Apps

Her app don't lie.

This never-dull campaign for iOS will make you want to jump back on the ninja bandwagon.

In many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, an adventurer stumbles across something he shouldn't have — a mysterious cavern, an ancient city under the sea, a strange cave full of secrets. And though these hidden places are always filled with terrors, curiosity pushes the adventurer onwards into darker, more disturbing territory. Downwell, a new game for iOS and PC, feels like what would happen if you took one of those stories and turned it into a low-fi video game. And then you added gun boots....

The latest media mash-up delivers creative fun, but it's pretty rough right now.

This week's list includes the latest party game from Ellen DeGeneres, a meditation app to help you relax and a weather app that crowdsources its predictions.

Her Story is an interactive narrative game that uses video clips, an open-ended search engine, and non-linear storytelling to give players a completely unique experience.

If you play enough chess, watching a match is rarely surprising. The game has been analyzed so much that the best players already know what's going to happen, they've planned out their strategies many moves in advance. The precision can make the game daunting for newcomers; unless you already know the best strategies, you won't stand a chance against a skilled player....

This week's list includes Hipstamatic's new reboot, a balloon-themed "endless floater" game and an app to help you stealthily browse Instagram

This week's list includes an app to help you create (and remember) better passwords, a social lending platform and a keyboard app that's much more than a keyboard.

Apple released its latest and greatest iPhone on Friday with an all-new pressure-sensitive 3D Touch input system that introduces novel user interactions like "peek and pop," Quick Actions, added gesture control and more. To help get new iPhone 6s owners started, we put together a list of the best apps that take advantage of the handset's unique capabilities.

Playing SPL-T feels like stepping back in time. It may be a game released in 2015 for your state-of-the-art iPhone, but it has the soul of some long-forgotten Gameboy game, a dusty cartridge tucked away in a retro Japanese gaming shop. It's also a game that I can't stop playing....

Turn-based and with an eye-catching aesthetic, it's a smart adaptation of the console favorite.

Pac meets Crossy Road with a multifaceted free-to-play model in the middle.

So, you've downloaded iOS 9, now what? Update all your apps, of course.

While you may hesitate to download a game that is seemingly a shallow exercise in pruning tree branches, Prune will actually be the most refreshing puzzle game you’ll play all month.

Glenn and Susie are joined by Brianna Wu of Giant Spacekat, who gives us some real talk about developing games for the next Apple TV. Elsewhere, we talk iOS 9 and the new iPhone 6s.

This week's list includes one of our favorite camera apps going free, an app to save Instagram posts and a productivity tool to automate all the apps you use the most.

We chat with Inkle about bringing the iOS narrative game to desktops this month.

The galaxy far, far away is changing....

This week's list includes a redesigned Skype, a clever way app to make up your own text threads and an app to help you learn to play piano.

A simple, stunning, and ultra-smooth endless runner.

According to fresh statistics from analytics firm App Annie published on Wednesday, social media giant Facebook is responsible for four of the top ten most downloaded iOS apps of all time, with Google and Apple titles in tow.

Riot’s second game is a hit—and only available until September 21.

This week's list includes an app to send doodles to your friends, an update to Facebook's newest standalone app and a new gravity-based game.

Hitman Go was a wonderful surprise. The mobile game took the core of the Hitman franchise — sneaking around and killing people — and turned it into digital board game, where a cold-blooded assassin was just a piece you moved around a board. It was weird, but it worked, and resulted in one of the best mobile puzzle games around. Now Square Enix has done the same with another unsuspecting blockbuster franchise: Tomb Raider. Lara Croft Go takes the pulpy adventures of the tomb raiding heroine and...