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The Best Apple Vision Pro Apps for 2025

 & Will Greenwald Principal Writer, Consumer Electronics

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Apple's Vision Pro offers access to 1,000 native apps. And since the VR headset's visionOS operating system is built on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, there are also well over a million Vision Pro-compatible apps, too. I've been actively using the Vision Pro since it launched, and I've also been covering VR/XR headsets for more than a decade. I know the Vision Pro's ins and outs and have worked extensively with its native visionOS apps and compatible apps. With that in mind, here are 32 Vision Pro apps you should try right now. Each app on this list is fun, interesting, or useful in some way. They're a good representation of the current state of Apple's spatial computer and a taste of what it could become.

Amazon Prime Video (Compatible iPad App)

Amazon Prime Video

4.0 Excellent

Alphabetically, we're starting with a compatible iPad app, not a native Vision Pro app. While several major streaming services are available for visionOS, Amazon Prime Video isn't one of them. Fortunately, the iPad version of the app lets you access Amazon videos just as easily.

Amazon Prime Video review

Apple TV

Apple TV (Vision Pro)

Apple's entertainment app is, of course, available on the Vision Pro, and it's loaded with both the 2D movies and shows you'd expect, as well as 3D and immersive content exclusive to the headset.

Books (Compatible iPad App)

Apple Books

Apple Books doesn't have a native visionOS app, but you can get the iPad version on the Vision Pro to read books purchased through Apple. If you have a large library on Amazon, you'll have to access them through Safari, as there isn't a compatible app for Kindle.

Crunchyroll

4.0 Excellent

Good news, anime fans: Crunchyroll has a visionOS app. You can sit back and watch your favorite anime at your leisure. I recommend Shangri-La Frontier if you want a Sword Art Online-like, not-quite-Isekai that is clearly written and localized by gaming fans. And, you know, actually good.

Crunchyroll review

Disney+

4.0 Excellent

Disney+ was one of the first streaming services to announce an app for the Vision Pro, and it went all out. Not only are there four very detailed 3D theaters to watch Disney content in, but you can watch dozens of Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars films in 3D.

Disney+ review

IMAX

IMAX (Vision Pro)

With the Vision Pro, you can actually have an IMAX theater in your home, at least one just for yourself. The IMAX app lets you watch IMAX-exclusive videos, both free and rentable, on a massive virtual screen appropriate for the format.

Explore POV

Explore POV demonstrates that an immersive video app doesn't have to be complicated to be enjoyable. This simple app lets you watch 180-degree video tours of a handful of natural environments in New Zealand. You can wander down a river, climb a mountain, and walk along a ridgeline during sunset. It's relaxing, and it's free.

Pluto TV

3.0 Average

If you want free content, Pluto TV is one of the best for both on-demand and live streams. It has a visionOS app with a surprisingly massive library of movies and shows.

Pluto TV review

HBO Max

4.0 Excellent

Max is another service with a dedicated app for the Vision Pro, and there are plenty of movies and shows to watch on it. It isn't quite as feature-filled as the Disney+ app, but if you want, you can watch movies in front of a virtual Iron Throne.

HBO Max review

Music

Apple Music (Vision Pro)

Apple Music is available on the Vision Pro, with some perks you won't get on the Apple TV app. Besides regular music, you can listen to spatial audio tracks that really make you feel like you're surrounded by instruments thanks to the headset's excellent speakers.

Safari (for Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube)

Safari (Vision Pro)

Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube don't have visionOS apps, and their iPad apps aren't compatible with the Vision Pro. Fortunately, you can get around that problem by accessing them through Safari. The services are fully functional via the web browser on the Vision Pro.

Bloons TD 6

Bloons TD 6 (Vision Pro)

A top-down tower defense game isn't the most obvious choice for an AR/VR headset, but hey, it's still fun. Bloons TD6 is addictive and deceptively deep, with dozens of maps to defend and monkeys to defend them with, and it's on Apple Arcade.

Castle Crumble

Castle Crumble for VisionOS

This is basically the 3D, Apple Vision Pro version of Angry Birds. Or rather, its precursor, Crush the Castle. You have a slingshot/cannon and magic spells and are given various increasingly complex castles to smash. It's pretty simple, fun, and available on Apple Arcade.

Spire Blast

This simple Apple Arcade puzzle game challenges you to clear out connecting groups of like-colored blocks with physics. The blocks make up a floating cylindrical tower you can spin around. Look at a block and tap it to make that block, and every block of the same color touching it disappear, shifting all the remaining blocks in the tower. Remove enough blocks before you knock down the whole tower to win.

Game Room

Game Room (Vision Pro)

Apple's Game Room app on Apple Arcade has received a massive overhaul for the Vision Pro compared with its iOS and iPadOS versions. It lets you play chess, hearts, solitaire, and legally distinct versions of Battleship and Yahtzee in fully rendered 3D. The chess board sits in front of you like it's there, letting you select pieces with your eyes and then pinch and drag them with your fingers to move them around.

Steam Link (Compatible iPad App)

Steam Link

3.5 Good

This one surprised me. Not only is the iPad app for Steam Link compatible with the Vision Pro, but it works perfectly. You can pair a gamepad with the Vision Pro and play games streamed from your local gaming PC running Steam. I found the experience incredibly responsive over my Wi-Fi 6 network.

Steam Link review

Stitch.

stitch. (Vision Pro)

Part puzzle game, part chill-out experience, Stitch. (the period is in the name) puts a virtual embroidery ring in front of you and makes you fill patterns with different colors. It's very relaxing, and you don't have to worry about jabbing yourself with needles.

Super Fruit Ninja

Super Fruit Ninja (Vision Pro)

Hey, remember Fruit Ninja? It's back, in visionOS form! Once again, you're tasked with making the most chaotic fruit salad possible while avoiding taking your blade to anything lethal.

Synth Riders

Synth Riders (Vision Pro)

Beat Saber isn't on the Vision Pro yet, but Synth Riders is the next best thing. The premise is familiar: Glowing spheres fly at you in time to music and you have to bat them with your hands. It's fun, like nearly all rhythm games, and it works perfectly in the context of AR/VR.

What the Golf?

What the Golf? is a fun and outright wacky golfing game on Apple Arcade that involves pinching and dragging to aim your shot instead of swinging a club. Don't expect every hole to be a simple matter of sinking a ball in a cup.

Camo Studio

Camo Studio for VisionOS

Camo Studio is a multi-platform app that lets you stream video from one device with a camera to another, and is one of many options for turning your phone or digital camera into a webcam. Its dedicated visionOS app lets you use your Vision Pro to record or stream your point of view with much more flexibility than the headset's built-in video features allow.

Microsoft Office Apps

Microsoft Office Professional 2021

4.5 Outstanding

Want to get work done on the Vision Pro? Good news: Microsoft's full suite of Office productivity apps are available on visionOS, including Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. It's hard to type on the virtual keyboard, but you can easily pair a Bluetooth keyboard with the headset for tactile feedback. You can also access Microsoft Teams if your organization uses it for meetings.

Microsoft Office Professional 2021 review

Runestone

Runestone (Vision Pro)

Coders should appreciate the availability of Runestone on the Vision Pro. This native visionOS app is a powerful text editor with color-coded elements and auto-formatting features for dozens of programming languages.

Safari (for Google Docs and Sheets)

Safari (Vision Pro)

Google apps are missing from the Vision Pro, even in the form of compatible iPad apps, but you can access most of them through Safari so you can still work in Docs and Sheets. We're hoping that Google software will be available as compatible or native visionOS apps in the future, though.

Scrivener (Compatible iPad App)

Scrivener

4.5 Outstanding

Scrivener is one of my favorite tools for fiction writing. It lets you work on your manuscript with extensive formatting options, manage notes, and create outlines. Its iPad app also works on the Vision Pro, and you can use a Bluetooth keyboard with it, too.

Scrivener review

WebEx

Webex by Cisco

4.5 Outstanding

Videoconferencing tools abound on the Vision Pro. There's FaceTime for casual calls and Microsoft Teams for work. If your organization uses WebEx, it's there, too.

Webex by Cisco review

Zoom

Zoom One

4.5 Outstanding

Zoom is also available on visionOS, meaning pretty much all major videoconferencing services are covered on the Vision Pro with native apps (except Google Meet).

Zoom One review

Coffey & Sons Spatial Supercar Museum

The name Spatial Supercar Museum already gives a pretty good impression of what this app does. It's a showcase of rare supercars you can plonk down in the middle of your living room. There are dozens of choices, including the 2024 Lamborghini Huracan, the 1967 Lotus 49c, and the 2003 Ferrari Enzo. They even have fully modeled cockpits, so you can see what it feels like to sit in the driver's seat.

Crumbl

Crumbl (Vision Pro)

For those with a sweet tooth, there's a dedicated Vision Pro app for the cookie delivery company Crumbl. You can order cookies straight from the headset, without having to navigate to the Crumbl website. It doesn't show virtual cookies or anything, it just lets you order.

Museas

Museas is a "spatial museum" that lets you look at more than 100 works of art across multiple periods and movements, all for free. Each piece has an informative voice guide discussing its artist and origins. Every painting is very high resolution, so you zoom in, get up close, and really examine the details. Some even have immersive views that put you in a virtual room themed after the piece, with a mixed reality canvas in front of you.

Space Vision

Space is big. Really big. Big enough that it's hard to comprehend how big it is. Space Vision lets you take a tour of the solar system, which itself is pretty standard (but educational) fare for VR/XR headsets. What makes it particularly interesting is its control panel and plethora of sliders. It starts with the typical "this is the solar system" perspective, but it shows just how much the planets, moons, and orbits are scaled. Pull those sliders toward more accurate proportions, and you can see just how massive every planet's orbit is and how tiny so many celestial bodies are compared with others. Incidentally, our moon is pretty far away, but it's also huge, about a third the size of Earth without scaling.

Zillow Immerse

Zillow Immerse (Vision Pro)

Real estate listings can really benefit from AR and VR, and Zillow proves it. If a listing has a 360-degree view, you can tour the property in the Vision Pro. You'll be jumping between set points because of how the 360-degree photos are shot and organized, but a 3D model of the floorplan lets you see exactly where you are.

About Our Expert

Will Greenwald

Will Greenwald

Principal Writer, Consumer Electronics

My Experience

I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for game consoles and accessories, smart displays, smart glasses, smart speakers, soundbars, TVs, and VR headsets. I’m an ISF-certified TV calibrator and THX-certified home theater technician, I've served as a CES Innovation Awards judge, and while Bandai hasn’t officially certified me, I’m also proficient at building Gundam plastic models up to MG-class. I also enjoy genre fiction writing, and my urban fantasy novel, Alex Norton, Paranormal Technical Support, is currently available on Amazon.

The Technology I Use

Where to start? I have a standard IT-issued Lenovo Thinkpad for writing and editing, supplemented with an iPad Air and an 8Bitdo Retro Keyboard when I want to write on the go. I also have a Lenovo Legion Go as a platform for running Portrait Displays’ Calman software and controlling the Klein K-10A colorimeter, Murideo SIX-G signal generator, and Leo Bodnar 4K Video Signal Lag Tester I use for testing TVs. 

For gaming, I use a Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X, and a GeForce 5080-equipped MSI gaming laptop. I like collecting retro games as well, and have an Analogue Pocket and a ton of classic consoles and portables. Photography is another interest, and I use a Sony A7 IV when I’m shooting products and events, and a Fujifilm X-Pro3 for my own attempts at visual creativity. And for reading and writing, I’ve become partial to the Kobo Sage for books and the ReMarkable 2 with Type Folio.

When it comes to phones and tablets, I’m pretty platform-agnostic. I use a Google Pixel 8 for my phone and an iPad Air for a tablet. Android, iOS, and iPadOS are all totally fine, but I need a Windows PC. MacOS just isn’t for me.

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