Apple has announced the results of its App Store Awards for 2024, revealing the winners and finalists across multiple app and game categories. This year, two apps in the photo and video category won the Top Mac App and Top iPhone App contests, while an app designed for musicians was named iPad App of the Year. Meanwhile, Apple has also announced six winners and six finalists in the Cultural Impact category, revealing its top Apple Arcade titles.
Kino, Moises and Lightroom selected as Apple’s best apps of the year
Lux Optics’ Kino, which launched earlier this year as a dedicated camera with support for grading and film presets, has won iPhone App of the Year. Meanwhile, Runna (an app designed to provide personal training for runners), and Tripsy, a vacation or travel planning app, were the finalists in this category.
Kino beats Runna and Tripsy to win iPhone App of the Year award
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The Mac App of the Year for 2024 is Adobe Lightroom, the American company’s widely used image processing and organization software. It beat out 3D design app Shapr3D and task management software OmniFocus 4.
On the other hand, Disney’s What If…? An Immersive Story is Apple’s Vision Pro App of the Year – it was up against Gigaspace and the NBA app for mixed reality headsets. Raja V’s Lumi, an app for photographers that reveals sunrise, sunset and golden hour, was the Apple Watch app of the year.
Apple chose Moise, an app designed for musicians that can remove percussion and other instruments from popular tracks, as iPad App of the Year. Meanwhile, Savage Interactive’s Procreate Dreams and Bluey: Let’s Play (Buzz Studios) emerged as runners-up.
This year, the F1 TV app was chosen as Apple TV app of the year over runners-up Dropout and Zoom – the latter uses a connected iPhone to allow users to join meetings.
AFK Journey is Apple’s iPhone game of the year
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Apple also chose AFK Journey, an increasingly popular fantasy role-playing game, as its iPhone App of the Year, competing with The Werecleaner and Cognosphere’s newest title, Zenless Zone Zero. Supercell’s Squad Busters beat out Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Gameloft’s Disney Speedstorm to become iPad game of the year.
On the other hand, slapstick platformer Thank Goodness You’re Here was voted Mac Game of the Year, while Frostpunk 2 and Stray emerged as finalists in the category. Poodle’s AR game Thrasher: Arcade Odyssey was the top game for Apple Vision Pro, while the poker-inspired Balatro+ is Apple Arcade Game of the Year.
Six apps and games – DailyArt, Do You Really Want to Know 2, EF Hello, NYT Games, Oko and The Wreck – were selected as winners in Apple’s Cultural Impact Awards. Arco, Brawl Stars, BetterSleep, Partiful, Pinterest, and The Bear were other finalists who received honorable mentions from the company.
