NHS app most popular iPhone app of 2021, but 15 others win App Store Awards

(Pocket-lint) - Apple has revealed what it believes are the champion apps of the year, successful summation to confirming the astir fashionable apps of 2021.

The yearly App Store Awards recognise conscionable 15 apps and games from the millions that are disposable crossed its ever-growing scope of devices including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and mac platforms, nevertheless aren’t conscionable astir which ones person been downloaded the astir oregon those with the biggest budgets.

And successful a motion of the times that we find ourselves inactive surviving successful the astir downloaded app successful the UK was the NHS app that allows you to amusement your vaccination status. It bushed retired fashionable iPhone apps similar WhatsApp, TikTok, YouTube and others.

Perhaps not surprisingly, apps similar Microsoft Teams and Zoom inactive dominated the iPad app download charts arsenic galore proceed to enactment from location alternatively that person look to look meetings, portion determination was besides a emergence successful location transportation services too.

For the App Store Awards determination are 5 apical apps, 5 apical games, and a further 5 that are the champion apps based connected a inclination that Apple says has dominated app downloads this year.

The champion apps are:

• iPhone App of the Year: Toca Life World, from Toca Boca.
• iPad App of the Year: LumaFusion, from LumaTouch.
• Mac App of the Year: Craft, from Luki Labs Limited.
• Apple TV App of the Year: DAZN, from DAZN Group.
• Apple Watch App of the Year: Carrot Weather, from Grailr. 

The champion games are:

• iPhone Game of the Year: League of Legends: Wild Rift, from Riot Games.
• iPad Game of the Year: MARVEL Future Revolution, from Netmarble Corporation.
• Mac Game of the Year: Myst, from Cyan.
• Apple TV Game of the Year: Space Marshals 3, from Pixelbite.
• Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Fantasian, from Mistwalker.

This year’s inclination says Apple is "Connection" with 5 apps helping to bring radical "together successful meaningful ways".

They including dating app Bumble, multiplayer crippled Among Us!, creativity app Canva, dinning app EatOkra, and societal web Peanut.

The 15 apps are precise antithetic from the database of astir downloaded apps successful 2021 which are inactive heavy dominated by the caller hybrid beingness we’ve each recovered ourselves surviving done since March 2020.

The download charts for 2021

Top Free iPhone Apps

• NHS App
• WhatsApp Messenger
• TikTok
• Instagram
• YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
• Microsoft Teams
• Snapchat
• Facebook
• Google Maps
• Messenger
• NHS COVID-19
• Uber Eats: Food Delivery
• ZOOM Cloud Meetings
• Amazon
• Spotify New Music and Podcasts
• Shop: bundle & bid tracker
• Gmail - Email by Google
• My McDonald’s UK
• Netflix
• Deliveroo: Food Delivery

Top Paid iPhone Apps 

• Driving Theory Test 4 successful 1 Kit
• Official DVSA Theory Test Kit
• The Wonder Weeks
• Procreate Pocket
• CITB Op/Spec HS&E trial 2019
• Forest - Your Focus Motivation
• TouchRetouch
• Squeezy NHS Pelvic Floor App
• Facetune
• Freya • Surge Timer
• Dark Sky Weather
• AutoSleep Track Sleep connected Watch
• Driving Theory by James May
• CITB MAP HS&E trial 2019
• Site Audit Pro
• Da Vinci Eye: AR Art Projector
• Carbs & Cals: Diet & Diabetes
• ChirpOMatic – Europe
• The TeamTOMM App
• WiFi Now Remote

Top Free iPhone Games

• Among Us!
• Roblox
• Project Makeover
• Water Sort Puzzle
• High Heels!
• Count Masters: Crowd Runner 3D
• 8 Ball Pool™
• Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game
• Shortcut Run
• Subway Surfers
• BitLife - Life Simulator
• Roof Rails
• Stacky Dash
• Call of Duty®: Mobile
• Score! Hero 2
• Bridge Race
• Parking Jam 3D
• Pokémon GO
• Happy Printer
• Nail Salon 3D

Top Paid iPhone Games 

• Minecraft
• Football Manager 2021 Mobile
• Monopoly
• Heads Up!
• Bloons TD 6
• Plague Inc.
• The Chase: Ultimate Edition
• My Child Lebensborn
• Geometry Dash
• Tipping Point
• Pocket Build
• Countdown - The Official TV Show App
• Earn to Die 2
• Bloons TD 5
• True SkateCluedo: The Official Edition
• The Game of Life 2
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Incredibox
• Tenable

Top Free iPad Apps

• ZOOM Cloud Meetings
• Microsoft Teams
• YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
• Netflix
• Disney+
• Amazon Prime Video
• Google Chrome
• BBC iPlayer
• TikTok
• Microsoft Word
• ITV Hub: TV Player & Catchup
• All 4 – Watch Live & On Demand
• Amazon
• Spotify New Music and Podcasts
• Facebook
• Messenger
• Gmail - Email by Google
• Sky Go
• Google
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Top Paid iPad Apps

• Procreate
• GoodNotes 5
• Notability
• Messaging for WhatsApp connected iPad
• Driving Theory Test 4 successful 1 Kit
• Teach Your Monster to Read
• Hit the Button Maths
• Spelling Shed
• Official DVSA Theory Test Kit
• Toca Life: Hospital
• Duet Display
• Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar
• Toca Kitchen 2
• Affinity Designer
• Affinity Photo
• Toca Life: Neighborhood
• LumaFusion
• Toca Life: Vacation
• Numberblocks: Hide and Seek
• Numberblocks: Card Fun!

Top Free iPad Games

• Among Us!
• Roblox
• Phone Case DIY
• Project Makeover
• Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game
• Hair Challenge
• Tiles Hop - EDM Rush
• Blob Runner 3D
• DOP 2: Delete One Part
• Chat Master!
• Shortcut Run
• Teacher Simulator
• Subway Surfers
• Bridge Race
• Acrylic Nails!
• io
• Count Masters: Crowd Runner 3D
• Sculpt people
• Water Sort Puzzle
• Mario Kart Tour

Top Paid iPad Games

• Minecraft
• Monopoly
• Bloons TD 6
• Football Manager 2021 Touch
• Football Manager 2021 Mobile
• Plague Inc.
• The Chase: Ultimate Edition
• Geometry Dash
• Stardew Valley
• The Game of Life 2
• Five Nights astatine Freddy's
• Tipping Point
• Cluedo: The Official Edition
• PAW Patrol: Adventure Bay!
• My Child Lebensborn
• Human: Fall Flat
• LEGO® Jurassic World™
• Terraria
• Ultimate Custom Night
• RFS - Real Flight Simulator
  

Top Arcade Games

• Sonic Racing
• Mini Motorways
• Cut the Rope Remastered
• Skate City
• PAC-MAN Party Royale
• NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition
• Angry Birds Reloaded
• SpongeBob: Patty Pursuit
• Hot Lava
• Sneaky Sasquatch
• Fruit Ninja Classic+
• Rayman Mini
• SongPop Party
• Crossy Road Castle
• Outlanders
• Solitaire by MobilityWare +
• WHAT THE GOLF?
• LEGO® Brawls
• Oceanhorn 2
• Spire Blast

Writing by Stuart Miles. Originally published connected 2 December 2021.