Apple announces the best games and apps of 2014
THE Apple announced this Monday (08) the list of the best games, movies, videos, books and apps for iPhone and iPad of 2014. Check out the list of chosen ones…
THE Apple announced this Monday (08) the list of the best games, movies, videos, books and apps for iPhone and iPad 2014. Among the awardees, only one is free. Check out the list of chosen ones:
the elected
In Brazil, the app of the year of iPhone stayed for Replay video editor. O replay is a video editor for the Instagram, which allows you to create professional quality productions with just a few touches and with a wide variety of styles and options.
In the United States, the chosen application was the Elevate – Brain Training. A program capable of training the brain to improve its efficiency in some tasks, with exercises to improve concentration, writing ability, speed of comprehension of a text and conciseness when communicating, among other skills.
Game of the Year: Threes!
Both in Brazil and in the United States he is the favorite. O threes! is a game that won over gamers with a very simple formula: its objective is to add as many points as possible, doubling cards of the same number that are always multiples of three.
iPad App of the Year: Pixelmator
This visual creation app has tools as advanced as Photoshop. And at the same time it is as simple as those in Paint. It offers several tools, such as brushes, filters and many other features that facilitate the process of editing and creating images.
iPad Game of the Year: Monument Valley
In Monument Valley, your goal is to guide Princess Eda to seek forgiveness. For that, you have to solve a puzzle that plays with the optical illusion, if you want to see the little character free from all obstacles.
Other categories:
Music – Brazilian iTunes
Best Artist: Pharrell Williams
Best Album: Vista do Mar, by SILVA
Best Song: Chandelier, by Sia
iTunes American
Best Artist: Beyoncé
Best Album: 1989, by Taylor Swift
Best Song: Fancy (feat. Charli XCX), by Iggy Azalea
Best New Artist: Sam Smith
Movies – Brazilian iTunes
Best Blockbuster: Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, with The Wolf of Wall Street
iTunes American
Best Blockbuster: Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Family Movie: Lego – The Movie
Best Director: Richard Linklater
Best Discovery: Obvious Child
TV series – American iTunes
TV Series of the Year: Fargo
Best Performances: True Detective, first season
Best Discovery: The Honorable Woman
Best Breakthrough: Key & Peele, Volume 4
Books – Brazilian iTunes
Best Fiction Book: Adultery, by Paulo Coelho
Best Non-Fiction Book: The Capital, by Thomas Piketty
iTunes American
Best Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See (no Portuguese translation), by Anthony Doerr
Best Nonfiction: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (ahh, this one doesn’t have any Portuguese translation), by Jeff Hobbs
THE Apple also released the list of the most downloaded apps, between paid and free, both on the iPad and the iPhone. In this case, the company considered only the American iTunes.
iPhone
Most downloaded paid app: Heads Up!
Most downloaded free app: Facebook Messenger
Fastest growing app: Clash of Clans
iPad
Most downloaded paid app: Minecraft – Pocket Edition
Most downloaded free app: YouTube
Fastest growing app: Clash of Clans
So, what did you think of the selection of Apple To 2014? Recommend us your favorite apps!
