December 11, 2024
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Apple honors 2024 App Store Award winners
Apple celebrates the most effective apps and video games of the 12 months, recognizing 17 proficient builders for distinctive experiences on the App Store
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time revealed the winners of the 2024 App Store Awards, honoring 17 apps and video games that helped customers ignite their creativity, obtain new milestones, and cherish on a regular basis moments with household and buddies. This 12 months’s successful builders have created apps and video games that improved customers’ lives and impacted tradition world wide. From solo entrepreneurs to multinational groups, these App Store Award winners have been chosen from 45 finalists by App Store Editors for demonstrating the best ranges of consumer expertise, design, and innovation.
“We are thrilled to honor this spectacular group of builders who’re harnessing the ability of Apple units and expertise to ship experiences that enrich the lives of customers and have a profound influence on their communities,” mentioned Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The exceptional achievements of this 12 months’s winners display the unbelievable ingenuity that may be unlocked by apps.”
The successful apps and video games spotlight the infinite alternatives throughout the App Store and the Apple ecosystem. Kino exhibits customers how cinematic life will be by its film-inspired filters and superior controls. Moises empowers musicians on iPad to hone their craft with highly effective AI instruments, and Lightroom excels on Mac with its transformative photograph enhancing capabilities. Lumy on Apple Watch helps customers embrace the patterns of the solar and discover the magic in every day, whereas F1 TV brings immersive race-viewing experiences to followers at house.
In the gaming class, AFK Journey delivers action-packed, tactical adventures and wealthy storylines to gamers on iPhone. Squad Busters combines competitors with feel-good enjoyable by thrilling multiplayer gameplay, and Thank Goodness You’re Here! brings nonstop laughter with enjoyable and foolish skits. And on Apple Arcade, Balatro+ reinvents the principles of card video games with each new hand.
This 12 months’s inaugural winners of the Apple Vision Pro class pushed the boundaries of spatial computing with immersive experiences and intuitive controls. What If…? An Immersive Story welcomes customers to a world with limitless potentialities within the Marvel Universe, whereas the sights and sounds of THRASHER: Arcade Odyssey transport gamers to colourful, cosmic worlds.
2024 App Store Award Winners
Apps
iPhone App of the Year: Kino, from Lux Optics Inc.
iPad App of the Year: Moises, from Moises Systems Inc.
Mac App of the Year: Adobe Lightroom, from Adobe Inc.
Apple Vision Pro App of the Year: What If…? An Immersive Story, from Marvel Studios, ILM Immersive, and Disney+.
Apple Watch App of the Year: Lumy, from Raja V.
Apple TV App of the Year: F1 TV, from Formula One Digital Media Limited.
Games
iPhone Game of the Year: AFK Journey, from Farlight Games.
iPad Game of the Year: Squad Busters, from Supercell.
Mac Game of the Year: Thank Goodness You’re Here!, from Panic, Inc.
Apple Vision Pro Game of the Year: THRASHER: Arcade Odyssey, from Puddle, LLC.
Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Balatro+, from Playstack Ltd.
Cultural Impact Winners
In addition to recognizing apps and video games throughout Apple units, App Store Editors additionally chosen six Cultural Impact winners, recognizing the lasting influence these apps and video games have made in customers’ lives and communities. This 12 months’s winners empowered customers to faucet into their mental curiosity, fostered connection amongst household and buddies, and championed a extra accessible world.
Oko from AYES BV
Oko combines innovation and ease to assist customers who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient navigate metropolis streets with confidence.
EF Hello from Signum International AG
Powered by AI, EF Hello integrates a scientific studying strategy to help language learners of all ranges, serving to them improve their communication and higher interact with the world round them.
DailyArt from Zuzanna Stanska
By connecting customers to distinctive art work throughout centuries and actions, DailyArt fuels the mental curiosity and marvel of customers.
NYT Games from The New York Times Company
Offering an excellent begin to the day, NYT Games connects household and buddies throughout generations with quite a lot of enjoyable and easy day by day video games.
The Wreck from The Pixel Hunt
Featuring cinematic scenes and an interactive narrative, The Wreck depicts the thoughts’s interior struggles when going through a disaster.
Do You Really Want to Know 2 from Gamtropy Co., Ltd.
Do You Really Want to Know 2 explores the nuances of residing with HIV, providing customers native sources and academic supplies to navigate conversations with household and buddies.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
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