2023 is coming to an end, meaning it is time for all our favorite services to release their yearly awards and wrap-ups. This also means it is time for the Google Play’s Best of 2023 Awards, highlighting the best apps and games to hit the Play Store this year. To keep up with the times, Google has added several new award categories: Best with AI, Best Game for Good, Best on Google Play Games on PC, and Best Multi-device App and Game.
Imprint picked up the best app award. It uses visual storytelling to help you understand important topics in finance, business, science, technology, etc. This app is only available to download in the US, so don’t be surprised if you have not heard of it before. As for the best game, Honkai: Star Rail, a sci-fi space fantasy RPG, got that award.
The list of winners can vary by region. you may find the award-winning apps in the US below.
Google hadopened voting for the User’s Choice Awardsat the beginning of the month for a couple of weeks. Apart from apps and books, the company also accepted votes for your favorite book on the Play Store this year. This category was not there for the last two years.
It is not surprising to see ChatGPT win the Users' Choice app award, given that AI and ChatGPT were two of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry this year. WhatsApp was crowned as the best app for watches, with AllTrails and Audible getting honorable mentions. For tablets, Concepts — a vector-based sketching and drawing app — won the best app award, with Canva and Everand getting honorary mentions.
Google awarded FlipaClip — a 2D animation app — the best app for Chromebooks, while Evernote got an honorary mention. Coincidentally, this happens as thenote-taking service is testing severely limiting its free plan.
Best apps of 2023
Best games of 2023
You can head to the Play Store’sBest of 2023 pageto see the full list of winners in your country. If you did not find any of the apps and games in Google’s ‘Best of’ awards list worth trying, make sure to go through our list of thebest Android appsandgames.
