Apple and Google both announced their best applications and games of the year, with the hiking and bicycle companion Alltrail Win as an Apple iPhone Support of the Year in 2023, while the educational application Imprint: learn visually won as an application of Google Play. Meanwhile, Apple and Google agreed with their game of the year, because the two chose Honkai: Star Rail like their winner.
These end-of-year “Best of” lists are not only a way to arouse interest in new applications and games, but serve as a way to assess the status of application markets, which the platforms themselves wanted to celebrate and what attracted consumers’ attention.
Surprisingly, however, Apple this year has tended to highlight the applications that were new in the store or which had benefited from a recently published technology in an innovative way. Instead, Its finalists for the iPhone application of the year Included applications that have long been deserving of both constructed and well -designed distinctions, including language learning application Duolingo and travel application Fickle, In addition to the winner Alltrails.
However, it should be noted that this is a different type of selection from that of previous years, when the winners of the App Store included the social blow in small groups Bereal in 2022 And well -received children TOCA Life World application the previous year.
It should also be noted that neither Apple nor Google chose an AI application as an application of the year, despite the incredible success of the Chatgpt mobile application and others. This is particularly strange since the chatpt has become consumption application to the fastest growth in history Earlier this year, when it reached 100 million users shortly after its launch. This record was then broken by the Instagram wires, who struck 100 million users in just five daysand in October had always maintained an active user base of just under 100 million. (However, the 100 million user threads initially counted were inscriptions, and not monthly active users, we have to note. Meanwhile, the chatgpt climb to 100 million users included its web application, so this is not a comparison of apple apples.)
Either one of these choices would represent a success of mobile application, but the two platforms of App Store considered themselves the best winners this year. In addition, outside of Chatgpt, Many other AI applications are raating millions of income In addition, the decision to avoid the category of AI therefore seems to be a deliberate choice on the part of Apple.
The other winners of the App Store include the iPad application of the year Ready-to-gutMac application of the year PhotomatorApple TV APP OF THE YEAR MuiApple Watch App of the Year SmartgymiPhone game of the year Honkai: Star RailiPad game of the year Lost in the gameMac Game of the Year P Lies and Apple Arcade’s game of the year Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
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“It is inspiring to see the ways in which developers continue to build incredible applications and games that redefine the world around us,” said Apple CEO, Tim Cook, in a press release on the winners of 2023. “The winners of this year represent the unlimited potential of developers to give life to their visions, creating applications and games with remarkable ingenuity, Exceptional quality and objective-oriented missions, “he added.
Apple has also avoided appointing an AI application among its cultural impact winners, despite the very real impact that AI has on culture, both online and offline. In 2023, the AI infused in daily technology, was used to create art And musicand a disrupted jobs just as Create new ones. Instead, Apple’s cultural winners included children’s game application Pok PokAn accessibility application ProloquoThe food waste minimizer Too beautiful to goPuzzle application Unpacking And the Hidden-Object game Find Hannah.
However, the company could not completely avoid the subject of the AI, so it gave a sign of the technology by appointing the generator the “trend of the year” and gathered a collection of generative AI applications that presented this trend. He did not name them in his press release, however, pointing rather Their grouping of the App Store.
In addition to his global winnersGoogle has adopted a different approach to its “best” applications this year, highlighting “multi-apparel” applications that reflect its efforts on the Play Store Designed to facilitate the search for non -smartphone applications. He named Spotify his best multi -apparent application – an interesting choice given that he has just been revealed through the antitrust case with epic games that Spotify has a romantic agreement with Google which allows it to bypass reading costs. The best multi-appareil game was the strategy game based on turning Exterior – strategy anime.
Google also allows users to vote for their favorite and unsurprising applications, Cat won the race here as the user’s choice of the year. The user’s choice game of the year was GO monopoly!
The company has also gathered other applications that it wanted to highlight by giving them individual distinctions, including the best application for pleasure Bumble for Friends: Meet IRLBetter for personal growth Voidpet garden: mental healthBest essential daily Artifact: Nourish your curiosityBest hidden gem Aware: mindfulness and well-beingBetter with AI Character ai: cat powered by aiBest for families Paw Patrol AcademyBest application for good AWORLD in support of ACTNOWBetter for watches Messenger WhatsappBest for tablets Concepts: sketch, note, drawBest for chromebooks Flipaclip: Create 2D animationBetter for Google TV Max: HBO stream, TV and movies And better for cars Amazon Prime video.
Unlike Apple, which was arguing Meta since monitoring transparency changes Impact on Meta Advertising AffairsLeading to a sour relationship between the two technology giants, Google did not bother me to highlight Meta Whatsapp in his list of winners. He also gave a sign of the intelligent artefact application fueled by AI, which was Built by Instagram co -founders. And although he does not have an anointed AI application as a global winner, Chatgpt won the user’s choice race and created a category of AI, what a character ai – An application built by former Google researchers – won.
He also gathered honorable mentions for those who have not won their category of applications, in particular Reelsy Reel Maker Video Editor,, Imprint: learn visually (which won overall but was an honorable mention in personal growth), Recque: easy and tasty recipes,, Stippl: Explore, plan and share,, Cat (which won the user’s choice but was an honorable mention in the best with AI), Lego Duplo Disney,, Alltrails: hiking, cycling and race (also Apple’s iPhone application of the year), Audible: Audio entertainment,, Canva: design, photo and video,, Everand: Ebooks and audio books,, Evernote – Notes organizer,, Wideo,, Amazon Prime video,, Crunchyroll,, Disney +,, Tubi: movies and live television,, Beach buggy race And Spotify (which won the best multi-apparent application but was an honorable mention for the best for cars.)
The best games included the best multiplayer game Farlight 84Best collection and game: GO monopoly!Best indie Vampire survivorsBest story Honkai: Star RailBest StumbleBest games for good: Pokémon SleepBest on Play Pass Magic outburstBest for tablets Honkai: Star RailBest for chromebooks Minecraft And better for Google Play games on PC Arknights. Honorable mentions for games have also been included (seen Here on Google’s blog Alongside the books of the year).