Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 54
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
Pirates
Lifestyle appHard to recommend for most people: the Screen Time blocking, forfeit rule and locked hard mode are real commitment tools, but the reward loop leans on...Mixed6.3COPY
Lifestyle appPrivate and built around a well-chosen gesture, COPY dresses asynchronous voice notes in vintage walkie-talkie hardware. The costume is appealing, but...Good7.0Hibi
Lifestyle appCharm does much of the work here: a free, account-free paper layer over Apple Calendar and Reminders that rewards handwriting, stickers and washi tape...Good7.2Tomoshibi
Lifestyle appHard to recommend for most writers: the forward-only fade is a focused idea, but the app’s narrow fit, thin public track record and zero store rating ...Mixed6.0Stella Foster
Lifestyle appHard to recommend for most people: Stella Foster’s phone-number access is a smart structural idea, but an always-on Mac dependency, a thin public reco...Mixed5.9Letterloop
Books appLetterloop’s prompted, scheduled newsletter format gives scattered groups a clearer reason to check in than another chat thread, but the organizer bur...Good7.8Grocy
Food & Drink appGrocy's inventory loop and Due Score recipe ranking are genuinely useful for households that will run a server and log consistently, but the setup bur...Mixed6.7Couchsurfing
Lifestyle appCouchsurfing still offers something no booking engine can: a stranger's spare room and a local's view of the city. But the paywall, a shrinking pool o...Mixed6.1
GarageBand
Lifestyle appGarageBand remains the most generous free music app on any phone or tablet, and a real instrument in its own right. Its ceiling is low, though, and Ap...Great8.5Life360
Lifestyle appFor families who need cross-platform location sharing and teen-driver oversight, Life360 is a solid choice with real flaws that matter. Crash Detectio...Good7.8Lapse
Lifestyle appLapse is a convincing attempt to take the performance out of photo sharing: shots can't be checked right away, friends are the only audience, and ther...Good7.9Hinge
Lifestyle appHinge's core design is the most thoughtful in mainstream dating: you respond to a specific prompt or photo instead of swiping, so every match starts w...Good7.3Tiimo
Lifestyle appTiimo takes a clear, humane position on planning: time is hard to feel, and a visual schedule helps more than a list. Its colour-coded timeline and vi...Good7.4Swarm by Foursquare
Lifestyle appSwarm remains a solid free option for keeping a searchable record of everywhere you've been, and the automatic travel journals are a genuine reason to...Good7.1Daylio
Health & Fitness appDaylio is a wellness app built around a simple bet: the enemy of journaling is friction, not motivation. Its two-tap logging loop is well designed and...Good7.1Spaceteam
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...Great8.4Down Dog
Health & Fitness appDown Dog swaps the pre-recorded video library for a sequencing engine that builds a fresh class on every tap, and the result is one of the most person...Great8.6Lex
Lifestyle appLex bets that words are hotter than selfies, and that bet pays off often enough to matter — but a stingy paywall and thin moderation keep a genuinely ...Good7.4Geneva
Lifestyle appGeneva solved a problem Discord and iMessage both fumbled — giving a real-world community a home that isn't a server or a 200-person group text — and ...Good7.5Insight Timer
Health & Fitness appInsight Timer gives away more mindfulness content for free than Calm and Headspace sell combined, and the price of that generosity is a navigation exp...Great8.4Substack
Lifestyle appAs a reader, Substack's mobile app is among the best-built content clients on either store — chronological, ad-free, and genuinely pleasant to read in...Great8.4Sorted³
Lifestyle appSorted³ is a productivity app with a genuine point of view — that your tasks and your calendar belong in the same timeline — and its gesture design is...Good7.5Calm
Health & Fitness appCalm is a polished audio wellness product with strong production values and a Sleep Stories catalog built for winding down. But the free tier is a sto...Good7.2VSCO
Lifestyle appVSCO's film-emulation presets and editing tools remain genuinely excellent, but the gutted free tier and an insistent upsell make it hard to recommend...Mixed6.4
