App Retailer Awards honor the perfect apps and video games of 2021
December 2, 2021
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App Retailer Awards honor the perfect apps and video games of 2021
Apple right this moment revealed the 2021 App Retailer Award winners, recognizing the 15 greatest apps and video games that helped customers faucet into private passions, uncover artistic retailers, join with new individuals and experiences, and easily have enjoyable. This yr’s winners embody builders from around the globe whose apps and video games had been chosen by Apple’s international App Retailer editorial crew for delivering distinctive high quality, progressive expertise, artistic design, and constructive cultural affect.
“The builders who received App Retailer Awards in 2021 harnessed their very own drive and imaginative and prescient to ship the perfect apps and video games of the yr — sparking the creativity and fervour of hundreds of thousands of customers around the globe,” mentioned Tim Cook dinner, Apple’s CEO. “From self-taught indie coders to inspiring leaders constructing international companies, these standout builders innovated with Apple expertise, with many serving to to foster the profound sense of togetherness we wanted this yr.”
This yr’s greatest apps and video games provided extraordinary experiences throughout Apple units. Ten years after its App Retailer debut, Toca Life World is masterfully iterating on the artwork of play and self-expression for youths. The builders behind DAZN guided native sport tradition into the worldwide highlight for everybody to take pleasure in, whereas Carrot Climate introduced its best-in-class meteorological forecasts — and the witty character behind it — to customers’ wrists. LumaFusion made video enhancing sooner, much less intimidating, and extra moveable for creators at each stage, and Craft creatively enabled effectivity and artistry by means of a pocket book with seemingly limitless capabilities. The unimaginable graphics and wealthy storylines woven into “League of Legends: Wild Rift,” “MARVEL Future Revolution,” “Myst,” “Area Marshals 3,” and Apple Arcade’s “Fantasian” transported gamers of all ages into immersive gaming experiences.
2021 App Retailer Award Winners
Apps
iPhone App of the 12 months: Toca Life World, from Toca Boca.
iPad App of the 12 months: LumaFusion, from LumaTouch.
Mac App of the 12 months: Craft, from Luki Labs Restricted.
Apple TV App of the 12 months: DAZN, from DAZN Group.
Apple Watch App of the 12 months: Carrot Climate, from Grailr.
Video games
iPhone Recreation of the 12 months: “League of Legends: Wild Rift,” from Riot Video games.
iPad Recreation of the 12 months: “MARVEL Future Revolution,” from Netmarble Company.
Mac Recreation of the 12 months: “Myst,” from Cyan.
Apple TV Recreation of the 12 months: “Area Marshals 3,” from Pixelbite.
Apple Arcade Recreation of the 12 months: “Fantasian,” from Mistwalker.
Development of the 12 months: Connection
Along with recognizing the perfect apps and video games on Apple units, Apple’s international App Retailer editors title a Development of the 12 months. The aim is to establish a motion that had lasting affect on individuals’s lives, and to acknowledge the standout apps and video games that met that second. The highest development of 2021 is “Connection.” This yr’s development winners introduced individuals collectively in significant methods — whereas assembly social, private, {and professional} wants for customers around the globe.
“Amongst Us!” From Innersloth
With a mixture of cooperation and competitors, “Amongst Us!” cultivated group by means of bite-size matches that urged customers to speak — and pay attention — to one another by way of banter, bluffing, and teamwork.
Bumble, from Bumble Inc.
Bumble met the second by including and enhancing options designed to bridge the hole for customers hoping thus far, forge platonic friendships, and broaden their skilled networks — all whereas fostering women-powered conversations.
Canva, from Canva
Providing elegantly easy design instruments and lovely templates, Canva helps customers faucet into their entrepreneurial spirit by making design easy for professionals, college students, job seekers, group leaders, and groups of each variety.
EatOkra, from Anthony Edwards Jr. and Janique Edwards
EatOkra constructed a strong, user-driven information to greater than 11,000 Black-owned eateries that helps individuals discover tasty methods to put money into their group.
Peanut, from Peanut App Restricted
By launching social audio Pods led by consultants on every little thing from being pregnant and menopause to relationships and self-care, Peanut is creating house for sincere conversations on each side of womanhood at each stage of life.
For greater than a decade, Apple has honored the perfect apps and video games on the finish of every yr. To acknowledge the affect of the successful developer groups, final yr, Apple designers started a practice of celebration by means of meticulous craftsmanship with bodily App Retailer awards for every winner. Impressed by the signature blue App Retailer icon, every award reveals the App Retailer emblem set into the 100% recycled aluminum used to make Apple merchandise, with the title of the winner engraved on the opposite aspect.
To study extra in regards to the apps and video games highlighted on this yr’s App Retailer Awards, go to the App Retailer. Along with the App Retailer editorial picks, charts for the highest apps and video games of the yr are actually out there, in addition to high Apple Arcade charts.
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