Apple officially announced its editorial pick for its best apps of 2014. The Best iPhone App goes to Elevate Brain Training which has been downloaded over 5 million times since the “personal trainer for the brain” came out earlier in the year. It’s a free app, but requires a $5 monthly fee to unlock the whole range of brain games. The runner-up is, Hyperlapse, Instagram’s innovative image stabilizing video program. Apple’s iPhone Game of the Year goes to Threes, a wildly addictive $3 puzzle app.
The iPad app of the year goes to Pixelmator, an app that has been around for some time now and only brought to the tablet recently. The iPad Game of the year goes to Monument Valley, a visually striking game also available on Android. Apple also released the titles of some exceptional apps to come out in the year 2014. Check out the full list below:
App of the Year
- Winner: Elevate
- Runner-Up: Hyperlapse from Instagram
Game of the Year
- Winner: Threes!, a puzzle game
- Runner-up: Leo’s Fortune, physics-based puzzle game
Best Apps
- Yahoo News Digest, news app
- Storehouse, visual storytelling app
- SwiftKey Keyboard, alternative keyboard app
- 1Password, password manager
- Camera+, photo editing app
- Toca Lab, science app for kids
- NYT Now, hand-picked news stories from New York Times‘ editors
- 120 Sports, sports news and analysis app
- Camu, photo editing app
- Spring, shopping app
- BuzzFeed, news app
- Peak, brain training app
- Nighty Night Circus, bedtime stories for kids
- Uber, on-demand alternative taxi service
- Yummly, recipe and grocery shopping list app
- Waterlogue, app that turns photos into watercolor images
- Human, activity and calorie tracker
- Stellar, visual storytelling app
- TeleStory, kids app that lets them star in digital TV shows
- Network TV, app that recommends TV and online videos
- Litely, photo editing app
- Star Walk, stargazing app
- Cinamatic, short film creation app
- Health Mate, activity and heart-rate tracking app
- Paper, Facebook-branded app that curates trending web content
Best Games
- Bonza Word Puzzle
- Monument Valley
- Uzzle Adventure
- Battleheart Legacy
- World of Warriors
- ZCOM: Enemy Within
- Hitman Go
- Smash Hit
- SpellFall
- Wayward Souls
- Trials Frontier
- Adventure Beaks
- Rules!
- Spider-Man Unlimited
- FarmVille 2: Country Escape
- Retry
- Micromon
- Rival Knights
- Godus
- Crazy Taxi City Rush
- Castle Doombad: Free to Slay
- Bicolor
- Royal Revolt 2: Defend Your Castle
- Fotonica
- Timberman
