Apple's Best of the App Store in 2017: Calm, Splitter Critters, Affinity Photo and The WitnessApple today published its annual Best of 2017 charts for the App Store, iTunes Store, and iBooks Store, highlighting the top media content and trends across 2017.
Apple's App Store editors chose two standout games and two standout apps for the iPhone and the iPad as their best of 2017 picks. On the iPhone, meditation app Calm and popular game Splitter Critters won top honors, while photo editing app Affinity Photo and puzzle game The Witness took the top spots on iPad.
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- <strong>iPhone App of the Year:</strong>
Calm- <strong>iPhone Game of the Year:</strong>
Splitter Critters- <strong>iPad App of the Year:</strong>
Affinity Photo- <strong>iPad Game of the Year:</strong>
The WitnessApple shared apps that are part of
the top Trends of the Year, which included augmented reality apps like
IKEA Place and
Very Hungry Caterpillar, meditation-style apps like
Calm and
Joyable, multiplayer games like
Art of War: Red Tides and
The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and modern storytelling apps like
Hooked and
Serial Box Publishing.
Apple has also published the top apps for 2017 across multiple App Store charts. Top free iPhone apps included Bitmoji, Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram, while top paid iPhone apps included Facetune, HotSchedules, Tabs & Chords, Enlight, and the 7 Minute Workout Challenge.
On iPhone, the top games included Super Mario Run, 8 Ball Pool, Ballz, Snake vs. Block, and Word Cookies. Top paid iPhone games included Heads Up!, Minecraft, Plague Inc., Bloons TD 5, and Monopoly.
YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Chrome were the top free iPad apps, while Procreate, Notability, Toca Life: Hospital, Toca Life: Salon 3, and GoodNotes 4 were the top paid iPad apps.
Super Mario Run, ROBLOX, Rolling Sky, Word Cookies, and Bowmasters were the top free iPad games, and Minecraft, Geometry Dash, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Bloons TD 5 HD, and the Escapists were the top paid iPad games.
The full list of top iPad and iPhone apps and games, along with additional details on the top App Store content in 2017, is available through the App Store on an iOS device.
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