AppTierList › All lists › Survival Crafting
Best Survival Crafting Apps for iPhone (2026)
Raft® Survival - Ocean Nomad is the top-ranked of 40 survival crafting apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 324,032 ratings.
- 1
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 324,032 ratings · score 97 - 2
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 394,122 ratings · score 95 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 103,413 ratings · score 95 - 4
$6.99 + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 843,448 ratings · score 95 - 5
Free · ★ 4.5 · 82,902 ratings · score 94
What belongs in this list
Play a game where I gather resources, craft items and stay alive in a hostile world.
Not here: a crafting game without survival pressure alone; a survival shooter without crafting alone; a house or craft design tool alone; a DIY crafts how-to app alone; a building sandbox without threats 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
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 324,032 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 2Free download · ★ 4.5 · 394,122 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 103,413 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 4$6.99 + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 843,448 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 5Free · ★ 4.5 · 82,902 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 23,706 ratings · score 94 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 38,450 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 47,256 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 9
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,821 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 40,691 ratings · score 91 · best in class - 11
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 62,543 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 7,188 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 30,160 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 14
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 23,236 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 15
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 30,407 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 17,848 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 99,597 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 18
Free · ★ 4.6 · 391,543 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 19
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 9,253 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 20
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,810 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 4,386 ratings · score 85 · good - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 39,104 ratings · score 84 · good - 23
$4.99 · ★ 4.5 · 47,725 ratings · score 84 · good - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 18,824 ratings · score 83 · good - 25
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 7,234 ratings · score 83 · good - 26
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 9,142 ratings · score 83 · good - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,086 ratings · score 82 · good - 28
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,855 ratings · score 81 · good - 29
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,260 ratings · score 81 · good - 30
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 14,390 ratings · score 81 · good - 31
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 19,655 ratings · score 80 · good - 32
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 12,454 ratings · score 80 · situational - 33
Free download · ★ 3.7 · 4,051 ratings · score 80 · situational - 34
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 37,878 ratings · score 80 · situational - 35
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 18,231 ratings · score 76 · situational - 36
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 8,066 ratings · score 76 · situational - 37
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 3,640 ratings · score 76 · situational - 38
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,929 ratings · score 75 · situational - 39
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 33,941 ratings · score 70 · situational - 40
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,858 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
Beyond the top 40
24 more, not ranked yet
- Hybrid Animals
- Survival Island 2. Dino Ark
- Block Craft World Sandbox
- Icy Village: Survival Idle
- Let’s Survive - Survival games
- Chornobyl Quest
- Stormfall: Saga of Survival
- Raft® Survival : Desert Nomad
- Murderhill
- Arkcraft - Idle Adventure
- Survival RPG 1: Lost Treasure
- Zombiepunk: Fight & Survive
- Swordy Quest: An RPG Adventure
- World of Cubes Craft & Mine 3D
- Jurassic Survival Island
- Isle Builder: Click to Survive
- Survival City Builder
- Prey Day: Survival Game Online
- DinoCraft Survive & Craft
- World Craft HD
- Mini DAYZ: Zombie Survival
- Kawaii Craftsman Craft World
- Creative Box
- Life of Mellow
New in the last 30 days
- Survival Games - Questopia (S)
- Day R Survival: Last Survivor (A)
- Survival Island: Survivor EVO (A)
- Tomorrow: MMO Nuclear Quest (A)
- Ocean Is Home: Survival Island (B)
- Frostborn: Co-op Survival (B)
- LOST in BLUE (B)
- Build World: Sandbox Survival (B)
- Zombie Slasher: Survival RPG (B)
- TEGRA: Zombie survival island (B)
- Raptor Evolution: Survival (B)
- Last Island of Survival (C)
- World Craft: Mine & Build 3D (C)
- Tinker Island: Adventure Story (C)
- Epic Ocean Survival (C)
- Last Pirate: Island Survival (C)
- Gladiator Survival ・ Roman RPG (C)
Questions people ask
- What is the best survival crafting app for iPhone?
- Raft® Survival - Ocean Nomad, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.6 by 324,032 people.
- Which survival crafting apps are free?
- 38 of 40 are free to download: Raft® Survival - Ocean Nomad (S), MultiCraft - Build and Mine! (S), Last Day on Earth: Survival (S), RealmCraft: mine & craft world (S) and more. 18 of them sell in-app purchases. 2 report no in-app purchases.
- Which survival crafting app has the best App Store rating?
- Palmon: Survival at 4.9 from 39,104 ratings.
- How many survival crafting 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.
Related lists
- Best 3D Matching Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Action Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Action RPG Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Adventure Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Airplane Game Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked
- Best Animal Simulation Apps for iPhone (2026)40 ranked