As 2014 comes to a close, Apple has announced its yearly “best-of” list of apps and content on the iTunes Store.
It has announced the best apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, books and podcasts of the year.
Here are the winners for 2014:
Apps:
- iPhone App of the Year: Elevate – Brain Training – iTunes link
- iPhone Game of the Year: Threes! – iTunes link
- iPad App of the Year: Pixelmator – iTunes link
- iPad Game of the Year: Monument Valley – iTunes link
Apple has also mentioned which apps and games came runners-up.
- iPhone: Hyperlapse from Instagram – iTunes link
- iPhone: Leo’s Fortune – iTunes link
- iPad: Storehouse – Virtual Storytelling – iTunes link
- iPad: Heartstone: Heroes of Warcraft – iTunes link
Music:
- Best Artist: Beyoncé – iTunes link
- Best Album: 1989 by Taylor Swift – iTunes link
- Best Song: Fancy (feat. Charli XCX) by Iggy Azalea – iTunes link
- Best New Artist: Sam Smith – iTunes link
Movies:
- Best Blockbuster: Guardians of the Galaxy – iTunes link
- Best Family Movie: The LEGO Movie – iTunes link
- Best Director: Richard Linklater – iTunes link
- Best Discovery: Obvious Child – iTunes link
TV Shows:
- TV Show of the Year: Fargo – iTunes link
- Best Performances: True Detective, Season 1 – iTunes link
- Best Discovery: The Honorable Woman – iTunes link
- Best Breakthrough: Key & Peele, Volume 4 – iTunes link
Books:
- Best Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – iTunes link
- Best Nonfiction: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs – iTunes link
Podcasts:
- Best Classic Podcast: Hardcore History by Dan Carlin – iTunes link
- Best New Podcast: Serial by This American life – iTunes link
Apple has also published the top charts of the year, which gives information about the top paid apps, top free apps, and top grossing apps in the App Store in 2014.
- Top paid iPhone app of the year: Heads Up! – iTunes link
- Top free iPhone app of the year: Facebook Messenger – iTunes link
- Tap grossing iPhone app of the year: Clash of Clans – iTunes link
- Top paid iPad app of the year: Minecraft Pocket Edition – iTunes link
- Top free iPad app of the year: YouTube – iTunes link
- Tap grossing iPad app of the year: Clash of Clans – iTunes link
You can check out the best of iTunes App Store for previous years below.
Hat tip: MacRumors
