Why trust GreenbotThe results are in for the second annual ay Awards, the company’s new tradition to honor excellence in the world of Android apps. In late April, we took a look at the 60 nominees across the ay Award’s 12 categories.
Now, here are the winners.
Best Accessibility Experience
Name: IFTTT
ice: Free
Description: This is the go-to service to automate all kinds of online services smart home devices in ways that wouldn’t be possible without it. Now it’s being honored for “enabling device interaction to serve people with disabilities or special needs.”
Best Social Impact
Name: ShareTheMeal – Help children
ice: Free
Description: This charity app from the rld Food ogramme lets you give small donations (as little as 50 cents a day) to feed a child in an impoverished or war stricken area of the world.
Stout Indie
Name: Mushroom 11
ice: $4.99
Description: A puzzle platformer game that takes you through a post-apocalyptic world where you help a new lifeform grow among the ruins.
Stout Startup
Name: Hooked
ice: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This app shows you stories in the format of an SMS/Messaging app. It’s supposedly an attempt to make reading fun again. Having swapped novel-length attention spans for tweets status updates years ago, Hooked offers short engaging stories in a format our primitive ape brains can still hle.
Best Android ar Experience
Name: Runtastic o Running, Fitness
ice: $4.99
Description: This popular smartphone-based workout tracker has always been a top choice among runners.
Best TV Experience
Name: Red Bull TV
ice: Free
Description: Have you ever spent time on Red Bull’s TV site or one of its TV apps? If you like action or motor sports, my advice is don’t. You could be lost for days.
Best VR Experience
Name: Virtual Virtual Reality
ice: $4.49 (sale price)
Description: As its name suggests, the idea in this Daydream VR experience is to explore virtual reality inside virtual reality. You can take on off VR headsets inside this VR game to experience more than 50 levels over two hours of unique virtual, virtual experiences.
Best AR Experience
Name: orld
ice: Free
Description: For Tango devices, orld lets you place virtual characters toys inside your own living room or whatever other physical space you find yourself in.
Best App for Kids
Name: Animal m – ay ld!
ice: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This kids app lets your little ones design their own animal characters, create animal dens, hang out with friends in a virtual 3D world.
Best Multiplayer Game
Name: Hearthstone
ice: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: Blizzard’s popular digital card game has been around for years shows no sign of slowing in popularity.
Best App
Name: Memrise: arn a new language
ice: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: This language-learning app offers lessons in 14 languages, contains two million words phrases that are taught through games, chatbots, videos of native speakers.
Best Game
Name: Transformers: Forged to Fight
ice: Free (in-app purchases)
Description: It’s like Streetfighter, but with Transformers. But it’s also got aspects of tower defense R.
