Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Proton Pass takes the trust Proton earned with encrypted email and pours it into a password manager that is genuinely good — not just ideologically pu...

Chess.com is the most complete chess product ever built for a phone — a sprawling, brilliant, occasionally exhausting ecosystem that will make you a b...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

Star Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums ever built, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible m...

Waze remains the sharpest tool for beating traffic in real time, powered by a fanatically loyal community — but it demands your battery, your data, an...

Zoom Workplace is still the most dependable way to get a video call to actually work on a phone — but the bloat of its "all-in-one" ambitions and its ...

Prisma still produces some of the most convincing neural-style transformations on mobile, but a bloated 500-filter library and an aggressive paywall h...

Cardhop rethinks the most neglected app on your phone by turning contact management into a conversation, and it mostly succeeds—but the subscription t...

Ferrite takes the intimidating sprawl of desktop audio editing and remakes it for a touchscreen without dumbing it down—a rare feat that makes it the ...

Forvo remains the single best way to hear how a word *actually* sounds in the mouths of real native speakers — a peerless resource wrapped in a mobile...

The official Wikipedia app is a rare thing in 2026 — a piece of software that respects you. It's fast, ad-free, open source, and quietly one of the be...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

A ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a small classic; on ...

Labster builds gorgeous, curriculum-locked 3D science simulations that genuinely make abstract STEM tangible — but the mobile app is a cramped compani...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

A staggeringly deep sandbox space RPG that rewards patience with hundreds of hours of emergent storytelling—if you can survive an onboarding process t...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

ELSA Speak does one hard thing better than almost anyone — it tells you *exactly* which sound in which syllable you got wrong, instantly, without judg...

Shazam solved its problem so completely that it stopped being an app and became a verb. Twenty years on, it remains the most reliable single-purpose u...

Spotify remains the smartest music recommendation engine on the planet, but its relentless push to become an "audio everything" app has left the once-...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...