iPhone Apps Reviews

Bottom Line: LevelUp offers a convenient, touchless way to pay local restaurants and cafes, with added benefits like loyalty discounts and ahead-of-time ordering. But look elsewhere for peer-to-peer or online payments.

Bottom Line: LevelUp offers a convenient, touchless way to pay local restaurants and cafes, with added benefits like loyalty discounts and ahead-of-time ordering. But look elsewhere for peer-to-peer or online payments.

Bottom Line: Apple Pay gets even more useful with the addition of the Apple Pay Cash peer-to-peer payment system, but forget sending money to iPhone-less friends.

Bottom Line: Apple Pay gets even more useful with the addition of the Apple Pay Cash peer-to-peer payment system, but forget sending money to iPhone-less friends.

Bottom Line: PayPal is convenient, easy to use, and ubiquitous. And its mobile app is well designed and feature-rich.

Bottom Line: PayPal is convenient, easy to use, and ubiquitous. And its mobile app is well designed and feature-rich.

Bottom Line: NordVPN packs an excellent VPN service and unique features into a reliable and friendly app, making it a clear Editors' Choice.

Bottom Line: NordVPN packs an excellent VPN service and unique features into a reliable and friendly app, making it a clear Editors' Choice.

Bottom Line: Apple Music boasts exclusive albums and Siri and Apple Watch compatibility, but this well-rounded streaming music service falls short of toppling Slacker Radio and Spotify.

Bottom Line: Apple Music boasts exclusive albums and Siri and Apple Watch compatibility, but this well-rounded streaming music service falls short of toppling Slacker Radio and Spotify.

Bottom Line: Credit Karma's iPhone app lets you see your credit report and score whenever you want, updated as often as weekly. It doesn't do everything the web service does, however, nor does it have any special mobile features.

Bottom Line: Credit Karma's iPhone app lets you see your credit report and score whenever you want, updated as often as weekly. It doesn't do everything the web service does, however, nor does it have any special mobile features.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: TorGuard's VPN service is among the most comprehensive available, and it earns decent scores in our speed tests. Its user interface could use an update, however.

Bottom Line: TorGuard's VPN service is among the most comprehensive available, and it earns decent scores in our speed tests. Its user interface could use an update, however.

Bottom Line: The Private Internet Access iPhone app gives you access to a top VPN service, but it's best suited for advanced users.

Bottom Line: The Private Internet Access iPhone app gives you access to a top VPN service, but it's best suited for advanced users.

Bottom Line: Among free language apps, Duolingo can't be beat. New in-app chat functionality lets you try your hand at short, casual conversations with a bot. Despite the chats feeling a bit scripted, Duolingo still earns our highest recommendation.

Bottom Line: Among free language apps, Duolingo can't be beat. New in-app chat functionality lets you try your hand at short, casual conversations with a bot. Despite the chats feeling a bit scripted, Duolingo still earns our highest recommendation.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: Apple's mobile video editor is a stunning achievement of features and usability in a small format.

Bottom Line: Apple's mobile video editor is a stunning achievement of features and usability in a small format.

Bottom Line: The Evernote iPhone app lets you make notes on the go and find information stored in your account anytime, anywhere. Evernote's price is high for a Premium account, but it remains the best app for note-taking and syncing.

Bottom Line: The Evernote iPhone app lets you make notes on the go and find information stored in your account anytime, anywhere. Evernote's price is high for a Premium account, but it remains the best app for note-taking and syncing.

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

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

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

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

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.

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

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

Bottom Line: 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.

Bottom Line: 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.