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...

MusicHarbor does one job — telling you when the artists you actually care about release something new — and does it with a thoroughness that embarrass...

Simogo's ocean-drift novella is one of the most confident acts of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular. Just unde...

Marvis Pro is what Apple Music would look like if Apple still trusted its users. It's the rare alternative client that justifies its existence entirel...

Longplay is a love letter to the LP in an era of algorithmic slop — a gorgeous, opinionated Apple Music front-end that makes you actually *listen* to ...

Rytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a confidence few rhythm hybrids ever manage, and its world-music curriculum is genuinely enriching. A...

SoundCloud remains the internet's most vital pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a 400-million-track wilderness no algorithm-polished comp...

In an era where every app wants to be a platform, **Broadcasts** is a rare thing—a beautifully engineered tool that does exactly one job and refuses t...

Ferrite takes the intimidating sprawl of desktop audio editing and remakes it for a touchscreen without dumbing it down—a rare feat that makes it the ...

Shazam solved its problem so completely that it stopped being an app and became a verb. Twenty years on, it remains the most reliable single-purpose u...

Spotify remains the smartest music recommendation engine on the planet, but its relentless push to become an "audio everything" app has left the once-...

Koala Sampler crams the tactile joy of a classic hardware sampler into your phone and mostly nails it—an addictive, immediate beatmaking machine that'...

EarMaster is a highly disciplined, surgical ear-training suite that trades modern gamification fluff for rigorous academic precision. While its steep ...

Synthesia is a brilliant, highly addictive keyboard visualizer that lowers the entry barrier for playing songs, but it functions more as a rhythm game...

By bypassing the main app interface entirely, Airbuds Widget transforms the sterile stream of music telemetry into a raw, low-friction social space fo...

Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...

Perfect Ear is a masterclass in educational utility, stripping away the pretension of music theory to deliver a rigorous, highly customizable "gym" fo...

A demanding, community-fueled rhythm pure-play that rewards extreme mechanical discipline with unparalleled flow states, though its steep learning cur...

Bandcamp remains the essential sanctuary for digital music ownership, offering a morally superior alternative to the streaming giants, even if its mob...

Poolsuite FM is a masterclass in vibes-based engineering, trading Spotify’s cold, data-driven efficiency for a pixelated, human-curated fever dream of...

LumaFusion is the definitive proof that mobile devices are no longer just for content consumption; it is a surgical, professional-grade video editor t...

A breathtaking bridge between geography and sound that reminds us that despite our borders, the airwaves remain a shared, chaotic, and beautiful human...

Geometry Dash is a masterclass in minimalist design, pairing a brutally difficult, rhythm-based platformer with a powerful community engine that gives...

Thumper is not merely a game; it's a grueling, hypnotic, and masterfully executed descent into aural and visual chaos. It's an essential experience th...