Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 19
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
Waylist
Navigation appWaylist addresses a real gap in Apple Maps Guides, but missing guide sharing, a recent-OS requirement and Apple Maps-dependent place entry make it har...Mixed6.1CoMaps
Navigation appCoMaps is a principled navigation app: frugal, fully offline, and run by a community instead of an ad business. It asks you to plan ahead, and power u...Good7.1Wanderlog
Navigation appFor a free itinerary planner, Wanderlog covers an unusual amount of ground: map-linked days, real-time group editing, email-based booking import and c...Good7.8MarineTraffic
Navigation appMarineTraffic remains the most complete way to see the world's shipping from a phone, and its near-shore tracking is excellent. But the developer keep...Mixed6.5Transit
Navigation appTransit gets a rider from "I need to leave" to "I'm on the right bus" faster than anything else in the category. It opens straight to what matters, an...Great8.2Wikiloc
Navigation appWikiloc has one of the largest crowdsourced trail libraries anywhere, and its free tier with offline maps is useful on its own. But the features that ...Good7.2Mapy.com
Navigation appMapy.com is a genuinely strong outdoor map app, with trail cartography and a multi-sport route planner that put it ahead of Google and Apple for anyth...Good7.3PeakFinder
Navigation appNaming the mountain in front of you, offline and without a subscription, is the whole job here, and PeakFinder does it with a precision that earns its...Great8.2
Tripsy
Navigation appTripsy is a polished trip organizer for iOS, with email import designed to do the heavy lifting and collaboration built in from the start rather than ...Good7.7Google Maps
Food & Drink appGoogle Maps is the most complete navigation and local discovery tool available, and it isn't close. Its real rivals are its own bloat, its appetite fo...Great8.9Waze
Navigation appWaze remains the sharpest tool for beating traffic in real time, powered by a famously loyal community — but it demands battery, data, and a tolerance...Good7.4Gaia GPS
Navigation appGaia GPS is one of the most serious backcountry navigation apps available, with a depth of map data that rivals dedicated GPS hardware costing far mor...Good7.4WorkOutDoors
Health & Fitness appFor serious athletes willing to survive a brutal learning curve, WorkOutDoors turns the Apple Watch into the trail-ready sports computer Apple never b...Great8.1Citymapper
Navigation appCitymapper is a sharply focused transit app that goes deeper than the big mapping platforms—if you live in one of the cities it covers. Outside the me...Good7.6Organic Maps
Navigation appOrganic Maps is a lean, principled navigation utility that trades live traffic and business data for a fully offline, zero-telemetry experience. It is...Great8.7OsmAnd
Navigation appOsmAnd is a brutal, brilliant, and uncompromising mapping powerhouse that trades mainstream polish for deep offline capability and privacy. It is a st...Great8.3Flightradar24
Navigation appFlightradar24 remains the most dependable aviation tracker available, turning raw ADS-B telemetry into an interactive window into the global sky. It i...Great8.5Geocaching
Health & Fitness gameGroundspeak's official app is the essential, if sometimes uninspired, digital key to the world's largest treasure hunt. It turns a smartphone into a m...Good7.1Google Earth
Navigation appWe recommend Google Earth for guided classroom use: it is a free, deep atlas with strong spatial context and curated tours. Its open-ended links and l...Great8.5
