Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.

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Pythagorea

Pythagorea

HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

8.7
educational
Our verdict

A ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. If you've ever wanted to *feel* the logic behind ...

Type:Rider

Type:Rider

Ex Nihilo, ARTE France

7.8
educational
Our verdict

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build

Draknek

8.7
game
Our verdict

Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...

Silt

Silt

Spiral Circus Games

7.8
game
Our verdict

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

Yuppie Psycho

Yuppie Psycho

Baroque Decay

8.5
game
Our verdict

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

7 Days to End with You

7 Days to End with You

Lizardry

8.6
game
Our verdict

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Framed

Framed

Loveshack Entertainment

8.7
game
Our verdict

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

Holedown

Holedown

grapefrukt games

8.7
game
Our verdict

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Golf Peaks

Golf Peaks

Heaven Brotherhood

8.5
game
Our verdict

Golf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, then builds one of the most quietly brilliant mobile puzzlers of its generation. It's short...

Assemble with Care

Assemble with Care

ustwo games

8.4
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous, tactile puzzle box wrapped around a genuinely moving story—just don't expect it to last longer than a good film. This is comfort food that...

Slayaway Camp

Slayaway Camp

Blue Wizard Digital

8.4
game
Our verdict

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

Cosmic Express

Cosmic Express

Cosmic Engineers, Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis, Tyu

8.8
game
Our verdict

Cosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a brilliant, uncom...

The Last Door

The Last Door

The Game Kitchen

8.8
game
Our verdict

A masterful exercise in psychological restraint that proves your imagination is a far more terrifying rendering engine than any high-definition GPU.

Linelight

Linelight

My Dog Zorro

9.2
game
Our verdict

Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Knotwords

Knotwords

Noodlecake

9.2
game
Our verdict

Knotwords is a masterclass in subtractive design, stripping the crossword of its dusty trivia and replacing it with pure, spatial logic. It is the mos...

M

Magnus Trainer

Chess.com

8.2
educational
Our verdict

Magnus Trainer succeeds as a visually stunning, habit-forming chess mentor, but its speed-focused mini-games and premium subscription price tag create...

A Little to the Left

A Little to the Left

Max Inferno

8.5
game
Our verdict

A Little to the Left is a masterclass in minimalist puzzle design that elevates the mundane to the meditative, though a few unintuitive logic leaps an...

Snakebird

Snakebird

Noumenon Games

9.2
game
Our verdict

Don't let the primary colors and chirping birds fool you; Snakebird is a punishing, brilliantly designed logic engine that will leave your brain bruis...

Please, Touch The Art

Please, Touch The Art

Thomas Waterzooi

8.5
game
Our verdict

A minimalist masterclass that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a...

Euclidea

Euclidea

HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

9.2
educational
Our verdict

Euclidea is a rare triumph of educational design that treats geometry not as a chore to be memorized, but as a series of increasingly elegant puzzles ...

Return to Monkey Island

Return to Monkey Island

TECOPARK

8.8
game
Our verdict

*Return to Monkey Island* isn't merely a nostalgic rehash; it's a meticulously crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confi...

Grindstone

Grindstone

Capybara Games

9.2
game
Our verdict

Capybara Games' *Grindstone* is a deceptively deep, compulsively playable puzzle game that transforms simple chain-linking into a strategic dance with...

Mushroom 11

Mushroom 11

Ubisoft - San Francisco, Ubisoft - Osaka

9.1
game
Our verdict

Mushroom 11 defies conventional puzzle-platforming by transforming destruction into creation, offering a cerebral and often maddeningly brilliant expe...

Slice & Dice

Slice & Dice

Valve Corporation

9.2
game
Our verdict

*Slice & Dice* isn't just another roguelike; it's a masterclass in probabilistic combat, meticulously blending the capricious whims of dice with profo...

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