Apple has announced the winners for its 2025 App Store Awards. While there were many nominees, of course, there can only be one winner per category. Apple says that the 17 winners were chosen by App Store editors.
It’s great to see that Vancouver’s Essayist won the award for Mac App of the Year. Unfortunately, Toronto’s Venba didn’t win the Cultural Impact category.
Other winners include the Pokémon TCG and Dredge. Plus, Tiimo won app of the year, and while I’ve never used it, an app designed to help folks with ADHD sounds right up my alley, and I just downloaded it to give it a shot.
Here are the winners of the App Store Awards.
iPhone App of the Year
iPad App of the Year
- Detail, from Detail Technologies B.V.
Mac App of the Year
- Essayist, from Essayist Software Inc.
Apple Vision Pro App of the Year
- Explore POV, from James Hustler.
Apple Watch App of the Year
- Strava, from Strava, Inc.
Apple TV App of the Year
- HBO Max, from WarnerMedia Global Digital Services, LLC.
iPhone Game of the Year
- Pokémon TCG Pocket, from The Pokémon Company.
iPad Game of the Year
- DREDGE, from Black Salt Games.
Mac Game of the Year
- Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, from CD PROJEKT S.A.
Apple Vision Pro Game of the Year
- Porta Nubi, from Michael Temper.
Apple Arcade Game of the Year
- WHAT THE CLASH?, from Triband ApS.
The App Store editors selected six apps/games to recognize for ‘Cultural Impact,’ these include:
- StoryGraph from The StoryGraph
- Focus Friend by Hank Green from B-Tech Consulting Group LLC
- Be My Eyes from Be My Eyes
- despelote from Panic, Inc.
- Chants of Sennaar from Playdigious
- Art of Fauna from Klemens Strasser
