Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 3
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
Locket Widget
Photo & Video appLocket Widget is a surgical strike against the algorithmic bloat of modern social media, reclaiming the phone's most valuable real estate for actual h...Great8.2Delta Chat
Productivity appDelta Chat is a brilliant act of digital defiance that transforms the aging infrastructure of email into a modern, decentralized fortress for private ...Outstanding9.2ReciMe
Food & Drink appReciMe is a sharp solution to the chaos of modern recipe discovery, effectively turning social media clutter into a structured digital kitchen. It's a...Great8.4Mumble
Social appMumble is a technically impressive, privacy-first voice chat platform whose brutal onboarding, dated iOS client, and self-hosting demands make it hard...Mixed6.4Untappd
Food & Drink appUntappd remains the essential utility for the craft beer era, functioning as both a personal archive and a global taproom, even as aggressive monetiza...Outstanding9.5Jitsi Meet
Social appJitsi Meet is a rare communication tool that prioritizes the user's right to exist online without a tracking ID, offering a friction-free, open-source...Great8.0Pixelfed
Photo & Video appPixelfed is a genuinely refreshing departure from the algorithmic rot of mainstream social media, but its mobile apps are rough enough that most peopl...Mixed6.7NetNewsWire
News appFor anyone tired of algorithmic feeds and ad-choked reading, NetNewsWire is the cleanest way back to an intentional web. Free, open-source, and fierce...Outstanding9.7
Session
Social appSession is one of the most ambitious attempts yet to decouple messaging from personal identity, trading mainstream convenience for serious metadata pr...Great8.2Lemmy
News appLemmy is a defiant, decentralized answer to the corporate capture of social media, offering a raw but rewarding return to community-driven discourse w...Great8.3SimpleX Chat
Social appIf Signal is a vault, SimpleX is a ghost. By entirely severing the link between your identity and your data, it demands a steep usability tax to deliv...Outstanding9.4Zulip
Productivity appZulip is the thinking person's communication tool, trading the chaotic firehose of modern chat for a structured, topic-based architecture that respect...Great8.4Bluesky
Social appBluesky is a rare structural rebellion that doesn't forget to be a functional product — a genuinely well-designed decentralized network without the us...Great8.7Firefox
Productivity appFirefox remains the web's most principled alternative, built around privacy and open standards rather than data collection. It is a solid, worthwhile ...Good7.5Proton Mail
Business appProton Mail delivers on its core promise of email privacy and security, and its encryption architecture remains the strongest argument for it. The mob...Good7.2Letterboxd
Social appFor logging, ranking and arguing about films on a phone, Letterboxd is hard to beat, and its community is the real product. Android users get a roughe...Great8.3Quora
News appQuora is a vast, often-fascinating repository of human curiosity, but inconsistent quality control and a user experience that struggles to separate si...Mixed6.4Meetup
Lifestyle appMeetup remains a useful, if creaky, bridge between online interests and offline life. It does a solid job of facilitating real-world community, but a ...Good7.0Twitch: Live Game Streaming
Photo & Video appTwitch remains the dominant force in live streaming, a chaotic but essential platform where community and content collide. It's the closest thing to a...Good7.4Nextdoor: Neighborhood Network
Lifestyle appNextdoor promises a digital town square but often delivers a digital battleground. Its utility for practical neighborhood logistics is real, yet incon...Mixed6.2BeReal. Your Friends for Real
Photo & Video appBeReal is a sharp critique of performative social media, but its rigid once-a-day concept struggles to hold attention, and its fate rests entirely on ...Mixed5.9Mastodon
News appMastodon delivers on its promise of a decentralized, user-controlled social network, but its philosophical strengths create real onboarding friction t...Good7.4Tumblr
Lifestyle appTumblr remains the internet's untamed, hyper-niche playground, but its dated design, weak discovery tools, and moderation concerns make it hard to rec...Mixed6.3Threads, an Instagram app
Social appThreads leverages Instagram's enormous user base for a frictionless start, but a sanitized, feature-light experience struggles to define a purpose bey...Mixed5.8
