This week, Apple held an annual ceremony to honor what the company thinks are the very best apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac from the past year.
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- Top apps for OS X. Mac apps are a great way to get more from your Yosemite toting Macbook AirorMac Mini.TheMac App Store is filled with Mac games and handy apps, both free and paid, that can.
- The Mac App Store launched earlier today, bringing the relative ease and slight addictiveness of obtaining programs the iOS way to Apple’s computers, finally allowing OS X users to nickel-and.
- Instead, let’s talk about the real reason the App Store is cool – the free Mac games! The selection available on the Mac App Store is still a bit slim (58 titles at the time of this posting) and many are ports from the iPhone and iPad, but there are a few gems that can keep you entertained for the low price of free.
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Apps selected to win an Apple Design Award range from Fantastical, a great replacement to Apple's own Calendar app, to 'Crossy Road,' a popular and beautiful iPhone game. There were also several apps made for students and kids, including an app for children that uses creative ways to teach kids the alphabet.
Elementary Minute
The first app Apple awarded was Elementary Minute, which was made by an Austrian student. It presents quizzes in a simple, engaging format and also works on the Apple Watch.
Topics range from math to geography to famous people, and 'Rush' mode turns quizzes into a game where you have four lives and lose one if you get an answer wrong or if you take too long.
It's $0.99 in the App Store.
Jump-O
University students from Brazil made 'Jump-O,' a simple, minimalistic game where you are a circle in a world full of squares.
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The design of the game looks pretty basic, but it's surprisingly engaging with five-star reviews in the App Store. You can download and play it for free.
Shadowmatic
This beautiful puzzler takes advantage of Apple's latest technologies to create impressive 3D effects.
The $2.99 game features over 80 levels that each present their own challenges, and it has amazing reviews.
Here's what Pocket Gamer had to say: 'Simple to the point of beauty, and beautiful to the point of becoming a work of art, this is a game you won't want to win, because you won't want the experience to end.'
Metamorphobet
Metamorphobet is a great learning app for kids. It makes the alphabet interactive with visual representations of different letters, like a colorful human nose for the letter 'n.'
The idea is for kids to start taking individual letters and make words using visual cues. The app costs $3.99 in Apple's store.
Robinhood
The first finance app that has ever received an Apple Design Award is Robinhood, the free app that's trying to shake up the stock trading industry.
Download Robinhood, create an account, and you can start investing in stocks without paying any broker fees. The app is well-designed and easy to use. Who said managing money can't look pretty?
Crossy Road
One of the biggest indie games in the App Store is undoubtedly ' Crossy Road,' which made $10 million in just three months.
The game's design is unique, and if you liked playing Frogger back in the day, you'll be hooked instantly. It's free to play, but there are optional in-app purchases to unlock stuff like new characters.
Workflow
One of the most powerful iPhone apps to hit the App Store in recent years is Workflow, which specializes in 'automation made simple.'
It allows you create 'actions' that let you do things that normal apps can't. For example, you can set it to create an animated GIF out of a few photos in your Camera Roll. There are countless other actions for making PDFs, sharing files to Dropbox, and much, much more.
If you're someone who likes to get things done on the iPhone or iPad, Workflow is worth checking out. It costs $2.99 in the App Store and also works on the Apple Watch.
Fantastical
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Fantastical is a popular calendar manager on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
It solves a lot of problems with Apple's own Calendar app, namely the confusing interface. One of the biggest reasons people love Fantastical is that it lets you enter events using natural language. That means 'lunch with Steve next Thursday at 2' gets translated into an event that's pre-filled with the appropriate information.
The Mac version of Fantastical recently underwent a huge makeover, and it's pretty great. Unfortunately its price of $39.99 will keep everyone but the hardcore calendar nerds away. If you're interested, you can buy it on the Mac App Store. There's also a free trial available on the developer's website.
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Does Not Commute
This strategy-based car game looks beautiful. It also sounds like a lot of fun.
'Does not Commute is a temporal paradox in which you have no one to blame but yourself,' reads the game's description. You start by commuting around a small town from the 1970's, but chaos quickly ensues and you have to drive everything from a hot dog trucks to a school bus. Can you survive the traffic? Your fate is in your own hands.
Download for free in the App Store.
Vainglory
'Vainglory' is an ambitious multiplayer online battle game that looks absolutely stunning on the iPhone's high definition display. It bills itself as the first game of its kind built from the ground up for touch displays, and it looks kind of like the mobile successor to 'World of Warcraft.'
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You can download 'Vainglory' for free in the App Store, and it has optional in-app purchases.
Pacemaker
Pacemaker lets you mix songs from iTunes and Spotify in an interface designed around letting you DJ your next house party or event.
The app can analyze which tracks go well together and help you sync them up, which could be really helpful the next time you're trying to keep the party going.
You can download Pacemaker for free in the App Store, and it works on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
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Update: At number 16 on our list, we've added Darkest Dungeon, a dungeon-crawler RPG that's ostensibly cutesy on the outside but a tough egg to crack underneath.
The idea that Macs can't do gaming is an outdated one. Sure, you can't crack open one of Apple's computers and slot an Nvidia GTX 1080 inside, but today's iMacs and MacBooks fare much better than they used to thanks to improvements in Intel's integrated graphics solutions and AMD's increasingly powerful mobile GPUs.
Heck, you could even say that casual gaming is more accessible on the Mac thanks to the wide variety of titles available in the App Store, such as Human Resource Machine which we've added to number 14! And, though it's nowhere near as eclectic as its Windows equivalent, Steam's library on macOS Sierra is growing every day.
Click on to discover the best Mac games available on the Mac App store and elsewhere.
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This article has been updated for TechRadar'sMac Week. This year marks not only the 10th anniversary of Apple's unibody MacBook, but the triumphant return of macOS. So, TechRadar looks to celebrate with a week's worth of original features delving back into the Mac's past, predicting the Mac's future and exploring the Mac as it is today.
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