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Latest iPhone App Reviews

Adobe Lightroom Mobile (for iPhone) Review

3.5

Lightroom for the iPhone brings some serious photo tools to mobile users, along with the ability to edit images synced from Lightroom on the desktop.

By Michael Muchmore
333 lightroom iphone

Afterlight (for iPhone) Review

2.5

If you love endlessly tinkering with your iPhone photos, Afterlight could be for you, but Instagram makes more powerful results simpler.

By Michael Muchmore
Afterlight (for iPhone)

VSCO Review

3.5

VSCO is a photo editing and sharing app that's more artsy and low-pressure than Instagram, which has become a war for the most likes.

By Michael Muchmore
VSCO

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Review

4.0
Editors' Choice

While the gods fight their war, guide your clan to prosperity in this remarkable and challenging fantasy role-playing simulation game for iOS.

By Max Eddy
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

Adobe Scan (for iPhone) Review

3.5

Adobe Scan is an impressive app that automatically detects, captures, and converts printed text to digital form, but you need a paid subscription to get all its features.

By Michael Muchmore
Adobe Scan (for iPhone)

Apple Clips (for iPhone) Review

3.5

You can find each of the video tricks in Apple Clips in other apps, but combining them all in one place makes for truly fun video creativity.

By Michael Muchmore
Apple Clips

Moodelizer (for iPhone) Review

3.0

Moodelizer lets you create customizable, professional-sounding background soundtracks for your iPhone videos. But the app is limited and occasionally buggy in its first release.

By Michael Muchmore
Moodelizer (for iPhone)

Microsoft Cortana (for iPhone) Review

4.0

The Cortana app delivers highly personalized info, reminders, and general information, tying in well with Windows 10 PCs. She lacks some of Siri's hardware integration but sometimes gives better answers and provides a daily glance.

By Michael Muchmore
Microsoft Cortana (for iPhone)

Adobe Premiere Clip (for iPhone) Review

3.5

Premiere Clip is Adobe's mobile app companion to Premiere Pro, and it offers useful lighting adjustment features and clip joining, trimming, and splitting tools. Still, it lacks templates, a choice of transitions, and video rotation.

By Michael Muchmore
Adobe Premiere Clip (for iPhone)

Acorns (for iPhone) Review

3.0

The Acorns app opens an investment account for you and automates micro contributions to help you get started. It's decent, but you might be better off going to a financial planner.

By Jill Duffy
Acorns (for iPhone)

Artisto (for iPhone) Review

3.0

Artisto beat Prisma to the AI art filter game for use on videos, but Prisma and PicsArt still best it in a few ways.

By Michael Muchmore
Artisto

The Battle of Polytopia (for iPhone) Review

3.5

If you ever wanted the feeling of a classic Civilization game on your iPhone, The Battle of Polytopia is a worthy, if breezy, contender.

By Max Eddy
The Battle of Polytopia (for iPhone)

Mozilla Firefox Focus (for iPhone) Review

3.0

Firefox Focus is an iOS Web browser that can protect you from snoops with access to your phone and Web trackers, too. But that protection comes at the cost of features and speed.

By Michael Muchmore
Firefox Focus

Elder Sign: Omens (for iPhone) Review

4.0

Elder Sign: Omens brings the weird-fiction horror board game to mobile devices, with all the tentacle-wriggling atmosphere of the original.

By Max Eddy
Elder Sign Omens (for iPhone)

Enlight (for iPhone) Review

4.0

Enlight is a powerful photo editing and image creativity app with a clear interface and no ads, though it lacks an integrated photo-sharing community and a few tools offered by the competition.

By Michael Muchmore
Enlight for iPhone

Facetune 2 (for iPhone) Review

4.0

Facetune 2 adds some powerful and unique new tools to the top-selling iPhone photo editing app, such as live face reshaping and relighting, as well as a new subscription and in-app pricing model.

By Michael Muchmore
Facetune 2

Google Photos (for iPhone) Review

4.0

Google Photos impresses with nearly limitless photo storage and smart application of machine learning technology for search and photo editing. It's a great companion app on any iPhone, but it can't topple the best.

By Michael Muchmore  & Max Eddy
Google Photos (for Android)

Weather Underground (for iPhone) Preview

You don't need to know a lot about meteorology to appreciate the Weather Underground iPhone app. It's the perfect tool for knowing what the sky is doing right now and what it's going to do in the future.

By Max Eddy
Weather Underground

WhoSampled (for iPhone) Review

4.0
Editors' Choice

A fine app for music historians and sample hunters, WhoSampled lets you unearth the songs that laid the foundation for other songs.

By Jeffrey L. Wilson
WhoSampled (for iPhone)

Facebook Messenger (for iPhone) Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

Facebook Messenger is an excellent mobile chat client that connects you to the billion-plus Facebook users from your iPhone. It's a complete package, offering text, voice, video, payments, and now secure, secret messaging.

By Max Eddy
Facebook Messenger