Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games — Page 8
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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Photo & Video appA serious archive and critique community wrapped in a phone app that still leans on the website for its best tools. Worth paying for if you shoot seri...Good7.1Lumino City
Adventure gameState of Play spent three years building a ten-foot city out of paper, card and miniature motors, then filmed it — and the result is a game whose art ...Good7.4Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic
Family gameA hand-drawn hidden object game priced like it respects its audience, with a short campaign and a level editor that carries the real weight. Solid for...Good7.3Dawncaster
Card gameDawncaster is one of the more generous roguelike deckbuilders around — a sprawling card RPG that layers talents, gear and enchantments onto the Slay t...Great8.2Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8Marco Polo
Photo & Video appMarco Polo is built around one good idea — video conversation without the tyranny of the calendar — executed with restraint. It's also an app that has...Good7.8
Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Board gameA free-to-play game that declines to exploit you — no energy meters, no ad walls, no manufactured urgency — and that restraint is the most interesting...Good7.6Dicefolk
Action gameDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...Good7.1SpellTower
Puzzle gameSpellTower rewards restraint over vocabulary, and its chain-clear rule remains one of the sharpest single mechanics in mobile puzzle design — but the ...Good7.9Hardcover
Books appFor readers ready to leave Goodreads behind, Hardcover offers the sharpest set of ideas in the category: half-star ratings, match-score recommendation...Good7.0Sneaky Sasquatch
Adventure gameA cooler-raiding stealth toy that quietly mutates into one of the most generous life sims on any platform, with zero ads, timers, or microtransactions...Great8.5Gartic Phone
Design appFor groups that already exist, Gartic Phone is one of the better free party games on a phone — a Telephone-meets-Pictionary machine with eleven modes,...Good7.8Polarsteps
Travel appThe rare travel journal that fills itself in, Polarsteps turns passive GPS capture into a map worth keeping and a hardback book worth buying. The rout...Great8.2Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2Usagi Shima
Simulation gameA hand-drawn bunny sanctuary that treats your absence as a feature instead of a debt to be collected — a quietly ethical take on free-to-play design, ...Good7.5LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Sokobond Express
Puzzle gameA wordless, immaculately taught puzzle game that fuses two Draknek classics into a smart, well-crafted whole — solid, but brief and uneven enough that...Good7.1iSH
Developer Tools appiSH pulls off something Apple's rules said shouldn't be possible — a genuine Alpine Linux userland running locally on an iPhone, no jailbreak, no serv...Good7.2Luftrausers
Action gameVlambeer distilled the arcade shooter down to one plane, one ocean, and one impossible question — shoot or survive — and built a game of remarkable fe...Good7.8Imbroglio
Strategy gameMichael Brough took a 4x4 grid, sixteen weapons, and roughly zero explanation, and built one of the deepest tactics games on a phone. It demands more ...Great8.6Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3Vectronom
Action gameVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...Good7.4
