Best iPhone & iPad Apps & Games

Alight Motion crams a startling amount of genuine motion-design power into a phone, and for a certain kind of creator it's borderline miraculous. But ...

LiquidText rethinks the PDF from the ground up, turning static documents into a living, draggable workspace that genuinely accelerates deep reading—if...

Nebo turns your scrawl into clean, searchable, editable text better than anything else on a touchscreen — and if you own a stylus, that alone justifie...

Koala Sampler crams the tactile joy of a classic hardware sampler into your phone and mostly nails it—an addictive, immediate beatmaking machine that'...

Silvio Rizzi torched the unread badge and rebuilt his beloved RSS app as a calm, chronological river of everything you follow. It's gorgeous and genui...

Wylde Flowers is the rare cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully ...

A gorgeous, melancholic Metroidvania that turns exploration into a duet with the deep — hobbled only by fussy navigation and an ending that leaves you...

Solitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...

Card Crawl takes the loneliness of solitaire and weaponizes it into a taut, brutal little dungeon crawler. It's one of the finest examples of mobile g...

A genuinely excellent 3D anatomy reference held back by an aggressive paywall. If you're serious about the human body, the free tier will tease you un...

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

RustDesk is the rare open-source tool that genuinely threatens the incumbents—fast, encrypted, and self-hostable—but its iOS app is a one-way street: ...

phyphox turns the sensor array already buried in your pocket into a legitimate scientific instrument—for free, with no ads and no strings. It won't te...

Citymapper remains the sharpest, most obsessive transit app ever built—if you live in one of the cities it actually covers. Outside the metro core, it...

Infinitode 2 is a mathematically dense, fanatically fair tower defense marathon that rewards obsessives and punishes the impatient. It's one of the be...

OnlyOffice delivers an exceptionally compatible, tab-driven alternative to mainstream office suites, though its mobile transitions and self-hosting ov...

EarMaster is a highly disciplined, surgical ear-training suite that trades modern gamification fluff for rigorous academic precision. While its steep ...

Organic Maps is a masterclass in software efficiency, stripping away the tracking and commercial bloat of modern navigation tools to deliver a blazing...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Synthesia is a brilliant, highly addictive keyboard visualizer that lowers the entry barrier for playing songs, but it functions more as a rhythm game...

DaisyDisk is a masterclass in functional aesthetics, transforming the tedious chore of drive maintenance into an intuitive, visually stunning explorat...

A brilliant, uncompromising spreadsheet-style simulation that transforms simple catnip gathering into a sprawling, multi-hundred-hour space odyssey. I...

GoodLinks is a masterclass in focused utility, transforming the chaotic modern web into a pristine personal library while bypassing the greedy subscri...

Satori Reader succeeds where standard dictionaries and textbooks fail by contextualizing native Japanese texts with surgical precision. It is an indis...