BEST
APPS
of the
YEAR
2017

Pets Everwhere

Toca Boca hit another home run with Toca Life: Pets. The adorable app brings together some of Toca Boca's most adorable animals in a fun new adventure everyone will love.

A powerful, full-featured photo editing experience

With advanced tools, filter collections and editing, and the ability to add artwork and text, this is an app to transform your photography into true masterpieces.

Sketch and Write With Ease

Linea is the latest app from the Twitterrific maker. It's a simple digital sketchbook for iPad.

It's Getting Cold Outside

Your friends over at Sago Mini have become snowed in and it’s your job to create the most exciting day possible. Prepare for an amazing day of sledding, snowman making, tree decorating and hot chocolate (unlimited marshmallows included). Choose a sled and some friends to ride with – will you pick a classic toboggan, a slick speed racer, a bouncy hot dog or cute unicorn inflatable? Pick up speed as you whiz down the snowy hill – don’t forget to wave hi to Yeti, or take a big bite of the giant ice cream cone!

Let your little ones learn about the hospital in a fun way.

With Toca Life: Hospital children can learn about taking care of babies and sick patients with monitors and other hospital tools like bandages and wheelchairs. Let them explore five floors of a medical center with an interactive, education experience that makes learning fun.

Probably the best task manager you can find

Featuring an intuitive new design, this task manager app builds off of the previous versions to help you to organize your life.

The first fully-featured photo editor for the iPad

Affinity Photo offers all of the features you'd expect from an iPad image editing app. Then, it goes many steps further, placing the app in the realm of desktop photo editing software packages.

A New Generation of Professional Photography

One of the best third-party camera apps available, Halide, is making a big step up with the arrival of Halide Mark II. The completely new app features a redesigned interface and many new additions.

The award-winning task manager, reimagined

Collect your thoughts with Things' share extensions, and then organize them in the app itself. If you have Things 3 on your iPhone, the iPad app is the perfect accompaniment. You can collect actions and tasks from your iPhone, then use the bigger screen and nicer layout of the iPad app to reorganize. Our only beef is that you have to buy the app twice.

Go from paper to digital in lightning speed

This free app turns your iOS device into a powerful, portable scanner with text recognition. Turn receipts, notes, and more into an Adobe PDF file quickly and easily.

The way Reddit *should* look on an iOS device

There are plenty of Reddit clients for iOS, but few of them really look like they belong on your iPhone or iPad. A former Apple intern has aimed to solve that problem.

HQ - Live Trivia Game Show is an app that is taking the App Store by storm by offering a game show that anyone can compete in.

HQ - Live Trivia Game Show is an app that is taking the App Store by storm by offering a game show that anyone can compete in. Is it worth your time?

Your window into the current weather conditions

When you want to check the weather, you need an app that gets you the information you need and then gets out of the way. Not only does Weather Atlas do that, but it does so in a gorgeous way.

The premier app for exploring the planet

We may live on a small planet in the grand scheme of things, but it's got plenty of interesting locations to explore. This app's latest update makes that easy.