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“This year’s App Store Award winners reimagined our experiences with apps that delivered fresh, thoughtful, and genuine perspectives,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “From self-taught solo creators to international teams spanning the globe, these entrepreneurs are making a meaningful impact, and represent the ways in which apps and games influence our communities and lives.” 

iPhone App of the Year: BeReal

BeReal is the simplest photo sharing app to share once a day your real life in photo with friends.

The photo is unique because it's a joint photo taken from your smartphone's front and rear cameras at the same time. The idea is that it's an unfiltered photo that gives your friends a better idea of where you are and what you're doing at an exact moment of that day.

iPad App of the Year: GoodNotes 5

Use GoodNotes on Mac to access your digital notes wherever you work. With iCloud, your digital notes will be synced on all your devices, making the GoodNotes Mac app the perfect partner to access your digital notes on your computer.

Mac App of the Year: MacFamilyTree 10

Experience and discover your family history as vivid and versatile as never before. Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of genealogy and explore your family tree through impressive 3D views, meaningful diagrams, insightful reports as well as statistics and further evaluations. Whether you navigate through the Interactive Tree in MacFamilyTree, view your family history on the globe, fly through the vastness of the Virtual Tree, create web pages or books and record your sources - experience genealogy in a whole new way

Apple TV App of the Year: ViX

A Spanish-language streamer that brought together the drama and the sports that get hearts pumping.

Apple Watch App of the Year: Gentler Streak

Gentler Streak is an exercise and fitness tracker with a twist: it always puts your well-being first. With its help, you'll find a personal balance between fitness and rest. GS responds to your readiness and proposes daily workout actions that keep you within healthy activity levels. Rest and active recovery are part of the actions that keep the streak going.

Read more about the winners here.

For more than a decade, Apple has honored the best apps and games at the end of each year. To acknowledge the impact of the winning developer teams, each winner will receive a physical award inspired by the signature blue App Store icon. Developed through meticulous craftsmanship, the award includes the App Store logo set into 100 percent recycled aluminum used to make Apple products, with the name of the winner engraved on the other side.