Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 30
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
Sandspiel
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...Good7.5Teach 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...Good7.8Stack 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...Good7.6Hexologic
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...Good7.6Pine Hearts
Adventure gameA short, gentle, carefully judged hike through grief. The puzzles won't challenge anyone and the structure is familiar, but the warmth and restraint i...Good7.4Pipe Push Paradise
Family gameFew recent puzzle games do as much with as little as Pipe Push Paradise. It builds a whole island of demanding puzzles from a few simple rules and nev...Great8.1Paperbark
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...Mixed6.1El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9
Blek
Family gameBlek takes one idea, a line that keeps repeating its own motion, and builds a puzzle game with almost nothing wasted. It remains a solid buy more than...Good7.2Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2Spaceteam
Family gameFew local party games use a room as well as Spaceteam does: it turns a group of phones into one panicking starship crew, and the design behind that is...Great8.4Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic
Family gameA hand-drawn hidden object game priced like it respects its audience, with a short campaign and a level editor that carries the real weight. Solid for...Good7.3Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Adventure gameDouble Fine's restoration is a strong, careful version of a 1993 classic — a time-travel puzzle box whose three-timeline design still has no real succ...Great8.6The Jackbox Party Pack
Family gameThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...Mixed6.9Crossy Road
Action gameA decade on, Hipster Whale's voxel hopper is still the model for free-to-play arcade design done right — instant to learn, hard to master, and monetiz...Great8.3Chuchel
Adventure gameCHUCHEL is barely a game and mostly a delight — a brief Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away; if you ...Good7.1Prune
Family gamePrune is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...Great8.0Hidden 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...Good7.8Ultimate Chicken Horse
Action gameA rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a clever, well-built take on emergent chaos—great with friends...Great8.0The Last Express
Adventure gameNearly three decades old and still one of the most ambitious narrative experiments the medium has produced, The Last Express is a real-time mystery ...Great8.1Seterra
Education appSeterra is a refreshingly lean, distraction-free map utility that trades modern gamification gimmicks for pure knowledge retention. It is a highly wor...Great8.4Samorost 3
Adventure gameSamorost 3 is a striking piece of interactive art, a point-and-click adventure whose gorgeous visuals and atmospheric sound design largely make up for...Great8.2Journey
Adventure gameMore than a decade after its debut, Journey remains a quietly powerful, minimalist odyssey. It's less a game you play and more an experience that wash...Great8.7
