5 Runners-up & App Trends
For its Trends of the Year list, which includes popular trends in app development and app consumption on the App Store, the editors picked mindfulness apps such as Joyable, AR apps like IKEA Place, multiplayer games like Art of War: Red Tides, and creative storytelling apps like Hooked and Serial Boxed Publishing.
Top free iPhone apps included popular apps like Bitmoji, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, while popular games include 8 Ball Pool, Super Mario Run and Word Cookies. When it came to free iPad apps, YouTube, Netflix and Chrome topped the charts, with ROBLOX, Rolling Sky and Bowmasters heading up the top free iPad games category.