Best iPhone apps and games 2016: Prisma named app of the year while Clash Royale bags best game

Prisma has been awarded the prestigious title of iPhone App of the Year in Apple’s “Best of 2016” rankings.

The app, which turns your photos into incredibly realistic looking paintings using artificial intelligence, was also named “Best App 2016” by Google last week .

Meanwhile, Clash Royale, the real-time multiplayer game from the maker of Clash of Clans, has been named iPhone Game of the Year by Apple.

While Clash Royale also fared well in Android’s download rankings, Google gave the title of best game to Pokémon GO.

The top 10 in each category, as selected by Apple, are as follows:

Best iPhone apps

1. Prisma: Turns your photos and videos into art
2. Quartz: News bulletins delivered in a series of short messages
3. Bear: Writing app for composing, syncing and storing notes
4. Hyper: Curated videos from the web
5. Memrise: Free language-learning games
6. Folioscope: Animated GIF creator
7. MSQRD: Live filters and face-swap for video selfies
8. Hoop: Nearby activities for kids
9. V for Wikipedia: Filters for Wikipedia pages
10. Fiete Sports: Free sports games

Best iPhone games

1. Clash Royale: Real-time multiplayer game from maker of Clash of Clans
2. Reigns: Decide about how to rule your kingdom by swiping right or left
3. INKS.: Pinball for a new generation
4. FIFA Mobile Football: Build and manage your own football team
5. klocki: Rubik’s Cube-style puzzle game
6. Rodeo Stampede: Explore the Savannah, catch animals and build your own zoo
7. PKTBALL: Bat fish across a makeshift ping-pong table
8. Crashlands: Build your own world on an alien planet
9. Leap Day: Tackle new traps, enemies and locations every day
10. The Trail: Trek through the wilderness and collect resources

Over on iPad, Heuristic Shakespeare – The Tempest was named iPad App of the Year by Apple, while Severed was named iPad Game of the Year.

Best iPad apps

1. Heuristic Shakespeare: Demystify Shakespeare with the help of world-class actors
2. Timepage for iPad: Classy calendar app
3. Millie Marotta’s Colouring Adventures: Virtual colouring book
4. Sleep Cycle alarm clock: Wakes you up at the best moment in your sleep cycle
5. Scrivener: Writing tool for marking up long manuscripts
6. Memrise: Free language-learning games
7. Folioscope: Animated GIF creator
8. BBC iPlayer Kids: Watch and download the best of CBeebies and CBBC
9. Easy Music: Teaches musical concepts through animations and games
10. Bear: Writing app for composing, syncing and storing notes

Best iPad games

1. Severed: Swipe-based zombie combat game
2. Chameleon Run: Infinite running game
3. Samorost 3: Exploration adventure and puzzle game
4. Big Bang Racing: Race makeshift card and bikes through scores of user-created levels
5. Mini Metro: Design your own underground map for a growing city
6. Mr Crab 2: Save the lost baby crabs in sequel to popular adventure game
7. Deus Ex GO: Puzzle challenge set in Deus Ex’s techno dystopia
8. Human Resource Machine: Teaches computer logic through whimsical puzzle game
9. PinOut!: Pinball game remodelled into arcade experience
10. Invisible: Infiltrate corporations with a team of super-spies

Apple also revealed the top selling iPhone and iPad apps of 2016.

On iPhone, WhatsApp was the most downloaded free app, Face Swap Live was the best selling paid app, and Spotify was the top grossing app of the year.

Meanwhile, on iPad, YouTube was the most downloaded free app, Minecraft was the best selling paid app and Candy Crush Saga was the top grossing app of the year.

[Source:-Mirror]