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Every App Comrade review tagged Apple-only, across every platform.
Toca Boca World is the sandbox kids actually keep coming back to.
The Spin Master-owned studio collapsed Toca Life's separate apps into one ever-growing world, and the result is the rare kids' app that respects its audience and the parent paying for it.
MAY 11, 2026
GO SMS Pro on iPhone is a $1.99 download of nothing.
An SMS replacement app on a platform that does not allow SMS replacement, shipped by a developer whose Android namesake leaked millions of private messages in 2020.
MAY 11, 2026
cARscan turns the phone in your pocket into a vehicle inspector.
An indie AR utility aimed at the moment you walk around a car with a clipboard — useful when it works, opaque about almost everything else.
MAY 11, 2026
BPS Personas turns a Uruguayan bureaucracy into a phone screen.
Banco de Previsión Social's self-service app handles sick leave, unemployment, pay receipts, and pension status — but only if you already have a BPS login and live in Uruguay.
MAY 11, 2026
Video Game Addiction Test is a mirror, not a diagnosis.
A short self-assessment app that hands you a number and a category. What you do with that number is the whole question.
MAY 11, 2026
Stickman Ninja Bullet Master borrows a famous premise and runs with it.
A free 37-level stickman shooter that opens by name-dropping My Friend Pedro and proceeds to flip, fire, and never update again.
MAY 11, 2026
Epocrates is the drug reference clinicians keep open in the other hand.
Athenahealth's quarter-century-old pocket formulary still answers the dosing and interaction questions a phone-in-pocket clinician actually asks.
MAY 11, 2026
Classic Words With Friends is the version that still plays like Scrabble.
Zynga kept the original 2009 build alive next to its successor — no power-ups, no swap tile, no boosts. Just a 15x15 board and the friend on the other end.
MAY 11, 2026
Plenty of Fish on iPhone trades chemistry for volume.
POF still leans on the wide-net catalogue model that made it a 2010s mainstay, and the iOS app has aged into a serviceable but uneven Match Group product.
MAY 11, 2026
BookBuddy Pro is the personal-library app that refused to die.
Fifteen years in, BookBuddy still beats Goodreads at the one job most readers actually have — keeping track of the books on their own shelves.
MAY 11, 2026
iScape turns your phone into a usable landscape sketchpad.
AR previews and a deep plant library make the homeowner version surprisingly competent. The Pro tier asks a lot for what designers already get from desktop tools.
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
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
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
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
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
Padmi turns a padel match into a stat sheet — when you can find a club that runs it.
Real-time hit tracking, heat maps, ball speed, and a PAD Card that follows you between matches. The catch is that someone has to install the cameras first.
MAY 11, 2026
AvMath is the no-frills flight-math calculator pilots actually open.
A focused aviation reference that replaces the cross-check between an E6B, a unit converter, and a scratch pad with a single screen — for the small audience that needs exactly that.
MAY 11, 2026
TypeMaster is a one-developer bet that iOS will let an AI keyboard be useful.
A 99-cent AI keyboard from an indie shop runs into the same wall Gboard and SwiftKey did — and then asks who's paying for the tokens.
MAY 11, 2026
SpeedOmeter SP is a one-developer speedometer that does the one thing.
A free GPS speedometer from an independent developer. No subscription, no account, no ambition beyond reading your current speed off Core Location.
MAY 11, 2026
Solunar+ sells folklore as a forecast, but the interface earns its keep.
A clean iPhone reader for the solunar tables anglers and hunters have argued over for ninety years. The science is thin; the app, less so.
MAY 11, 2026
Easy Sudoku Classic Offline keeps the genre stripped to the wood.
An indie iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro sudoku app that asks for nothing — no account, no network, no in-app purchase — and largely earns the trust that asks for.
MAY 11, 2026
Body Shop is a single-gym companion app doing exactly one job.
Body Shop Athletic Club's iOS app is a workout-validator and body-comp logger for its own members — and nothing more. That's the appeal and the ceiling.
MAY 11, 2026
NKJV Audio Bible Version Pro is a focused listening tool for one translation.
A single-purpose audio companion for readers committed to the New King James — clean playback, narrow scope, no study-app ambitions.
MAY 11, 2026
Generate Strong Password does a job iOS already does for free.
A single-purpose generator with a slider, a copy button, and a five-star rating average — which raises the question of who it is for in 2026.
MAY 11, 2026
Crypta wants to be your photo vault, but iOS already has one.
A clean, ad-free locker for photos and videos that runs into the same wall every iOS vault eventually hits: the operating system got there first.
MAY 11, 2026
GlowUpAI sells the AI-stylist pitch with very little behind it.
An indie iOS wrapper aimed at the for-you-page fashion crowd. Free to install, light on detail, and short on the evidence a stylist app needs.
MAY 11, 2026
LED Scroller turns your phone into a one-trick sign that mostly works.
A single-purpose marquee app for concerts, meetings, and pickup signs. It does the obvious thing well and almost nothing else.
MAY 11, 2026
Bike Race: Motorcycle Games is the iOS long tail with the serial numbers filed off.
A generically-titled arcade racer from an unknown developer, freshly listed on the App Store with no ratings, no screenshots, and a name calibrated for search rather than recognition.
MAY 11, 2026
Private Browser Ad Blocker is a WebKit wrapper with a privacy paint job.
Another generic-named iOS browser doing the only thing iOS browsers are allowed to do — render pages with Apple's engine and bolt a content blocker on top.
MAY 11, 2026
Scatter Slots dresses social-casino in anime cosplay and hopes you don't notice the math.
Murka's painted heroines and themed reels are the most distinctive art direction in free-to-play slots. The loops and the paywalls underneath are the genre standard.
MAY 11, 2026
Darkroom is the iPhone photo editor that respects the photo.
Bergen Co's indie editor stayed non-destructive, kept RAW handling honest, and charges a subscription you can actually walk away from.
MAY 11, 2026
Cash Frenzy dresses up a coin-treadmill in Vegas neon.
SpinX Games' social-casino hit nails the slot-machine sheen, but the loop underneath is built to ask you for money more than to entertain.
MAY 10, 2026
Line-3 turns a centuries-old board game into a ray-traced pocket puzzle.
Nicolas Schulz's tiny indie reskins Picaria — the Native American ancestor of Tic-Tac-Toe — as a 15-round score chase rendered with realtime ray tracing on iOS.
MAY 10, 2026
Episode: Reality Stars turns the franchise's tap-to-choose formula toward red-carpet melodrama.
Pocket Gems' interactive-fiction spin-off keeps the gem-and-ticket model intact and bets that fame fantasies still pull harder than haunted mansions.
MAY 10, 2026
Temple Run: Legends is the endless runner without the begging.
Imangi's Apple Arcade-only sequel strips out the ads, the gem shops, and the energy meters — what's left is the running, which was always the good part.
MAY 10, 2026
Bank of America's app earns its keep on Erica's back.
The big-bank iOS experience is competent but rarely surprising. The virtual assistant is the part that genuinely changes how you bank.
MAY 10, 2026
Walmart's app is a department store stuffed into a phone.
The iOS app folds Walmart+, Scan & Go, Sparky AI, and the full e-commerce catalogue into one tab bar. It does a lot — and the seams show.
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
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
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
Sonic Dash on iOS is the runner Apple Arcade keeps trying to replace.
Thirteen years after its March 2013 iPhone launch, SEGA's endless runner is still the version Hardlight ships first — Game Center leaderboards intact, iCloud progress travelling between iPhone and iPad, and Sonic Dream Team sitting alongside it without managing to make it irrelevant.
MAY 10, 2026
Chime works for the paycheck-to-paycheck crowd it was built for.
The fee-free pitch is real, SpotMe and MyPay solve genuine cash-flow pain, and the iOS app is fast. The cracks show when something goes wrong and you need a human.
MAY 10, 2026
SHEIN turned the shopping app into a slot machine.
The infinite scroll is engineered, the prices are real, and the ethical bill arrives separately.
MAY 10, 2026
Wordscapes is a calm puzzle wrapped in a noisy ad layer.
PeopleFun's crossword-Boggle hybrid still has one of the cleanest letter-wheel mechanics on iOS. The free tier just keeps stuffing more ads between you and it.
MAY 9, 2026
eBay's iPhone app finally caught up to its own warehouse.
Magical Listing turns a photo into a draft listing in seconds, Authenticity Guarantee underwrites the high-end stuff, and eBay Live keeps the auction theatre alive. The buying flow still wishes you would just tap the coupon.
MAY 9, 2026
Bear stayed great by refusing to become an everything app.
The 2023 rebuild added tables, footnotes, and offline files without losing the singular focus that made the original feel like a real writing app.
MAY 7, 2026
Things 3 has been the same app for nine years. That's the point.
Cultured Code's task manager hasn't changed shape since 2017. In an era where every productivity app is rebuilding itself around AI, the one that didn't is starting to look like the smart one.
MAY 7, 2026