Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 36
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
Early Reader
Books appStrict, quiet and free, this phonics course pairs direct instruction with spaced repetition and skips the engagement tricks. It is a solid choice for ...Good7.4Shelf
Books appAutomatic logging removes the chore that kills most media diaries, and a social layer with no posting and no follower counts keeps Shelf calm rather t...Good7.4Another Page
Books appThe read-to-unlock loop gives app blocking a useful payoff, and the free tier makes the idea easy to try. A tight app cap, all-at-once unlocks and Pre...Good7.2Letterloop
Books appLetterloop’s prompted, scheduled newsletter format gives scattered groups a clearer reason to check in than another chat thread, but the organizer bur...Good7.8Thorium Reader
Books appMissing highlighting, scroll mode and any form of sync leave this free, ad-free reader hard to recommend for most people, despite strong format suppor...Mixed6.1Readest
Books appFor readers who own their ebooks rather than rent them, Readest is a solid pick: an open-source, format-agnostic app that connects to the tools seriou...Good7.3Literal
Books appA thoughtfully designed Goodreads alternative with a genuinely useful highlights archive — held back by a patchy book database and a small community. ...Good7.2Epic: 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...Good7.3
Fable: Book Club & Tracker
Books appFable earns a clear recommendation on the strength of its in-book discussion system, a genuinely clever design solution to the spoiler problem tha...Great8.6hoopla 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...Great8.2Paperbark
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...Mixed6.1Hardcover
Books appFor readers ready to leave Goodreads behind, Hardcover offers the sharpest set of ideas in the category: half-star ratings, match-score recommendation...Good7.0Chessable
Board appChessable is a highly effective structured chess study tool, and we recommend it with real reservations. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-...Great8.0Sky Tonight
Books appSky Tonight is a capable pocket planetarium that pairs an accurate sky map with genuinely useful event forecasting—but its free tier is riddled with v...Good7.3Wikipedia
Books appThe official Wikipedia app is a rare thing — a piece of software that respects you. It's free, ad-free, open source, and quietly one of the best-desig...Outstanding9.1Hidden Folks
Adventure gameA hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for patience, craft, and a huge library of sound effects made with a h...Good7.8Blinkist
Books appBlinkist is a genuinely useful book-discovery engine wrapped in a subscription model that fights dirty at renewal time. It won't make anyone well-read...Mixed6.6BookFusion
Books appBookFusion is a format-agnostic reading platform with genuine Calibre muscle and annotation tools that talk to the apps you already live in. The free ...Good7.2Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
Adventure gameinkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...Great8.5Device 6
Adventure gameSimogo's Device 6 is a brilliant, unsettling fusion of novella and mechanical puzzle box, and it stands among the finest achievements of mobile game d...Great8.7Overboard!
Adventure gameA sharp exercise in narrative efficiency that turns the classic murder mystery on its head by casting you as the villain in a race against the clock. ...Great8.7LibriVox
Books appLibriVox is a scrappy, valuable antidote to the subscription-heavy hegemony of modern publishing, offering a massive, free library of public domain cl...Good7.6Goodreads
Books appA monolithic database trapped in a 2010 design language, Goodreads remains the default town square for bibliophiles largely because its data moat is t...Mixed6.8DeepL Translate
Books appDeepL Translate is a focused, well-designed translation utility that prioritizes context and tone over sheer language count. It earns a strong recomme...Great8.4
