Apple reveals the 17 must-download apps of 2025 – the App Store Award winners are here

Spotlighting 17 standout, AI-powered apps across its entire lineup

· TechRadar

News By Jacob Krol published 4 December 2025

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  • Apple’s 2025 App Store Award winners are official
  • There are 17 winners across Apps, Games, and Cultural Impact
  • Its includes picks for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV

Two weeks after announcing the finalists for App of the Year – and just a day after Spotify Wrapped dropped – Apple has officially revealed the winners of the 2025 App Store Awards. The Cupertino-based tech giant has named 17 winners across platforms in three categories: Apps, Games, and Cultural Impact.

Many of these we’ve already previewed in our roundup of the finalists, but the winners reflect the surge and abundance of AI. In many cases, they showcase applications that appear effortless, combining seamless, unique design with genuine functionality that solves a problem – or even provides an escape at times.

Take Tiimo, the iPhone App of the Year. It’s billed as an AI planner and to-do app that helps you visualize your day and stay on track with your tasks. Details, the iPad App of the Year, aims to move beyond the classic bar-and-edit approach to video editing by letting you describe your desired outcome and having AI do the work for you.

Apple is still naming an app and game of the year for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, as well as an Apple Arcade Game of the Year and six Cultural Impact winners.

Below we've run through the winners across all the categories and given you a quick way to download them, plus a few more standouts, from the App Store...

2025 App Store Award Winners – The Full List

Just like with the 2024 App Store Awards, there’s a lot of AI either front and center or subtly powering the experience behind many of the apps.

One notable difference this year is that, rather than F1 TV taking home Apple TV App of the Year, the honor goes to HBO Max, which debuted a new navigation bar in 2025 – and, of course, there’s the added context that F1 will begin streaming in the U.S. on Apple TV next year.

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