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TOP TENS MOBILE APPS 89 MOBILE GAMES TOP TENS

Data Wing

£free / Android, iOS

This game starts off as if Asteroids had a baby with a top-down

racer: your triangular craft blasts around circuits, gaining speed

when its bum scrapes neon track edges. Soon you discover

you’re part of an OS ruled by a deranged AI. Story and game

quickly expand, as you glimpse the world beyond the screen and

battle gravity in cavern-based sections that recall 8-bit classic

Thrust. Rarely do mobile titles pack in so many hours of clever,

thoughtful narrative. Pretty much never are such games free.

Stuff says +++++

A mobile game we’d happily recommend if it cost a

fiver – for nowt, it’s an absurdly generous bargain

Moodflow: Year in Pixels

+++++£free / Android, iOS

Track moods, find patterns and change your

life with this simple self-improvement app.

GRID Autosport

+++++£9.99 / Android, iOS

The best racing game on mobile is an

astonishing achievement.

Bloom: 10 Worlds

+++++£7.99 / Android, iOS

Control Brian Eno inside your phone as you

bend an organic art/audio project to your will.

Bring You Home

+++++£3.19 / Android O £2.99 / iOS

Make your own future with this imaginative,

brilliantly designed and devious puzzler.

Stuff says +++++

The best twitch arcade game on mobile

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The best app for more responsible phone use

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Touchscreen platformers can be great after all

Jumpgrid

£2.89 / Android O £2.99 / iOS

Pac-Man and Frogger meet Super Hexagon

and buckets of adrenaline in this superb

game, a twitch/arcade/punishment

crossover masterpiece. It’s a stunning

ride that will leave you a quivering wreck.

BFT – Bear Focus Timer

£1.19 / Android O £1.99 / iOS

It’s too easy to be distracted by your phone,

so BFT trains you to put it out of reach. You

define work/break sprints, but the timer

only works when your phone’s face-down.

Try to cheat and the bear scowls at you.

Oddmar

£free (IAPs) / Android O £4.99 / iOS

Oddmar looks like it could have breezed in

from a PS4. Now available on Android as well

as iOS, it’s packed full of superb level design

and lush animated visuals, as a beardy Viking

oaf sets out to save his tribe.

Stuff says +++++

This could turn you into the next Kraftwerk

Korg Gadget 2

£19.99 / iOS

When making music, there’s GarageBand for

iOS and Caustic for Android, but we remain

smitten with Gadget. Its instruments ape

everything from classic synths to game

consoles, and workflow is silky-smooth.

Pixelmator Photo

£4.99 / iPad

Apps like Snapseed revolutionised photo editing on mobile,

making the process user-friendly and fast. Pixelmator Photo

takes this to a whole new level. By way of a machine-learning

algorithm trained on 20 million pro snaps, it’ll try to fix your photo

with a single tap. Amazingly, this mostly works, resulting in

balanced, natural tones. And should you want something more

personal or creative for your photographic chef d’oeuvre, there

are plenty of manual controls too.

Stuff says +++++

A first-rate picture editor – only avoid if you don’t have

an iPad... or hate making your photos look nice