Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 6
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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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
Swarm by Foursquare
Lifestyle appSwarm remains a solid free option for keeping a searchable record of everywhere you've been, and the automatic travel journals are a genuine reason to...Good7.1What the Car?
Action gameFunny, inventive and built on constant surprise, What the Car? runs out of steam before it runs out of goodwill. It's short and uneven, and best sui...Good7.5Functional Ear Trainer
Education appFunctional Ear Trainer rejects the interval-drilling model most ear-training apps use and replaces it with something far more useful: hearing every no...Great8.3Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure gameSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...Good7.7hoopla digital
Books appInstant access is the draw: hoopla digital lets every title be borrowed at once, and one library card covers audiobooks, comics, film and music. The m...Great8.2Transit
Navigation appTransit gets a rider from "I need to leave" to "I'm on the right bus" faster than anything else in the category. It opens straight to what matters, an...Great8.2Pine Hearts
Adventure gameA short, gentle, carefully judged hike through grief. The puzzles won't challenge anyone and the structure is familiar, but the warmth and restraint i...Good7.4
Hindsight
Adventure gameHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...Good7.1Infinite Painter
Design appInfinite Painter pairs a deep, customisable brush engine with a clean interface and layered PSD export, and it asks for a one-time payment rather than...Good7.5Pipe Push Paradise
Family gameFew recent puzzle games do as much with as little as Pipe Push Paradise. It builds a whole island of demanding puzzles from a few simple rules and nev...Great8.1Deus Ex GO
Puzzle gameDeus Ex GO compresses a sprawling immersive sim into a tight, clean turn-based puzzle game, and it keeps more of the series' identity than expected. T...Good7.2Paperbark
Adventure gamePaperbark is a hand-painted, hour-long portrait of the Australian bush that gets its mood almost exactly right — and offers almost nothing to actually...Mixed6.1Wikiloc
Navigation appWikiloc has one of the largest crowdsourced trail libraries anywhere, and its free tier with offline maps is useful on its own. But the features that ...Good7.2Rusty Lake Hotel
Adventure gameRusty Lake Hotel is a short, macabre point-and-click puzzler whose mood carries it through a few stretches of bad logic. At its price it's a solid way...Good7.5Hitman GO
Puzzle gameSquare Enix Montréal took a sprawling stealth-action series, kept only its logic, and ended up with a smart, distinctive puzzle game. It's short, and ...Good7.8Mapy.com
Navigation appMapy.com is a genuinely strong outdoor map app, with trail cartography and a multi-sport route planner that put it ahead of Google and Apple for anyth...Good7.3Mekorama
Puzzle gameMekorama is a smart, generous pocket puzzler that earns its recommendation: tiny rotating dioramas, honest physics, and a level editor that stretches ...Great8.5Seeing AI
Productivity appSeeing AI is a free toolkit, built with blind and low-vision users, that reads, identifies and describes the physical world with unusual range. Settin...Good7.6Olio
Food & Drink appOlio's usefulness hinges entirely on how many neighbors already post, and in a quiet area the sign-up wall and paid map search mean you commit before ...Mixed6.5Race for the Galaxy
Board gameTemple Gates Games' adaptation of Tom Lehmann's dense, brilliant card game is a close, rules-exact conversion built around a neural-network AI that gi...Great8.0Retro Bowl
Simulation gameRetro Bowl pairs a one-gesture passing game with a front-office sim that actually bites, and hands over both for free. Its refusal to let you play def...Good7.7El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0
