Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed iPhone and iPad apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 110
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
Lagrange
Utilities appFree, open-source and focused on typography, Lagrange is a sensible smallnet browser for iPhone and iPad. The iOS edition trails the desktop build and...Good7.1Shelf
Books appAutomatic logging removes the chore that kills most media diaries, and a social layer with no posting and no follower counts keeps Shelf calm rather t...Good7.4Due Tomorrow
Education appDue Tomorrow solves a real problem for students whose classes split between Canvas and Google Classroom, but its iOS-only reach, two-platform coverage...Mixed6.7Laytr
Productivity appHard to recommend for most people: Laytr’s return-date scheduling and no-account privacy are strong ideas, but a divisive interface, a restrictive fre...Mixed6.7Groove Number
Music appIts narrow electronic-music focus and unproven accuracy make Groove Number hard to recommend for most people, though the $1.99 utility gives electroni...Mixed6.8TeFont
Utilities appA thin public record, limited fitting controls and a trial that cannot save make TeFont hard to recommend for most people, despite a stroke-first desi...Mixed6.1Goxel
Design appFile-handling and selection concerns make Goxel hard to recommend for most people, despite serious voxel tooling in a tablet-sized package. Sparse sce...Mixed6.1Wealthfolio
Finance appA privacy-first portfolio tracker with real analytical depth, undercut by a free tier that makes you the data pipeline. We recommend it to disciplined...Good7.3
Velja
Developer Tools appTen dollars, paid once, buys a careful fix for links that open in the wrong browser. Rules based on the website and on the app a link came from handle...Good7.2Hyperspace
Utilities appClever, cautious and built on a storage feature Apple already ships, Hyperspace frees space without removing a single file. The free scan shows exactl...Good7.3Klack
Productivity appA polished but narrow typing-sound utility that cannot quiet the keyboard you already own, and free tools cover the basics. At $4.99, it is hard to re...Mixed6.2Hand Mirror
Photo & Video appA free menu bar camera check that handles one small, recurring problem, but a narrow free tier, peripheral extras and a sparse public record keep it f...Mixed6.3Riverside.fm
Business appLocal recording is the reason to consider Riverside: capturing up to 4K video and 48kHz WAV on each device means a bad connection no longer decides ho...Good7.4Readeck
Productivity appHard to recommend outside a narrow self-hosting audience: Readeck’s iOS client is useless without a server, and the young project’s gaps outweigh its ...Mixed6.5NetBird
Developer Tools appA free, well-architected client for an open-source mesh network that has no standalone value and an unresolved reliability question on mobile. Most pe...Mixed6.3Gyroflow
Photo & Video appGyroflow reads how your camera actually moved and cancels that motion with precision, all for free. On iPhone and Android it puts a desktop-class stab...Good7.3wBlock
Productivity appFor a free tool, wBlock is a remarkably complete answer to Safari's blocking limits: it sidesteps the rule cap, adds a real userscript engine, and cha...Great8.1Monodraw
Developer Tools appMonodraw turns ASCII diagramming from a chore into a real design tool. Arrows stay attached, shapes stay editable, and the output pastes anywhere text...Good7.6DuckDuckGo
Productivity appDuckDuckGo protects your privacy by default, so you don't have to configure anything. It's a privacy tool ordinary people can actually keep using. Sea...Great8.0Seeing AI
Productivity appSeeing AI is a free toolkit, built with blind and low-vision users, that reads, identifies and describes the physical world with unusual range. Settin...Good7.6iSH
Developer Tools appiSH pulls off something Apple's rules said shouldn't be possible — a genuine Alpine Linux userland running locally on an iPhone, no jailbreak, no serv...Good7.2Last.fm
Music appLast.fm remains the most valuable listening record in music — a decades-deep archive nothing else can replicate — but the mobile apps are unreliable a...Mixed6.0MacWhisper
Productivity appMacWhisper takes the best open speech-recognition model around, wraps it in a genuinely native Mac interface, and charges once instead of forever — a ...Good7.4Orion Browser
Productivity appOrion brings real Chrome and Firefox extension support to iOS under a strict zero-telemetry policy — a genuinely different proposition from every othe...Good7.1
