2024 Apple Design Award Winners Announced Ahead of WWDC

[MacRumors]

Ahead of WWDC next week, Apple has announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards, honoring 14 best-in-class apps and games.

Here are this year's winners, with one app and one game chosen per category:

• Delight and Fun: Bears Gratitude (app) and NYT Games (game)
• Inclusivity: oko (app) and Crayola Adventures (game)
• Innovation: Procreate Dreams (app) and Lost in Play (game)
• Interaction: Crouton (app) and Rytmos (game)
• Social Impact: Gentler Streak (app) and The Wreck (game)
• Visuals and Graphics: Rooms (app) and Lies of P (game)
• Spatial Computing: djay Pro (app) and Blackbox (game)

Apple says this year's winning apps and games were selected based on "stellar design, technical achievement, and innovation." More details about each app and the developers behind them can be found on Apple's website.

In past years, Apple Design Award winners have been revealed at a presentation during WWDC, so Apple pre-announcing the list is a notable change.

WWDC begins with Apple's keynote on June 10 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, with the company expected to unveil iOS 18 and other major software updates.

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[Tune]

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I swear this website gets worse and worse every day. Post a headline with 0 content... and update it later. Dear Macrumors.... please fire all your incompetent writers.

 

[TruthWatcher412]

I’m glad Rooms won, it’s an awesome time killer app for me

 

[applefanboysince93]

Somehow these awards seem to have become irrelevant. Not too many years ago I’d go out of my way to check the apps out. Now I’m barely motivated to read the list.

 

[vegetassj4]

By winning this award, we will add your technological distinction to our own

From this moment forward, you will service...us.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Somehow these awards seem to have become irrelevant. Not too many years ago I’d go out of my way to check the apps out. Now I’m barely motivated to read the list.

Someone not too many years younger than you are as exited today as you were not too many years ago. Time passes, the baton is handed on!

 

[now i see it]

I guess they didn’t get the memo but… the IOS gold rush petered out a long time ago.

 

[JustSomeInfo]

Resident Evil 4 Remake was robbed! Robbed, I tells ya'.

 

[DMG35]

I really wish I could find a game I loved for iOS or iPadOS. The last great ones I played were Limbo and Inside, both coincidentally made by the same people.

 

[ignatius345]

I bought Paprika years ago and it's wonderful. Imports recipes from web pages, syncs between Mac, iPad and iPhone, generates grocery lists. I'm sure Crouton is nice, but I do NOT need another software rental in my life.

 

[Think|Different]

Crazy how many times djay has won this over the years!

 

[NufSaid]

Too bad this isn't in the politics section.....I will refrain.

 

[Velin]

Is this the same crew that said the number one album of all time was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill — an “editorial statement” ranking?

 

[RedWeasel]

Somehow these awards seem to have become irrelevant. Not too many years ago I’d go out of my way to check the apps out. Now I’m barely motivated to read the list.

No wonder, half of the categories seem to be woke-agenda-politics driven.

Remember when we had categories like „Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution“?

 

[Velin]

No wonder, half of the categories seem to be woke-agenda-politics driven.

Remember when we had categories like „Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution“?

Absolutely this. After the number one album fiasco, it’s near impossible to trust anything ranked by Apple employees or agents. No exaggeration, if it’s on one of these political lists, it’s a reason to not purchase.

 

[tonywalker23]

Tony Walker's 2024 App Awards

Things 3
Ulysses
Overcast
Day One
Reeder

 

[cocky jeremy]

Somehow these awards seem to have become irrelevant. Not too many years ago I’d go out of my way to check the apps out. Now I’m barely motivated to read the list.

I've yet to see one that interests me that I didn't already know about.

 

[aleksander]

• Innovation: Procreate Dreams (app)

Currently only a 3.4 rating and a big disappointment in the animation community. So, where's the innovation?

 

[JustSomeInfo]

I really wish I could find a game I loved for iOS or iPadOS. The last great ones I played were Limbo and Inside, both coincidentally made by the same people.

Have you tried Little Nightmares. It's similar to the two games you mentioned.

 

[EedyBeedyBeeps]

No wonder, half of the categories seem to be woke-agenda-politics driven.

Remember when we had categories like „Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution“?

Which categories and winners seem to be "woke-agenda-politics driven" to you?

 

[DMG35]

Have you tried Little Nightmares. It's similar to the two games you mentioned.

No but I’ll try it. Thank you!

 

[JustSomeInfo]

No but I’ll try it. Thank you!

Hope you like it. Be warned, it's a bit creepy.

 

[Aaargh!]

Inclusivity: oko (app)

“This app is currently not available in your country or region”. How’s that for irony.

 

[CarAnalogy]

By winning this award, we will add your technological distinction to our own

From this moment forward, you will service...us.

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Nice one.

Crazy that when I was a kid, that was Bill Gates' face.

Now if you put Satya Nadella's face on there, people wouldn't even get it.

Even though he pulled more of a Borg than anyone lately with Teams.

 

[UsernamesMustBeUnique]

I’m glad Rooms won, it’s an awesome time killer app for me

Didn't try it. What catches your attention?