Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 23
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
Featured on Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Wavelength
Board appFree, ad-free and account-free, this adaptation of CMYK Games' board game turns a one-word clue and a shared dial into the best kind of argument. It n...Great8.1Kami 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...Good7.5Race 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...Great8.0Neko 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...Good7.6Spirit Island
Board gameHandelabra's adaptation of one of tabletop's most demanding cooperative games is faithful to a fault — strong rules automation and real depth, held ba...Good7.7Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Antihero
Board gameAntihero compresses a full night of board-game scheming into the length of a coffee break, with an economy of design few games in the genre match. Buy...Good7.5Through the Ages
Board gameCGE Digital's adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil's civilization epic is the rare port that improves on its source material — a dense, brutal, brilliant stra...Great8.6
Isle of Arrows
Board gameDaniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced a quietly clever strategy game worth a look — provided you can mak...Good7.6I Love Hue
Board gameI Love Hue turns colour sorting into something close to meditation, and it does so with more craft than its simple premise suggests. The free version'...Good7.2Chessable
Board appChessable is a highly effective structured chess study tool, and we recommend it with real reservations. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-...Great8.0Terraforming Mars
Board gameTerraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while stumbling on presentat...Mixed6.5Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7Really Bad Chess
Board gameZach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and produces a genuinely accessible, replayable take on the game....Good7.8Chess.com
Board gameChess.com is the most complete chess product available on a phone — a sprawling, polished, occasionally exhausting ecosystem built to make you a bette...Great8.4Two Dots
Board gameTwo Dots is an elegantly designed puzzle game with a genuinely deep core mechanic — and a quietly persistent free-to-play economy that works against t...Good7.2Wingspan
Board gameMonster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a faithful, gorgeous translation of one of the decade's best board games — calming, mechanically deep, and...Great8.0Magnus Trainer
Board appMagnus Trainer is a well-designed, habit-forming chess mentor with a distinctive Scandinavian identity, but its speed-focused mini-games and restricti...Good7.3Lichess
Board gameLichess remains the benchmark for digital chess — a powerful, ad-free, uncompromisingly free platform that puts commercial rivals to shame through she...Outstanding9.6Card Thief
Board gameArnold Rauers' Card Thief distills the tension of stealth gameplay into a remarkably elegant and endlessly replayable solitaire experience that st...Outstanding9.1Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Board gameAn ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...Great8.5Flow Free
Board gameFlow Free is a near-perfect distillation of minimalist puzzle design, offering more genuine engagement than most heavily produced competitors. It earn...Great8.6Monopoly GO!
Board gameMonopoly GO! wraps the iconic board game's aesthetic around a shallow, luck-driven loop built to sell dice rolls. Its polish and presentation are real...Mixed5.8
