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The full editorial archive — every review and roundup the App Comrade desk has published, newest first.
Fruit Ninja is still the cleanest swipe on the App Store.
Fifteen years on, Halfbrick's slice-and-combo game survives the free-to-play rebuild that buried half its 2010 contemporaries.
MAY 10, 2026
GasBuddy still wins on the data nobody else bothers to collect.
Twenty-six years of crowd-sourced pump prices, a debit-style fuel card, and a creeping ad load that's the real cost of the free tier.
MAY 10, 2026
My Verizon on iPhone earns its keep on activation day.
The carrier app most people only open once a month does its best work the first time you set up a new iPhone or add a watch line.
MAY 10, 2026
Gmail on iOS is the rare Google app that respects the platform.
The iPhone build is calmer than Android Gmail, faster than Apple Mail at search, and the one place Workspace users get a mid-call account switch that actually holds.
MAY 10, 2026
Pinterest is fighting a slop war it helped start.
Visual search and a 15-year mood-board archive still set Pinterest apart, but the AI flood that the company itself courted now sits between you and anything you actually saved.
MAY 10, 2026
Domino's app is still the one every other pizza chain is chasing.
The 2026 Tracker rebuild adds Live Activities, GPS driver location, and a tighter four-stage flow — and quietly widens the gap over Pizza Hut and Papa Johns again.
MAY 10, 2026
AliExpress is still the deep catalogue Temu and Shein are chasing.
Alibaba's cross-border marketplace trades fast shipping for the longest tail of factory-direct goods on any phone — and now wears an EU Very Large Online Platform badge.
MAY 10, 2026
Messenger finally encrypted itself by default — and the app got heavier.
Meta's chat client now ships end-to-end encryption on every thread, but the price is a sprawling social surface bolted to your Facebook account.
MAY 10, 2026
U.S. Bank's app keeps doing the boring things well.
Smart Assistant has matured into a useful conversational layer, mobile deposit is fast, and Zelle is one tap away. The seams that show are the ones a 160-year-old bank can't fully sand off.
MAY 10, 2026
Twitch on iPhone is the front row of a stadium nobody can leave.
The mobile client still wins on chat and category depth, but the ad load and a thinning creator class are starting to test the goodwill.
MAY 10, 2026
OfferUp is the local marketplace Craigslist forgot to become.
Photo-first listings, ID-verified profiles, and in-app messaging make it the default C2C app in most US cities — until a scammer offers to pay double via Zelle.
MAY 10, 2026
The Roku app quietly became the best reason to keep your phone on the couch.
What started as a software remote has turned into a private-listening, voice-searching, Live-TV-guiding companion that often beats the plastic clicker.
MAY 10, 2026
Hay Day on iPad is the version Supercell always meant you to play.
The 2012 game that put Supercell on the map still looks best on a 12.9-inch screen, with Supercell ID carrying your farm between iPhone, iPad, and a new device.
MAY 10, 2026
Amazon Music keeps showing up wherever you already are.
Three tiers, two of them bundled with something else, and an app that still feels like an Echo accessory more than a destination.
MAY 10, 2026
Subway Surfers is still running, fourteen years in.
SYBO's endless runner outlived the genre it helped define by treating the game as a touring product — a new city every few weeks, indefinitely.
MAY 10, 2026
FreePrints is the cheapest way to put 85 photos in your hands every month.
PlanetArt's free-prints-with-shipping model is genuinely free if you batch orders. The catch is an interface built around upselling everything that isn't a 4x6.
MAY 10, 2026
Plague Inc. is still the cleanest strategy game on iPhone.
Ndemic's pandemic sim has barely changed in years, and that restraint is the point. The mechanics still hold up, the upgrade trees still teach themselves, and the price still beats almost anything else in the genre.
MAY 10, 2026
Clash of Clans is the rare mobile game that aged into an institution.
Thirteen years in, Supercell's village-builder is still adding Town Halls and still running clan wars every weekend. The genre moved on. Clash didn't have to.
MAY 10, 2026
Hungry Shark Evolution is the same arcade loop, fourteen years deeper.
Ubisoft's Future Games of London shark-em-up is still the cleanest pick-up-and-play game on the App Store — provided you can ignore the gem shop pressing on the glass.
MAY 10, 2026
Chrome on iOS is a Google skin wrapped around Apple's renderer.
Apple's WebKit-only rule means iPhone Chrome runs the same engine as Safari. The difference is sync, search, and the sign-in to your Google account — not the page underneath.
MAY 10, 2026
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