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Which apps rose to the top of Apple’s charts for 2014? by J. Jennings Moss- Silicon Valley Business Journal

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Which apps rose to the top of Apple’s charts for 2014?

J. Jennings Moss, Upstart Business Journal Editor

Which apps rose to the top of Apple's charts for 2014?

Image provided by Getty Images (Prykhodov)

Did you edit images on your iPad with Pixelmator this year, or maybe you lost a few hours playing Monument Valley on Apple’s tablet?

How about your iPhone? Did you give your brain a workout with Elevate or did you get sucked into endlessly playing Threes?

If you answered yes to any of those, then you were part of the “in crowd” that embraced Apple‘s picks for top mobile apps and games of the year. Apple released its annual “best-of” ranking today, with those four apps taking best-of show awards.

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Here’s a rundown of Apple’s nice list.

iPad

App of the year went to Pixelmator, at $9.99 one of the pricier apps in the App Store and one which Apple described as “an astounding image editor — an incredible showpiece that’s guaranteed to help your photos pop.”

The runner-up was Storehouse, a free app that’s all about storytelling, allowing users to meld photos, videos and text and then share them.

Game of the year went to Monument Valley. This “genre-defining effort wows at every turn,” Apple said of the $3.99 puzzler.

Runner-up here was Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, the first iOS game to come from Blizzard. The game is free, but has in-app purchases.

Best iPad apps

  • New York Times Cooking
  • Microsoft Word
  • VSCO Cam
  • Yahoo News Digest
  • Replay Video Editor
  • Hanx Writer
  • Star Walk Kids
  • 120 Sports
  • Adobe Voice
  • GoldieBlox and the Movie Machine
  • Makr
  • 1Password
  • Joy of Cooking
  • Nighty Night Circus
  • Molecules
  • OmniFocus2
  • Toca Nature
  • Auxy
  • Slice Fractions
  • Flickr
  • Launch Center Pro
  • Yahoo Weather
  • Incredible Numbers
  • Post-it Plus
  • Stephen Hawkings Snapsots of the Universe.
J. “Josh” Jennings Moss has spent time on the police beat in Florida, on the political trail in Washington, D.C., and on the business front in New York. Among the places he’s journalized: Condé Nast Portfolio, FoxNews.com, ABCNews.com, the Advocate, the Washington Times, and the Tampa Tribune. Moss graduated from the University of Arizona and lives in New York City.

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