What is the best riddle game app for iPhone?

Brain Test 2: Tricky Stories, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.8 by 229,400 people.

Which riddle game apps are free?

40 of 40 are free to download: Brain Test 2: Tricky Stories (S), Brain Out -Tricky riddle games (S), Who is? Brain Teaser & Riddles (S), Brain Who? Tricky Riddle Tests (S) and more. 22 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which riddle game app has the best App Store rating?

BrainBoom - Word Brain Games at 4.9 from 39,185 ratings.

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Best Riddle Game Apps for iPhone (2026)

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

Part of Puzzle Games.

Brain Test 2: Tricky Stories is the top-ranked of 40 riddle game apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 229,400 ratings.

1
Brain Test 2: Tricky StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 229,400 ratings · score 97
2
Brain Out -Tricky riddle gamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 247,635 ratings · score 97
3
Who is? Brain Teaser & RiddlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 175,033 ratings · score 96
4
Brain Who? Tricky Riddle TestsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 182,146 ratings · score 96
5
Flashback: Tricky Fun RiddlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 176,603 ratings · score 96

What belongs in this list

Solve riddles and tricky brain teasers by working out the answer.

Not here: a general puzzle game alone; a mystery game alone; a logic puzzle alone; a general guessing game alone; a general chatbot that could be prompted to tell riddles 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
Brain Test 2: Tricky StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 229,400 ratings · score 97 · best in class
2
Brain Out -Tricky riddle gamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 247,635 ratings · score 97 · best in class
3
Who is? Brain Teaser & RiddlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 175,033 ratings · score 96 · best in class
4
Brain Who? Tricky Riddle TestsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 182,146 ratings · score 96 · best in class
5
Flashback: Tricky Fun RiddlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 176,603 ratings · score 96 · best in class
6
Brain Test: Tricky PuzzlesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,472,407 ratings · score 94 · best in class
7
Braindom: Brain Games Test OutS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 166,964 ratings · score 94 · best in class
8
Impossible Date: Tricky RiddleS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 169,071 ratings · score 93 · best in class
9
Tricky Twist PuzzleS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 33,055 ratings · score 93 · best in class
10
Tricky StoryA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 32,747 ratings · score 93 · excellent
11
Brain Test 4: Tricky FriendsA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 80,889 ratings · score 92 · excellent
12
Impossible Date 2: Fun RiddleA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 43,436 ratings · score 92 · excellent
13
Tricky Story 2: Brain TwistA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 24,130 ratings · score 90 · excellent
14
Riddle Test: Brain Teaser GameA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 34,852 ratings · score 90 · excellent
15
Tricky Riddles With AnswersA
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 9,143 ratings · score 89 · excellent
16
Dingbats - Word Games & TriviaA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 84,184 ratings · score 89 · excellent
17
Brainstorm Test: Tricky PuzzleA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 8,224 ratings · score 89 · excellent
18
Easy Game - Brain PuzzlesA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 203,660 ratings · score 88 · excellent
19
Riddles & Brain Teasers QuizB
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 7,318 ratings · score 87 · good
20
DOP 5: Delete One PartB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 288,617 ratings · score 85 · good
21
Help Me: Stricky StoryB
Free · ★ 4.7 · 27,511 ratings · score 85 · good
22
Happy Ending: Displace PuzzleB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 18,145 ratings · score 82 · good
23
Tricky Mean2B
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,679 ratings · score 79 · good
24
Fate Puzzle: Brain Riddle GameB
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 10,748 ratings · score 78 · good
25
What Am I? Tricky RiddlesB
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 11,003 ratings · score 76 · good
26
Brain Find - Riddles&Find clueB
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 9,771 ratings · score 75 · good
27
Fun by Genius: Stupid TestB
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 64,114 ratings · score 73 · good
28
Erase It: Delete One PartC
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 20,898 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
29
Riddle MasterC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 88,715 ratings · score 59 · situational
30
Brain Teasers - Thinking GamesD
Free download · ★ 3.7 · 2,492 ratings · score 58 · weak · provisional
31
BrainBoom - Word Brain GamesD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 39,185 ratings · score 58 · weak · provisional
32
Stump MeF
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 68,463 ratings · score 45 · avoid · provisional
33
Who is? 2 Brain Puzzle & ChatsF
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,828 ratings · score 44 · avoid · provisional
34
Brain VictoryF
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 2,832 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
35
Brain Go 2: Test your brainF
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 10,767 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
36
Hardest Quiz Ever!F
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,646 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
37
Brain BoomF
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,026 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
38
Troll Face Quest Video MemesF
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,632 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional
39
Brain Go: Puzzle TestF
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,378 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional
40
What am I? riddles - Word gameF
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,981 ratings · score 39 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best riddle game app for iPhone?: Brain Test 2: Tricky Stories, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.8 by 229,400 people.
Which riddle game apps are free?: 40 of 40 are free to download: Brain Test 2: Tricky Stories (S), Brain Out -Tricky riddle games (S), Who is? Brain Teaser & Riddles (S), Brain Who? Tricky Riddle Tests (S) and more. 22 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which riddle game app has the best App Store rating?: BrainBoom - Word Brain Games at 4.9 from 39,185 ratings.
How many riddle game apps reach S or A tier?: 18 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.