Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Fourteen years in, Subway Surfers remains the gold standard for one-thumb arcade design — a masterclass in input responsiveness and live-ops disciplin...

Michael Brough's Portuguese-language mystery-box roguelike turns *not knowing what your tools do* into the entire game — and it's one of the smartest ...

A gorgeous, genuinely affecting point-and-click adventure that proves premium mobile design still has a pulse. Short, occasionally obtuse, but the kin...

Fifteen years after launch, Andreas Illiger's one-tap physics toy remains the purest expression of mobile game design ever shipped — and its December ...

Vlambeer's cast-dive-shoot masterpiece remains one of the tightest arcade loops ever built for a touchscreen — a premium, IAP-free relic from mobile g...

The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

Blackbox weaponizes every sensor Apple ever crammed into an iPhone and turns your entire life into a puzzle board. It's the rare mobile game that's ge...

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

Sorted³ is the rare productivity app with a genuine point of view — that your tasks and your calendar belong in the same timeline — and it executes th...

Orion delivers the single most requested feature in mobile browsing history — real extensions on iOS — wrapped in a zero-telemetry package that actual...

MyFitnessPal remains the most complete food-logging platform on mobile, powered by a database nobody else can match — but its habit of walling off for...

Calm is the most polished audio wellness product on any app store, with Sleep Stories that genuinely work and production values nobody else matches. B...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Simogo's ocean-drift novella is one of the most confident acts of subtraction in mobile gaming — gorgeous, mournful, and genuinely singular. Just unde...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

Lara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and somehow loses none of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, but it remain...

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...

Cyan's 2021 Unreal Engine remake is the definitive way to play the most influential adventure game ever made — gorgeous, faithful, and smartly moderni...

Chessable is the most effective structured chess study tool on the market, full stop. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-authored catalog ar...

Terraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while getting the presentati...

Kino is the rare pro tool that respects both your intelligence and your time — cinematic, log-capable video with real-time color grading for a one-tim...

one sec is the rare digital-wellbeing app with peer-reviewed evidence behind it, and its friction-first philosophy beats hard blocking for most people...

Marvis Pro is what Apple Music would look like if Apple still trusted its users. It's the rare alternative client that justifies its existence entirel...