Apple names 2025 Design Awards winners | TechCrunch


Days earlier than its Worldwide Developer Convention 2025 (WWDC), Apple has named the winners and finalists of its 2025 Design Awards for apps.

This yr’s winners and finalists largely embrace 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 yr 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 (received 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 recreation in every) throughout six classes: Delight and Enjoyable, Innovation, Interplay, Inclusivity, and Social Impression. In its record of finalists this yr, Apple highlighted numerous apps and video games from small builders around the globe.

Watch Duty, which helped share info throughout California wildfires, received the award within the social affect class. In the meantime, M13-backed developer prototyping instrument Play was awarded the perfect app within the innovation class.

Right here is the total record of winners:

Delight and Enjoyable

Inclusivity

Innovation

Interplay

Social Impression

Visuals and Graphics



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