Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
Kami 2
Board gameKAMI 2 turns a worn-out color-flood premise into a quiet argument with yourself, and mostly wins it. The core design is solid and the mobile version i...Good7.5Underground Blossom
Adventure gameUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...Good7.7Night Sky
Education appFor pointing a phone at the sky and finding out what's up there, Night Sky remains one of the simplest options around. The AR is polished and the free...Good7.8Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3BirdNET
Education appBirdNET is a serious scientific tool, and it shows. It identifies common birds by ear, costs nothing, shows no ads and every recording feeds real cons...Good7.1Zwift
Health & Fitness appFor staying sane through indoor training, Zwift's social structure and races do more than any interval plan alone, and that earns it a recommendation ...Good7.5Bumble For Friends
Social appBumble For Friends keeps the dating app's swipe-and-match loop, puts its most useful tools behind a paywall, and has become a side branch now that Bum...Mixed6.1Twofold Inc.
Puzzle gameTwofold Inc. takes the familiar color-matching puzzle and turns it into a game about planning ahead — no timers, no ads, no filler. It is a smart $3.9...Good7.8
Desert Golfing
Sports gameDesert Golfing strips away nearly everything a modern mobile game piles on and leaves one shot, one hole and one stroke counter that can never be rese...Great8.1Islands: Non-Places
Casual gameISLANDS: Non-Places turns parking lots, lobbies and terminals into small, eerie rituals, and its art and sound are genuinely distinctive. But it is ...Mixed6.6Literal
Books appA thoughtfully designed Goodreads alternative with a genuinely useful highlights archive — held back by a patchy book database and a small community. ...Good7.2Couchsurfing
Lifestyle appCouchsurfing still offers something no booking engine can: a stranger's spare room and a local's view of the city. But the paywall, a shrinking pool o...Mixed6.1Epic: Kids' Books & Reading
Books appEpic is one of the best-stocked children's reading apps on a phone or tablet, and its narrated read-alongs and offline library make it a solid pick fo...Good7.3Fishbrain
Social appFishbrain is the fullest social network built around fishing, and its crowd-sourced maps and forecasts can cut down the guesswork. But its best intell...Good7.4Teach Your Monster to Read
Adventure appA serious synthetic phonics curriculum wrapped in a charming adventure game, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It respects both the child and the p...Good7.8GarageBand
Lifestyle appGarageBand remains the most generous free music app on any phone or tablet, and a real instrument in its own right. Its ceiling is low, though, and Ap...Great8.5Adobe Lightroom
Design appLightroom remains one of the most capable photo editors available on a phone, with AI tools that target real drudgery and manual controls that reward ...Good7.3Pok Pok
Education appCalm, clever and built without hooks, Pok Pok is a solid pick for the right family. The subscription price and a ceiling for older kids are what hold ...Good7.8Out There: Ω Edition
Adventure gameOut There: Ω Edition is a bleak, well-written survival roguelike whose blunt randomness, opaque endgame and thin onboarding make it hard to recommend ...Mixed6.7Musicboard
Music appFor logging, rating and arguing about albums, Musicboard is a strong take on the "Letterboxd for music" formula, with a real community of listeners wr...Good7.1Tenuto
Education appTenuto won't teach music theory, and it doesn't claim to. As a drill tool for reinforcing theory already learned, it's precise and deeply customizable...Great8.0Kids
Adventure gameKids is a 20-minute interactive short about crowds, priced like one at $3.99, and it will disappoint anyone expecting a conventional game. The animati...Mixed6.3Leo's Fortune
Action gameLeo's Fortune is a beautifully made physics platformer that holds up better than most of its 2014 mobile peers: tightly tuned, complete, and free of m...Good7.7Ableton Note
Music appFor capturing musical ideas fast and handing them off intact, Ableton Note is a focused, well-designed sketchpad with one clear purpose. The trip to t...Good7.4
