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TOP TENS MOBILE APPS 83 MOBILE GAMES

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.

Jumpgrid

+++++£2.89 / Android O £2.99 / iOS

Pac-Man and Frogger meet Super Hexagon

in this twitch/arcade/punishment hybrid.

Bloom: 10 Worlds

+++++£7.99 / Android, iOS

Control Brian Eno inside your phone as you

bend an organic art/audio project to your will.

GRID Autosport

+++++£9.99 / Android, iOS

The best racing game on mobile is an

astonishing achievement.

Stuff says +++++

Beautiful and meditative, this one’s essential

Stuff says +++++

The best app for more responsible phone use

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A tiny arcade romp squished into your phone

Sky: Children of the Light

£free (IAPs) / Android, iOS

Now available on Android as well as iOS, this

achingly gorgeous free-roaming adventure

with a smattering of puzzling and a dollop

of social multiplayer sees you locating spirits

and returning them to the stars.

BFT – Bear Focus Timer

99p / 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.

Drop Wizard

£2.99 / Android, iOS

Another iOS game that’s made the jump

to Android, Drop Wizard reimagines the

fixed-screen platformers of the past and

challenges you to blast your way through

an army of cute but evil critters.

Stuff says +++++

This could turn you into the next Kraftwerk

Korg Gadget 2

£38.99 / 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

£7.99 / 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