Artificial intelligence is finding its way into Apple’s top apps of the year

Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Awards winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.

In 2025, the winning iPhone app was visual chart Tiimo, and iPhone Game of the Year was the card game Pokémon TCG Pocket.

Although Apple has Keep avoiding By naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as the App of the Year, AI is featured among this year’s winners.

Apple app of the year, Timofor example, is described as a visual AI planner that turns tasks into plans with visual timelines. The app uses artificial intelligence to break down your tasks into a realistic timeline by estimating how long each step in the task could take and helping you create a plan.

Meanwhile, this year’s iPad app, the detailssimplifies the video editing process with an AI-powered Auto Edit feature that handles things like removing silence, cutting zooms, and adding titles and captions.

Cultural Impact Winner, StoryGraphuses artificial intelligence for machine learning to make book recommendations based on your reading data, while another uses, Be my eyesIt offers an AI assistant that provides visual descriptions of real-world images for blind and visually impaired users.

And this year’s Apple Watch app, Stravaincludes an AI assistant that turns exercise data into insights.

The company also announced the winners of iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as a premium service within its gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade.

Additionally, Apple awarded a few apps with a “Cultural Impact” award. The company said these apps provided useful tools, enhanced understanding, or shaped a more inclusive world.

Apple has named 45 apps and games for the first time Finalists for its awards in November The list has now been narrowed to 17 apps and games. The winners are: