What is the best survival shooter app for iPhone?

Last Z: Survival Shooter, S tier, ranked #1 of 38, rated 4.8 by 102,408 people.

Which survival shooter apps are free?

38 of 38 are free to download: Last Z: Survival Shooter (S), Zombie Waves-shooting game (S), DEAD TRIGGER: Survival Shooter (S), Left to Survive: Zombie Games (S) and more. 19 of them sell in-app purchases.

Which survival shooter app has the best App Store rating?

Pickle Pete: Survivor at 4.8 from 7,272 ratings.

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Best Survival Shooter Apps for iPhone (2026)

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

Last Z: Survival Shooter is the top-ranked of 38 survival shooter apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 102,408 ratings.

1
Last Z: Survival ShooterS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 102,408 ratings · score 97
2
Zombie Waves-shooting gameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 43,217 ratings · score 95
3
DEAD TRIGGER: Survival ShooterS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 38,673 ratings · score 94
4
Left to Survive: Zombie GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 56,942 ratings · score 93
5
Z Survivor: Backpack ShooterA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,903 ratings · score 90

What belongs in this list

Play a shooter where I must stay alive against waves of enemies or harsh conditions while shooting.

Not here: a shooter with no survival element alone; a survival game with no shooting alone; a zombie theme alone; a general zombie shooter with no survival pressure alone; a title keyword like survival 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
Last Z: Survival ShooterS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 102,408 ratings · score 97 · best in class
2
Zombie Waves-shooting gameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 43,217 ratings · score 95 · best in class
3
DEAD TRIGGER: Survival ShooterS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 38,673 ratings · score 94 · best in class
4
Left to Survive: Zombie GamesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 56,942 ratings · score 93 · best in class
5
Z Survivor: Backpack ShooterA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,903 ratings · score 90 · excellent
6
Gun Hero: Cat Survival ShooterA
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 5,804 ratings · score 89 · excellent
7
Last Stand: Zombie DefenseA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 9,711 ratings · score 89 · excellent
8
Cell Survivor - Shoot DefenseA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 19,324 ratings · score 88 · excellent
9
Lost Light: Weapon Skin TreatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 39,624 ratings · score 87 · excellent
10
Swamp AttackA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 34,670 ratings · score 87 · excellent
11
Ball Blast Cannon blitz maniaA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 550,291 ratings · score 86 · excellent
12
City Survival ChallengeA
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 29,313 ratings · score 84 · excellent
13
Pickle Pete: SurvivorA
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,272 ratings · score 83 · excellent
14
Deep Rock Galactic: SurvivorB
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,533 ratings · score 81 · good
15
BangBang SurvivorB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 6,240 ratings · score 80 · good
16
Free Fire x NARUTO SHIPPUDENB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 365,909 ratings · score 78 · good
17
ArcheroB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 470,595 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional
18
Mr AutofireB
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 28,017 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional
19
Crowd DefenseC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 24,887 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
20
BrotatoC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 11,269 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
21
Walkers AttackC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 33,358 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
22
Vampire SurvivorsC
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,131 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
23
Legend of SurvivorsC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,040 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
24
Guns Royale: Mobile Team PvPC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 27,305 ratings · score 66 · situational
25
Free Fire MAX x NARUTOC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 59,664 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
26
Flak FuryC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,696 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
27
Modern Gunships: AC130 GameC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,556 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional
28
Survivor Z: Zombie GamesD
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,176 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional
29
Survive SquadD
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,785 ratings · score 63 · weak
30
Apple Grapple: SurvivorD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,571 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional
31
LegendArya - Survival ShooterD
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 29,216 ratings · score 61 · weak
32
Lonely SurvivorD
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,148 ratings · score 58 · weak · provisional
33
Undead City: Zombie SurvivorD
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,919 ratings · score 51 · weak · provisional
34
Wizard Hero - Magic SurvivalF
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 7,853 ratings · score 48 · avoid · provisional
35
Final Stand: WaterlooF
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 19,100 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
36
Silo's Airsoft RoyaleF
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,708 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional
37
Final Survivor: Zombie WarfareF
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,813 ratings · score 41 · avoid · provisional
38
Monster Battle SeriesF
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 41,193 ratings · score 41 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best survival shooter app for iPhone?: Last Z: Survival Shooter, S tier, ranked #1 of 38, rated 4.8 by 102,408 people.
Which survival shooter apps are free?: 38 of 38 are free to download: Last Z: Survival Shooter (S), Zombie Waves-shooting game (S), DEAD TRIGGER: Survival Shooter (S), Left to Survive: Zombie Games (S) and more. 19 of them sell in-app purchases.
Which survival shooter app has the best App Store rating?: Pickle Pete: Survivor at 4.8 from 7,272 ratings.
How many survival shooter apps reach S or A tier?: 13 of 38. 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.