Apple Announces 2022 App Store Award Winners, Highlighting Best Apps of the Year

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced its 2022 App Store Award winners, highlighting the 16 best apps and games selected by Apple's global App Store editorial team.

The top apps were chosen by Apple for their quality, innovative technology, creative design, positive cultural impact, and ability to deliver "exceptional experiences." Apple CEO Tim Cook said:

This year's App Store Award winners reimagined our experiences with apps that delivered fresh, thoughtful, and genuine perspectives. From self-taught solo creators to international teams spanning the globe, these entrepreneurs are making a meaningful impact, and represent the ways in which apps and games influence our communities and lives.

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

• iPhone Game of the Year: Apex Legends Mobile, from Electronic Arts.
• 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.
• China Game of the Year: League of Legends Esports Manager, from Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Ltd.

Apple also highlighted five "Cultural Impact Winners," which it says "have made a lasting impact on people's lives and influenced culture." The winning apps in this category are as follows:

• How We Feel, from the How We Feel Project, Inc.
• Dot's Home, from the Rise-Home Stories Project
• Locket Widget, from Locket Labs, Inc.
• Waterllama, from Vitalii Mogylevets
• Inua - A Story in Ice and Time, from ARTE Experience

"This year's winners encourage users to engage more deeply with their emotions, authentically connect with others, and pay homage to their heritage and the generations that came before them while envisioning how to create a better world today," according to Apple.

Each App or Game of the Year winner will receive a physical App Store award that's modeled after the design of the App Store logo. Each award is created from 100 percent recycled aluminum and it has the name of the winner engraved on the side.

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[vtuberalpha]

I can vouch for GoodNotes, this app literally transformed my college life.

 

[Wanted797]

I love the look of these physical awards. I just want one to stare at. The blue colour is perfect. Reminds me of the iPod shuffle I saved up to buy while working my first job. Wish they’d bring the vibrant colours back.

 

[winxmac]

It may be just me but 2022 has not yet ended and here we are looking at the best apps of 2022... And same goes with other annual awards given...

 

[somnolentsurfer]

China: Apple's sixth platform.

 

[boyarka]

*grabs poporn*

Will be a fun 2023 as far as apps go. Mostly excited what will happen with an app of certain avian nomenclature, some say it's the word - and I bet most people have already heard.

 

[siri_3005]

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

Really? Asphalt 8 Arcade should've won instead of that game.

 

[nvmls]

Typical Apple hollow list.

 

[Robert.Walter]

I’m gonna guess Twitter didn’t make the list.

 

[triton100]

China game of the year? Huh? What about U.K., Spain or any other country then? I’m completely flummoxed by this?

 

[Ctrlos]

China game of the year? Huh? What about U.K., Spain or any other country then? I’m completely flummoxed by this?

Its either a platitude or a chinese language award.

Really? Asphalt 8 Arcade should've won instead of that game.

Asphalt 8 came out in 2013. Ports don't count.

Hopefully 2023 will finally bring that Final Fantasy X port I'm holding out for and maybe we might even see mobile ports of Persona 3 and 4.

 

[ghostface147]

Damn, I guess I need to download more apps from time to time. Never heard of any of these.

 

[boyarka]

Typical Apple hollow list.

FINALLY. Those words - exactly!

 

[coffeemilktea]

iPhone Game of the Year: Apex Legends Mobile, from Electronic Arts.

Really thumbing their nose at that OTHER big battle royale game, huh? 😅

cough Fortnite cough

 

[cb3]

And the winner is ... Twitter?

 

[psac]

Genshin Impact continues to be the best game available on mobile right now, with crazy amount of new content this year.

 

[compwiz1202]

I love the look of these physical awards. I just want one to stare at. The blue colour is perfect. Reminds me of the iPad shuffle I saved up to buy while working my first job. Wish they’d bring the vibrant colours back.

Yes I would be at the front of a line for an iPhone that blue

 

[coffeemilktea]

Genshin Impact continues to be the best game available on mobile right now, with crazy amount of new content this year.

I was surprised that it didn't win this year, and then I remembered it already got Game of the Year for 2020... I'm glad it's still going strong

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I'm surprised Instagram or TikTok did not make the list. Since they are so popular.

Can you guys imagine if Twitter had made the list?

 

[ProfessionalFan]

iPhone Game of the Year: Apex Legends Mobile, from Electronic Arts.

I love Apex on PS5. I tried the Mobile version a bit and it was pretty bad in comparison. Congrats to them though.

 

[Joz3d]

It's not even December yet!! December doesn't exist. There are 11 months in a year.

 

[Santabean2000]

I can vouch for GoodNotes, this app literally transformed my college life.

For teachers too, a God send. A true great app.

 

[bobenhaus]

Doubt these apps for the top and just hand picked without any concessions about them .

 

[Martin29]

Good to see MacFamilyTree in there.

without a doubt the best genealogy/family history app. Bar none, whatever the platform. This app uses all the strengths of Mac/Mac OS to break the mould as far as genealogy software goes.

I’ve been using the software since the earliest versions, together with other programs. It just keeps getting better.

 

[Zeitkind]

Good to see MacFamilyTree in there.

without a doubt the best genealogy/family history app.

Well, tbh, it's not really as great as one would think. It's better, no, it's nicer, looking better than OpenSource software like Gramps, but it's IMHO less usable as eg. the web frontend of MyHeritage. In fact, I switched to MyHeritage 2 years ago and only export the data via gedcom files to keep a local copy. It may be fine for a hobby genealogist though.