Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 122
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
Pight
Puzzle gameA clean, coherent puzzle game with a fair one-time price, but the no-hint, no-text design will strand many players at its difficulty spikes. At $3.99 ...Mixed6.7TR-49
Adventure gameA clever catalog-code mystery with a strong central loop, but guessable codes, uneven signposting and a weaker Switch fit keep it from the top tier. R...Good7.5Eterna
Education appA login failure, blank screens and browser hand-offs undercut a free RNA-design game whose best answers really do reach a wet lab. The research premis...Mixed6.6Kami 2
Board gameKAMI 2 turns a worn-out color-flood premise into a quiet argument with yourself, and mostly wins it. The core design is solid and the mobile version i...Good7.5Underground Blossom
Adventure gameUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...Good7.7Twofold Inc.
Puzzle gameTwofold Inc. takes the familiar color-matching puzzle and turns it into a game about planning ahead — no timers, no ads, no filler. It is a smart $3.9...Good7.8Kids
Adventure gameKids is a 20-minute interactive short about crowds, priced like one at $3.99, and it will disappoint anyone expecting a conventional game. The animati...Mixed6.3The White Door
Adventure gameThe White Door proves Rusty Lake's surrealism can work in a slower, more structured form, but it's short, gentle, and repeats itself more than it shou...Mixed6.6
Lightbot
Education appLightbot teaches real computer-science thinking (decomposition, reuse, recursion and conditional logic) without showing a single line of syntax. It is...Great8.1Please, Don't Touch Anything
Puzzle gameA clever one-room puzzle game that turns a single forbidden button into about 25 endings, most of them darkly funny. It rewards patience and a notepad...Good7.0Monument Valley 3
Adventure gameustwo games finally lets Monument Valley leave the room it was built in. Sailing and reshaping architecture make this the most ambitious game in the t...Good7.5Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure gameSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...Good7.7Hindsight
Adventure gameHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...Good7.1Pipe Push Paradise
Family gameFew recent puzzle games do as much with as little as Pipe Push Paradise. It builds a whole island of demanding puzzles from a few simple rules and nev...Great8.1Deus Ex GO
Puzzle gameDeus Ex GO compresses a sprawling immersive sim into a tight, clean turn-based puzzle game, and it keeps more of the series' identity than expected. T...Good7.2Rusty Lake Hotel
Adventure gameRusty Lake Hotel is a short, macabre point-and-click puzzler whose mood carries it through a few stretches of bad logic. At its price it's a solid way...Good7.5Hitman GO
Puzzle gameSquare Enix Montréal took a sprawling stealth-action series, kept only its logic, and ended up with a smart, distinctive puzzle game. It's short, and ...Good7.8Mekorama
Puzzle gameMekorama is a smart, generous pocket puzzler that earns its recommendation: tiny rotating dioramas, honest physics, and a level editor that stretches ...Great8.5Jenny LeClue – Detectivú
Action gameMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...Good7.1Wordle
Puzzle gameRestraint is still Wordle's defining trait, and The New York Times has mostly had the sense not to touch the puzzle itself. The app around it is a sub...Good7.7Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3rymdkapsel
Puzzle gamerymdkapsel strips real-time strategy down to planning alone and turns what's left into a tense, calm puzzle about space and greed. A slow start, short...Good7.3Blek
Family gameBlek takes one idea, a line that keeps repeating its own motion, and builds a puzzle game with almost nothing wasted. It remains a solid buy more than...Good7.2
