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Both Apple and Google announced the best apps and games of the year today, with hiking and biking companion AllTrails named Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2023. Imprint: Learn visually Selected as one of the best apps on Google Play. Meanwhile, Apple and Google have agreed on a game of the year chosen by both companies. Honkai: Star Rail As their winner.
These year-end “best of” lists not only drive interest in new apps and games, but also assess the status of the app marketplace, what the platform itself wanted to celebrate, and what attracted consumers. It also functions as a means to ‘Attention this year.
But surprisingly, this year Apple bucked the trend of highlighting apps that are new to the store or that leverage recently released technology in innovative ways. Instead, this year’s iPhone app finalists include winner AllTrails, plus apps that have long been praised as well-built and well-designed mobile companions, including language learning app Duolingo and travel app Flighty. was included.
Still, this is a different type of selection than previous years, with 2022 social hit BeReal and last year’s well-received children’s app Toca Life World among the App Store winners. is noteworthy.
It’s also notable that neither Apple nor Google named an AI app as their app of the year, despite the phenomenal success of mobile apps like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Fastest growing consumer application in history Earlier this year, the service reached 100 million users shortly after its launch. This record was later broken by Instagram Threads, which reached his 100 million user mark in just five days, and still maintained his user base of just under 100 million active users as of October.
While any of these picks would be a mobile app success story, both app store platforms looked to others as this year’s top winners. Moreover, apart from ChatGPT, many other AI apps are generating millions of dollars in revenue as well, so the decision to avoid the AI category appears to be a deliberate choice on Apple’s part.
Other App Store winners include iPad App of the Year preta makeupMac App of the Year photometerApple TV App of the Year MubiApple Watch App of the Year smart gymiPhone Game of the Year Honkai: Star RailiPad Game of the Year lost in playMac Game of the Year P’s lieApple Arcade Game of the Year hello kitty island adventure.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement about the 2023 winners: “We are proud of the developers who continue to create amazing apps and games that redefine the world around us. It’s exciting to see.” “This year’s winners represent the limitless potential of developers who bring their visions to life, creating apps and games with amazing ingenuity, exceptional quality, and purpose-driven missions.” he added.
Apple also avoided naming AI apps as winners of the Cultural Impact Award, even though AI is having a very real impact on culture both online and culturally. off-line. In 2023, AI will permeate everyday technology and be used to create art and music; interrupted work at the same time create a new one.Instead, Apple’s cultural winners included gaming apps for kids Poku Pokuaccessibility app proloquominimize food waste Too Good to Gopuzzle app Unpackinghidden object game Find Hannah.
Still, the company couldn’t avoid the topic of AI completely, so it paid homage to the technology by naming it “Trend of the Year,” and put together a collection of generative AI apps that showcase the trend. However, the press release does not name these names, instead pointing only to: App Store grouping.
In addition to it, overall winnerGoogle took a different approach to “best of” apps this year, emphasizing “multi-device” apps that mirror its efforts in the Play Store, which is designed to make it easier to find apps beyond smartphones. The company named Spotify the best multi-device app. An interesting choice considering that it was just revealed that Spotify had a sweet deal with Google that allowed it to avoid Play Store fees through its antitrust lawsuit with Epic Games.The best multi-device games were turn-based strategy games OUTERPLANE – Strategy Anime.
Google also allows users to vote for their favorite apps; Chat GPT We won the race here as the app of the year as chosen by our users.This year’s game chosen by users is Monopoly go!
The company also rounded up other apps it wanted to highlight and gave them individual awards, such as “Best for Fun App.” Bumble for Friends: Introducing IRLperfect for personal growth Voidpet Garden: Mental Healththe best daily essentials Artifact: Cultivate Curiosityfeatured hidden gems: Mindfulness and wellbeingbest suited for AI Character AI: AI-powered chatperfect for families paw patrol academybest app for good stuff The world supports ActNowperfect for watches WhatsApp Messengerperfect for tablets Concept: sketching, notes, drawingPerfect for Chromebooks FlipaClip: Create 2D animationsperfect for Google TV Max: Stream HBO, TV, and moviesperfect for cars Amazon Prime Video
Unlike Apple, which has been feuding with Meta ever since changes around app tracking transparency affected Meta’s advertising business and led to a souring of relations between the two tech giants, Google has given Meta’s WhatsApp a list of winners. Didn’t bother to emphasize. It’s also a nod to the clever AI-powered Artifact app built by Instagram’s co-founder. And while no AI app was chosen as the overall winner, ChatGPT won the User’s Choice race, and Character AI, an app that created the AI category and was developed by a former Google researcher, won.
We’ve also compiled a list of honorable mentions that didn’t win in the app category. Reelsy Reel Maker Video Editor, Imprint: Learn visually (Winner overall, but honorable mention for personal growth) ReciMe: Easy and delicious recipes, Stippl: Explore, Plan, Share, Chat GPT (Won User’s Choice, but won Best Award for AI), lego duplo disney, AllTrails: Hike, Bike, Run (Also Apple’s iPhone app of the year) Audible: Audio Entertainment, Canva: Design, Photos, Videos, Everand: ebooks and audiobooks, Evernote – Note Organizer, video, Amazon Prime Video, crunchy roll, disney plus, Tubi: Movies and Live TV, beach buggy racingand spotify (It won Best Multi-Device App and was an honorable mention for Best for Cars.)
Best Games Included Best Multiplayer Games far light 84Best Pick & Play: Monopoly go!best indie vampire survivorsbest stories Honkai: Star Railbest ongoing stumble guythe best good game: pokemon sleepBest of Playpass magic rampageperfect for tablets Honkai: Star RailPerfect for Chromebooks Mine Craftperfect for Google Play Games on PC arknights. Also includes honorable mentions from the game ( Click here for Google’s blog Along with this year’s book. )