Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Cosmos is the rarest thing in social software — a beautiful idea executed with restraint. It's a quiet, ad-free sanctuary for visual creatives that mo...

*Tiny Bookshop* takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into one of the most quietly compelli...

Actual Budget is the rare finance app that treats your data like it's actually yours—fast, private, and free—but its iOS story is a web app in a trenc...

Feist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, occasionally m...

A deceptively simple physics puzzler that turns dropping fruit into a compulsion. It's brilliant on Switch and PC, but the mobile port's ad-riddled gr...

Toca Boca World is the rare kids' app that treats children as authors instead of score-chasers—a genuinely safe, wildly imaginative digital dollhouse ...

A gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, *Nubby's Number Factory* turns bouncing a ball off pegs into one of the most c...

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...

Blinkist is a genuinely useful memory aid and book-discovery engine wrapped in a subscription model that fights dirty at renewal time. It won't make y...

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. ...

A ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. If you've ever wanted to *feel* the logic behind ...

Caliber is one of the rare fitness apps that gives away the good stuff for free and reserves its paywall for something genuinely worth paying for — a ...

Fabulous is the most gorgeous habit-builder on your phone and one of the few with real behavioral science under the hood—but its aggressive paywall an...

A Yale-backed, genuinely free emotional journaling app that treats feelings as a skill you can build rather than a mood you passively log — and it doe...

Tarsier Studios turned childhood dread into a five-hour masterclass in atmosphere, and even its rough edges can't dull the terror. Short, punishing, a...

Dynalist is the rare productivity tool that treats structure as the whole point, not a side effect—a keyboard-first outliner so fast and so deep it ca...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

Monster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a near-flawless translation of one of the decade's best board games — gorgeous, calming, and mechanically ...

Upscayl is the rare open-source tool that beats its paid rivals at their own game—turning muddy, low-res images into crisp assets entirely on your own...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

PictureThis is a genuinely impressive piece of computer vision wrapped in one of the most aggressive paywalls on the App Store. The identification eng...

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

Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...