.8Reeder
News appSilvio Rizzi torched the unread badge and rebuilt his beloved RSS app as a calm, chronological river of everything you follow. It's handsome and genui...Good7.6Primal
Social appPrimal is a polished, user-friendly portal into the Nostr protocol, combining censorship-resistant microblogging with a built-in Bitcoin Lightning wal...Great8.4Airbuds Widget
Music appBy bypassing the main app interface entirely, Airbuds Widget turns the sterile stream of music telemetry into a low-friction social space for close fr...Good7.7SpaceHey
Design appSpaceHey is a sincere, uncompromising time capsule that rejects modern engagement algorithms in favor of raw customizability, though its mobile execut...Good7.1Threema
Social appThreema is a serious, well-built answer to sovereign communication, and its metadata minimization makes a strong case that your phone number should ne...Great8.9Warpcast
News appWarpcast is a strong argument for decentralized social media, trading the "free" price tag of legacy platforms for a high-signal environment that resp...Great8.8ZeroTier
Social appZeroTier effectively erases the physical distance between devices, creating a global local area network that feels like magic—until you try to run it ...Good7.1Retro
Photo & Video appBuilt on deliberate friction, Retro trades the hollow dopamine of public metrics for the quiet satisfaction of actual friendship. It is one of the ver...Outstanding9.0Cara
Social appCara is a defiant, artist-first sanctuary that trades algorithmic polish for ethical purity, proving that "human-made" is the new luxury in a digital ...Outstanding9.3Damus
Social appDamus is a radical manifesto disguised as a microblogging app, trading the polished convenience of centralized silos for a raw, sovereign future built...Great8.3Goodreads
Books appA monolithic database trapped in a 2010 design language, Goodreads remains the default town square for bibliophiles largely because its data moat is t...Mixed6.8Shortwave
Business appShortwave doesn't just manage your email; it aggressively re-engineers the inbox into a functional task list, with AI that feels designed for real wor...Great8.8
