CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple contiguous announced the winners of the 2022 App Store Awards, spotlighting 16 apps and games that inspired users to prosecute much profoundly with the world, grow their imaginations, and enactment connected to friends and loved ones. This year’s winners correspond a divers assemblage of developers from astir the satellite whose apps and games were selected by Apple’s planetary App Store editorial squad for delivering exceptional experiences and making a profound taste impact.

“This year’s App Store Award winners reimagined our experiences with apps that delivered fresh, thoughtful, and genuine perspectives,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “From self-taught solo creators to planetary teams spanning the globe, these entrepreneurs are making a meaningful impact, and correspond the ways successful which apps and games power our communities and lives.”  

This year’s winners correspond the abundant possibilities crossed the App Store and Apple’s ecosystem of devices. Innovative societal app BeReal gives users an authentic look into the lives of their household and friends, and fittingness tracker Gentler Streak helps users equilibrium fittingness and remainder to support a steadfast lifestyle. GoodNotes 5 takes integer note-taking to the adjacent level with best-in-class Apple Pencil support. MacFamilyTree 10 sparks the exploration of genealogy done stunning ocular household trees and collaboration with loved ones astir the world, portion the creators down ViX elevate Spanish-language stories to the forefront of entertainment.

Apex Legends Mobile brings the fast-paced deed conflict royale crippled to iPhone. Moncage’s memorable puzzles brilliantly play with perspective, and the immersive paper battler Inscryption draws players successful with experimental storytelling. El Hijo, a Wild West tale, is simply a smartly designed stealth crippled that looks exceptional connected the large surface with Apple TV. Apple Arcade’s unsocial beingness sim Wylde Flowers invites players into its charming satellite of divers characters and magical spells, and League of Legends Esports Manager allows players to negociate the astir influential esports leagues successful the world.

2022 App Store Award Winners

Apps

iPhone App of the Year: BeReal, from BeReal.

iPad App of the Year: GoodNotes 5, from Time Base Technology Limited.

Mac App of the Year: MacFamilyTree 10, from Synium Software GmbH.

Apple TV App of the Year: ViX, from TelevisaUnivision Interactive, Inc.

Apple Watch App of the Year: Gentler Streak, from Gentler Stories LLC.

Games

iPad Game of the Year: Moncage, from X.D. Network Inc.

Mac Game of the Year: Inscryption, from Devolver.

Apple TV Game of the Year: El Hijo, from HandyGames.

Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Wylde Flowers, from Studio Drydock Pty Ltd.

Cultural Impact Winners

In summation to recognizing the champion apps and games connected Apple devices, Apple’s App Store editors selected 5 Cultural Impact winners that person made a lasting interaction connected people’s lives and influenced culture. This year’s winners promote users to prosecute much profoundly with their emotions, authentically link with others, and wage homage to their practice and the generations that came earlier them portion envisioning however to make a amended satellite today.

How We Feel from the How We Feel Project, Inc.
By prompting users to pat into their affectional well-being with the easiness of regular check-ins, How We Feel helps users enactment hard emotions into words and presents strategies to code these emotions successful the moment.

Dot’s Home from the Rise-Home Stories Project
Dot’s Home spotlights systemic lodging injustices and the consequent interaction wrong communities of colour done a compelling and thoughtful time-traveling tale.

Locket Widget from Locket Labs, Inc.
Allowing users to nonstop unrecorded photos close to household and friends’ Home Screen, Locket Widget drives intimate transportation betwixt loved ones, escaped from accepted societal media pressures.

Waterllama from Vitalii Mogylevets
With its colorful design and gentle guidance, Waterllama makes gathering hydration goals fun, utilizing originative challenges, reminders, and cuddly characters to support users connected track.

Inua - A Story successful Ice and Time from ARTE Experience
Inua - A Story successful Ice and Time provides an engaging, mystical escapade for users to research humanities events that weave successful elements of Inuit traditions, folklore, and breathtaking tales.

For much than a decade, Apple has honored the champion apps and games astatine the extremity of each year. To admit the interaction of the winning developer teams, each victor volition person a carnal grant inspired by the signature bluish App Store icon. Developed done meticulous craftsmanship, the grant includes the App Store logo acceptable into 100 percent recycled aluminum utilized to marque Apple products, with the sanction of the victor engraved connected the different side.

The App Store, which launched successful 2008, is the world’s safest and astir vibrant app marketplace. Currently location to 1.8 cardinal apps and visited by much than fractional a cardinal radical each week crossed 175 regions, it is an motor of planetary economical growth, facilitating $643 cardinal successful billings and income during 2020 alone. The App Store helps creators, dreamers, and learners of each ages and backgrounds link with the tools and accusation they request to physique a brighter aboriginal and a amended world. 

Visit the App Store to larn much astir the 2022 App Store Award winners. In summation to the App Store editorial picks, charts for the top apps and games of the year, arsenic good as Apple Arcade games, are present available.