Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 139
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 ...Good7.4Due Tomorrow
Education appDue Tomorrow solves a real problem for students whose classes split between Canvas and Google Classroom, but its iOS-only reach, two-platform coverage...Mixed6.7Pocket Jam
Education appThe pitch-locked slowdown, transposition and looping are useful, but streamed Apple Music tracks lose key features and the import gate plus confusing ...Mixed6.2Dobudex
Education gameLimited free scans, rarity tied to scan counts and card stats with no use make Dobudex hard to recommend beyond casual family walks. The Dex, offline ...Mixed5.9Benkyo Box
Education appA free, private Apple-native spaced-repetition app with useful diagram tools, Benkyo Box is solid rather than exceptional; it suits learners who study...Good7.2Wanderful: Orbital construction pick — Juno: New Origins
Education gameJuno: New Origins gives phone players a real aerospace sandbox — engine tuning, visual scripting and orbital planning in one package — but a cramped t...Good7.2Thorium 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...Mixed6.1Eterna
Education appA login failure, blank screens and browser hand-offs undercut a free RNA-design game whose best answers really do reach a wet lab. The research premis...Mixed6.6
Kinopio
Education appKinopio is a charming spatial thinking tool on iOS, and its refusal to add AI is a design philosophy, not an omission. A tight free tier and a canvas ...Good7.2Bike Outliner
Education appBike is an outliner that behaves like a text editor first. It is keyboard-native, built on open files and designed to stay responsive with very large ...Good7.7Night Sky
Education appFor pointing a phone at the sky and finding out what's up there, Night Sky remains one of the simplest options around. The AR is polished and the free...Good7.8Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3BirdNET
Education appBirdNET is a serious scientific tool, and it shows. It identifies common birds by ear, costs nothing, shows no ads and every recording feeds real cons...Good7.1Epic: 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...Good7.3Teach Your Monster to Read
Adventure appA serious synthetic phonics curriculum wrapped in a charming adventure game, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It respects both the child and the p...Good7.8Pok Pok
Education appCalm, clever and built without hooks, Pok Pok is a solid pick for the right family. The subscription price and a ceiling for older kids are what hold ...Good7.8Tenuto
Education appTenuto won't teach music theory, and it doesn't claim to. As a drill tool for reinforcing theory already learned, it's precise and deeply customizable...Great8.0Solar System Scope
Education appA polished, data-grounded astronomy model that makes orbital mechanics easy to see, though ads, a paid texture unlock and a shallow reference layer ke...Good7.5The Elements by Theodore Gray
Education appMore than 500 real, rotatable photographs and Theodore Gray's funny, knowledgeable writing make this the strongest way to browse the periodic table on...Great8.7Lightbot
Education appLightbot teaches real computer-science thinking (decomposition, reuse, recursion and conditional logic) without showing a single line of syntax. It is...Great8.1Stack the States
Education appStack the States hides a flash-card drill inside a physics puzzle that is genuinely fun, and the design still works. It is a clean, ad-free, privacy-r...Good7.6Pythonista 3
Education appFor writing and running real Python on an iPhone or iPad, Pythonista 3 remains the most complete option available. It works fully offline, includes a ...Great8.2Functional Ear Trainer
Education appFunctional Ear Trainer rejects the interval-drilling model most ear-training apps use and replaces it with something far more useful: hearing every no...Great8.3Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6
