Apple’s “Best of the App Store” winners for 2020

The last time I checked, I have an insane 131 apps on my iPhone. (Note to self: Time for a cull.) The whole app ecosystem is a multi-multi-multi-billion dollar business, one that involves developers around the planet. Apple understands this and wants to acknowledge the best apps of 2020.

Best Apps of 2020

• iPhone App of the Year: Wakeout!, developed by Andres Canella.
• iPad App of the Year: Zoom.
• Mac App of the Year: Fantastical, developed by Flexibits. 
• Apple TV App of the Year: Disney+. 
• Apple Watch App of the Year: Endel.

Best Games of 2020

• iPhone Game of the Year: “Genshin Impact,” from miHoYo.
• iPad Game of the Year: “Legends of Runeterra,” from Riot Games.
• Mac Game of the Year: “Disco Elysium,” from ZA/UM.
• Apple TV Game of the Year: “Dandara Trials of Fear,” from Raw Fury.
• Apple Arcade Game of the Year: “Sneaky Sasquatch,” from RAC7. 🇨🇦

App Trends of 2020

• App Trend of the Year: Shine, for helping users practice self care.
• App Trend of the Year: Caribu, for connecting families to loved ones.
• App Trend of the Year: “Pokémon GO,” for reinventing the way we play, from Niantic.
• App Trend of the Year: ShareTheMeal, for helping users make a difference.
• App Trend of the Year: Explain Everything Whiteboard, for helping bring remote classrooms to life.

Now let’s move to Canada:

Top Free iPhone Apps

1. ZOOM Cloud Meetings
2. TikTok
3. Disney+
4. Instagram
5. YouTube
6. Messenger
7. Microsoft Teams
8. COVID Alert 🇨🇦
9. WhatsApp Messenger
10. Facebook

Top Paid iPhone Apps

1. TouchRetouch
2. Procreate Pocket
3. AutoSleep Track Sleep
4. The Wonder Weeks
5. Forest — Stay focused
6. Facetune
7. Sky Guide
8. Go Snowmobiling Ontario 2019 🇨🇦
9. SkyView
10. iMotoneige 🇨🇦

Top Free iPhone Games

1. Among Us!
2. Brain Out
3. Call of Duty: Mobile
4. Subway Surfers
5. Woodturning 3D
6. Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles
7. Roblox
8. Magic Tiles 3: Piano Games
9. Ink Inc. — Tattoo Drawing
10. Mario Kart Tour

Top Paid iPhone Games

1. Minecraft
2. Plague Inc.
3. Heads Up! — Trivia on the go
4. Monopoly
5. Bloons TD 6
6. Geometry Dash
7. True Skate
8. The Game of Life
9. Stardew Valley
10. NBA 2K20

Top Free iPad Apps

1. ZOOM Cloud Meetings
2. Disney+
3. Netflix
4. YouTube
5. Google Chrome
6. Amazon Prime Video
7. TikTok
8. Microsoft Teams
9. Messenger
10. Google Meet

Top Paid iPad Apps

1. Procreate
2. GoodNotes 5
3. Notability
4. Duet Display
5. Teach Your Monster
6. LumaFusion
7. Affinity Designer
8. Toca Life: Neighborhood
9. Affinity Photo
10. Toca Life: Hospital

Top Free iPad Games

1. Among Us!
2. Roblox
3. Brain Out
4. Magic Tiles 3: Piano Game
5. Ink Inc. — Tattoo Drawing
6. Fishdom
7. Homescapes
8. Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles
9. Dancing Road: Color Ball Run!
10. Save The Girl!

Top Paid iPad Games

1. Minecraft
2. Plague Inc.
3. Bloons TD 6
4. Geometry Dash
5. Monopoly
6. Stardew Valley
7. The Game of Life
8. Terraria
9. Five Nights at Freddy’s
10. The House of Da Vinci 2

Top Apple Arcade Games

1. Sonic Racing
2. Skate City 🇨🇦
3. PAC-MAN Party Royale
4. Hot Lava 🇨🇦
5. Sneaky Sasquatch 🇨🇦
6. Oceanhorn 2
7. SpongeBob: Patty Pursuit
8. WHAT THE GOLF?
9. LEGO Brawls
10. Outlanders

Apple Podcasts Show of the Year 2020 (Canada — CA):

The Hopeful

Apple Podcasts Biggest Shows of 2020 (CA)

• Call Her Daddy
• The Daily (The New York Times)
• Spittin’ Chiclets
• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
• Canadian True Crime
• Stuff You Should Know
• Unlocking Us
• This American Life
• Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
• Uncover (CBC Podcasts)

Apple Podcasts Biggest New Shows of 2020 (CA)

• Unlocking Us
• Smartless
• Sofia with an F
• Rabbit Hole (The New York Times)
• Chasing Cosby
• Nice White Parents
• The Don Cherry’s Grapevine
• The Dating Game Killer
• Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction (CNN)
• Dying for Sex

Apple Podcasts Our Favourites this year (CA)

• Hustled
• Notes from the Frontline
• This is Not a Drake Podcast (CBC Podcasts)
• Cityline Real on Race
• Recall : How to Start a Revolution (CBC Podcasts)
• History of the 90s
• Jay de Temple Discute
• We Are Not the Virus
• Unreserved (CBC Podcasts)
• More with Anna Marie (CBC Podcasts)
• Parkdale Haunt
• Avec son Sam

Apple Books: Best books of the year 

CANADA (EN)

• Seven, Farzana Doctor
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• They Said This Would Be Fun, Eternity Martis 
• Rage, Bob Woodward
• Ridgerunner, Gil Adamson
• Long Bright River, Liz Moore
• The Roommate, Rosie Danan
• Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse 
• Don’t Stand So Close to Me, Eric Walters
• Little Stranger, Fred Caron 

CANADA (FR)

• Consent, Vanessa Springora
• Em, Kim Thùy  
• Comment devenir antiraciste, Ibram X. Kendi
• La Source, Félix Séguin, Éric Thibault  
• Civiére 41, Catherine Cloutier-Charette  
• Brasiers, Marc Menard
• La vie rêvée des chaussettes orphelines, Marie Vareille
• La Mort ou la gloire, Nicholas Eames, Olivier Debernard
• Deux fleurs en hiver, Delphine Pessin
• Petit étrange, Fred Caron

Apple Books: Best audiobooks of the year (CA) 

CANADA (EN)

• Untamed, Glennon Doyle
• Humankind, Rutger Bregman
• The Skin We’re In, Desmond Cole
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• The Sub-Tweet, Vivek Shraya
• Missing from the Village, Justin Ling
• Fair Warning, Michael Connelly
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert
• Hench, Natalie Zine Walschots
• More Myself, Alicia Keys

CANADA (FR)

• Méditer pour être heureux
• Quiproquos, Malcolm Gladwell
• Canot Western. Laurette Laurin
• Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
• La bête intégrale, David Goudreault
• Mafia, Inc, Andre Cedilot 
• Ghetto X, Patrice Robitaille 
• Pauline Marois, Élyse-Andrée Héroux  
• Hunger Games – La Ballade du serpent et de l’oiseau chanteur, Suzanne Collins
• La mort immortell, Liu Cixin