Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 25
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
Goxel
Design appFile-handling and selection concerns make Goxel hard to recommend for most people, despite serious voxel tooling in a tablet-sized package. Sparse sce...Mixed6.1Sandspiel
Design gameA pocket chemistry set with no goals, no ads and no scores, Sandspiel is best treated as a toy rather than a game. Its wind layer and image-based save...Good7.5Adobe Lightroom
Design appLightroom remains one of the most capable photo editors available on a phone, with AI tools that target real drudgery and manual controls that reward ...Good7.3Infinite Painter
Design appInfinite Painter pairs a deep, customisable brush engine with a clean interface and layered PSD export, and it asks for a one-time payment rather than...Good7.5Gartic 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,...Good7.8Kino
Design appKino is a pro-grade video app that respects both your intelligence and your time — cinematic, log-capable video with real-time color grading for a one...Great8.2Freeform
Design appFreeform is a free, well-designed whiteboard with a genuinely low-friction canvas—but its Apple-only walls, zero templates, and PDF-only export make i...Mixed6.4Darkroom – Photo & Video Editor
Design appDarkroom is a thoughtfully built iOS photo and video editor that edits straight from your camera roll, with a toolset deep enough for real work. The s...Good7.4
Cascadeur
Design appCascadeur is a rare animation tool that makes you better at your craft instead of doing it badly on your behalf — a focused, physics-literate animatio...Great8.7Cosmos
Design appCosmos is a beautiful idea executed with restraint — a quiet, ad-free sanctuary for visual creatives that mostly earns its 4.7-star store rating. Its ...Great8.2ArtRage
Design appArtRage is the rare digital painting app that treats paint as a physical substance with weight, wetness, and will, not just a color choice. Its tactil...Mixed6.8Eagle
Design appEagle is a fast, offline-first asset manager built to free desktop creatives from subscription fatigue, but its complete lack of a native iOS companio...Great8.4SpaceHey
Design appSpaceHey is a sincere, uncompromising time capsule that rejects modern engagement algorithms in favor of raw customizability, though its mobile execut...Good7.1Affinity Designer
Design appAffinity Designer 2 is a surgical strike against the Creative Cloud hegemony—a subscription-free powerhouse designed to turn the iPad from a consumpti...Outstanding9.2Spline
Design appSpline strips away the intimidation of traditional 3D suites, delivering an accessible interactive design environment that lives where modern users wo...Great8.8Luma AI
Design appLuma AI is a genuinely impressive leap in mobile spatial computing, bringing professional-grade 3D reconstruction to a smartphone — though its aggress...Great8.3Endless Paper
Design appEpiphanie's vector-based whiteboard ditches the confines of traditional digital paper for a fluid infinite zoom, though its militant "zero-UI" philoso...Good7.4Nomad Sculpt
Design appNomad Sculpt turns high-end mobile hardware from consumption slabs into legitimate digital ateliers, offering a professional-grade 3D sculpting suite ...Outstanding9.4Pixelmator Pro
Design appPixelmator Pro is a sharp, Apple-native alternative to Adobe's subscription model, built for speed and modern workflows — with real reservations aroun...Great8.6Concepts
Design appConcepts is a precision instrument disguised as a sketchbook, offering an infinite spatial sandbox that rewards technical rigor while punishing those ...Great8.4SketchAR
Design appSketchAR is an intriguing, technology-forward approach to artistic development through augmented reality, but its finicky AR tracking and aggressive m...Mixed6.1Procreate
Design appProcreate is the rare piece of software that justifies the hardware it runs on. It transforms the iPad from a content consumption device into a profes...Outstanding9.6Live2DViewerEX
Design appLive2DViewerEX is a solid, cross-platform utility for professionals and hobbyists in the Live2D and Spine ecosystem. It offers a centralized toolkit f...Good7.3Pixel Studio - pixel art editor
Design appPixel Studio is a sharply focused pixel art toolkit whose cross-platform design makes it a strong pick for game developers and artists who want to cre...Great8.5
