Great apps provide intuitive new ways for people to learn, create, and accomplish. The App of the Year winners set the bar for them all. We celebrate this year’s selects — and the developers behind them — for their innovation and exceptional design.
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Of the many, many games we played this year, these took our breath away. With inspirational storytelling, delightful design, and innovative use of the latest Apple technologies, they did more than challenge players — they delivered exceptional, compelling experiences.
In a collection of groundbreaking games, this one stood out to become the first Apple Arcade Game of the Year. The incredible visuals, marvelous music, and brilliant gameplay make it a must-play experience.
These apps and games for iPhone and iPad were part of two cultural phenomenons that helped define 2019.
Blockbusters Reborn
Simultaneously nostalgic and new, these world-famous franchises were boldly reimagined.
The Storyteller Within
In 2019, these apps helped us discover our inner creators — in whatever form they took. With their help, we became podcasters, photographers, designers, videographers, and authors.
App selections vary by region, language, and/or platform.
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Running CAD software has generally required a desktop computer with considerable processing power. Shapr 3D changes that. This pro-level iPad app offers unparalleled performance, compatibility with all major CAD file formats, and instant export for 3D printing. It also makes the design experience incredibly tactile, especially with Apple Pencil. Whether crafting a face mask, a hot rod, or an architectural project, you’ll feel like you’re manipulating virtual objects in the real world.
Best Mac Apps 2018
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LooomEran Hilleli
Looom brings hand-drawn animation into the iPad age, making the process quicker and accessible to all. No experience necessary here. Sketch with your finger or Apple Pencil, then swipe to bring up a new cel; what you drew earlier stays faintly visible. Accessible enough for hobbyists but powerful enough for pros, Looom keeps the intimidation factor low with toy-like gears that tweak frame rate and more. Going back to the drawing board has never been this delightful.
Available on iPad
StaffPadStaffPad Ltd
The way StaffPad Mac alt shift open app. transforms hand-drawn music notation into professionally formatted sheet music on the fly feels almost magical. Using your Apple Pencil or finger, scribble notes on the blank staff, add a few articulation marks (a staccato here, a tenuto there), and maybe a crescendo and diminuendo for good measure — then watch a polished score come together right before your eyes. Another StaffPad feature that really sings: Press play to hear your composition-in-progress performed by a full ensemble of virtual orchestral instruments right in the app.
Available on iPad
DarkroomBergen Co.
This comprehensive and surprisingly powerful photo editor comes loaded with all the granular controls and moody filters you’ve come to expect — with an elegant interface that truly lights the way. Its simple Curves editor lets photographers of all levels fine-tune light and color in an intuitive and artful way. Pros will appreciate Darkroom’s ability to batch-edit images, open RAW files, and create custom filters. In the crowded world of photo-editing apps, Darkroom shines bright.
Available on iPhone and iPad
Sayonara Wild HeartsSimogo/AnnapurnaBest Mac Apps Of 2018
Part ’80s music video, part classic arcade game, Sayonara Wild Hearts is pure interactive poetry — the kind that gets your adrenaline pumping and makes your spirit soar. The objective: Heal your broken heart. To accomplish that, you’ll race across surreal landscapes on your motorcycle — sometimes in cities, sometimes in space — with the occasional detour into balletic battle sequences, all to a killer synth-fueled soundtrack. And it features the voice of Queen Latifah!
Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
Song of Bloom![]() Philipp Stollenmayer
Stollenmayer is best known for his quirky, physics-based games, including the lovably weird food-flinging trilogy Bacon, Pancake, and Burger. With Song of Bloom, he brings his appealing oddballery to something totally different: an artistic puzzle game in which challenges branch out from one another (and often require nontraditional solutions, like plugging in your charging cable). Giving too much away would spoil the fun. Suffice to say, this fascinating nonlinear game is as unique as its creator.
Available on iPhone and iPad
Where Cards FallThe Game Band/Snowman
Where Cards Fall proves as moving as it is inventive. The premise of this brilliant puzzle game is simple: Strategically build houses of cards so you can leap and climb your way across dreamlike levels. The twist? Each level represents a memory of the game’s protagonist, and as you master its increasingly tricky puzzles you’ll reconstruct chapters of an unexpected (and, we warn you, tearjerking) story. The game may be called Where Cards Fall, but there’s nothing remotely unintentional about it.
Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
Sky: Children of the LightThatgamecompany
Some games reward quick reflexes, others cunning ambition. Sky: Children of the Light is predicated on something else entirely: generosity. The desire to help others is woven through the game’s very fabric. Players work together to bring light to a lush, open world; pair up to solve puzzles and unlock secrets; or simply hold hands by a fire and chat. Richly drawn and endlessly inventive, Sky soars.
Available on iPhone and iPad
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