Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 38
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
Overflight
Travel appA local-first flight tracker with a clear scope and strong accessibility intentions, but the Pro split, compass dependence and variable coverage make ...Mixed6.3Journeybot
Productivity appA privacy-first packing assistant with useful seasonal logic and baggage reminders, but generous suggestions, weak family sharing and a thin track rec...Mixed6.5Waylist
Navigation appWaylist addresses a real gap in Apple Maps Guides, but missing guide sharing, a recent-OS requirement and Apple Maps-dependent place entry make it har...Mixed6.1CoMaps
Navigation appCoMaps is a principled navigation app: frugal, fully offline, and run by a community instead of an ad business. It asks you to plan ahead, and power u...Good7.1Couchsurfing
Lifestyle appCouchsurfing still offers something no booking engine can: a stranger's spare room and a local's view of the city. But the paywall, a shrinking pool o...Mixed6.1Wanderlog
Navigation appFor a free itinerary planner, Wanderlog covers an unusual amount of ground: map-linked days, real-time group editing, email-based booking import and c...Good7.8MarineTraffic
Navigation appMarineTraffic remains the most complete way to see the world's shipping from a phone, and its near-shore tracking is excellent. But the developer keep...Mixed6.5Swarm by Foursquare
Lifestyle appSwarm remains a solid free option for keeping a searchable record of everywhere you've been, and the automatic travel journals are a genuine reason to...Good7.1
Transit
Navigation appTransit gets a rider from "I need to leave" to "I'm on the right bus" faster than anything else in the category. It opens straight to what matters, an...Great8.2Mapy.com
Navigation appMapy.com is a genuinely strong outdoor map app, with trail cartography and a multi-sport route planner that put it ahead of Google and Apple for anyth...Good7.3Trivio
Business appTrivio is a niche business-travel manager whose real feature isn't booking — it's the 1C accounting integration that removes the double-entry drud...Mixed6.0Polarsteps
Travel appThe rare travel journal that fills itself in, Polarsteps turns passive GPS capture into a map worth keeping and a hardback book worth buying. The rout...Great8.2italki
Education appitalki solved the hardest problem in language learning — putting a real human on the other end of the call, cheaply, in 150+ languages — and then wrap...Good7.3PeakFinder
Navigation appNaming the mountain in front of you, offline and without a subscription, is the whole job here, and PeakFinder does it with a precision that earns its...Great8.2Tripsy
Navigation appTripsy is a polished trip organizer for iOS, with email import designed to do the heavy lifting and collaboration built in from the start rather than ...Good7.7Google Maps
Food & Drink appGoogle Maps is the most complete navigation and local discovery tool available, and it isn't close. Its real rivals are its own bloat, its appetite fo...Great8.9Speak
Education appSpeak is a language app built to make you talk, using large-language-model tech as a tireless conversation partner. The speech recognition occasiona...Good7.4Waze
Navigation appWaze remains the sharpest tool for beating traffic in real time, powered by a famously loyal community — but it demands battery, data, and a tolerance...Good7.4Beli
Food & Drink appBeli replaces the tyranny of the 4.3-star average with a ranking engine built from your own comparisons, and it's a genuinely sharp piece of design — ...Great8.1Gaia GPS
Navigation appGaia GPS is one of the most serious backcountry navigation apps available, with a depth of map data that rivals dedicated GPS hardware costing far mor...Good7.4Citymapper
Navigation appCitymapper is a sharply focused transit app that goes deeper than the big mapping platforms—if you live in one of the cities it covers. Outside the me...Good7.6Organic Maps
Navigation appOrganic Maps is a lean, principled navigation utility that trades live traffic and business data for a fully offline, zero-telemetry experience. It is...Great8.7Satori Reader
Education appSatori Reader succeeds where standard dictionaries and textbooks fail by contextualizing native Japanese texts with remarkable precision. It is a stro...Great8.8WireGuard
Travel appWireGuard is a radical rethink of secure networking that trades legacy bloat for lean, efficient design, delivering faster connections and stronger se...Outstanding9.3
