The 8 Best Apps of the Year, According to Apple

Procreate is a well-known drawing app for iPad, and Procreate Pocket is essentially the same thing yet optimized for iPhone. There are over a hundred brushes to choose from, as well as various painting effects and other creative effects. There’s obviously no Apple Pencil support, but it utilizes features that are only found on iPhone, such as 3D Touch and haptic feedback.

This is a self-described “story-based physics puzzle game” where you are a hole in the ground, and the object is move the hole around so that objects fall into the hole. The more objects you swallow, the larger the hole grows and thus the larger the objects you’re able to swallow.

This is an interactive and educational iPad game that leverages AR to help you explore the life cycle of a frog, from a celled egg to a tadpole to a fully-grown frog. You also dissect it.

This is a beautifully illustrated drag-and-drop puzzle game that’s available for both iPad and iPhone. Each puzzle consists of four seeminly unrated drawings, on four different panels, and your goal is to arrange them in a certain way that ultimately tells a story. It’s challenging, yet undeniably beautiful and engadging.

This is a professional image editing tool, not too dissimilar from Adobe’s Photoshop, that works exclusively on Mac. It’s compatible Light and Dark Modes of macOS, and allows users to effect, adjust and layer their images and designs in nearly infinite ways.

This is an adventure-puzzle game that feels like your reading a visually stunning story book. It follows two best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they explore and travel through beautiful and dreamlike levels.

This is a fitness app taught by personal trainer Kayla Itsines. Subscribers have access to a host of different workout classes, challenges and meal plans – all designed to get them in summer shape. There’s a one-week trial period that’s free for anybody who wants to try it out. An annual subscription costs $120.

This is the sequel to the highly successful game Alto’s Adventure. As before, you’re a still snowboarder that is riding really fast downhill, but this time you’re avoiding obstacles and navigating different-yet-still-majestic landscapes. It’s also a lot bigger and longer than the original game.