What is the best puzzle game app for iPhone?

Block Blast!, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 2,763,652 people.

Which puzzle game apps are free?

40 of 40 are free to download: Block Blast! (S), Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults HD (S), Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles (S), Jigsaw Puzzles - Puzzle Games (S) and more. 29 of them sell in-app purchases. 3 report no in-app purchases.

Which puzzle game app has the best App Store rating?

Math Puzzle Games - Crossmath® at 4.9 from 259,541 ratings.

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Best Puzzle Game Apps for iPhone (2026)

40 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Block Blast! is the top-ranked of 40 puzzle game apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.9/5 from 2,763,652 ratings.

1
Block Blast!S
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 2,763,652 ratings · score 99
2
Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults HDS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 827,018 ratings · score 99
3
Brain Test: Tricky PuzzlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,472,407 ratings · score 99
4
Jigsaw Puzzles - Puzzle GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,111,056 ratings · score 98
5
Arrows - Puzzle EscapeS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 497,686 ratings · score 97

What belongs in this list

Solve puzzles for fun and to exercise thinking.

Not here: Math drills alone; Story mystery games without puzzles alone; Coloring or drawing apps alone; Puzzle in the title alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
Block Blast!S
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 2,763,652 ratings · score 99 · best in class
2
Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults HDS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 827,018 ratings · score 99 · best in class
3
Brain Test: Tricky PuzzlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,472,407 ratings · score 99 · best in class
4
Jigsaw Puzzles - Puzzle GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,111,056 ratings · score 98 · best in class
5
Arrows - Puzzle EscapeS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 497,686 ratings · score 97 · best in class
6
BlockPuz -Blocks Puzzles CrushS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 198,966 ratings · score 97 · best in class
7
Jelly Splash: Fun Puzzle GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 64,473 ratings · score 96 · best in class
8
Wordscapes - Word GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,138,963 ratings · score 96 · best in class
9
Jigsawscapes® - Jigsaw PuzzlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 431,863 ratings · score 96 · best in class
10
Water Sort PuzzleS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 324,200 ratings · score 96 · best in class
11
Water Sort Puzzle - Sort ColorA
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 130,051 ratings · score 95 · excellent
12
Wood Block Puzzle GamesA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 429,412 ratings · score 95 · excellent
13
Ball Sort Puzzle®A
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 232,663 ratings · score 95 · excellent
14
Word Crush® - Fun Puzzle GameA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,016,916 ratings · score 95 · excellent
15
Mahjong Master-Fun Puzzle GameA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 95,137 ratings · score 95 · excellent
16
Zen Word® - Relax Puzzle GameA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 489,170 ratings · score 94 · excellent
17
Brain Puzzle: Tricky QuestA
Free · ★ 4.7 · 28,466 ratings · score 94 · excellent
18
Goods Puzzle: Sort Challenge™A
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 183,789 ratings · score 94 · excellent
19
Block Out! - Color Sort PuzzleA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 311,855 ratings · score 94 · excellent
20
Math Puzzle Games - Crossmath®A
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 259,541 ratings · score 94 · excellent
21
Brain Puzzle 3: Crazy MindB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 24,453 ratings · score 94 · good
22
Hidden Objects: Puzzle GamesB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 290,482 ratings · score 94 · good
23
Art Puzzle - Jigsaw GamesB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 288,476 ratings · score 94 · good
24
Sudoku - Brain Puzzle GamesB
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 312,628 ratings · score 93 · good
25
Sudoku.com - Number GamesB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,864,978 ratings · score 93 · good
26
Blockudoku - Block Puzzle GameB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 665,357 ratings · score 93 · good
27
Candy Crush SagaB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 4,027,048 ratings · score 93 · good
28
Tricky Twist PuzzleB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 33,055 ratings · score 93 · good
29
BlackboxB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 109,180 ratings · score 93 · good
30
Tricky Puzzle: Brain QuestB
Free · ★ 4.7 · 5,884 ratings · score 93 · good
31
Numpuz: Number Puzzle GamesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 105,616 ratings · score 93 · situational
32
Bubble Pop! Puzzle Game LegendC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 238,123 ratings · score 93 · situational
33
Brain Puzzle 2: Logic TwistC
Free · ★ 4.7 · 16,076 ratings · score 92 · situational
34
Tricky StoryC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 32,747 ratings · score 92 · situational
35
Flashback: Tricky Fun RiddlesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 176,603 ratings · score 92 · situational
36
NYT Games: Wordle & CrosswordC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 297,179 ratings · score 92 · situational
37
Woodoku - Wood Block PuzzlesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 665,143 ratings · score 92 · situational
38
Magic Jigsaw Puzzles - GamesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 387,899 ratings · score 92 · situational
39
Brain Test 2: Tricky StoriesC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 229,400 ratings · score 92 · situational
40
Goods Sort™ - Triple Master 3DC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 132,724 ratings · score 91 · situational

Beyond the top 40

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Questions people ask

What is the best puzzle game app for iPhone?: Block Blast!, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 2,763,652 people.
Which puzzle game apps are free?: 40 of 40 are free to download: Block Blast! (S), Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults HD (S), Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles (S), Jigsaw Puzzles - Puzzle Games (S) and more. 29 of them sell in-app purchases. 3 report no in-app purchases.
Which puzzle game app has the best App Store rating?: Math Puzzle Games - Crossmath® at 4.9 from 259,541 ratings.
How many puzzle game apps reach S or A tier?: 20 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.