After much nominating and deliberating, the votes for the 7th Annual Best App Ever Awards have been tallied and the results are in. Congratulations to ustwo and Monument Valley for being selected at this year's Best App Ever!
The prestigious Best App Ever Awards, now in their 7th year, offer a great chance to give the limelight to games and apps that may otherwise miss out. The difference with these awards? The nominated titles are chosen by the public, all around the world. We've had millions of votes over the past seven years, and we're expecting millions more.
This year we're hosting the iOS and Android awards simultaneously rather than staggering them, so if you enjoy dual-wielding phones you'll be set for both.
We recommend all users, developers, and publishers follow @BestAppEver for all the Award updates, and use #BestAppEver to show everyone how you're voting.
The nomination process closes at midnight on January 31, so get nominating!
With 1,500 apps nominated for over 30 categories, over two months, it's been a fantastic success at finding the very best apps and games out there. Here are the winners:
Hit the jump for the full list of winners in all categories of the 1st Annual Best App Ever for Android Awards!
The nomination phase lasted over two months with over 1,500 apps nominated in over 30 categories.
Here's a heads up of what categories will be announced tomorrow:
While we know you're all iOS loving folk, we thought you'd like to see how things work out for Android owners.
Check back here tomorrow and over on the official Best App Ever site at 8am PDT, to find out what's been crowned winner!
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The Best App Ever Awards have been around ever since ever since the App Store first came into being five years ago. Each year the best of the best have been culled from hundreds (even thousands) of releases. This list represents five years worth of winners, as decided by Best App Ever readers. Five years worth of apps and games that have been chosen above all others due to their all-around awesomeness. Five of the Best Apps Ever.
Here they are.
2008 was the App Store’s first year, and even then there was no shortage of great apps and games for iOS users to enjoy. The likes of eWallet, Fieldrunners, Facebook, and Rolando were all exemplary nominees. However, in the end they just weren’t able to compete with the ability to identify any song that’s playing on the radio, in a store, or wherever else. It’s simply too handy.
2009 was very close, but Pocket God managed to take first place over apps like 2Do and Twitter, and some wonderful games like Real Racing and Flight Control. Perhaps it was due to all the diversity inherent in all those episodes, or maybe people just really like torturing small virtual islanders. Whatever the reason, Bolt Creative captured a lot of hearts (and probably zapped them with lightning or tossed them to the sharks) that year.
2010 saw the inclusion of a number of fantastic iOS games to the awards. Games like Infinity Blade, Real Racing 2, and Solipskier are all wonderful in their own right. That makes it all the more impressive so see them, and second place nominee Pocket Legends get edged out by a game about loading birds into a slingshot. Don’t underestimate the power of simple yet addictive gameplay.
2011 was a great year for iOS gamers. Infinity Blade II, World of Goo, Tiny Tower, Where’s My Water, and a whole lot more all made the list. To see little ol’ Barry with his impossible flying machine sitting above them all is a great indication of just how powerful and compulsive an extremely well-made endless game can be. Especially on a mobile platform.
2012 was another great year; with games like Punch Quest and Outwitters, and apps like Clear and Action Movie FX narrowly edged out. It’s a testament to how far the App Store has come to see so many great and diverse offerings listed. And it’s a testament to Telltale Games’ ability to craft an incredible story about equally incredible characters to see Walking Dead: The Game come out on top.
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.
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
In honor of the second annual Best App Ever Awards, nominees were invited to submit promo codes for their apps for a promo code contest. What we got back was absolutely staggering. We have thus far received 912 1092 promo codes for 100 121 different apps. That comes to a total retail value of almost $2500 $3045!