Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 29
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
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Card gameMTG Arena's rules engine is a genuine technical achievement, and its Limited scene is the strongest reason to install it. But the economy is built for...Mixed6.1Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8Race 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...Great8.0Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5Black 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...Good7.3Dawncaster
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...Great8.2Thronebreaker: 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...Good7.3Pokémon TCG Pocket
Card gameA gorgeous pack-opening ritual and a generous free daily cadence can't carry battles that come down to coin flips and a trading system that barely tra...Mixed6.2
Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!
Card gameA solitaire game welded to a horse racing sim by the studio that makes Pokémon, and the weld mostly holds. It's a strange, well-built career loop on A...Good7.6Arknights
Card gameArknights is a gacha game where the strategy layer isn't set dressing for the pull screen — it's the whole point, and it holds up. The price of admiss...Good7.8The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Card gameEight genuinely distinct solitaire variants — not eight reskins of Klondike — assembled with the same obsessive rule-design that built Zachtronics' re...Great8.4Dream Quest
Card gameDream Quest looks like it was drawn during a boring meeting, and it plays like one of the smartest card games on either storefront. This is the roguel...Good7.8CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6Iris and the Giant
Card gameLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...Good7.1Solitairica
Card gameSolitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...Good7.3Card Crawl
Card gameCard Crawl takes the loneliness of solitaire and weaponizes it into a taut, brutal little dungeon crawler. It's a superb example of mobile game design...Great8.2Vault of the Void
Card gameVault of the Void is a rigorous, deeply rewarding take on the roguelike deckbuilder that systematically dismantles the RNG-heavy frustrations of the g...Great8.8Dungeon Clawler
Action gameDungeon Clawler turns the most dangerous weapon in a dungeon into a poorly calibrated metal claw and a bad case of physics. It's a clever, genuinely f...Great8.5Luck be a Landlord
Card gameA sharp, well-designed take on probability management that strips the predatory skin off slot machines to reveal a clever, satirical roguelike engine-...Great8.5Balatro
Card gameBalatro is a roguelike deckbuilder built with unusual care, turning the humble poker hand into a vibrant, strategic engine through its 150-plus Joker ...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...Outstanding9.1Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Card gameAstrea: Six-Sided Oracles rethinks the roguelike deck-builder by swapping cards for a volatile, deeply strategic dice-based combat system. It's a ge...Great8.5Threes!
Card gameThrees! is a beautifully crafted, endlessly challenging puzzle box that respects players' intelligence and punishes every mistake with a devastating, ...Outstanding9.0
