Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 44
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
Farwave
Music appThe globe gives radio a useful sense of place, but the podcast and local-library planets stretch that idea thin, CarPlay sits behind Pro, and the publ...Mixed6.4Pocket 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 ...Mixed6.2Fortissimo
Music appHard to recommend for most listeners: Fortissimo demands manual track-by-track scoring, runs only on iPhone with iOS 26 or later, and has no meaningfu...Mixed6.3Groove Number
Music appIts narrow electronic-music focus and unproven accuracy make Groove Number hard to recommend for most people, though the $1.99 utility gives electroni...Mixed6.8Friday Night Funkin'
Action gameFriday Night Funkin' is a four-arrow rhythm game with a genuinely strong soundtrack and animation full of personality. The official mobile port is the...Good7.4GarageBand
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...Great8.5Musicboard
Music appFor logging, rating and arguing about albums, Musicboard is a strong take on the "Letterboxd for music" formula, with a real community of listeners wr...Good7.1Tenuto
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...Great8.0
Ableton Note
Music appFor capturing musical ideas fast and handing them off intact, Ableton Note is a focused, well-designed sketchpad with one clear purpose. The trip to t...Good7.4Functional 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...Great8.3Vectronom
Action gameVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...Good7.4Moises
Music appMoises does one genuinely hard thing — pulling a finished record apart into playable stems — and wraps it in a strong set of practice tools. The engin...Good7.7Sonority
Adventure gameSonority makes music itself the level design rather than the soundtrack — a genuinely novel idea undermined by a control scheme that fights its own be...Mixed6.8Last.fm
Music appLast.fm remains the most valuable listening record in music — a decades-deep archive nothing else can replicate — but the mobile apps are unreliable a...Mixed6.0Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Arcaea
Music gamelowiro built one of the most mechanically inventive rhythm games on mobile by dragging the genre off its flat plane and into the air, then wrapped it ...Good7.7Hooktheory
Education appA compact, ear-first theory course that makes functional harmony legible through color-coded piano rolls, Hooktheory I is worth the $14.99 for songwri...Good7.2MusicHarbor
Music appMusicHarbor does one job — telling you when the artists you actually care about release something new — and does it with a thoroughness the big stream...Good7.8The Sailor's Dream
Adventure gameSimogo's ocean-drift novella is a confident act of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular, though its real-time des...Good7.2Marvis Pro
Music appMarvis Pro is what Apple Music would look like if Apple still trusted its users. A one-time $9.99 buys a level of library control Apple will never off...Good7.6Longplay
Music appLongplay is a love letter to the LP amid algorithmic slop — a gorgeous, opinionated Apple Music front-end built to make listening to your library the ...Good7.4Rytmos
Music gameRytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a clarity few rhythm hybrids manage, and its world-music curriculum is enriching. A shaky iOS port an...Good7.4SoundCloud
Music appSoundCloud remains the internet's most distinctive pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a user-uploaded wilderness no algorithm-polished co...Good7.7Broadcasts
Music appBroadcasts is a carefully engineered tool that does exactly one job and refuses to apologize for it. It's a solid, focused internet radio app, bes...Good7.7
