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Best Text Adventure Apps for iPhone (2026)

13 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Part of Interactive Stories.

Path of Adventure is the top-ranked of 13 text adventure apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.5/5 from 5,632 ratings.

  1. 1
    Path of AdventureS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,632 ratings · score 92
  2. 2
    Goat RPG: Beyond DnD AdventureS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,667 ratings · score 92
  3. 3
    AI Dungeon: RPG & Story MakerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 26,789 ratings · score 90
  4. 4
    Maginary. Adventure text book.A
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 5,537 ratings · score 86
  5. 5
    Old Greg's TavernA
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,761 ratings · score 83

What belongs in this list

Play a game where I read text descriptions and type or choose commands to move through a story world.

Not here: texting game alone; graphical adventure game with little text alone; a general chatbot that could be prompted to run a story alone; the words text or adventure in the title alone; a plain ebook or novel reader 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 →

S
Path of Adve…Goat RPG
A
AI DungeonMaginaryOld Greg'sDnD RPG
B
PARALLAXEverweaveCapybara Go!BitLife Dogs
C
BitLife CatsAltLife Sim!Hacker's Quest
D
None at D yet
F
None at F yet

Compare every app

  1. 1
    Path of AdventureS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,632 ratings · score 92 · best in class
  2. 2
    Goat RPG: Beyond DnD AdventureS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,667 ratings · score 92 · best in class
  3. 3
    AI Dungeon: RPG & Story MakerA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 26,789 ratings · score 90 · excellent
  4. 4
    Maginary. Adventure text book.A
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 5,537 ratings · score 86 · excellent
  5. 5
    Old Greg's TavernA
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,761 ratings · score 83 · excellent
  6. 6
    DnD RPG: Text AdventureA
    Free · ★ 4.0 · 9 ratings · score 81 · excellent
  7. 7
    PARALLAX: Interactive FictionB
    Free + IAP · ★ 5.0 · 1 ratings · score 77 · good
  8. 8
    EverweaveB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 8,631 ratings · score 76 · good
  9. 9
    Capybara Go!B
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 64,018 ratings · score 71 · good · provisional
  10. 10
    BitLife Dogs - DogLifeB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 62,704 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional
  11. 11
    BitLife Cats - CatLifeC
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,398 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
  12. 12
    AltLife Sim!C
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 1,215 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional
  13. 13
    Hacker's QuestC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,210 ratings · score 64 · situational

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Questions people ask

What is the best text adventure app for iPhone?
Path of Adventure, S tier, ranked #1 of 13, rated 4.5 by 5,632 people.
Which text adventure apps are free?
13 of 13 are free to download: Path of Adventure (S), Goat RPG: Beyond DnD Adventure (S), AI Dungeon: RPG & Story Maker (A), Maginary. Adventure text book. (A) and more. 10 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which text adventure app has the best App Store rating?
Capybara Go! at 4.9 from 64,018 ratings.
How many text adventure apps reach S or A tier?
6 of 13. 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.

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