Nominations for the 2010 Best App Ever awards, the People’s Choice of mobile apps, are well under way. We’re expecting a record number of nominations this year having already received 21,000 nominations. Nominations are open through the end of the day, 12/31. We’ll open up the final voting a few days after the new year. Voting will stay open until January 25th and we will announce the winners of the Best App Ever awards during the 2010 Macworld Expo.
2010 saw the release of the iPad and a whole new class of apps. And this year we’ve included the iPad apps in the Best App Ever awards with duplicate awards in all categories. Below you will find the current top 5 nominees in each category and division ordered alphabetically.
Most Innovative App
| iPhone/iPod Touch | iPad |
| » EpicWin by supermono limited | » Flipboard by Flipboard Inc. |
| » Infinity Blade by Chair Entertainment Group, LLC | » Infinity Blade by Chair Entertainment Group, LLC |
| » Momento by d3i Ltd | » Notes Plus by Viet Tran |
| » Twitter by Twitter, Inc. | » Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad by Quickoffice, Inc. |
| » Word Lens by Quest Visual | » Twitter by Twitter, Inc. |
Best Visual Design
| iPhone/iPod Touch | iPad |
| » FlightTrack Pro by Mobiata by Ben Kazez | » FlightTrack Pro by Mobiata by Ben Kazez |
| » Infinity Blade by Chair Entertainment Group, LLC | » Flipboard by Flipboard Inc. |
| » Knorr by CloudSourceIT | » Pages by Apple Inc. |
| » On this day… by Sophiestication Software | » Pulse News Reader by Alphonso Labs Inc. |
| » The Cartographer by A Tasty Pixel | » djay by algoriddim |
Best Use of iOS Hardware
| iPhone/iPod Touch | iPad |
| » 360 Panorama by Occipital | » Blocktacular by evilBlue Studios |
| » Flashlight+ by More Blu Sky | » Epic Citadel by Epic Games, Inc. |
| » PocketCPR by Bio-Detek, Inc. | » Infinity Blade by Chair Entertainment Group, LLC |
| » Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner by Big in Japan | » Instapaper by Marco Arment |
| » Star Walk by Vito Technology Inc. | » RAGE HD by id Software |
Best Navigation App
| iPhone/iPod Touch | iPad |
| » MotionX GPS Drive by MotionX | » NAVIGON MobileNavigator Europe by NAVIGON AG |
| » NAVIGON MobileNavigator Europe by NAVIGON AG | » NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America by NAVIGON AG |
| » OffMaps by Felix Lamouroux | » Navfree USA by Geolife Ltd. |
| » TomTom U.S.A. by TomTom International BV | » OffMaps by Felix Lamouroux |
| » Waze by Waze Inc. | » Waze by Waze Inc. |
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