Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 47
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
Lemon Squeezy: Kids Camera
Photo & Video appA thin ratings base, an iOS-only footprint and a paywall that cuts against the app’s own restraint make this hard to recommend for most families, even...Mixed6.4Hand Mirror
Photo & Video appA free menu bar camera check that handles one small, recurring problem, but a narrow free tier, peripheral extras and a sparse public record keep it f...Mixed6.3Riverside.fm
Business appLocal recording is the reason to consider Riverside: capturing up to 4K video and 48kHz WAV on each device means a bad connection no longer decides ho...Good7.4Gyroflow
Photo & Video appGyroflow reads how your camera actually moved and cancels that motion with precision, all for free. On iPhone and Android it puts a desktop-class stab...Good7.3Loops
Photo & Video appLoops shows a short-video network can run without ads, surveillance, or engagement traps, and its fediverse plumbing is genuinely clever. What it hasn...Good7.3Adobe Lightroom
Design appLightroom remains one of the most capable photo editors available on a phone, with AI tools that target real drudgery and manual controls that reward ...Good7.3Lapse
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...Good7.9Flickr
Photo & Video appA serious archive and critique community wrapped in a phone app that still leans on the website for its best tools. Worth paying for if you shoot seri...Good7.1
Marco Polo
Photo & Video appMarco Polo is built around one good idea — video conversation without the tyranny of the calendar — executed with restraint. It's also an app that has...Good7.8Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Micro.blog
Photo & Video appMicro.blog trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own, and charges honestly for the privilege. The iOS a...Good7.6Kino
Design appKino is a pro-grade video app that respects both your intelligence and your time — cinematic, log-capable video with real-time color grading for a one...Great8.2Photomator
Photo & Video appFor iPhone-first photographers, Photomator removes the friction that makes most editors exhausting: no import, no duplicate catalog, edits living dire...Good7.8VSCO
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...Mixed6.4Prisma
Photo & Video appPrisma still produces some of the most convincing neural-style transformations on mobile, but a bloated 500-filter library and an aggressive paywall h...Mixed6.1Darkroom – Photo & Video Editor
Design appDarkroom is a thoughtfully built iOS photo and video editor that edits straight from your camera roll, with a toolset deep enough for real work. The s...Good7.4Cosmos
Design appCosmos is a beautiful idea executed with restraint — a quiet, ad-free sanctuary for visual creatives that mostly earns its 4.7-star store rating. Its ...Great8.2Upscayl
Photo & Video appUpscayl is a solid, well-designed utility that turns muddy, low-res images into crisp assets entirely on your own machine—but it demands a real GPU to...Good7.6LosslessCut
Photo & Video appLosslessCut is a lean, FFmpeg-powered utility that cuts and merges video without re-encoding it—fast by design and honest about its limits. It's a sol...Good7.1Alight Motion
Photo & Video appAlight Motion packs real motion-design power into a phone, and nothing else in its class matches its keyframe depth. But a steep learning curve, a wat...Mixed6.9Retro
Photo & Video appBuilt on deliberate friction, Retro trades the hollow dopamine of public metrics for the quiet satisfaction of actual friendship. It is one of the ver...Outstanding9.0Emby
Photo & Video appEmby is a genuinely powerful, server-first media client that respects data ownership, but a paywalled mobile playback model and platform-specific roug...Mixed6.0Luma AI
Design appLuma AI is a genuinely impressive leap in mobile spatial computing, bringing professional-grade 3D reconstruction to a smartphone — though its aggress...Great8.3Snapseed
Lifestyle appSnapseed remains a defiant anomaly in the mobile ecosystem: a professional-grade, non-destructive darkroom that costs nothing and asks for even less. ...Outstanding9.1
