Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
12 reviewed
Featured on iOS
Enter the Gungeon
Dodge Roll
Enter the Gungeon is a masterclass in mechanical precision, proving that a punishing difficulty curve is entirely palatable when the core combat loop ...
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn't just a remaster; it's a surgically precise and hilariously subversive critique of video games themselves. It's...
Baba Is You
Hempuli Oy
An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...
Kingdom Rush
Ironhide Game Studio
More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...
XCOM 2 Collection
Firaxis Games
The XCOM 2 Collection isn't just a game; it's a crucible. Firaxis Games has crafted the gold standard of turn-based tactics, a masterclass in tension ...
PeakFinder
Fabio Soldati
PeakFinder does one thing — naming mountains — and does it with a precision and offline reliability that shames apps ten times its price. It's the rar...
Tripsy
Tripsy LLC
Tripsy is the most polished trip organizer on iOS, with email import that actually works and collaboration that doesn't feel bolted on. Just know the ...
Google Maps
Google LLC
Google Maps remains the most complete navigation and local discovery tool ever built, and it isn't close. Its only real rivals are its own bloat, its ...
Waze
Waze
Waze remains the sharpest tool for beating traffic in real time, powered by a fanatically loyal community — but it demands your battery, your data, an...
Gaia GPS
Outside, Inc.
Gaia GPS is the most serious backcountry navigation app you can buy, offering a depth of map data that shames dedicated GPS hardware costing three tim...
WorkOutDoors
CCS Ltd
For serious athletes willing to survive a brutal learning curve, WorkOutDoors turns the Apple Watch into the trail-ready sports computer Apple never b...
Citymapper
Citymapper Limited
Citymapper remains the sharpest, most obsessive transit app ever built—if you live in one of the cities it actually covers. Outside the metro core, it...
Organic Maps
Organic Maps OU
Organic Maps is a masterclass in software efficiency, stripping away the tracking and commercial bloat of modern navigation tools to deliver a blazing...
OsmAnd
OsmAnd
OsmAnd is a brutal, brilliant, and uncompromising mapping powerhouse that trades mainstream polish for unparalleled offline depth and privacy. It is t...
Flightradar24
Flightradar24 AB
Flightradar24 remains the unrivaled gold standard of aviation tracking, transforming raw ADS-B telemetry into a high-fidelity, interactive window into...
Geocaching
Groundspeak Inc.
Groundspeak’s official app is the indispensable, if sometimes uninspired, digital key to the world’s largest treasure hunt. It successfully turns your...
Google Earth
Google Earth remains an unparalleled digital atlas for contextualizing our world. Its educational power is immense, but leveraging it effectively requ...