In 2020, apps and games helped the world work, connect, and stay healthy in new and innovative ways. The App of the Year winners set the bar for them all. We celebrate this year's selections, and the developers behind them, for their resounding positive impact.
Smart Mac Care is the best Mac app to provide you with an option to keep it free from unwanted junk and malware. Aug 06, 2020 Bartender, Magnet, and BetterTouchTool are also amongst the most downloaded apps by Mac users. At the same time, Xcode, Atom, and Visual Studio are commonly used by developers.
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Wakeout!
Andres Canella- iPhone App of the Year
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Zoom
Zoom- iPad App of the Year
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Fantastical
Flexibits- Mac App of the Year
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Disney+
Disney- Apple TV App of the Year
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Endel
Endel- Apple Watch App of the Year
Of the many, many games we played this year, these are the ones that made the biggest impact. They surprised us with their innovation, delighted us with their beauty, and gave us a joyful way to stay connected.
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Genshin Impact
miHoYo- iPhone Game of the Year
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Legends of Runeterra
Riot Games- iPad Game of the Year
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Disco Elysium
ZA/UM- Mac Game of the Year
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Dandara Trials of Fear
Raw Fury- Apple TV Game of the Year
In a collection of incredibly fun games, this one stands out to become the Apple Arcade Game of the Year. The subtle, silly visuals, marvelous music, and brilliant gameplay make it a must-play experience. Mac version history.
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Sneaky Sasquatch
RAC7 Games
How people use apps is a reflection of our broader culture. In 2020, developers overwhelmingly led a trend towards helpfulness and support for those who needed it most.
Best Mac For Developers
Connecting Families
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Caribu
Caribu
Leading the Classroom
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Explain Everything Whiteboard
Explain Everything
Reinventing Play
100 Best Mac Apps
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Pokémon GO
Niantic
Making a Difference
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ShareTheMeal
United Nations
Best Computer For Web Developers
Practicing Self-Care
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Shine
Shine
macOS Big Sur takes the most advanced operating system in the world to a whole new level of power and beauty, making your apps look better than ever on an all-new interface. New widget features and the new widget gallery help you deliver more value to your users. Adding intelligence to your apps with machine learning is even simpler and more extensive with new tools, models, training capabilities, and APIs. You can create more powerful Mac versions of your iPad apps with Mac Catalyst. And you can now easily bring your extensions to Safari — and to the App Store.
All-new Interface
macOS Big Sur brings a new design that's been finely tuned for the powerful features that make a Mac a Mac. Core features, such as the menu bar and Dock, take advantage of the large Mac display, with translucent backings and spacious pull-down menus. The new Control Center, designed just for Mac, provides quick access to controls while keeping the menu bar clutter-free. Notification Center puts recent notifications and powerful new widgets together in a single view for at-a-glance information as you work. And a streamlined new design for apps features full-height sidebars and integrated toolbar buttons.
Widgets
Easily build widgets using the WidgetKit framework and the new widget API for SwiftUI. Widgets now come in multiple sizes, and users can visit the new widget gallery to search, preview sizes, and add them to Notification Center to access important details at a glance.
Safari Extensions
How people use apps is a reflection of our broader culture. In 2020, developers overwhelmingly led a trend towards helpfulness and support for those who needed it most.
Best Mac For Developers
Connecting Families
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Caribu
Caribu
Leading the Classroom
-
Explain Everything Whiteboard
Explain Everything
Reinventing Play
100 Best Mac Apps
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Pokémon GO
Niantic
Making a Difference
-
ShareTheMeal
United Nations
Best Computer For Web Developers
Practicing Self-Care
-
Shine
Shine
macOS Big Sur takes the most advanced operating system in the world to a whole new level of power and beauty, making your apps look better than ever on an all-new interface. New widget features and the new widget gallery help you deliver more value to your users. Adding intelligence to your apps with machine learning is even simpler and more extensive with new tools, models, training capabilities, and APIs. You can create more powerful Mac versions of your iPad apps with Mac Catalyst. And you can now easily bring your extensions to Safari — and to the App Store.
All-new Interface
macOS Big Sur brings a new design that's been finely tuned for the powerful features that make a Mac a Mac. Core features, such as the menu bar and Dock, take advantage of the large Mac display, with translucent backings and spacious pull-down menus. The new Control Center, designed just for Mac, provides quick access to controls while keeping the menu bar clutter-free. Notification Center puts recent notifications and powerful new widgets together in a single view for at-a-glance information as you work. And a streamlined new design for apps features full-height sidebars and integrated toolbar buttons.
Widgets
Easily build widgets using the WidgetKit framework and the new widget API for SwiftUI. Widgets now come in multiple sizes, and users can visit the new widget gallery to search, preview sizes, and add them to Notification Center to access important details at a glance.
Safari Extensions
With support for the popular WebExtension API, it's even easier to bring powerful extensions to Safari. Xcode 12 even includes a porting tool to streamline the process.
The new Extensions category on the Mac App Store showcases Safari extensions, with editorial spotlights and top charts to help users discover and download great extensions from the developer community.
Machine Learning
With macOS Big Sur, creating apps that leverage the power of machine learning is even easier and more extensive with additional tools in Core ML for model deployment, new models and training capabilities in Create ML, more APIs for vision and natural language, and improved resources for training on Mac and converting models to Core ML format.
Mac Catalyst
Create even more powerful Mac versions of your iPad apps. Apps built with Mac Catalyst now take on the new look of macOS Big Sur and help you better define the look and behavior of your apps. You can choose to turn off automatic scaling of iPad controls and layout, allowing you to precisely place every pixel on the screen. Provide full control of your app using just the keyboard, take advantage of the updated Photos picker, access more iOS frameworks, and more.
User privacy on the App Store.
Later this year, the Mac App Store will help users understand apps' privacy practices. You'll need to enter your privacy practice details into App Store Connect for display on your product page.
Tools and resources
Use Xcode 12 and these resources to build apps for macOS Big Sur.
