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Apple reveals App Store’s top apps, games, and entertainment of 2018

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Apple revealed its list of the top apps, games, and entertainment on the iOS App Store. Donut County took the title of the iPhone Game of the year, while Procreate Pocket took iPhone app of the year. (Check out last year’s list here).

Both editorial selections and popular choices are included. Check out the list below.

Best apps of 2018: Editorial selections

  • iPhone App of the year — Procreate Pocket
  • iPhone Game of the year — Donut County
  • iPad App of the year — Froggipedia
  • iPad Game of the year — Gorogoa
  • Mac App of the year — Pixelmator Pro
  • Mac Game of the year — The Gardens Between
  • Apple TV App of the year — Sweat
  • Apple TV Game of the year — Alto’s Odyssey

Favorite Watch apps of the year: Editorial selections

  • WaterMinder
  • Lifesum
  • 10% Happier
  • Carrot Weather
  • Fun Golf GPS
  • Swing Tennis Tracker
  • Slopes
  • App in the Air
  • Overcast
  • Just Press Record

Top free iPhone apps

  1. YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
  2. Instagram
  3. Snapchat
  4. Messenger
  5. Facebook
  6. Bitmoji
  7. Netflix
  8. Google Maps – Transit & Food
  9. Gmail – Email by Google
  10. Spotify Music
  11. Amazon – Shopping made easy
  12. Uber
  13. WhatsApp Messenger
  14. Pandora – Streaming Music
  15. Wish – Shopping Made Fun
  16. TikTok – Real Short Videos
  17. Cash App
  18. Google Photos
  19. Google Chrome
  20. Twitter

Top paid iPhone apps

  1. Facetune
  2. Kirakira+
  3. Dark Sky Weather
  4. HotSchedules
  5. PlantSnap Plant Identification
  6. AutoSleep Tracker for Watch
  7. Sky Guide
  8. 1 Second Everyday: Video Diary
  9. The Wonder Weeks
  10. Afterlight 2
  11. My Talking Pet Pro
  12. Glitché
  13. Scanner Pro
  14. TouchRetouch
  15. 7 Minute Workout Challenge
  16. Forest – Stay focused
  17. Full Fitness : Exercise Workout Trainer
  18. Word Swag – Cool Fonts
  19. SkyView® – Explore the Universe
  20. HeartWatch. Heart & Activity

Top free iPhone games

  1. Fortnite
  2. Helix Jump
  3. Rise Up
  4. PUBG MOBILE
  5. Hole.io
  6. Love Balls
  7. Snake VS Block
  8. Rules of Survival
  9. ROBLOX
  10. Dune!
  11. Subway Surfers
  12. Episode – Choose Your Story
  13. Word Link – Word Puzzle Game
  14. Toon Blast
  15. Color Road!
  16. HQ Trivia
  17. Twisty Road!
  18. 8 Ball Pool™
  19. Kick the Buddy
  20. Sniper 3D Assassin: Gun Games

Top paid iPhone games

  1. Heads Up!
  2. Minecraft
  3. Plague Inc.
  4. Bloons TD 6
  5. Pocket Build
  6. Bloons TD 5
  7. Geometry Dash
  8. The Game of Life
  9. Papa’s Freezeria To Go!
  10. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  11. Trivia Crack (No Ads)
  12. Getting Over It
  13. Monument Valley 2
  14. Alto’s Odyssey
  15. True Skate
  16. The Room: Old Sins
  17. Terraria
  18. Exploding Kittens®
  19. Five Nights at Freddy’s
  20. The Escapists: Prison Escape

Top free iPad apps

  1. YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
  2. Netflix
  3. Messenger
  4. Facebook
  5. Amazon Prime Video
  6. Google Chrome
  7. Gmail – Email by Google
  8. YouTube Kids
  9. The Calculator
  10. Amazon – Shopping made easy
  11. Spotify Music
  12. Hulu: Watch TV Shows & Movies
  13. Google Docs: Sync, Edit, Share
  14. Google Drive
  15. Google Maps – Transit & Food
  16. Microsoft Word
  17. Pandora – Streaming Music
  18. Amazon Kindle
  19. Colorfy: Coloring Art Games
  20. Google

Top paid iPad apps

  1. Procreate
  2. Notability
  3. GoodNotes 4
  4. Toca Life: Pets
  5. Duet Display
  6. Toca Life: After School
  7. XtraMath
  8. Toca Hair Salon 3
  9. MyScript Nebo
  10. Toca Kitchen 2
  11. PDF Expert by Readdle
  12. Toca Life: Hospital
  13. Affinity Photo
  14. Toca Life: Office
  15. GoodReader
  16. Toca Lab: Elements
  17. Notes Plus
  18. Human Anatomy Atlas 2019
  19. Toca Life: City
  20. AnyFont

Top free iPad games

  1. Fortnite
  2. ROBLOX
  3. Kick the Buddy
  4. Love Balls
  5. Helix Jump
  6. Color by Number Coloring Game!
  7. Bowmasters – Multiplayer Game
  8. Hole.io
  9. Rise Up
  10. Rules of Survival
  11. Subway Surfers
  12. Rolling Sky
  13. PUBG MOBILE
  14. Toon Blast
  15. Snake VS Block
  16. Granny
  17. Piano Tiles 2™
  18. Slither.io
  19. Run Sausage Run!
  20. Pixel Art – Color by Number

Top paid iPad games

  1. Minecraft
  2. Geometry Dash
  3. The Game of Life
  4. The Room: Old Sins
  5. Heads Up!
  6. Bloons TD 6
  7. Goat Simulator
  8. Five Nights at Freddy’s
  9. LEGO® Jurassic World™
  10. Terraria
  11. The Escapists: Prison Escape
  12. Bloons TD 5 HD
  13. Monument Valley 2
  14. Plague Inc.
  15. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
  16. Goat Simulator PAYDAY
  17. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
  18. Teeny Titans – Teen Titans Go!
  19. Teen Titans Go! Figure
  20. Scribblenauts Unlimited

Best music of 2018: Editorial selections

  • Artist of the year: Drake
  • Breakout Artist of the Year: Juice WRLD
  • Song of the Year: I Like It – Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin
  • Album of the Year: Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves

Best podcasts of 2018: Editorial selections

  • In The Dark
  • Caliphate
  • The Dream
  • Everything is Alive
  • Slow Burn
  • Dr. Death
  • Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
  • Bubble
  • Bundyville
  • A Very Fatal Murder
  • Wolverine
  • Serial
  • The Daily
  • This American Life “5 Women”
  • 99% Invisible

Top 25 most downloaded podcasts of the year

  1. The Daily
  2. The Joe Rogan Experience
  3. Stuff You Should Know
  4. Fresh Air
  5. The Dave Ramsey Show
  6. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
  7. TED Talks Daily
  8. Up First
  9. The Ben Shapiro Show
  10. Pod Save America
  11. This American Life
  12. TED Radio Hour
  13. Planet Money
  14. Pardon My Take
  15. Freakonomics Radio
  16. The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
  17. Up and Vanished
  18. Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
  19. The Bill Simmons Podcast
  20. Stuff You Missed in History Class
  21. Hidden Brain
  22. The Herd with Colin Cowherd
  23. NPR Politics Podcast
  24. Radiolab
  25. Adam Carolla Show

Top 25 most downloaded new podcasts

  1. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
  2. The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Ears Edition
  3. Today, Explained
  4. Dr. Death
  5. Talk Is Jericho
  6. The Morning Toast
  7. Business Wars
  8. The Wilderness
  9. Conspiracy Theories
  10. The RFK Tapes
  11. The Teacher’s Pet
  12. Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities
  13. Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast
  14. Caliphate
  15. 15 Minutes to Freedom: A Daily Action Guide to Maximizing Your Life
  16. RISE Together Podcast
  17. The goop Podcast
  18. The Habitat
  19. Get Up!
  20. WorkLife with Adam Grant
  21. The Russillo Show
  22. Trump, Inc.
  23. The Walk
  24. Nobody Told Me!
  25. Unexplained Mysteries

Best movies of 2018 on TV app: Editorial

  • Green Book
  • A Star is Born
  • Black Panther
  • Eighth Grade
  • Hereditary
  • Annihilation
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Minding the Gap
  • The Incredibles 2
  • Won’t you be my Neighbor

Best movies of 2018 on iTunes: Editorial

  • Annihilation
  • Black Panther
  • Crazy Rich Asians
  • Eighth Grade
  • Green Book*
  • Hereditary
  • Incredibles 2
  • Minding the Gap
  • A Star Is Born*
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor

*preorders available

Best TV shows of 2018 on TV app: Editorial

  • The Americans
  • Atlanta
  • Barry
  • The Expanse
  • The Good Fight
  • The Good Place
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Killing Eve
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • Pose

Best books of 2018: Editorial selections

  • Book of the year: American Marriage / Tayari Jones — Workman
  • Best nonfiction: The Library Book / Susan Orlean — S&S
  • Best mystery: The Witch Elm / Tana French — Penguin
  • Best thriller: Light It Up / Nick Petrie — Penguin
  • Best bio/mem: Educated / Tara Westover — RH
  • Best romance: Too Wilde to Wed / Eloisa James — Harper
  • Best SFF: Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik — RH
  • Best feel-good fiction: When Life Gives You Lululemons / Lauren Weisberger — S&S
  • Best literary fiction: There There / Tommy Orange — RH
  • Best young reader book: Harbor Me / Jacqueline Woodson — Penguin

Best audiobooks of 2018: Editorial selections

Audiobook of the year: American Marriage / Tayari Jones — Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books
Best nonfiction: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century / Yuval Noah Harari — RH
Best mystery: Something in the Water / Catherine Steadman — RH
Best thriller: Long Road to Mercy / David Baldacci — Hachette
Best bio/mem: Becoming / Michelle Obama — RH
Best business audiobook: Dare to Lead / Brene Brown — RH
Best healh, mind, body: Girl Wash Your Face / Rachel Hollis — Harper
Best Family audiobook: Rebound / Kwame Alexander — Recorded Books
Best Humor: Calypso / David Sedaris — Hachette
Best Historical fiction: The Great Alone / Kristin Hannah — Macmillan

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Top 100 books: fiction

  1. The Woman in the Window
  2. Crazy Rich Asians
  3. Little Fires Everywhere
  4. The Wife Between Us
  5. The Great Alone
  6. The Fallen
  7. The President Is Missing
  8. Origin
  9. Before We Were Yours
  10. Sharp Objects
  11. The Outsider
  12. The Perfect Couple
  13. The Reckoning
  14. The Other Woman
  15. All We Ever Wanted
  16. Darker
  17. China Rich Girlfriend
  18. Past Tense
  19. The Handmaid’s Tale
  20. An American Marriage
  21. When Life Gives You Lululemons
  22. Spymaster
  23. Ready Player One
  24. Red War
  25. Something in the Water
  26. The 17th Suspect
  27. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
  28. Twisted Prey
  29. A Simple Favor
  30. Dark Sacred Night
  31. The Rooster Bar
  32. A Wrinkle in Time
  33. Rich People Problems
  34. P.S. I Still Love You
  35. Forever My Girl
  36. Red Sparrow
  37. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Enhanced Edition)
  38. Broken Silence
  39. A Gentleman in Moscow
  40. Shelter in Place
  41. Where the Crawdads Sing
  42. Still Me
  43. The Hate U Give
  44. End Game
  45. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
  46. Unraveled
  47. The Midnight Line
  48. Holy Ghost
  49. Every Breath
  50. Look for Me
  51. Long Road to Mercy
  52. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
  53. Then She Was Gone
  54. Behind Closed Doors
  55. Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
  56. Texas Ranger
  57. The Disappeared
  58. Dark in Death
  59. Tailspin
  60. The Escape Artist
  61. The Last Mrs. Parrish
  62. Obsession
  63. The Next Girl
  64. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
  65. Juror #3
  66. The Perfect Mother
  67. Lethal White
  68. Don’t Let Go
  69. Red Alert
  70. The Nightingale
  71. Nine Perfect Strangers
  72. Leverage in Death
  73. Cottage by the Sea
  74. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Enhanced Edition)
  75. Fall from Grace
  76. Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
  77. Possession
  78. Call Me by Your Name
  79. The Silent Corner
  80. Use of Force
  81. Fifty Shades of Grey
  82. A Spark of Light
  83. Milk and Honey
  84. The Alchemist
  85. A Harmless Little Ruse
  86. The Kremlin’s Candidate
  87. The Alice Network
  88. The Flight Attendant
  89. The Immortalists
  90. The Couple Next Door
  91. Fifty Shades Freed
  92. Grey
  93. Palace of Treason
  94. Fifty Fifty
  95. After Anna
  96. The Kissing Booth
  97. I’ve Got My Eyes on You
  98. The Wife
  99. Tom Clancy Line of Sight
  100. To Kill a Mockingbird

Top 100 books: nonfiction

  1. Fire and Fury
  2. Fear
  3. Girl, Wash Your Face
  4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
  5. Educated
  6. Becoming
  7. A Higher Loyalty
  8. World History
  9. Biology
  10. 12 Rules for Life
  11. The 5 Love Languages
  12. The Americans
  13. You Are a Badass®
  14. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
  15. Chemistry
  16. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  17. The Plant Paradox
  18. Rich Dad Poor Dad
  19. Bad Blood
  20. Calypso
  21. Killers of the Flower Moon
  22. Sapiens
  23. Be Nice (Or Else!)
  24. Tiger Woods
  25. How to Win Friends & Influence People
  26. Kitchen Confidential
  27. The Four Agreements
  28. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Literature Grade 9
  29. Born a Crime
  30. Killing the SS
  31. How To Win Friends & Influence People
  32. Leonardo da Vinci
  33. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Literature Grade 11
  34. Factfulness
  35. The Last Black Unicorn
  36. United States Government
  37. The Secret
  38. Geometry
  39. Russian Roulette
  40. Extreme Ownership
  41. The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners: Easy 5-Ingredient Keto Diet Cookbook
  42. In Pieces
  43. The Power of Now
  44. Algebra 2
  45. Ship of Fools
  46. All-American Murder
  47. Geometry
  48. The Soul of America
  49. 12 Strong
  50. Night
  51. How to Change Your Mind
  52. Algebra 1
  53. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  54. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
  55. Algebra 2
  56. 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse
  57. A Brief History of Time
  58. Chemistry
  59. The Russia Hoax
  60. Principles
  61. Why Men Love Bitches
  62. Your Life in Christ
  63. When Breath Becomes Air
  64. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Literature Grade 12
  65. The 48 Laws of Power
  66. Simply Keto
  67. Red Notice
  68. The Fifth Risk
  69. The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition
  70. Algebra 1
  71. Start with Why
  72. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
  73. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production
  74. Crushing It!
  75. Grant
  76. Alexander Hamilton
  77. Christian Morality
  78. The Untethered Soul
  79. The Power of Habit
  80. World Religions
  81. The Sacraments
  82. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
  83. The Whole30
  84. Boundaries
  85. The Glass Castle
  86. Man’s Search for Meaning
  87. Year of Yes
  88. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Literature, Grade 10
  89. Everybody, Always
  90. Pimp
  91. Think and Grow Rich
  92. Shoe Dog
  93. Hillbilly Elegy
  94. Tribe of Mentors
  95. Everything Happens for a Reason
  96. The Compound Effect
  97. Grit
  98. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
  99. American Kingpin
  100. Physics