Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 7
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
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Action gameMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...Good7.1Sky Force Reloaded
Action gameSky Force Reloaded is a gorgeous, content-dense vertical shooter with a well-built upgrade loop, held back by a star grind that gates progression in w...Good7.8Severed
Action gameDrinkBox Studios took the most maligned control scheme in gaming—the touchscreen swipe—and built a genuinely tactile action RPG around it. The combat ...Good7.8Trivio
Business appTrivio is a niche business-travel manager whose real feature isn't booking — it's the 1C accounting integration that removes the double-entry drud...Mixed6.0Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5Powder
Adventure gamePOWDER strips the roguelike down to its sharpest bones and fits it in your pocket. It trades the arcane depth of NetHack for something rarer on iOS: a...Good7.3Wordle
Puzzle gameRestraint is still Wordle's defining trait, and The New York Times has mostly had the sense not to touch the puzzle itself. The app around it is a sub...Good7.7Daylio
Health & Fitness appDaylio is a wellness app built around a simple bet: the enemy of journaling is friction, not motivation. Its two-tap logging loop is well designed and...Good7.1
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3Endless 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...Great8.4rymdkapsel
Puzzle gamerymdkapsel strips real-time strategy down to planning alone and turns what's left into a tense, calm puzzle about space and greed. A slow start, short...Good7.3Blek
Family gameBlek takes one idea, a line that keeps repeating its own motion, and builds a puzzle game with almost nothing wasted. It remains a solid buy more than...Good7.2Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Tinkercad
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...Mixed6.5Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2Stone Story RPG
Adventure gameStone Story RPG turns ASCII art into some of the most expressive animation in indie gaming, and it hides a real programming language under its idle-RP...Great8.2Spaceteam
Family gameFew local party games use a room as well as Spaceteam does: it turns a group of phones into one panicking starship crew, and the design behind that is...Great8.4INMOST
Adventure gameFor all its polish, INMOST is a solid but uneven package: a three-to-five hour pixel-art story with real emotional weight, held back by stiff combat a...Good7.4SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Down Dog
Health & Fitness appDown Dog swaps the pre-recorded video library for a sequencing engine that builds a fresh class on every tap, and the result is one of the most person...Great8.6Candy Box 2
Adventure gameCandy Box 2 remains a clever bait-and-switch: a free, open-source ASCII RPG that unfolds from a single candy counter. We recommend the desktop browser...Good7.1Bloomberg 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 ...Good7.4Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7
