Days earlier than its Worldwide Developer Convention 2025 (WWDC), Apple has named the winners and finalists of its 2025 Design Awards for apps.
This 12 months’s winners and finalists principally embody indie apps and startups, and opposite to the development in all places else, generative AI apps are noticeably lacking from the record. That is the second 12 months in a row Apple has skipped AI-centric apps for its awards.
The corporate did spotlight some apps with AI options, although, together with Speechify (gained within the Inclusivity class), and music creation and enhancing app Moises (each are venture-backed startups).
Unsurprisingly, Apple focuses extra on how builders have used its instruments to construct higher experiences.
The corporate named 12 winners (one app and one sport in every) throughout six classes: Delight and Enjoyable, Innovation, Interplay, Inclusivity, and Social Affect. In its record of finalists this 12 months, Apple highlighted numerous apps and video games from small builders around the globe.
Watch Obligation, which helped share data throughout California wildfires, gained the award within the social influence class. In the meantime, M13-backed developer prototyping instrument Play was awarded the perfect app within the innovation class.
Right here is the complete record of winners:
Delight and Enjoyable
Inclusivity
Innovation
Interplay
Social Affect
Visuals and Graphics
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