The Apple Design Award is a well-known Apple tradition Since years, In order to distinguish the owners of the best applications in terms of uniqueness in design, idea and implementation, simplicity in style, and the use of the latest available technologies, and these applications are considered to be compatible with Apple's concept of design and what the programs should be from its point of view.
Let's look together what are Apple's picks for this year?



Exclusively for iPhone, with more than 77 users and rated 000 stars, Blackbox is a refreshing mind-stimulating game, a puzzle game that breaks the "fourth wall" of the iPhone to take you off the screen and make your world a part of every solution. Designed by one person, Blackbox was chosen as the winner of the Apple Design Award for offering a unique, distinctive gameplay, and deep iOS integration. Blackbox provides a puzzle game that relies on minimalistic clues, multi-motion, neat animations, and visual cues to expand creative thinking and encourage players to solve puzzles by camera, shouting, clicking, and more until you reach the puzzle solution. All this with a highly visual interface designed to be navigated by touch and other sensory input. This app takes advantage of a massive collection of iOS technologies and the result is a great smart game, unlike anything we've played before.

Designed and developed by a team of two from Vancouver, Canada. The puzzle game asks your brain to bend in order to keep playing and it is a game at the same time that can be played by all ages. She was also chosen to win the Apple Design Award because she is proficient in controlling the game by focusing on touch, as well as great sound design, and the mechanics of using paper. The game uses the effect of clever paper-shredding to rearrange the scene so players can solve puzzles in new ways. With smart game environmental mechanics that contain elements such as laser beams, reflective surfaces, fluids, and mobile platforms. Therefore, this app provides an innovative and unforgettable gaming experience. However, it takes advantage of the e-Cloud and Game Center, and is translated into 15 languages.

Unique game mixing physics puzzles and problem solving. Mushroom 11 uses multi-touch in an unprecedented way, and was chosen to win an Apple Design Award due to its strange and interesting landscapes in the design of its rich hand-painted levels of gameplay. The game is incredibly unique. Gameplay is constantly expanding by changing the physical shape of the heroes, dividing them and reshaping them into whatever shape is needed to explore a strange and challenging environment. The multi-touch and 5D touch support added a whole new dimension to the game, making it a truly amazing experience. The game provides a perfect experience for everyone and is translated into XNUMX languages.

First launched on iOS, The Old Man's Journey is an adventure about the mystery of life, loss, and hope. Designed and developed by a team of five in Vienna, Austria, the game uses an intelligent transformation of the scenes to solve puzzles and uncover the emotional narrative in the story through images and sound. We chose this game as an Apple Design Award winner because of it's immersive, meaningful, beautiful gameplay, hand-drawn art style, whimsical, and exceptionally laid out landscapes. An old man's journey that conveys universal truths that transcend the many cultures and stages of life, offering an experience that focuses on originality, simplicity and rich interaction.

An adventure game where you play a one-handed warrior named Sasha on an adventure in which he searches for his family. It was developed by a small, independent team in Toronto. Localized into 11 languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Seifred game is a unique and memorable game especially its award-winning soundtrack. We liked the Seaward Lan game, the game's mechanic is intuitive and effective, and it was designed for touch only, and Apple's metal engine was used to create high-resolution graphics and excitement, as well as its support for the achievements of the game center, video and audio recording during play, and its support for XNUMXD touch technology, And iCloud to synchronize games between devices.

This application expresses the beautiful design, the breed of coloring applications, and is exclusive to the iPad and iPhone. Created by a team of five people in Slovenia. And it comes packed with creativity-boosting tools, custom color palettes, and beautiful illustrations to help anyone create their masterpiece. Available in 8 languages, including both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, it offers high quality illustrations curated by local artists, and ensures a rewarding and relaxing coloring book experience for all ages. Also, the integration of deep systems in the lake application is impressive, as the Swift language was used in the development of the application, which is optimized for the use of the Apple Pencil and takes full advantage of iOS and its technologies such as XNUMXD touch.

Exclusively for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the Bear app is a neat and flexible writing tool for crafting notes and prose. With a simple, clean design, and a consistently fast experience on any device ,. Bear app helps writers focus on content and this results in impressive results whenever and wherever inspiration strikes. Available in 11 languages and packed with beautiful themes, extensive customization tools, and powerful capabilities, the bear app is flexible and capable enough to handle a mix of short notes, long articles, even excerpts, and more. Also, it is an advanced development editor that supports more than 20 programming languages, with data recognition and many export options. Developed by a team of three people in Italy, the app takes full advantage of key technologies such as iOS to provide a powerful experience on iPhone, iPad and Mac devices.

Founded by two young women and developed with the goal of enabling anyone to cook a delicious meal, Kitchen Stories is a simple and beautiful cooking app that is available in 12 languages and works on all Apple devices. The Kitchen Stories app includes a rich and varied collection of recipes, impressive photos, helpful videos, helpful tips and informational materials, all of which focus on inspiration and convenience in implementing the recipe. The Kitchen Stories app on Apple devices provides a great browsing experience, allows you to choose a recipe and creates a shopping list for you to cook. Kitchen Stories takes full advantage of the iOS system and has been developed in Swift language and supports XNUMXD touch, rich notifications with pictures and multitasking, picture in picture when playing video, searching in the system, t and more, in short the application guarantees you a great experience on any device .

This app is essential for managing personal tasks, and is exclusive to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Thoughtful design and powerful features help you get important organized and make the most of every day. It was developed by a team of 10 at Cultured Code, a company whose passion is productivity, simplicity and beautiful design. The "Things 3" app has been redesigned to remove any distractions and provides creative interactions with the app with dynamism to simplify editing and reordering of the to-do list. The app also enables sync across all devices, quick scheduling, history analysis, searches, reminders, and more. The capabilities of the iOS system have been taken advantage of in the application and the system animation libraries have been taken advantage of to obtain smooth and fun animations, the integration with the calendar and the memo application has been taken advantage of, the rich notifications support, and the 3D touch. Things XNUMX sets the standard for how apps are designed and developed to be better on every device.

An innovative currency transfer app, the Elk app is well suited for Apple Watch and can quickly convert between 150 and more currencies around the world. The Elk app provides a carefully designed and efficient experience on the Apple Watch system that makes currency conversion fast, easy and convenient. Smart and creative use of iOS system elements make the user feel natural and intuitive to use the app. Also, smart use and recognition of the current time zone enables the Elk app to quickly deduce currencies for conversion without having to manually specify anything. The app is completely written in Swift and available in 9 languages. The app uses the connection frame between Apple Watch and iPhone to synchronize data. The application was designed and developed for the purpose of the system by a team of two people in Singapore, the Elk app is a sample Apple Watch applications that are simple to use and designed for quick interaction on your wrist.

Exclusively for iPhone and iPad, Inlet is a leading photo editing app with a set of tools that rival professional desktop applications. It was chosen as a winner of the Apple Design Award for its thoughtful, powerful and elegant implementation on iOS, while giving a comprehensive and consistent user experience. Inlet application gives the user powerful capabilities, easy to learn and fun to use, and enables you to create and edit stunning, wide-color images and give instant results without waiting. Now, Inlet uses the Metal development package to integrate the art and technology of image processing. Developed by a team of five in Israel, the Enlet app is available in 13 languages and sets the standard for the strength of the mobile imaging app industry.

A powerful and efficient mail app specially designed for iOS. Airmail 3 outperforms other mail apps and helps you tame your mailbox with a clean interface, smart interactive features, and a beautiful and fast design. The development team is made up of two in Italy and they pay great attention to improving the efficiency of email applications with innovative features and deep integration with a wide range of applications and mail services. Available in 32 languages, the Airmail 3 app also supports Siri, 3D Touch, and Rich Notifications and enables you to sync your data across all devices. With the breadth of options in the app, Airmail XNUMX is an example of how powerful productivity apps have to be to work on all devices.
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