Apple Announces Its 2021 Apps Of The Year That Kept Users Hopeful & Engaged
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While this era has been likened to the Roaring Twenties and even plague-stricken times, we have it a lot luckier than generations before. Sure, being on lockdown isn’t the most pleasant experience, but the past year or so has seen designers find solutions to new yet prevalent problems, if not just to keep people occupied in a meaningful way.
Once again, Apple is commending app developers and has rounded up its favorite apps and games of the year based on innovation, design, user experience, and their potential impact on people’s lives. “Some help us learn, others enhance our work… It’s our honor to celebrate this year’s winners,” the tech giant says.
The company has also highlighted the apps “that brought us together” while everyone stayed indoors, bored and sometimes overwhelmed. These include multiplayer quarantine hit game Among Us!, design tool Canva, women’s health friendship and support app Peanut, dating and networking platform Bumble, and Black-owned business discovery app EatOkra.
Take a look at a handful of the award-winning App Store apps to make your devices more interesting to use, and check out the full list, which includes Apple’s Games of the Year, here.
iPhone App of the Year: Toca Life World
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Toca Life World is an “interactive playground” where kids can create new inclusive worlds based on the stories of their imagination. At the same time, they’ll pick up lessons on self-expression and emotional growth.
“At Toca Boca, we believe in the power of play to spark kids’ imaginations and help them learn about the world. We design our products from the kids' perspective to empower kids to be playful, to be creative and to be who they want to be,” explain the app’s creators.
iPad App of the Year: LumaFusion
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LumaFusion is a video editor that packs powerful tools into one intuitive mobile app, allowing you to create anything from a fun social media clip to a cinematic feature-length film from your iPad.
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Mac App of the Year: Craft
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If you’ve been getting brain fog from working on multiple apps at once, look no further than Craft, a stylish all-in-one note-taking app, word processor, and document organizer.
Apple Watch App of the Year: CARROT Weather
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Not all weather apps are created alike. CARROT Weather injects humor into the mundane world of weather forecasting while offering a cool array of customization tools and watch faces.
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Arcade Game of the Year: FANTASIAN
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The art style of FANTASIAN might be enough to win some over into getting an Apple Arcade plan. Brought to you by the creators of Final Fantasy, it’s a stunning roleplaying game that’s set against 160 handmade dioramas.
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