Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Glass is the rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, and on Apple hardware it delivers a genuinely calm, craft-first place to look...

Micro.blog is the rare social app that refuses to be one — it trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own...

Are.na is the rare social platform that respects your attention instead of strip-mining it, and the late-2025 mobile rebuild finally gives it an app w...

The Iconfactory has built the most humane way to read the fractured social web on iOS — a strictly chronological, algorithm-free timeline that treats ...

SoundCloud remains the internet's most vital pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a 400-million-track wilderness no algorithm-polished comp...

Ice Cubes is the fastest, most polished way to use Mastodon on an iPhone — a free, open-source SwiftUI showcase that outclasses most paid clients, pro...

Fastmail's mobile app is a fast, reliable, privacy-respecting email client that asks a fair price for the radical act of not selling you out—but it's ...

Tapbots took everything that made Tweetbot the gold standard and rebuilt it for Mastodon, and the result is the most refined client the fediverse has....

IRCCloud is the smartest thing to happen to a 35-year-old protocol, wrapping IRC's raw text firehose in a modern, always-on client that never sleeps. ...

Co-Star turns astrology into a slick, socially wired experience with a design sense that shames most productivity apps — but its personality is doing ...

Silvio Rizzi torched the unread badge and rebuilt his beloved RSS app as a calm, chronological river of everything you follow. It's gorgeous and genui...

Primal is the most polished, user-friendly portal into the Nostr protocol, successfully combining censorship-resistant microblogging with a built-in B...

By bypassing the main app interface entirely, Airbuds Widget transforms the sterile stream of music telemetry into a raw, low-friction social space fo...

SpaceHey is a brilliant, uncompromising time capsule that rejects modern engagement algorithms in favor of raw customizability, though its mobile exec...

Threema is the gold standard for sovereign communication, offering a masterclass in metadata minimization that proves your phone number should never h...

Warpcast is a masterclass in decentralized utility, trading the "free" price tag of legacy social media for a high-signal sanctuary that respects the ...

ZeroTier effectively erases the physical distance between devices, creating a global local area network that feels like magic—until you try to run it ...

A masterclass in intentional friction, Retro trades the hollow dopamine of public metrics for the quiet satisfaction of actual friendship. It is the r...

Cara is a defiant, artist-first sanctuary that trades algorithmic polish for ethical purity, proving that "human-made" is the new luxury in a digital ...

Damus is a radical manifesto disguised as a microblogging app, trading the polished convenience of centralized silos for a raw, sovereign future built...

A monolithic database trapped in a 2010 design language, Goodreads remains the essential town square for bibliophiles simply because it is too massive...

Shortwave doesn't just manage your email; it aggressively re-engineers the inbox into a functional task list, leveraging AI that actually feels intell...

Locket Widget is a surgical strike against the algorithmic bloat of modern social media, reclaiming your phone's most valuable real estate for actual ...

Delta Chat is a brilliant act of digital defiance that transforms the aging infrastructure of email into a modern, decentralized fortress for private ...