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Quizlet still wins on flashcards, even after the paywall got bigger.
The AI features come and go, but the core deck — fast typing, fast reviewing, fast sharing — remains the reason students keep installing it.
MAY 11, 2026
Tinder reads better on iPhone — and the 4.17-star rating tells you who is grading it.
The same swipe deck Android users rate 3.79 stars lands at 4.17 on the App Store. The mechanic is identical. The audience, the payment flow, and the tolerance for monetization are not.
MAY 11, 2026
Hill Climb Racing is the iPhone time-killer that refuses to retire.
Fourteen years in, Newton Bill still rolls the same lopsided physics across the same hills — and the iOS build is quietly the better version.
MAY 11, 2026
Temple Run 2 is somehow still running, thirteen years in.
Imangi keeps shipping new maps to the same swipe-jump-slide loop from 2013, and on iPhone there is no Temple Run 3 to graduate to.
MAY 11, 2026
Pou is a fourteen-year-old virtual pet that refuses to die.
The brown alien from 2012 still launches on a current iPhone, still asks to be fed, and still costs less than a coffee — a small miracle in an App Store that buries anything older than last fiscal quarter.
MAY 11, 2026
Tides Near Me turns NOAA's data dump into something you can read on a dock.
A free, ad-light tide chart that surfaces the right station and the right twelve hours without making you log in or pick a subscription tier.
MAY 11, 2026
Picsart on iOS is the version the App Store rewards.
Same toolkit, same paywall, but the iPhone and iPad build runs cleaner, exports faster, and finally treats the iPad as a first-class canvas instead of an oversized phone.
MAY 11, 2026
VSCO still sells film, even after the meme moved on.
The preset library that defined a decade of phone photography is now a paid membership defending its turf against on-device AI.
MAY 11, 2026
Minion Rush is the endless runner Gameloft refuses to retire.
Thirteen years after launch, the Despicable Me runner keeps shipping costumes and crossover events while quietly inheriting every monetisation habit the genre learned along the way.
MAY 11, 2026
Plants vs. Zombies 2 keeps the lawn but rents you the rake.
PopCap's 2013 sequel still has the best tower-defense pacing in the genre — and the most aggressive monetization layer the series has ever worn.
MAY 11, 2026
Farm Heroes Saga on iPhone is a tidy King port that leans on the iPad version.
The iOS build inherits the same cropsie-collection mechanic as Android, but iCloud-style sync runs through a King account instead of Game Center, and the iPad layout is where the game actually breathes.
MAY 11, 2026
Heads Up! still wins the room a decade in.
Ellen DeGeneres's forehead-charades app outlived its talk-show host because the format does the work — pass the phone, tilt to score, laugh.
MAY 11, 2026
Buckshot Blast trades on a name that belongs to a better game.
A free, ad-supported shooter from Adknown that arrives wearing a borrowed silhouette. The mechanics underneath are fine; the framing is the problem.
MAY 11, 2026
The NIH Stroke Scale Calculator turns a paper protocol into a bedside tool.
A pocket implementation of the standardised neurological assessment used in every stroke unit in the world.
MAY 11, 2026
ROBLOX: Master Skins Wallpaper is a fan companion, not the game itself.
A third-party wallpaper and skins catalogue trading on the Roblox name. It's harmless if you know what you're buying — and a small trap if you don't.
MAY 11, 2026
Facing Death is an earnest indie attempt at the subject most apps refuse to touch.
A free iPhone app for writing your own farewell card, drafting an epitaph, and keeping an end-of-life checklist — sincere, small, and clearly the work of one developer.
MAY 11, 2026
SnapVault locks away photos iOS already knows how to hide.
A PIN-protected media vault with cloud backup and decoy modes, sold against a Hidden album that Apple keeps making harder to bypass.
MAY 11, 2026
GoTrip24 Driver is a small platform's working tool, not a consumer app.
The driver-side companion to Georgia's Gotrip transfer marketplace does three things — onboard, dispatch, block-off — and asks nothing else of you.
MAY 11, 2026
Le jeu qui turns French school nostalgia into a passable party round.
A free trivia game built around the CP-to-Brevet ladder — light on production, heavy on inside-joke fuel for francophone living rooms.
MAY 11, 2026
Xiao Jiu Life bundles a mall, a map, and a task wall into one Chinese-only app.
A free lifestyle app aimed squarely at Mainland users — shopping, neighbourhood discovery, and gamified errands behind a single login. The 5-star rating reflects a small sample, not a verdict.
MAY 11, 2026
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