Apple announces the best apps and games on the App Store for 2025

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Apple has revealed the winners of the 2025 App Store Awards, a celebration of creativity and innovation in the world of apps. These awards not only recognize the most popular apps but also focus on quality, design, unique user experience, and positive impact on society. Below, we'll take you on a journey to discover the winners of the 2025 App Store Awards.

From PhoneIslam: A blue, three-dimensional square icon featuring the Apple App Store logo in white, consisting of three stylized sticks forming the letter "A", as seen in the App Store awards.

The best apps and games on the App Store for 2025

Here are the best apps and games on the App Store for 2025 that combine creativity, fun, and usefulness:

Best iPhone app of the year: Tiimo

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person climbing stairs with checkmarks, accompanied by the quote "Help me become more productive and organized." It features the Tiimo app logo and a prestigious App Store awards badge.

The Tiimo app offers innovative tools for organizing time and daily tasks in a visual and easy-to-use way, helping users manage their daily routines more effectively and reduce stress. The app features an attractive and simple interface with visual and audio reminders, making the organization experience enjoyable and suitable for all ages.

Tiimo: AI Planner & To-do App - App Store
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Best iPad app of the year: Detail app

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a multitasker using camera equipment and a tablet with the text "Camera or editor? All I need." alongside an App Store awards badge.

The Detail app is a professional video editing tool that transforms your phone into a complete studio thanks to its advanced features. With this app, you can record or add video, and through its AI-powered auto-editing feature, you can automatically create long and short videos without any issues.

Detail: AI Video Editor App - App Store
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Best Mac app of the year: Essayist

From PhoneIslam: A cartoon character is relaxing on a sofa with a laptop. Above, text praises the Essayist app for making writing easy and reducing stress, and it was featured as part of an App Store Awards promotion.

Essayist is an application designed to help students and researchers write academic articles and research papers easily and without the hassle of manual formatting. It handles page setup, text and paragraph formatting, documentation, lists, footnotes, and references quickly and easily.

Essayist: Academic Writing App App - App Store
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The best app for Apple Vision Pro this year: Explore POV

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person wearing a puffer jacket, scarf, and sunglasses, with the text above saying, "I feel like I've been there." The App Store and Explore POV awards logos are visible.

The Explore POV app offers immersive 3D video experiences of stunning natural landscapes and scenery around the world, from tropical beaches to snow-capped mountains and misty forests. What sets it apart is that it delivers videos in high quality specifically optimized for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset, making you feel like you're actually traveling to any location from the comfort of your home.

Explore POV App - App Store
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 The best Apple Watch app this year: Strava

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a sneaky foot stepping forward over an outstretched hand, with the text "Makes me move forward!" and App Store awards and Strava logos.

A popular app that combines physical activity tracking with sharing experiences in a global community interested in movement and sports. Strava can record running, walking, cycling, hiking, and more than 30 other sports. It can also track distance, duration, speed, and even calculate calories burned.

Strava: Run, Bike, Walk App - App Store
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 Best Apple TV app this year: HBO Max app

From PhoneIslam: A person sits holding a remote control while a hand reaches out from a TV screen, offering a tray labeled "BANGER." The text above reads "Nothing but Bangers," highlighting App Store awards and HBO Max logos.

This entertainment streaming app gives you access to hundreds of movies and TV series, including exclusive content from Warner Bros. and HBO. The app also offers great features like live online viewing or downloading content for offline viewing.

HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV App - App Store
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 Best iPhone game of the year: Pokémon TCG Pocket

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person excitedly opening a digital package on a tablet, with the text "Tearing apart packages is magic" and the logos of the Pokémon TCG game, which is being celebrated on the App Store.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is a digital version of the popular Pokémon anime. The game allows you to collect cards, build your own collection, and battle other Pokémon. It features immersive new cards with 3D graphics, making players feel like they've stepped into the real world of Pokémon.

Pokémon TCG Pocket App - App Store
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Best iPad game of the year: DREDGE

From PhoneIslam: A fisherman on the dock looks at a fish in the water, unaware that there is a large kraken underneath it; in this fishing game, inspired by the App Store award-winning fishing game, players face an unexpected encounter.

Pilot your fishing vessel to explore a collection of remote islands and the surrounding depths, discovering what lies beneath. Sell your catch to the local inhabitants and complete quests to learn more about each region's turbulent past. Equip your boat with better gear for deep-sea exploration and travel to distant lands, but beware of darkness and time.

DREDGE App - App Store
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Best Mac game of the year: Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person with spiky hair at a desk using a computer, with text praising Cyberpunk 2077: Definitive Edition as one of the best-designed games worthy of recognition like App Store awards.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, the popular open-world action game, allows players to embark on exciting adventures with futuristic weapons and technologies, and diverse gameplay options that affect the course of the story.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate App - App Store
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The best game for Apple Vision Pro this year: Porta Nubi

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person diving into a cloud with the text "You actually think you're going in and out of clouds to deliver beams of light." It features App Store awards and Porta Nubi logos.

Porta Nubi is an immersive virtual reality puzzle experience designed specifically for Apple Vision Pro. The game is designed for spatial computing, transforming your environment into a dynamic, interactive puzzle where logic, timing, and creativity are the cornerstones of gameplay.

Porta Nubi: Immersive Puzzles App - App Store
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Apple Arcade's best game this year: WHAT THE CLASH?

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of two cartoon characters facing off, one holding a pickle, with text promoting App Store prizes and mentioning "playing head-to-head" - because when there are pickles involved, the competition becomes deliciously fun.

Play solo or challenge your friends in one-on-one battles in this unique game that offers hundreds of hilarious mini-games. You can also compete against your family in fun and exciting player-versus-player (PvP) battles.

WHAT THE CLASH? App - App Store
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Cultural Impact Award-winning apps and games

In addition to honoring the best apps and games on Apple devices, App Store editors highlighted six exceptional apps by awarding them Cultural Impact Awards. This recognition came in appreciation of their ability to make a real difference in users' lives, whether by providing practical tools that raise awareness, open new horizons of understanding, or support the values ​​of inclusion and equality. The winning apps are:

Art of Fauna game

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person on the ground with four miniature animals, surrounded by text praising an award-winning app for puzzles, animals, and nature sounds. App Store awards and animal art logos are displayed.

Art of Fauna reintroduces wildlife illustrations from around the world in the form of relaxing and calming puzzles, raising the bar for game design that is accessible and meets the needs of all users.

Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles App - App Store
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Chants of Sennaar game

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person with their head open, revealing a brain full of foreign texts, along with a review praising the App Store's award-winning "Snar Hymns" app for stimulating thought.

An adventure and puzzle game that puts you in the role of a traveler embarking on a journey to reunite the scattered peoples of the tower. Discover ancient symbols and languages ​​and try to solve perplexing puzzles to restore harmony among the inhabitants.

Chants of Sennaar App - App Store
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Despelote game

From the PhoneIslam website: Two fingers with eyes holding a soccer ball against a green background. Above them, five stars and "App Store Awards" highlight the achievement, while the Despleote app logo is below.

Despelote presents a heartwarming human story that reflects the reality of a country going through a period of turmoil, combining details of daily life with the people's passion for football that unites them despite all circumstances.

despelote App - App Store
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Be My Eyes app

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person using a smartphone to identify an object on a kitchen shelf, with the caption "I can't tell you how much this has helped me." App Store awards and "Be My Eyes" logos are displayed.

The Be My Eyes app provides an amazing combination of artificial intelligence capabilities and the support of millions of volunteers worldwide, giving blind and visually impaired people immediate assistance that enables them to accomplish their daily tasks more easily.

Be My Eyes App - App Store
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Focus Friend app

From PhoneIslam: A person holding a smiling cartoon bubble with the text: "I have a little friend who works hard with me." App Store awards and Focus Friend logos appear, highlighting the app's recognition and playful support.

The Focus Friend app is an innovative way to combat digital distraction, as it transforms moments of focus into an enjoyable interactive experience that includes a reward system that motivates the user to persevere and be productive.

Focus Friend, by Hank Green App - App Store
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StoryGraph app

From PhoneIslam: An illustration of a person sitting on a long pile of books reading, with the text "Elevate your reading experience" and logos for StoryGraph and App Store awards.

The StoryGraph app provides an integrated platform for reading enthusiasts that highlights diversity and originality, through discovery tools that help users get acquainted with different authors and expand their literary horizons.

StoryGraph: Reading Tracker App - App Store
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