The end - of - the - twelvemonth good - of lists are filter out , ranking everything from books and movies to tweets and trends . But 2015 would n’t be complete without Apple ’s picks for the year ’s skillful apps , and for the first meter the company also pick out the top Apple Watch and Apple television apps .
The iOS app of the year isPeriscope , Twitter ’s live - streaming app . It was n’t the first of its kind ( sorry , Meerkat ) , but it is Apple ’s favorite . The year ’s secondly - best app is powerful exposure - redaction toolEnlight . The company pickedLara Croft GOas its iOS plot of the year , a pick we also love , andFallout Shelteras the runner - up .
Apple selected mechanization toolWorkflowas its most groundbreaking iOS app of the year , andDark Echoas the most innovative game .
On Apple Watch , Dark Sky is the upright watchOS app of 2015 , while Rules ! exact the top game spot . On OS X , Affinity Photois Apple ’s weft for better Mac app , andPillars of Eternityis the good biz .
Pop open iTunes to check out the full list of Apple ’s top pick for 2015 .
Apple picked the stunning Rayman Adventures as the No . 1 Apple boob tube game of the year .
Apple’s TV picks
Just one calendar month after transportation , the quaternary - gen Apple TV has more than 2,000 apps in its new tvOS App Store . Not amazingly , streaming TV and gaming are dominating the platform . Apple picked HBO Now and Rayman Adventures as the best tv set apps of the class ( we ’re also freehanded rooter of both ) .
Eddy Cue , Apple ’s aged vice chair of package and service , toldBuzzFeedthat Apple did n’t design the new Apple TV to compete with traditional play consoles like the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 , but make the set - top box could capture casual gamers .
“ What we ’re see with the new Apple TV is to me very similar to what chance with play on the iPhone , ” Cue said in a Wednesday interview on BuzzFeed . “ When we first announced the iPhone , we did n’t boast it as a play twist . But game became a huge part of iPhone , because it turns out that a lot more people than just hardcore gamers love games . We expanded the grocery store . I think the vast majority of people around the world probably are n’t look to buy an Xbox or PlayStation . But that does n’t mean they do n’t relish playing games . I think Apple TV enlarge the gaming marketplace to those people . ”
In aTuesday tvOS update , Apple turn on living for the fourth - gen Apple TV in the iOS Remote app , which makes the tv set much easier to see to it . Cue told BuzzFeed that Apple is building a brand - new Apple TV remote app for Io that will turn your iPhone into a Siri remote , like the one that total with the newfangled Apple TV . The timeline for that app is the first one-half of 2016 ( yeah , that ’s middling vague ) , but at least we have something to see forward to now thatApple ’s live - streaming TV serviceplans have reportedly been put on the back burner .
