Apple’s App Store has published its year-end listing of the highest free and paid apps and games, together with its high Apple Arcade games.
The highest free apps are about what you’d anticipate. There are social networks, buying apps, just a few streaming music and video apps, Google, Gmail, McDonald’s, and ChatGPT. Among the many high paid apps are a number of we’ve coated right here and on Club MacStories, together with AutoSleep, Paprika, Procreate Pocket, Forest, RadarScope, µBrowser, and long-time favourite Streaks. Unusually, the paid app listing additionally features a sport – Suika Game clone known as ‘Merge Watermelon for watch’ for the Apple Watch.
Among the many free and paid video games, highlights embody Subway Surfers, NYT Games, Minecraft, Geometry Dash, Stardew Valley, and Balatro. In case you’re an Arcade subscriber, high video games embody NBA 2K24, Sneaky Sasquatch, Sonic Dream Team, NFL Retro Bowl ‘25, Angry Birds Reloaded, Retro Bowl+, Stardew Valley+, stitch, and Tomb of the Mask.
Every of the three lists contains 40 free and paid apps or video games for 120 complete. The overwhelming majority of apps are the kind of on a regular basis apps folks obtain to buy, search the online, browse social media, and entertain themselves. There’s extra selection among the many paid apps, with classes like well being, self-improvement, productiveness, and artistic apps main the apps for which customers are prepared to pay.
On the video games lists, what struck me greater than the rest is what number of video games on the lists aren’t new. That’s much less true of Arcade, however it appears as if the hits of the previous proceed to rule the common App Retailer sport listing. I’d wish to see extra selection in 2025, however it’s additionally good to see some actually nice apps among the many extra on a regular basis apps that may undoubtedly proceed to get a number of downloads.
