Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Hooktheory I is the rare theory course that treats pop songwriting as the destination rather than a lesser cousin of Bach chorales — five hours of col...

Chessable is the most effective structured chess study tool on the market, full stop. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-authored catalog ar...

Speechling does the one thing most language apps quietly avoid — it makes you speak, then has a real human tell you what you got wrong. The interface ...

Renshuu is the rare language app where the free tier isn't a demo — it's the product. Dense, occasionally overwhelming, and built by two people who cl...

Sky Tonight is the most capable pocket planetarium on mobile, blending a razor-accurate sky map with genuinely useful event forecasting—but its free t...

Speak is the rare language app that grabs you by the collar and makes you *talk*, weaponizing large-language-model tech into a tireless conversation p...

NASA's official app is the rarest thing in mobile software—an authoritative, ad-free, genuinely free educational resource with more content than you c...

Star Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums ever built, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible m...

Forvo remains the single best way to hear how a word *actually* sounds in the mouths of real native speakers — a peerless resource wrapped in a mobile...

The official Wikipedia app is a rare thing in 2026 — a piece of software that respects you. It's fast, ad-free, open source, and quietly one of the be...

Labster builds gorgeous, curriculum-locked 3D science simulations that genuinely make abstract STEM tangible — but the mobile app is a cramped compani...

ELSA Speak does one hard thing better than almost anyone — it tells you *exactly* which sound in which syllable you got wrong, instantly, without judg...

Ringotan is the rare free tool that does one hard thing exceptionally well — teaching your hand, not just your eyes, to know 3,500 kanji. It's ugly, o...

Toca Boca World is the rare kids' app that treats children as authors instead of score-chasers—a genuinely safe, wildly imaginative digital dollhouse ...

Blinkist is a genuinely useful memory aid and book-discovery engine wrapped in a subscription model that fights dirty at renewal time. It won't make y...

A ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. If you've ever wanted to *feel* the logic behind ...

A Yale-backed, genuinely free emotional journaling app that treats feelings as a skill you can build rather than a mood you passively log — and it doe...

PictureThis is a genuinely impressive piece of computer vision wrapped in one of the most aggressive paywalls on the App Store. The identification eng...

A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

Supernotes rebuilds note-taking from the atom up, trading the blank page for a deck of interlinked cards — and the result is one of the most thoughtfu...

LiquidText rethinks the PDF from the ground up, turning static documents into a living, draggable workspace that genuinely accelerates deep reading—if...

Nebo turns your scrawl into clean, searchable, editable text better than anything else on a touchscreen — and if you own a stylus, that alone justifie...

A genuinely excellent 3D anatomy reference held back by an aggressive paywall. If you're serious about the human body, the free tier will tease you un...

phyphox turns the sensor array already buried in your pocket into a legitimate scientific instrument—for free, with no ads and no strings. It won't te...