Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 86
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
Wanderful: Orbital construction pick — Juno: New Origins
Education gameJuno: New Origins gives phone players a real aerospace sandbox — engine tuning, visual scripting and orbital planning in one package — but a cramped t...Good7.2Blippo+
Simulation gameA comedy built around watching rather than doing, with enough format-specific wit and cross-channel mystery to reward the right patient player. Its th...Good7.6Sandspiel
Design gameA pocket chemistry set with no goals, no ads and no scores, Sandspiel is best treated as a toy rather than a game. Its wind layer and image-based save...Good7.5and Roger
Adventure gameand Roger is one of the most quietly ambitious small games of the year — a one-hour interactive fiction that weaponizes bad UX on purpose, and in do...Great8.7Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Retro Bowl
Simulation gameRetro Bowl pairs a one-gesture passing game with a front-office sim that actually bites, and hands over both for free. Its refusal to let you play def...Good7.7SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4
Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Board gameA free-to-play game that declines to exploit you — no energy meters, no ad walls, no manufactured urgency — and that restraint is the most interesting...Good7.6Usagi Shima
Simulation gameA hand-drawn bunny sanctuary that treats your absence as a feature instead of a debt to be collected — a quietly ethical take on free-to-play design, ...Good7.5LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Luftrausers
Action gameVlambeer distilled the arcade shooter down to one plane, one ocean, and one impossible question — shoot or survive — and built a game of remarkable fe...Good7.8Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Sultan's Game
Adventure gameA ruthless card-draw RPG that turns moral compromise into a resource you spend weekly, Sultan's Game is an audacious narrative design held back by a...Good7.8Hitman: World of Assassination
Action gameNearly a decade of the finest sandbox stealth ever made, bundled into one package and playable on everything from a gaming rig to an iPhone. The alway...Outstanding9.4Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8WorldBox - God Simulator
RPG gameWorldBox is a rare, uncompromising sandbox — a toy box of civilizations you can nurture for hours or vaporize in four seconds — held back by a late ga...Good7.5Nauticrawl
Puzzle gameNauticrawl hands you a stolen machine, no instructions, and a hostile planet, then trusts you to figure it out — and that trust produces one of the pu...Good7.5Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...Mixed6.0Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Adventure gameCygames built a genuinely deep management sim, wrapped it in a polished presentation layer, and then chained the whole thing to a gacha economy and a ...Good7.4
