Apple Announces 2017 Best Apps and Games | Summary Four Major Trends in Applications

According to MacRumors, December 7 reported that Apple today announced the 2017 Best App Store applications, including two applications and two games running on the iPhone and iPad respectively.In the iPhone, the annual best application The best game for "Calm" for meditation is "Splitter Critters"; for iPad, the best app for the year is "Affinity Photo" for photo editing and the best game for The Witness.

Interestingly enough, Apple's iPhone and iPad's best games of the year announced this year are not freemium games, Affinity Photo is a paid app, and Calm is a free app with a pay-per-view option.

The most downloaded apps for 2017 include Bitmoji, Snapchat, YouTube, Messenger, Instagram and Facebook Super Mario Run is the most downloaded game Followed by 8 Ball Pool, Snake VS Block, Ballz, Word Cookies and Subway Surfers.

Apple also announced four major trends for App Store adoption this year: augmented reality applications, real-time online hand travel, green apps and parenting apps.

The most downloaded free iPhone apps include "Bitmoji", "Snapchat", "YouTube", "Facebook Messenger" and "Instagram"; the most downloaded paid iPhone apps include Facetune, HotSchedules, Tabs & Chords, , "Enlight" and "7 Minute Workout Challenge".

The most downloaded paid iPhone games include "HeadsUp!", "Minecraft", "Plague Inc.", "Bloons TD 5" and "Monopoly."

The most downloaded free iPad apps include "YouTube", "Netflix", "Facebook", "Facebook Messenger" and "Chrome." The most downloaded paid iPad apps include Procreate, Notability, Toca Life: Hospital "," Toca Life: Salon 3 "and" GoodNotes 4 ".

The most downloaded free iPad games include "Super Mario Parkour", "ROBLOX", "Rolling Sky", "Word Cookies" and "Bowmasters." The most downloaded paid iPad games include "My World, Geometry Dash, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Monkey Tower 5 HD and Escapists.