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Audio/Radio: Radio Sawa App by Radio Sawa for Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc.

At its core, this 24/7 music app for Arabic youth in the Middle East and North Africa brings together the energy of youth in the region. Chatty and easy to access, it offers up tech, sports, and pop culture – yet also allows interaction between listeners. How does it allow interaction in a part of the world where many of the governments are repressive? It goes around the governments’ FM broadcast control. The program solicits and then shares the voices and opinions that otherwise would not be heard but that need to be heard. Built on an IOS 6+ and Android 4+, it is a gorgeously contracted app and a necessary one.
Affiliated Agency: Broadcasting Board of Governors
Credits: MBN Digital BBG Office of Digital and Design Innovation's Mobile team; HuMx: Human Mixtape by Modern Climate

Wouldn’t life be that much more interesting and so much more fulfilling if you had your own personal soundtrack? Enter a room and – Boom! – the soundtrack of your life starts playing (well, the soundtrack of your day, anyway). Modern Climate has developed that soundtrack and it’s called Human Mixtape. Download the app, select an entrance track from your personal library, and when you pass through an iBeacon hotspot or anywhere a Human Mixtape is installed, the world hears what you hear and sees you as you want to be seen – living life to your own personal soundtrack. Let the self-aggrandizement begin.
Credits: Modern Climate Creative Director: Keith Wolf Technology Director: Shane Mechelke Designer: Shawn Bielefeldt User Experience: Shawn Bielefeldt Illustrator: Bryan Ische Copywriter: Joe Stefanson Developer: Sean Van Dyk; Disney Karaoke: Frozen by Disney Publishing Worldwide

Frozen, the highest grossing film of all time, really should have its own app. Voila! Now it does. And what’s particularly sweet is that, not only are clips from the movie included and not only are all nine original songs included, it also includes a wonderful feature where you can mute the professional voices and substitute your own. (Try it at home alone first. Know your limitations). And, because there’s nothing quite as annoying as pretending to sing along to songs you don’t know, the app – which can be used with AirPlay – comes with lyrics to each song. So even when you’re off pitch, you won’t be off script.
Credits: Disney Publishing Worldwide

Books: NOOK Reading App 4.0 for Android by Nook Digital, LLC. for NOOK

Barnes & Noble had problems with its Nook e-reader. Nook 4.0 aims to fix the problems and prove its worth with new and improved customized features. The app accesses 4 million eBooks (1 million of them free) and 1,000 magazines and newspapers. It lets readers create multiple profiles and organizes content onto personal shelves. On the user-friendly front, a redesigned home screen, adjustable fonts and night mode make navigation easier while browsing Nook Channels. Let your fingers do the walking and Read on, Macduff!
Credits: Ranjit Desai- VP, Software Engineering (NOOK) Venkateswaran Ayalur - Sr. Director, Engineering (NOOK) Jen Kulchycki- Sr. Product Manager (NOOK) Jess Gibson- Program Manager (NOOK) Matt Pallakoff- Dir, Mobile User Interface (NOOK) Jeanniey Mullen- VP, Marketing (NOOK) James Balog- Sr. Product Marketing Manager (NOOK) Kashif Zafar- VP, US Digital Content (NOOK) Stephanie Weekes- Marketing Manager (NOOK); Elmo Loves You! by Sesame Workshop for Sesame Street

Who on Earth doesn’t dig Elmo on Sesame Street? The 3-D pop-up storybook app, Elmo Loves You, is the No. 1 book app in more than 20 countries. The real character voices of Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and Count von Count couple with interactive scenes to support early reading skills and to spread the message of love and friendship on Apple devices. The immersive 3-D pop-up experience drives home the importance of playing well with others. Perhaps we should buy some for Congress.
Affiliated Agency: StoryToys
Credits: Jennifer A. Perry Vice President & Publisher, Sesame Workshop Karen Halpenny Senior Editor & Producer, Sesame Workshop Brittany Sommer Katzin Curriculum Specialist, Sesame Workshop Evan Cheng Art Director, Sesame Workshop Natasha O’Hare Lead Programmer, StoryToys Elaine Snowden Lead Artist, StoryToys Keith Lindsay Lead Sound Design, StoryToys Deirdre Green Production Manager, StoryToys Emmet O’Neill Chief Product Officer, StoryToys; Disney Story Central by Disney Publishing Worldwide

With Disney Story Central, kids access 175+ audio-narrated books crackling with Disney adventures and their favorite characters — from Sofia the First to Mickey to the wonder girls of “Frozen.” Users get four free books just for signing up. A bonus for parents: A Read to Me or Read by Myself mode lets kids control their literary destiny. New stories are added weekly to keep kids reading. But buyer beware: It contains Disney ads.
Credits: Disney Publishing Worldwide

Branded Content App: Audi Library by The Designory for Audi USA

This app is all things Audi and nothing else. The tablet app is home to downloadable Audi brochures, magazines, information on all of Audi models, and all available accessories. The style and design of the app is true to Audi's branding across other platforms and screens. The app is also kept updated with new magazines, brochures, etc., so information in the app is always in line with Audi's current branding efforts.
Credits: Creative Director: Ulrich Lange Creative Director: Kathy Chia Cherico Art Directors: Fakih Amin Copywriter: Kit Smith Copy Director: Jay Brida Account Director:Chris Vournakis Project Managers:Courtney Parker, Jackie Diener Digital Design & Production:Paul Carhart Technical Team:Derek Engstrom, Matt August; Show Me Yours by Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM) for Church and Dwight/Trojan

Trojan does not shy away from showing their intentions in this app, which makes you laugh, educates you on sexual health, and maybe sells you a few of their sex-related products in the process. The app is simple to use and, while it's suited for two or more players (fittingly), the app keep solo riders entertained as well with trivia and facts about all things sex.
Affiliated Agency: Swrve: Integrated mobile marketing automation platform that powers A/B testing and game rules optimization
Credits: 1. Howard Hunt – Executive Director Client Service, MXM 2. Stephanie Bacher – Account Supervisor, MXM 3. Lisa Powys – Account Executive, MXM 4. Calum Handley – Executive Creative Director, MXM 5. Emily Kaplan – Senior Manager, Digital Strategy, Church & Dwight 6. Ryan Flynn – Director, User Experience, MXM 7. Brian Ross – User Experience Designer, MXM 8. Gregory Gallagher – UI Designer, MXM 9. Satya Naveen Vysetty – Solutions Architect, MXM 10. Michael Broadman – Solutions Analyst, MXM; Red Stick Staredown - A Game of Chicken by Mithun for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Popeyes’ Red Stick Chicken Staredown app stands out in the branded app category for its simplicity, ease of use and entertainment value. With branding at every corner (the Popeyes theme song plays in the background) and facial recognition, the app might make the consumer wonder why he’s having a staring contest with a virtual chicken in the first place. It's all, of course, a reminder of a new type of spicy chicken meal Popeyes is now serving.
Credits: David Carter - Chief Creative Officer Bill Roden - Exec. Creative Director Jay Morrison - Assoc. Creative Director Ryan Inda - Assoc. Creative Director Josh Boston - Designer Ron Wening - Developer Keldon Ancheta - Developer Chloe Glarner - Producer Jeff Austin - Assoc. Project Director Zach Miller - Account Director

Branded Gaming App: Game of Thrones Ascent by Disruptor Beam

Game of Thrones “Ascent” adapts George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO TV series to let fans experience the life of a Westeros noble. In the game, players immerse themselves in the fictional world and engage in political and social intrigue while building the greatest noble house in Westeros. Players can explore all eight of the Great Houses of Westeros and can even hatch their own dragons.
Credits: The following are all Disruptor Beam employees who worked on the creation of this game: Matt Boyle - Principal Software Engineer Jon Radoff - CEO Max Berenson - CTO Rich Gallup - Executive Producer Kristen Halloran - Associate Producer Colleen Nachtrieb - Senior UX Designer Melissa Kelt - UX Designer Ali El Rhermoul - Senior Software Engineer Tim Crosby - Lead Game Designer Angela Bull - Creative Director Nicole Bohny - Senior QA Tester Brian Jennings - Principal QA Tester Dave Denton - QA Tester Paul Greizerstein - Lead Software Engineer Jennifer Hepler - Lead Writer John Boomershine - Writer Jessica Sliwinski - Lead Narrative Designer Katie Postma - Community Director Alex Engel - Product Manager Mike Leoncavallo - Senior Game Designer Elliot Pinkus - Game Designer Chen Zhao - Software Engineer Brian Knoth - Lead Software Engineer; Red Stick Staredown - A Game of Chicken by Mithun for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Popeyes' Red Stick Staredown invites users to settle down into a staring contest with an animated chicken. People rack up scores of “perfect peppers” by continuing to stare down the chicken that tries its best to make you blink. When a player blinks, play stops. The cross-platform app, which draws on real time facial recognition technology to track the user’s eye movements, climbed into the top 50 free entertainment apps in the App Store soon after launching.
Credits: David Carter - Chief Creative Officer Bill Roden - Exec. Creative Director Jay Morrison - Assoc. Creative Director Ryan Inda - Assoc. Creative Director Josh Boston - Designer Ron Wening - Developer Keldon Ancheta - Developer Chloe Glarner - Producer Jeff Austin - Assoc. Project Director Zach Miller - Account Director; The Boxtrolls: Slide 'N' Sneak by RED Interactive Agency for LAIKA, Focus Features, Universal Pictures

Slide ’N’ Sneak, a mobile game based on The Boxtrolls, takes players on a mission through the town of Cheesebridge to help the Boxtrolls rescue their friends who have been captured by the Red Hats. The game – played via tap-and-swipe controls – features music, voices, and sound from the movie. Users have downloaded the game more than 1 million times and they play the game, on average, for 30-40 minutes at a time.
Credits: RED Interactive Agency LAIKA Animation Studio Focus Features Universal Pictures

Business: Salesforce Analytics by Salesforce for Salesforce Analytics Cloud

For today's marketer, real-time data is of urgent importance. The Salesforce Analytics app helps marketers keep pace with the ever-changing data stream that comes from anywhere and everywhere. With its clean design and easy-to-understand charts and graphs, the app houses all of a company's business data, making it a constantly more valuable resource. The app includes Apple Watch support, so its function and data can be accessed by the market’s newest technology.
Credits:
Analytics Cloud Mobile team; Parallels Access by Parallels
Parallels Access gives a business’s employees (wherever they are) access to their desktop computers through their mobile devices. Users open Word or Excel documents, browse folders and files, and move important documents from computer to phone. The app also makes desktop software applications look native to the user’s mobile device. This neat trick keeps the app's interface familiar and makes navigation intuitive.
Credits: Nick Dobrovolskiy, Parallels; ExpoEvaluator by Expotechnik America Ltd for Expotechnik
Expotechnik's ExpoEvaluator app helps exhibition companies’ exhibit and event managers plan for trade shows. But the real draw of the app is its "custom constructed exhibits - rent vs. buy" feature. By asking a company’s exhibit and events manager questions specific to that company, the app recommends whether renting or buying an exhibit is the company’s best strategy. The app lays out a three-year budget sheet of renting vs. buying side-by-side to help the user decide.
Credits: Cassandra Henning, Global Matters Inc. Tom Arcuragi, Bottomline Productions Inc. Tommy Layman, Expotechnik America Ltd.

Charity/Non-Profit: Inkspiration App by CP+B for P.ink

Inkspiration, a smartphone app developed by the social platform P.ink, empowers cancer survivors to transform their mastectomy scars through tattoos. The app allows women who have battled breast cancer to virtually try on mastectomy tattoo designs by connecting the women with tattoo artists. A Pinterest hub points to collections of tattoo-design inspirations as well as giving links to artists who specialize in post-mastectomy tattoos. Since launching in October 2013, the app has gained more than 10,000 unique users and has accounted for 3,569 tattoos.
Credits: CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Sesh Moodley, CP+B ART DIRECTORS: Courtney Bowditch, Sesh Moodley, CP+B WRITER: Liza Behles, CP+B EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR: Noel Franus, CP+B DESIGNER: Victor Won, CP+B PRODUCER: Shannon Priem, CP+B ACCOUNT MANAGER: Casey Wilen, CP+B CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR: Harold Jones, CP+B EXECUTIVE INTERACTIVE PRODUCER: Scott Potter, CP+B ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ARCHITECTURE: Tony Picciano, CP+B; Don't Walk By by Como for NYC Rescue Mission
The Don't Walk By app from the New York City Rescue Mission makes it easier for people to offer practical help to the homeless. The app gives users directions to the nearest homeless shelter and serves as a gateway to volunteering and donating. Passersby who encounter people in need are able to pull up the app and find information about the closest local resources, including nearby food pantries and shelters.
Credits: Jerry McAuley, Founder, The New York City Rescue Mission; ROC National Diners Guide by University of Miami for ROC United

The ROC United National Diners Guide app allows socially conscious consumers to learn about working conditions, wages and benefits (including whether workers get paid sick days) of the most profitable restaurants in the country. The app, created by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, also highlights for some cities restaurants that display a commitment to improving their employees' working conditions. Users also may submit information about restaurants to ROC.

Credits: Clay Ewing - Developer, University of Miami Maria Myotte - Communications Coordinator, ROC United

Cooking: Handpick by Handpick, Inc.

#Foodporn #Foodie #GetInMyBelly. We’ve seen those hashtags on Instagram and almost immediately become hungry. But when we have only a few ingredients and aren’t sure what to make with them – that ’s a problem. The Handpick app addresses the problem by backing into the recipe process. Users input their ingredients and Handpick generates recipes based on what’s on hand. By utilizing and data mining socially shared dishes on Instagram, Twitter, and on other social networks, Handpick allows users to search for their favorite food and find hundreds of recipes and photos that the ingredients on their shelves and in their fridge.
Credits: Payman Nejati - CEO Joel Wang - CTO Mariana Abdala - Head of Product Dustin Balictar - Associate Product Manager Nobuhiro Sato - Visual Designer Christina Nee - Content and Community Manager; Epicurious Recipe Box and Shopping List by Conde Nast for Epicurious

How long do I cook this for? What do I make? What ingredients are in season? Is anybody listening to me? Epicurious is! With new features including a smart kitchen timer that will tell you how long items take to cook, hand free voice command, along with over 30,000 high-quality recipes, you can never go wrong with this app. It is only natural that Epicurious would be named an “Apple Editor’s Pick” and become one of the most widely-downloaded apps in App Store history.
Credits: Eric Gillin, Executive Director Victor Kolosov, Tech Lead June Kim, Art Director Daniel Holly Wells, Developer Henry Tsang, Developer Alfred Chang, Designer; Yummly by Yummly

Meal planning for a family – or even for one – can be challenging. Yummly, included on the App Store Best of 2014, solves this challenge by utilizing smart searching for recipes. Based on the user preferences – a user’s cuisine favorites, dietary needs, serving size – Yummly generates personalized recipe suggestions and ingredient shopping lists. By partnering and integrating their app with grocery delivery service Instacart, Yummly makes food shopping easier than ever.
Credits: Brian Witlin, COO, Yummly Yuri Yuryev, Head of Mobile, Yummly Doug Hughmanick, ANML

Communication: Burner by Burner

Burner lets any user turn their personal cell phone into a “burner” phone whenever they want. The app allows people that interact with strangers on the Internet — whether on eBay, Etsy or for online dating— to keep their private cell phone number just that – private. Users can create phone numbers and use them as long as they wish before “burning” them. Users also can text, call, share pictures and voicemails from the temporary number.
Credits: Greg Cohn – CEO, co-founder Will Carter – co-founder; Glide by Glide

Glide takes a popular idea – video messaging – and makes it more practical. The app allows users to stream video messages up to five minutes long, which the receiving user can then either view live or save for later. This breaks the limitations of current video calling, which Glide says requires all participants to be present at the same time. Additionally, the videos shared via Glide don’t take up space on the user’s phone.
Credits: Ari Roisman, CEO & Co-Founder, Glide Jonathan Caras, CTO & Co-Founder, Glide Adam Korbl, Chief Product & Marketing Officer & Co-Founder, Glide; Bitmoji by Bitstrips

Emojis have taken the text-based communication world by storm. Need an example? Look at the press Apple received from it latest update that introduced a slew of new, diverse emojis. Now the Bitmoji app lets users customize emojis and stickers that company Bitstrips says are “infinitely more expressive than existing emojis.” It just takes a few minutes for the user to set up a custom emoji in the app, which can then be used in iMessages, WhatsWhatsApp, and more.
Credits: Jacob Blackstock, Co-Founder, CEO & Creative Director David Kennedy, Co-Founder & VP of Technology Shahan Panth, Co-Founder & VP of Marketing Dorian Baldwin, Co-Founder & Lead Interactive Developer

Consumer Magazine/Newspaper App: issuu by issuu

Global news junkies rejoice! Check out 18 million pubs — from lifestyle to news to academic journals — in 30 languages. Explore the Issuu app’s 93 categories or trust editor picks on everything from health to fashion. This is what is known as being informed. And the price of erudition? Zilch. It’s also easy to read offline by saving pubs and customizing feeds to peruse later. To prevent eyestrain, unlimited zoom aids clarity. The design is clean and streamlined. Reading never looked so enticing.
Credits: Jeremy Lacroix, VP of Product Design; PressReader by PressReader

PressReader delivers 3700+ top newspapers and magazines as they appear in print. By personalizing your home feed, choosing content from 100 countries, you’ll become part of that “well-informed electorate” Thomas Jefferson deemed crucial to democracy. Plus, there are nifty features, like audio narration for news when you’re traveling or instant translations of global news in 16 languages. It’s easy to download comp issues worldwide at PressReader Hotspots in hotels, airlines and libraries. Stay in the know 24/7.
Credits: The PressReader R&D Team!; Golf Magazine by Golf Magazine

Golfers are their own breed of mammal. For them, it’s not a game but more of a religion. Readers parse every swing, course, and player – filing the info away in that unique golfer brain. Golf Magazine’s tablet version of its app offers the usual player/equipment stories, but includes scores with crisper photography and bonus content, such as its interactive swing-sequence widget. Users can watch instruction videos from top teachers, get 360-degree views of new clubs, and explore interactive maps of the best courses. This is the app version of a birdie.
Credits: David Clarke, Managing Editor of SIGolf Group and Golf Magazine, Paul Crawford, Creative Director of SIGolf Group and Golf Magazine, and Kaitlin Santanna, head of Digital Design of Golf Magazine.

Education: Chegg—Textbooks, eTextbooks & Study Tools by Chegg

Chegg started as a website that let students rent or buy textbooks at affordable prices. Today, the Chegg app helps students access step-by-step solutions from thousands of college textbooks, ask a community of experts their toughest homework questions, and browse archives of millions of homework answers — all on the go. In addition to all that, Chegg lets users rent textbooks and instantly access eTextbooks when needed. Learning can’t get more 21st century learning than that.
Credits: Chuck Geiger, CTO Micha Burd, Technical Product Manager Aviel Lazar, Mobile Team Lead; Curious by Curious

Curious is a video-based platform for people who like to ask questions and constantly want to learn new things. Users choose from thousands of fun and engaging short video-based lessons. How is it different from YouTube? Curious offers structured lessons on a variety of subjects. Once signed up for Curious users can measure their progress by keeping track of lessons taken and see the percentage completed. Lessons can be viewed on the phone as well as on the web. Each time the user accesses the app, they pick up where they left off. After each lesson, it offers an exercise to help users reinforce what they’ve learned.
Credits: Justin Kitch, Curious, CEO and co-founder; Thai Bui, Curious, CTO and co-founder; John Tokash, Curious, Head of Engineering and co-founder; ChemCrafter by Bluecadet for The Chemical Heritage Foundation

The ChemCrafter app provides tutorials to guide students though experiments with water, acids, and salts. Following instructions, users can witness color changes, fire and smoke, gas releases, and equipment shattering. The “Chem-o-Convertor” helps measure energy released, which racks up points to unlock new experiments, equipment, and chemicals. The look and feel of this app is thanks to the collaboration between the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Emmy Award-winning digital agency Bluecadet. The app, which features retro-style custom illustrations, was created for ages 12-15 but appeals to anyone who thinks chemistry experiments are awesome.
Credits: Josh Goldblum: Creative Director Troy Lachance: Art Director Rebecca Smith: Producer Kathryn Stracquatanio: Developer Jason Marziani: Developer Aaron Richardson: Designer The Chemical Heritage Foundation: Client

Events: PGA Championship TV App by Turner Sports for PGA.com

PGA.com partnered with Samsung to deliver a highly interactive experience for the 2014 PGA Championship media coverage. For users with Samsung Smart TVs, the PGA Championship TV App could be launched to make the experience even richer. The TV app featured the ability to watch live videos, keep track of scores, player and course information, and to enjoy exclusive behind the scenes content. Through the mobile and desktop apps, avid golf fans were also able to watch live video, keep track of scores and participate in interactive voting.
Credits: Gary Treater - business operations, Turner Sports Beth Vertino - business operations, Turner Sports Rob Smith - product development, Turner Sports Jim Doeden - product development, Turner Sports Brian O'neil - dir of technology, Turner Sports Molly Goings - design director, Turner Sports Rich Danielson - technical operations, Turner Sports Lauren Shannon - video producer, Turner Sports Hongwei Yan -technology architect, Turner Sports Luther Lotz- design, Turner Sports Chris Gonzalez- developer, Turner Sports; Gametime by Gametime United Inc. for Gametime

The Gametime app is changing the way fans purchase sporting event tickets. The goal is not to give all the ticket prices in one long list, but to provide the best value tickets. The app is filled with gorgeous panoramas of a seat’s location and a pinpoint map of that location. By having the Gametime app be exclusively mobile (tickets are generated via mobile bar code), the ticket finding and buying process is quicker than ever.
Credits: Brad Griffith, founder/CEO Jairo Avalos, Creative Director Brendan Winter, Developer; Vail 2015 by Resort App for Vail Valley Foundation

The Vail 2015 app is the official free app of the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado. The Vail 2015 app gives users all the information they would find in a regular spectator guide while including up-to-date weather forecasts, race times, deals and promotions, and real-time parking capacity updates based on the user’s location. Does somebody need help locating friends to go to Beaver Creek Village? The app offers users a friend locator across a ten-mile radius from their location.
Credits: Joe Cleary (CEO, ResortApp)
Elise Pace (Digital Media Director, ResortApp)
Justin Serbinski (Business Development Director, ResortApp)
Duncan JB Horner (VP of Marketing, Vail Valley Foundation)
Paul Abling (Senior Marketing Manager - Digital, Vail Valley Foundation)

Entertainment/Sports: Whipclip by Whipclip

There’s no need to Snapchat, Vine, or Instagram videos from televisions anymore! Like a mobile mini-DVR, Whipclip lets users clip snippets from television shows, music videos, and even live television and then share these instantly with friends through social networks. This app drives massive social sharing, tune-in and interaction with a brand. The platform is easy to use, similar to many of the other social networking apps, but now users can legally share as many clips from the #BieberRoast as they want. If any.
Credits: The Whipclip team; Plex App by Plex

From HBO Now to Sling TV, the streaming media world has grown to become more crowded everyday. But what if users can stream their own media? Plex is an all-in-one media-sharing hub that lets users distribute content to any of their mobile devices anywhere from their own computer. Plex is a way of coordinating one’s media collection, which makes its interface more or less like an organized bookshelf on iBooks, categorizing all files by genre.
Credits: The Plex development team; Scott Olechowski and Elan Feingold – co-founders of Plex; Keith Valory, Plex CEO and Scott Hancock, Plex VP of Marketing; Sesame Street Go by Sesame Workshop for Sesame Street

Despite being a paid video subscription app, Sesame Street Go seems like it would be a hit for any two-year-old who has an obsession with Elmo and Cookie Monster. The app provides new and classic Sesame Street content as well as games to help teach children about their ABCs and 123s. Users have access to complete seasons of Sesame Street, with the choice of full-length or half-length episodes. One great feature is the app’s descriptions, which provide a quick look at the learning concepts in the videos to help tailor content to a child’s personal needs.
Affiliated Agency: Tribeca Digital (back end developer), L4 Mobile (front end developer)
Credits: 1-month free promo code: ed7fe6afd2011654 The code can only be redeemed on the website (sesamestreetgo.com) but will allow access through either the iOS or android app. You must first sign up and create an account via the app or website. This automatically signs the user up for the 48-hr free trial of unlimited all-access to videos and games. When the trial ends, you can then go to the website and redeem the code for 1 free month. Nhu-An Le, Producer, Sesame Workshop Shadrach Kisten, VP IT, Sesame Workshop Sranislav Borat, Sr. Enterprise Architect IT, Sesame Workshop Scott Chambers, SVP Worldwide Media Distribution, Sesame Workshop Lili Lampasona, Sr Director Business Development, Sesame Workshop

Entertainment: Goings On by Tierra Innovation for The New Yorker

It’s a New York thing. Really, The New Yorker is about as New York as it gets. And the magazine’s Goings On section is one of its most-read. Tierra Innovation has put together an APP that lists the overwhelming number of events in Gotham, as well pieces by New Yorker regulars Calvin Trillin, Alex Ross, and Emily Nussbaum – all of which can be saved to an iPhone. Included are interactive maps of restaurants and events, too, all in that iconic New Yorker look.
Credits: TIERRA Jamie Trowbridge, Founder & President Gerard Gualberto, Developer Kristina Bell, Designer THE NEW YORKER Chloe McConnell, Digital Editions Product Manager Chris Mueller, Design Director; The Definitive American History App by Big Spaceship for Ken Burns

If Ken Burns thinks that Americans don’t know enough American history then Americans don’t know enough American history. So Burns, along with Big Spaceship, developed The Definitive American History App, featuring interviews with the man himself talking about seminal moments in our history. An App Store Editor's Choice, more than 150,000 downloads of these approximate 30-minute-long and wonderfully produced pieces have already been downloaded. Easy to access episodes, including chronological and thematic links, these in-depth looks at American History are long enough to be informative yet short enough to prevent nightmares of that AP History class.
Credits: Big Spaceship; WE THE ECONOMY by Vulcan Productions, Cinelan, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive for Vulcan Productions

Two economists get stuck in a ditch. The first one asks, “What do we do now?” The other replies, “Let’s assume we have a ladder.” Clearly, if two economists are asked what’s going on, three opinions will come forth. Vulcan Productions’ WE THE ECONOMY app tries to make sense of all that economics by producing 20 short films from award-winning directors, all whose goal is to make this world more decipherable. It does the job with innovative story telling. Analysts, experts (these aren’t always the same thing) provide insights on the key topics of the day. With more than 60 digital, cable, TV and mobile platforms, including apps, WE THE ECONOMY reaches everyone who wonders what John Maynard Keynes really did for a living
Credits: Paul G. Allen, Executive Producer, Vulcan Productions Jody Allen, Executive Producer, Vulcan Productions Morgan Spurlock, Executive Producer, Cinelan Carole Tomko, Co-Executive Producer, Vulcan Productions Jody Gottlieb, Co-Executive Producer, Vulcan Productions Douglas Dicconson, Co-Executive Producer, Cinelan David Laks, Co-Executive Producer, Cinelan Karol Martesko-Fenster, Co-Executive Producer, Cinelan Nelly Petit, Supervising Producer, Cinelan Damon Smith, Supervising Producer, Cinelan Jannat Gargi, Coordinating Producer, Vulcan Productions Matt Milios, Digital Producer, Vulcan Productions Kim Nyhous, Unit Production Manager, Vulcan Productions Aimee Link, Associate Producer, Vulcan Productions Joe Cantwell, Special Consultant, Cinelan Susan Jacobs, Communications, Cinelan Madeleine Lawler, Production Coordinator, Cinelan Alexandra Rosen, Production Coordinator, Cinelan Jason Horowitz, Editorial Consultant, Cinelan Jeremy Kaplan, Editorial Consultant, Cinelan Ted Lambert, Editorial Consultant, Cinelan Tony Ash, Native Mobile Interactive Director, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Braden King, Creative Director, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Raquel Fagan, Digital Producer, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Tomek Kopczuk, Mobile Developer, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Matt Saling, UI Designer, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Mike Close, Mobile Developer, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Jeff Garneau, Systems Architect, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive Marcin Mincer, Mobile Developer, Truckstop Media / Hip Check Interactive

Family/Parenting: ChoreMonster by ChoreMonster, Inc.

As anyone who lives amid messy children might have exclaimed once or twice (or 700 times), getting underage household denizens to contribute to cleaning the premises isn’t exactly a linear experience. To that end, ChoreMonster makes the grind of cleaning – or the grind of divvying up tasks – both fun and motivating. The key to the app’s success is a reward framework. The app more or less gamefies the chore-completing experience. Hard-core users swear by its positive effect on productivity and minimizing chore-related tensions.
Credits: Chris Bergman, Founder/CEO Paul Armstrong, Founder/CCO Ben Stafford, Director of Technology; Let's Get Ready by Sesame Workshop for Sesame Street

Like few other content providers, Sesame Workshop has shown an uncanny ability to educate as it entertains. Even within that context, Sesame’s “Let’s Get Ready!: Planning Together For Emergencies,” jointly created with the PSEG Foundation, finds a perfect balance between the two goals. The app features both child and adult sections; the former offers personalized songs while the latter offers templates for the storing of contact information. Unlike many such apps, “Let’s Get Ready!” is bilingual, produced in both English and Spanish options.
Affiliated Agency: Funny Garbage- Development Vendor
Credits: KEY INDIVIDUALS: Melissa Dino, Supervising Producer-Sesame Workshop Tina Moglia, Sr. Producer, Digital Outreach - Sesame Workshop Amy Kim, Producer, Sesame Workshop Jill Fiore, Lead Art Director, Sesame Workshop Jessie Hopkins, Senior Writer, Sesame Workshop; Make Safe Happen by Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital for Nationwide Children's Hospital and Nationwide

Child proofing a residence has been described as one of the most frustrating experiences a parent or caregiver must endure, if only because of the sheer number of potential pitfalls. When a pair of Nationwide Children’s staffers learned about their imminent triplets, they set about codifying the information about childhood injuries they compiled over the course of their careers as safety experts. The resulting app, “Make Safe Happen,” guides families through the child-proofing process, alerting them to any/all dangers in every room of the typical house.
Credits: Lara McKenzie, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Kristin Roberts, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Tracy Mehan, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Larry Hoff, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Jeremy Patterson, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Noah Jablonski, Nationwide Children's Hosptial; Leslie McCarthy, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Matthew McFarland, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Donna Teach, Nationwide Children's Hosptial; Stephanie Cannon, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Chris Cotton, Nationwide; Elicia Azali, Nationwide; Kirby Shaw, Bottle Rocket; Greg Flory, Bottle Rocket; Karin Wurm, Bottle Rocket;

Fashion & Apparels: YouCam Makeup by CyberLink Corp.

YouCam Makeup incorporates digital photo editing techniques and facial detection technology to enable users to try out makeup virtually. Users upload their image and experiment with a variety of makeup options. In Taiwan, the developer partners with Estee Lauder and Maybelline, enabling users there to try out the brand products and colors before making purchases. The app's “Beauty Circle” feature lets users connect to other people to share tips. So far, the app has been downloaded 13.5 million times.
Credits: CyberLink Corp.; Polyvore by Polyvore

The shopping app Polyvore gives people styling ideas from other users around the world. The app allows its users to discover new brands, shop for favorite products, and find new ways to wear styles and learn of trends. Polyvore's community of 20 million users share styling advice and identify new trends before they go mainstream. Users have created more than 150 million outfits, enabling people to shop for items while connecting with other users who share similar taste.
Credits: Polyvore; Wedding Lookbook by The Knot by XO Group Inc. for The Knot

Wedding LookBook by The Knot lets brides-to-be research wedding dresses on their smartphones. The app features images of more than 7,000 wedding gowns, along with listings of nearby bridal salons. Users can search by style and price and shop for accessories such as shoes, veils and headpieces. The app allows users to send messages to bridal salons and request specific dresses to try on. The Wedding LookBook also offers thousands of engagement ring photos.
Credits: • John Mejia • Simon Li • Albert Liu • Julia Schulhof • Heather Mamoun • Alison Bernstein • Thomas Li • Kellen Feng • Caryn Audenried • Josh Stewart • Ardian Lesmana • Darryl Charles • Eric Iseneker • Adam Tal

Finance: Moven by Movencorp, Inc. for Moven

The free app and debit card Moven aims to help people improve spending habits by providing real time feedback on money decisions. Users have access to tools including a “Spending Meter” -- a predictive algorithm that compares how people are spending in a given month to how they typically spend. This lets users know when to slow down their spending. A “Money Path” tool offers a graphical view of predicted spending for the month ahead, so people can anticipate and manage upcoming expenses.
Credits: Brett King, CEO Alex Sion, President Bob Savino, CTO Ramy Serageldin, COO Mohamed Khalil, Head of Product, Data & Distribution; CardControl by Ondot Systems

Ondot System's CardControl lets debit and credit card users set how, when, and where their cards can be used. The smartphone app serves as a remote control for cards. For instance, users who are sending a teen on an errand can set the card to work only at specific categories of merchants, like grocery stores. People concerned about fraud can turn on the card only when they're going to use it. People also can set a location boundary outside of which a card cannot be used.
Credits: We prefer not to recognize individuals, as the creation of the Ondot solution was truly a team event. The founders are Dr. Vaduvur Bharghavan (CEO) Rachna Ahlawat (EVP); Markets by J.P. Morgan

Markets by J.P. Morgan provides access to research, timely commentary, and alerts that enables users to react to events and opportunities while away from their desks or offices. The app offers a newspaper-like view of the markets, personalized for each user based on their interests. Users can quickly check, chart, and analyze prices and index levels, including historical, off-the-run and emerging markets data. The app lets users read summaries of some content before deciding whether to read the full PDF.
Credits: Alexander Nacht, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Anshul Gupta, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan

Games: Action/Arcade/Sports: Marvel Contest of Champions by Kabam

Following in the tradition of fighting superhero arcade games, Marvel Contest of Champions is a simplified twist on the genre — which doesn’t make it any less fun. With simple swipes and taps, players can choose and fight with a roster full of their favorite Marvel Heroes. Players who enjoy Marvel comics also enjoy the storytelling aspect of the game , digging into the Marvel Universe. The character models are impressive and the rich visuals are stunning.
Credits: Individuals are all from Kabam Paul Beasley Live Operations, Lead Steven Kong Animation Artist, Sr. Jeff Howell Sr. Director Engineering Wilson Tang Art Director, Studio Melany Hamill Producer Kabam Thomas McLain Techinical Game Designer Samantha Erasmus Artist, Associate Kenneth Banadyga QA Analyst Lead Adam Cooper Environment Artist, Sr. Ricardo De La Puente Character Artist Ellie Moon Ui Artist, Lead Graeme Anderson Director Engineering Gabriel Frizzera Art Director Senior Timothy Molyneux Game Designer, Lead Derek Ng-Cummings Animation, Lead Chris Parry Creative Director Simon Roper SW Engineer, Sr. Russell Warneboldt SW Engineer, Principal Kenneth Lim SW Engineer Callie Jenkins Product Marketing, Manager Benjamin Talbot Director Technical Operations Shane O’Connor Game Designer, Associate James Prevette FX Tech Artist, Senior Shannon Nystedt QA Analyst Waylon Snedker Technical Game Designer Derick Groves Game Master Pedro Cardial SW Engineer, Associate Andrew Wright SW Engineer, Senior Kamil Chojnacki Environment Artist Ryan Cochlin UI Engineer Ben Swee SW Engineer, Associate Maurice Ko SW Engineer, Principal Luke Takeuchi Producer Associate Miguel Kabantsov Lighting Artist, Senior Gene Campbell Character Artist, Lead Landin Kent FX Artist, Senior George Tam SW Engineer Lee Romao Character Artist, Senior Scott Lindsay UI Artist, Senior Curtis Toye QA Analyst Patricia Holland Product Release Manager Daniel Lehane Character Artist, Associate Sean Gillen Animation Artist Michael Richard SW Engineer, Senior Lyle Trush Artist, Associate Daniel Stovell SW Engineer, Senior Christian Macachor UI Artist Darren Evenson Game Designer, Senior Ryan Ross SW Engineer, Associate Brad Kavanagh Game Designer Thierry Tremblay SW Engineer, Principal Constantine Piliotis Product Manager Ryan Wallace SW Engineer Andre Gross QA Analyst James Perry QA Analyst, Associate Dominic O’Grady Live Operations, Designer Christopher Chartier QA Analyst, Associate Patrick O’Brien QA Analyst Tim Fields VP Vancouver Studio; Total Domination: Reborn by Plarium Global Ltd

After much success starting out as a Facebook game, Total Domination Reborn has been created into an app that looks to “totally dominate” the mobile world as well. Players strategically raise armies for combat, build defenses, and command forces to dominate in player-versus-player warfare. Game visuals are detailed, even when zoomed in close, and the designs of the mechanics are dynamic and entertaining. Players can chat in real time, reaching more than 30 million other users all over the world.
Credits: Alex Voznesenskii - Head of Mobile department - Plarium Global ltd Roman Zhdanov - Marketing director -Plarium Global ltd Gabi Shalel - CMO & Co-founder - Plarium Global ltd; MLB.com Home Run Derby by MLBAM

MLB Home Run Derby has got millions of fans swinging for the fences. This sports arcade app lets players test long ball hitting prowess, playing as one of the home run hitting stars from past MLB All-Star games. The graphics are detailed and the controls involve only a simple drag and release. The game includes a multiplayer option that allows competitors to climb the leaderboard and compete against the world’s best players.
Credits: MLBAM

Games: Board/Puzzle: Disney Puzzle Packs by Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Puzzle Packs is filled with hundreds of puzzles featuring all of the favorite old and new Disney characters. From word jumbles and jigsaw puzzles to Elsa and Winnie the Pooh, each puzzle pack includes six types of puzzles that each come with three levels of difficulty. The visuals are colorful and fun, with characters that both children and adults grew to love. It will keep kids busy for hours and find the adults playing after the children are off to bed.
Credits: Disney Publishing Worldwide; I SPY Challenger by Scholastic Media for Windows All-in-One Devices

Scholastic’s I Spy has been transformed from the popular children’s books that so many people grew up with to an educational brain-teasing app that is fun for the whole family. I SPY Challenger is an interactive multiplayer board game app that promotes competition and collaboration. With various puzzles and the classic seek-and-find play, the time limits will make the player’s heart race while frantically trying to find the five yellow spoons on the board.
Affiliated Agency: Symbio, application development team
Credits: Jennifer Contrucci – Director of Production, Scholastic Karen Babis – Art Director, Scholastic Amy Kraft – Producer, Monkey Bar Collective Ryan Herrold – Art Director, Pixeldusters Conor Lennon – Project Manager, Symbio Tamas Martinec, Programmer, Symbio Janne Toivanen, Programmer, Symbio; SpongeBob Bubble Party by Nickelodeon

SpongeBob Bubble Party lets gamers and jellyfishers dive into the ocean and join their favorite characters in Bikini Bottom. This fast-paced app is a match-three puzzle game in which players connect three or more of the same bubbles to pop them, unlocking new powers, characters and locations. Match-three games have been an ongoing trend in the gaming app world. Any SpongeBob fan would find this game fun, engaging, and addictive.
Credits: Nickelodeon

Health & Fitness: Sharecare App by Sharecare

The Sharecare app helps people improve self-awareness, personal relationships, well-being and, ultimately, their overall health by analyzing the spectral-data in the tone of their voice during phone calls. Users of the app simply talk on their phone while, in the background, the app automatically monitors spectral data alternations in the user’s voice, identifying fractal patterns. Based on these patterns, the technology can determine the user’s mindset and stress type. The Sharecare app increases self-awareness, triggering positive behavior change and helping to improve personal relationships, which will actually improve your health.
Credits: The Sharecare Team; Fitnet by Fitnet

Whatever a person’s excuses for not getting in a daily workout, they’re no longer valid with Fitnet mobile app. Fitnet personalizes 5-minute workouts for any schedule, skill level, or any location. More than 200 free workouts range from cardio, strength, and mind/body each for light, medium and intense levels. All workouts take 5 minutes and can be mixed and matched from any category to create a custom workout plan. Fitnet claims to be the only fitness application that uses a combination of biometric sensors, workout buddies and trainers.
Credits: Bob Summers, Chief Geek of Fitnet Laurie Maddox, Director of Fitness Nate Dicken, Lead UX Daniel Burgess, Senior Software Engineer Todd Bowden, iOS Engineer Kevin Hill, Data Czar; EveryMove by EveryMove Inc.

The EveryMove App aims to transform a community through physical activity. This app uses a patent-pending points system that rewards various types of physical activities, from running to gardening. Users can sync from a favorite device or app or manually enter activities, add photos and details, and engage with friends and family around goals of developing healthy habits and achieving fitness. As a result, points earned by users convert into rewards from brands, employers, and health insurance providers. The points can even be donated to charities.
Affiliated Agency: None
Credits: Marcelo Calbucci - CTO, EveryMove Garrett Link - VP of Product, EveryMove Matt Carter - Senior Software Developer, EveryMove Tristan Fernando - Senior Software Developer, EveryMove Kaveh Ghadianipour - Senior Mobile Developer, EveryMove Josh Shepherd - Senior Mobile Developer, EveryMove Amanda Gatlin - Senior UX Designer Joe Donato - Senior Mobile Designer

Games: Educational/Family/Kids: My Very Hungry Caterpillar by StoryToys

For more than 45 years, Eric Carle’s most loved character, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has ruled over library shelves. Now, anyone can virtually care for, raise, and play with their own caterpillar using the My Very Hungry Caterpillar app. The 3D pop-up format of the digital storybook helps bring texture and dimension to this wonderfully drawn app. The user experience empowers children to take charge through open-ended play and allows them to explore, create, and experiment through the caterpillar’s actions and reactions
Affiliated Agency: The World of Eric Carle, Joester Loria Group
Credits: Emmet O'Neill, StoryToys Eric Carle, author and illustrator Marko Tusan, Engineer, StoryToys; Sesame Street Art Maker by Sesame Workshop for Sesame Street

A child’s education is so much more than learning letters and numbers — it’s now about being versatile in all aspects of learning, including creativity. The Sesame Street Art Maker inspires little artists to create their own works of art with the encouragement of Elmo and Cookie Monster. The activities allow young artists to explore a variety of life-like art tools such as paintbrushes, markers, chalk, and stickers. The fun sound effects cater to young audiences while the colorful and interactive design encourages expression in young players.
Affiliated Agency: Plug In Media (Developer)
Credits: Promo Code: TN3XMX43JL6L (please note the custom code must be redeemed before Fri May 08 06:28:30 PDT 2015. In the event this code is not redeemed within this time, please contact us for a new code. Thank you.) Amy Kim, Producer, Sesame Workshop Lewis Kofsky, Executive Producer/VP International Creative, Sesame Workshop Jessie Hopkins, Game Designer & Sr. Writer Dan Projansky, Creative Technical Advisor, Sesame Workshop Jill Fiore, Sr Visual Designer, Sesame Workshop Geoffrey Fowler, Visual Designer, Sesame Workshop; ChemCrafter by Bluecadet for The Chemical Heritage Foundation

No more experimenting in your mother’s kitchen or fooling around with a 1990’s chemistry sets. Bluecadet and Chemical Heritage Foundation have developed a game that recreates the fun of filling test tubes and exploding beakers. In ChemCrafter’s virtual experiments, bubbles, flames, and patterns of explosions are designed as accurately as possible so users can have fun and learn at the same time. Facts and educational videos are unlocked to further learning.
Credits: Josh Goldblum: Creative Director Troy Lachance: Art Director Rebecca Smith: Producer Kathryn Stracquatanio: Developer Jason Marziani: Developer Aaron Richardson: Designer The Chemical Heritage Foundation: Client

Home/Garden/Interior Design/Lifestyle: Apartments.com by Apartments.com

While moving remains incredibly stressful, it has gotten quite a bit easier over the last few years, thanks in large part to the continuous adoption of smartphones. Apartments.com is a rental search app that (no offense to craigslist) provides the most information about apartments for rent, in a most effective and elegant way. The app boasts its smart UX in every feature – from interactive maps to high-res photos and HD videos of interiors, exteriors, and neighborhood hot-spots.
Credits: spiosopiwsop; CurbAppeal™ from CertainTeed by Miller Designworks for CertainTeed Corporation

When it comes to remodeling a home’s exterior, it can be either a fun and creative project or a horrible nightmare. The CurbAppeal app helps users first visualize their ideas, creating a finished look for their home’s exterior before even lifting a paintbrush. Implementation: It’s like having an endless variety of styles and color combinations right at your fingertips. The app allows users to either start from a professionally designed palette or jump right in and choose styles and colors to fit their individual taste.
Affiliated Agency: Edentech Solutions Group, Developer Partner
Credits: Marshall Oram, Interactive Director, Miller Designworks Matt Mondok, Senior Architect, Edentech Solutions; BILT by SAP SE

As much as you may praise yourself for putting together that Regissör bookcase from Ikea, assembling a faucet can be a much more challenging undertaking. The BILT App provides interactive, 3D, voice-guided assembly, repair, and installation instructions on iOS and Android tablets. The manufacturers hosted on the platform provide instructions for the DIY items. This, in turn, digitally enables consumers to find the product best fit for them and assemble it as quickly and easily as possible.
Credits: d.Studio BILT Team SAP Labs| User Experience and Design |Products & Innovation

iPad/Tablet Publishing: issuu by issuu for issuu

Issuu is an app that provides users with an impressive number of digital magazines while charging a grand total of zero dollars. This app has more than 93 categories including design, fashion, photography, technology, food. and sports that span more than 15 million different publications. It’s smooth sailing for users, easy as flipping through magazine pages, and the zoom function works a well as one would expect. Issuu also allows users to customize the app to cater to their own interests and save magazines to view offline for their next subway ride or long flight.
Credits: Jeremy Lacroix, VP of Product Design; Color Alive Action Coloring Pages by Crayola for Crayola

Every child’s dreams that their drawings could come to life. With Crayola Color Alive Action Coloring Pages app, Crayola changes coloring forever with coloring books that come to life on a mobile device that uses augmented reality. Each coloring book also includes a new Crayola color crayon that unlocks special effects during the experience. The books feature Barbie, Skylanders, Enchanted Garden, and Mythical Creature themes. The experience mixes traditional mediums with modern technology.
Affiliated Agency: Golin, PR Agency representing Crayola
Credits: Crayola created the Color Alive Action Coloring Pages and app.; BakeSpace.com's Cookbook Cafe by BakeSpace.com for BakeSpace.com

Cookbook Cafe is the first DIY platform that allows anyone – whether a stay-at-home mom or a self-proclaimed foodie – to create and distribute their own app-based cookbook. The cookbook design is user-friendly and the layout is complete with photos and a rate-and-review recipes option. The app provides kitchen essentials including a substitution tool, multiple timers, and conversion tool that all bakers need. Users can also search by keywords, author, or by category using spinning menus in the shape of a pie and coffee cup.
Credits: Babette Pepaj, Founder BakeSpace.com

Language/Translation: Learn Russian with Babbel by Babbel

Babbel is a language learning app that enables users to learn their choice of 14 languages in a mobile and effective way. The Learn Russian with Babbel App makes the Cyrillic alphabet a picnic. The app’s professional development team of linguists, native speakers and product designers came together to make the learning effortless and fun. Users needn’t set up the Russian keyboard on their smartphone, but rather they can do use on the app directly. Using this app just a few minutes a day will surely strengthen language skills before that long-awaited trip to Mother Russia.
Credits: Barbara Baisi (Babbel Senior Project Manager, Didactics), Larisa Bulanova (Babbel Editor, Didactics), Konstantin Schütte (Babbel Senior Product Manager); Speak & Translate by Apalon

Hallelujah! The wildest dream of every tourist has come true. Here is the app that lets a traveler dictate what they need to say and have it translated. Was that too much to ask? The Speak & Translate App features advanced voice recognition technology and either speaks the translation or allows the user to read it on the device. iCloud integration lets users save translations and switch the information from iPhone to iPad (or vice versa). The history of translations is similarly synced across various devices.; The Economist Global Business Review by The Economist

Chinese is officially the second global language. That’s based on the fact that the Economist’s content is now featured in both English and Chinese. The Economist Global Business Review is a bilingual Chinese-English app that allows The Economist Group to reach global business leaders in Asian markets. The app features a selection of business, finance, and technology stories from the weekly newspaper. It allows its readers to choose between Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
Credits: Tom Standage The Economist Deputy Editor/Digital Strategy

Location or Place-Based App: Map of Fortune by UrbanDaddy for Miller

The Map of Fortune, from Miller, uses location-based data to recommend a handful of nearby places where consumers can spend a night out (each suggested location, of course, serves Miller Fortune beer). Suggestions are based not just on whether locations serve their brand of beer, however. Real-time contextual data — including date, time, weather, trending data, events going on at the Location, and more — are also factored into app suggestions. Miller says the app is meant for the "spontaneous discovery [of] new places, experiences and opportunities."
Credits: Lance Broumand, UrbanDaddy CEO; SpotHero by SpotHero

SpotHero uses real-time place-based data to save its users time searching for parking spots, a task nobody enjoys. The company claims the average driver spends 15 minutes searching for a place to park. Using the app, users can see available parking spots near them — and prices — from a single map interface. Drivers can then reserve parking spaces via the app, which will also give them directions to the reserved spot.
Credits: Mark Lawrence, co-founder and CEO, SpotHero Jeremy Smith, co-founder and COO, SpotHero; Urgent.ly On-Demand Roadside Assistance by Urgent.ly

Billed as an Uber for towing, Urgent.ly lets stranded drivers request help on demand. The user can then track on a map, in real-time, where the help is and how long it will take to arrive. Location data is integral to Uregent.ly's core functions. The app uses location data from start to finish: from finding nearby service trucks once help is requested to keeping the stranded driver informed of the whereabouts of their help.
Credits: Rick Robinson, SVP of Product Lokesh Kumar, VP of Technology

Mapping/Location-Based: A Walk in the Park by Hill Holliday for Friends of Public Gardens

The Boston Public Garden, an iconic landmark, is America's first public botanical park, but few people appreciate its history. Friends of the Public Garden wanted to change that, so Hill Holiday built an app to improve the experience of being in the park. The solution was an interactive audio tour with different chapters that played based on where the user happens to be in the Garden. The interface became their legs. Enabled by iBeacons around the gardens, visitors can hear the park’s history from an app on their phone.
Credits: Chief Creative Officer: Lance Jensen Creative Directors: Scott Noble, Bob Gates Art Director: Kar-Kate Leung Copywriters: Nate Kerbin, Eric Gorodetsky Designer: Dylan Gould, Kyle Koenig, Kyle Ernst Digital Producer: Jenny Villone Account Team: Kate Linzmeyer Planner: Katherine Coyne Integrated Operations: Mike Rubenstein Social Media Strategist: Michelle McCudden Digital Director: John Running Developers: Nat Wales, Eric Callan, Michael Walton Interface Designer: Kyle Mitchell QA Specialist: Chris Martin Media Team: Derek Welch, Elyse Szostkiewicz Sound Engineer Mark Wong Voiceover Talent: Allie Pirolli, Lawson Clarke Business Affairs: Marie Rafanan, Val Thomas; Carrentals.co.uk by ASAP Ventures Ltd

Carrental wanted to allow consumers to search for the best car rental prices. The app compares real-time prices from suppliers and serves up the best prices in each car category. The new search feature hunts for the least expensive rentals, even if it means searching a short distance from their scheduled location. Overall, the platform has access to 2.5 million searchable locations worldwide, all mapped with coordinates to query suppliers within 20 miles. The new feature has reduced the number of times people need to search, and now returns more suppliers to give customers additional choices and potentially better deals nearby.
Credits: Andy Mayer, Project Manager, ASAP Ventures Ltd. Simon McLaughlin, Head of Technology, ASAP Ventures Ltd. Dave Gardner, Lead Developer, ASAP Ventures Ltd.; MLB.com Ballpark by MLBAM

MLB.com Ballpark wanted to offer fans an interactive experience, so it built an app with custom notifications, a ticketing section, and redesigned navigation. The MyTickets Mobile feature for in-app ticket management lets consumers purchase tickets through Apple Pay for single-game admission. The app provides check-in features, the ability to view team statistics and to watch video highlights from games. It also provides access to food and beverage ordering at select parks, directions and parking information, and a journal that keeps track of personalized check-in history for ballparks visited.
Credits: MLBAM

Marketing/Branding/Advertising: Leviton 2 Go by BigBuzz Marketing Group for Leviton

The Leviton 2 Go app simplifies the purchasing process by letting individuals search for products through the app or scan bar codes in-store to create a product list the user can email from their mobile device. The most interesting feature allows the app to scan a competitor's bar code to generate the corresponding Leviton part number. Users can access product information including instruction sheets, how to-videos, and product drawings from their mobile device.
Credits: bigbuzz Marketing Group - Alexander Lee - Head Of Programming - Hal Plattman - Associate Creative Director; Mobilibuy by Mobilibuy

Mobilibuy creates a new experience by bringing an on-the-go shopping to consumers. Products and colors of merchandise offered in the storefront change dynamically based on the time, date, and shopper profile. This allows passersby to spot the product desired and buy it using their smartphone in just two steps. The app has received about 70 downloads monthly with a 30% conversion rate.
Credits: Koby Danon CEO and Founder A business leader with over 20 years of experience at Conduit, Amdocs, Cash-U, Verint, and others. Highly experienced in building and managing large-scale business units and growing start-up companies. Moti Levy CRO and Founder A marketing and operations executive with a vast retail experience managing large P&Ls at Sears Holding Company. Over 15 years of experience in E-Commerce, online, and digital marketing.; weQuit by TBWA\Chiat\Day for GlaxoSmithKline

When someone quits smoking, such long-term behavior change requires support. weQuit offers a social network of support to help people quit by providing motivation, and identifying and avoiding daily triggers. Users receive rewards with motivational badges, as well as real-life benefits, such as NiQuitin product discounts. The longer the user stay smoke-free, the greater the reward. In just over a month, weQuit users logged more than four million smoke-free minutes. There's also a Distract Me button for those who need extra help.
Affiliated Agency: Sutrix Media - Development
Credits: Tasha Dean - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Executive Producer - Digital Experiences Martin Mohr - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Creative Director Eri Miyagi TBWA\Chiat\Day - Art Director Marisa Lim TBWA\Chiat\Day - Art Director Alex Mamorsky -TBWA\Chiat\Day - UX Designer Khara Wagner - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Group Account Director Elektra O'Malley - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Management Supervisor Nora Chivelly - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Account Executive Michael Obermeyer - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Assistant Account Executive Rob Schwartz - TBWA\Chiat\Day - CEO Matt Ian - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Executive Creative Director Chad Hopenwasser - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Head of Integrated Production Aki Spicer - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Head of Digital Content & Strategy Ed Castillo - TBWA\Chiat\Day - Chief Strategy Officer Sami Vitamaki - TBWA\Helsinki - Digital Strategy Christine Goos - TBWA\Helsinki - Copywriter Troy Forster - TBWA\Toronto - Technical Director Sutrix Media - Development Team Paul Aaron - Modern Assembly - Executive Production

Medical: Cancer.Net Mobile by American Society of Clinical Oncology for Cancer.Net

Cancer is a frightening diagnosis and patients who receive the news feel overwhelmed. The American Society of Clinical Oncology, through Cancer.Net, provides tools to manage treatment and the cost of care. The app supplies information on about 120 types of cancer and features interactive tools to track medical questions, record voice answers, and save key information on meds, such as dosage and frequency. Categories like Symptoms and Coping With Side Effects help patients manage a difficult situation when at their most vulnerable.
Credits: Robert S. Miller, MD, FACP, FASCO Cancer.Net Editor-in-Chief American Society of Clinical Oncology Kristin Ludwig, APR Senior Director, Communications & Patient Information American Society of Clinical Oncology Lynne Blasi Director, Communications & Patient Information American Society of Clinical Oncology Marci Cleary Director - Editorial Operations, Communications & Patient Information American Society of Clinical Oncology Brendan Kelly Associate Director - Cancer.Net Operations Communications & Patient Information American Society of Clinical Oncology; AskMD by Sharecare

Medical issues can arise at any time. AskMD personalizes health consultation by asking relevant questions, factoring in symptoms and meds, then using Pattern Recognition Technology it suggests answers. If an emergency is detected, users are directed to the nearest ER. AskMD recommends qualified physicians nearby that are covered by the user’s insurance. In addition, the app helps people organize their health information and creates a snapshot of their health vitals. When time counts, it’s like a virtual trip to the doctor.
Credits:
The Sharecare Team; Ovia Pregnancy by Ovuline for Ovia Pregnancy
If you thought social media meant sharing every nanosecond of your life, try getting pregnant. Ovia tracks mom and baby development via weight, sleep and symptoms. There are even immediate alerts for health risks. It’s like your doctor, only cheaper and more accessible. From conception (helps women conceive up to 3X faster) to birth, Ovia tracks people better than the NSA. Be it food safety or watching Junior grow, it has given 400,000+ women what they deserve: control of their body.
Credits: Ingrid Pierre - Director of Design, Ovuline Gina Nebesar - VP Product Development, Ovuline Alex Baron - Chief Technology Officer, Ovuline Rory O'Connor - Director of Engineering, Ovuline

Messaging: Scout by Telenav for Scout

There are nearly countless number apps that can get a person from Point A to Point B. However, the Scout app, created by Telenav, makes sure users and friends all arrive at Point B as well – and are able to annoy each other along the way. It’s like having everyone in the car at the same time (without arguing about who rides shotgun). Users choose whom to invite, pick a time and date, select a location, all get on the app, and let the road trip begin. With Scout, everybody is in this together, literally, and everyone can see everyone else’s ETA and where they are. It's how "let's all meet" gets done.
Credits: HP Jin, CEO, Telenav Rohan Chandran, GM Mobile at Telenav; HelloooApp by HELLOOOAPP LTD

You mean you’re still typing your messages? That’s so 21st Century. With HelloooAPP (remember three o's) it’s all swipe and send, and all from one place. From its beautifully-designed Command Center you can tell people how you feel, what’s new, where to go – all from the screen. Works with Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Apple Watch – and most of the time with one touch. Also, people from other lands can write you and the message will automatically be translated to English. It even has pre-written messages if you're really lazy.
Credits: Gaston Guernik, Owner, HelloooApp Gaston Guernik, UI, Guernik.com Nina Santana-Sweeney, Marketing & Comms, IndigoThinking.com; Weev by V-Poll, Inc. for Weev

Weev is what the social media Gods had in common when they started the whole thing, which is bringing like-minded people together who would never otherwise meet. V-Poll created a video app that will allow users to find out exactly who they’re speaking to (a scary thought that). Ask a question and see who answers. You'll meet people face to face, sharing interests, arguing politics, flirting. It's a Troll Free Zone. How successful is it? The average user is now on almost one full hour a day. (Productivity be damned!) Weev is social media at its best--it's all about the connection.
Credits: Andrew Sachs - CEO & Co-Founder Stephen Moyer - Co-Founder

mCommerce or Mobile Payments: Mobilibuy by Mobilibuy

The goal of Mobilibuy is to bring the store to the consumer, anyplace and anytime. By strategically placing digital screens (based on time, date, and shopper profile) and converting them into dynamic virtual stores, Mobilibuy is looking to revolutionize the retail shopping experience. Consumers are able to see something on the street, scan and buy it immediately, and have it shipped directly to their home, thus creating a new, quick, and unique shopping experience.
Credits: Koby Danon CEO and Founder A business leader with over 20 years of experience at Conduit, Amdocs, Cash-U, Verint, and others. Highly experienced in building and managing large-scale business units and growing start-up companies. Moti Levy CRO and Founder A marketing and operations executive with a vast retail experience managing large P&Ls at Sears Holding Company. Over 15 years of experience in E-Commerce, online, and digital marketing.; Way2ride by Verifone for Way2ride

By building on the success of the Way2ride from Verifone and its mobile payments, Way2ride has added the major feature of “eHail,” which passengers can now use to both locate and hail a cab and to quickly and securely tap to pay. Way2ride continues to expand rapidly by growing to more than 20,000 New York City Yellow and Green Taxis and to 1,400 out of 1,600 taxis in Philadelphia – and with plans to also expand into Las Vegas.
Credits: Amos Tamam, senior vice president of Taxi Systems for VeriFone Jason Gross, vice president of Marketing and Strategy for VeriFone Senthil Kumren, vice president of Engineering for VeriFone Alexander Gelf, director of Engineering for VeriFone; Keep Shopping by Keep

There are millions of fashion apps, style blogs, and online stores. Discovering all of them is nearly impossible. Keep is the one-stop shop to discover and purchase the latest trends in fashion, design, home goods and accessories. Simply put, Keep is the lovechild of Pinterest and online shopping. With the Keep OneCart, users may purchase items they discover from Keep – or from any store on the Internet – all in “the first and only multi-store, web-wide shopping cart”!
Credits: Scott Kurnit, Founder and CEO MaryAnn Bekkedahl, President and co-founder Ryan Quigley, CTO Charles Myslinsky, Head of Product Chris Parcel, Lead iOS Developer Chamara Paul, Senior iOS Engineer

Music: Thrillcall Live Music by WillowTree, Inc.® for Thrillcall

Thrillcall, an app to discover live music, integrates popular music services like Spotify, iTunes, RDIO, Last.FM, and Pandora to deliver personalized concert recommendations based on the bands and artists listeners love. The app lets users preview songs and videos, and keeps music lovers up to date on events in music scenes throughout the world. For example, people living in New York can keep informed about live events in Los Angeles through notifications when specific artists announce shows.
Credits: WillowTree, Inc. 316 Ventures, Inc. Thrillcall; Ditty for Messenger by Zya

Ditty lets everyone make music. Users open the app, find a well-known track from a pre-selected sample of music, type in up to 70 characters, and Ditty generates a personalized lyric video featuring an automated voice that sings the message. Each cost less than $1 to both generate and send as a text message. Ditty launched as part of Facebook’s Messenger Platform in late March, and has already reached 1,000,000 downloads.
Credits: Matt Serletic, CEO and Co-Founder, Zya James Mitchell, Chief Technical Officer, Zya Adam Arrigo, Product Owner, Zya Ricky Kovac, VP of Operations, Zya Dean Serletic, Head of Marketing and Licensing, Zya Albert Lomeli, Chief Financial Officer, Zya; SoundCloud by SoundCloud

SoundCloud, a social sound platform, lets music lovers record and upload tracks, share them with friends, or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. The company redesigned its iOS app to create a seamless audio discovery and listening experience through a tap that brings up personalized streams, trending artists, tracks and genres. For natural, effortless listening, audio playback is controlled by tapping, swiping, or dragging the content directly.
Credits: SoundCloud design team

News: myTikr by Vection Technologies, Inc.
myTikr took the old-fashion concept of news feed aggregators and turned it into an app, offering about 500 feeds for users to choose from sources like CNN, ESPN, Facebook, Forbes, Google, Huffington Post, Instagram, msnbc, NFL and Twitter. Users browse and share articles and access their social networks from within the app, eliminating the need to open and close multiple platforms. Users also can customize the home screen.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Brad Simpson, CEO, Creator, Vection Technologies, Inc. Jonathon Barbato, CMO, Vection Technologies, Inc. Clark Wyatt, Chief Designer, Vection Technologies, Inc. Sadat Huq, Operations Manager, Vection Technologies, Inc.; Shuffle by Media Group of Americaa for Shuffle

Shuffle's algorithms present news articles on topics related to the user's interests by selecting categories like sports, fashion, finance, or politics. The Android and iOS app presents a deck of card, each representing a story. The user swipes left if she doesn't like the topic, right if she wants to add it to her reading list. Once it's read, the user can delete it or share with friends and family. The filter function also lets users see articles based on trending topics in specific locations nearby.
Affiliated Agency: MGA - Media Group of America
Credits: Alex Skatell, Founder, Shuffle Carl Sceusa, Product Team Leader, Shuffle Adam Wojtonis, Developer, Shuffle; Reuters TV by Reuters TV

Reuters TV mobile service is designed to keep users informed. This market segment doesn't watch traditional TV news, but allows them to catch the day's news at a glance. Editorial content is produced for the service and draws on Reuters 2,500 journalists in more than 160 countries. It lets viewers personalize news programming. The user interface is simple and uncluttered. The news content is assembled on the device through an iOS application, AV Foundation, and Core Animation frameworks, and delivered via HTTP Live Streaming.
Affiliated Agency: Ueno - Creative Agency
Credits: - Isaac Showman, Managing Director, Reuters TV - Eric Johnston, Engineering Director, Reuters TV - Haraldur Thorleifsson, Creative Director, UENO - Elizabeth Pace, Senior Marketing Manager, Reuters TV - Marcus Eckert, Senior Engineer and Motion Designer, Reuters TV - Pedro Gomes, iOS Tech Lead, Reuters TV - Dan Colarusso, Executive Editor, Reuters TV - Joanna Webster, Editorial Director, Reuters TV - Jenny Harris, Senior Producer, Reuters TV

Photography: YouCam Perfect by CyberLink Corp.

The selfie app YouCam Perfect employs real-time filters that allow photos to be adjusted before they're taken, so users can preview the image before committing to the shots. The app, which integrates with YouCam Makeup, lets users remove blemishes, lessen dark circles around their eyes and connect with other users via a single interface. YouCam Perfect, which has been downloaded approximately 20 million times, also offers users a variety of frames for their selfies.
Credits: CyberLink Corp.; Slidely Capture by Slidely

Slidely Capture lets people capture high-definition photos from video clips. The app enables users to scroll through a video clip, find one particular moment – like a dance move or swing of the bat -- and grab a photo. The app also enables people to make collages or to turn specific images into postcards with text. Slidely Capture also lets users easily share the photos on social networks.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Tom More, Founder & CEO Robert Cohen, Executive Chairman Yariv Azatchi, VP R&D Max Pevsner, iOS Developer Reuven Moskovich, IOS Developer; PhotoTime by Orbeus

PhotoTime's photo organizing app draws on facial recognition technology to automatically detect the identity of people featured in the pictures. The app, which also detects information about when and where pictures were taken, generates keyword tags. These keywords enable users to search their photo collections – on devices as well as social networks and cloud services – without manually scrolling through photos. A bookmarking feature lets users organize images around common keywords.
Credits: Yi Li, CEO, Orbeus Inc. Yushan Chen, Product Manager, Orbeus Inc. Kuang Han, Software Engineer, Orbeus Inc.

Productivity: Yahoo Aviate by Yahoo

Yahoo Aviate is meant to simplify everything on an Android phone. The goal of the app is to bring everything the user needs, when they need it, to the home screen. Aviate does this by taking contextual data -- such as time of day, location and accelerometer data -- to anticipate which information its users will need, and puts that information on their home screen. Aviate also automatically categorizes apps to make them easier to find.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Paul Montoy-Wilson, Co-founder of Yahoo Aviate, Yahoo Mark Daiss, Co-founder of Yahoo Aviate, Yahoo Will Choi,Co-founder of Yahoo Aviate, Yahoo Bernat Fortet, Experience Designer, Yahoo Laura Mesa, Product Marketing, Yahoo; MyScript Smart Note by MyScript

MyScript Smart Note allows users to take handwritten notes from within the app. The app has handwriting recognition technology, meaning users can easily search through their handwritten notes (in 54 different languages). They can also receive definition on words from their handwritten notes. The app also has “smart note” technology, which lets users edit their notes via hand gestures, such as swiping for vertical spacing. The app can also be used to annotate and share PDF files.
Credits:
Credits: MyScript team members: Thomas Pénin (Team Manager), François Bourlieux (Project Lead & Development Android), Cédric Coulon (Developer-Android), Anthony Laurence (Developer- iOS), Simon Liotier (Developer-iOS), Erwan Jestin (Developer-iOS), Lionel Blestel (Software Testing-Android), Maël Nagot (Software Testing-iOS), Denis Clouet (Software Testing), Claire Durand (Professional Services), Nicolas Rucine (UX & Design), Alicja Wojtczuk (User Tests), Nathalie Delbecque (Senior Product Manager); YouMail by YouMail, Inc.

YouMail is meant to replace standard carrier voicemail and was designed for busy people. The app “handles calls like they were email” by identifying important callers and blocking callers identified as spam by its database. The app stores voicemails in a cloud so they can be accessed multiple ways. Voicemails are also transcribed, and can be delivered via text or email. The company claims its average user saves 3-5 hours per week managing calls and voicemails.
Credits: App Creator: Mike Rudolph, CTO,YouMail; iPhone Developer: Hoang Tran; Android Developer: Jeff Verdegan; Producer: Alex Quilici CEO, YouMail

Privacy/Online Security: Good Work by Good Technology
Good Work allows users to share information – such as emails, calendars, messages, documents and contacts – with one another from within one app. The company’s security lies in the “containerization” of the app, which separates personal data and corporate data into standalone containers — meaning a lost or stolen phone isn’t catastrophic for an entire business. Good Work also utilizes Apple Touch ID and voice recognition for additional layers of security when users access the data in the app.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: o Hemant Sahani – Director, Product Management at Good Technology o Sang Kim – Senior Director, Engineering at Good Technology o Saul Kessler – Principal User Experience Designer, Good Technology o Nigel Thompson, VP User Experience and Product Management; ShareFile by Citrix

ShareFile, created in the mold of Dropbox, adds an extra layer of security to sensitive or important documents. ShareFile is a file sync/sharing app that keeps important documents in one place. Users can open, view, edit, save and share the files all from within the app. Files aren’t opened in other apps, which ShareFile asserts makes the sharing process more secure. The app also gives those in charge more control; clients can be barred from deleting files (even accidentally).
Credits: Jesse Lipson, VP Citrix; McAfee Mobile Security by Intel Security

The McAffee Mobile Security app protects the devices of those that use it from viruses, malware, risky apps and other privacy threats. The app monitors what the user is doing on their phone – whether browsing the Web, searching new apps, or on social networks — and alerts them of potential risks. The app also keeps tabs on which apps are running on background, good for finding hidden risks (and good for the battery conscious).
Credits: • Stella Lam, Group Product Manager, Mobile, Intel Security • Yana Ponomarenko, Product Marketing Manager, Intel Security • Ricky Huang, Sr Manager, Software Engineering, Intel Security • Kate Wang, Sr Development Manager, Intel Security

Reference: XARELTO® DocCenter Mobile App by Team Chemistry/Rockfish and Team Chemistry/Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide for Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

XARELTO's DocCenterApp aims to give healthcare professionals updated information about the medication, including data from clinical trials, and dosing guidelines. The app enables doctors and other healthcare professionals to find information about affordability and formulary coverage by region. Professionals also can enroll patients in a program that offers support tools, prescription savings, and refill reminders. The tablet version of the app offers educational modules featuring an illustrator tool, anatomical model, images, and videos, which can be used during patient consultations.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Donna Fromhold, Group Product Director, XARELTO® Kerry Arkell, Product Director, XARELTO® Jason Kenig, Marketing Product Director Michael Moye, Director of Marketing, Cardiovascular Scott Tyson, Director Product Management & Marketing Jesse Heap, IT Manager, Business Enablement Claudio Navas, IT Lead Team Chemistry Bill Evans, Chief Digital Officer Team Chemistry/Rockfish Shannon Lewandowski, Vice President, Business Innovations Amy Beam, Associate Director, Business Innovations Emma Marsh, Program Manager, Client Operations Chris Zieverink, Group Creative Director Dom Shamblee, Art Director Molly Petre, Associate Director, User Experience Catherine Kleshinski, Digital Analyst Jarrod Ramsey, Vice President, Mobile Technology Kevin Garriott, Director, Mobile Technology – iOS Warner Skoch, Senior Mobile Developer – iOS Kyle Alderman, Mobile Developer II – iOS James Glenn, Developer I – iOS Bill Mote, Director, Mobile Technology – Android Jonathan Baran, Senior Mobile Developer – Android Sean Townsend, Developer II – Android Manuel Trinidad, Manager, Quality Assurance Aaron Risener, Sr. Developer – CMS Architect Joseph Yancey, Sr. Developer – CMS Architect Team Chemistry/Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide: Chandani Rao, Vice President, Account Group Supervisor, Interactive Marketing Robert Egert, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Digital Strategy Joseph Youssef, Digital Engagement Strategist David Winkler, Brand Chemist Martha Walz, Senior Content Strategist; NIV 50th Anniversary Bible App by Tecarta & HarperCollins Christian Publishing for Biblica/HarperCollins Christian Publishing - New International Version (NIV) Bible

The New International Version Bible app, available for free, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the most-read modern-English translation of the NIV Bible. The app provides users with access to the Bible and also offers access to historical articles and videos that share the history of the NIV. The app enables users to log in via Facebook and to back up their notes and bookmarks. A text-to-speech feature allows users to hear the Bible read aloud.
Credits: Ming Siu, CoFounder - Tecarta, Inc. Michael Allen, Co Founder - Tecarta, Inc. Roger Luna, Developer - Tecarta, Inc. Ron Booth, Developer - Tecarta, Inc. Cory Liu, QA - Tecarta, Inc. Jerri Helms, Sr. Director Digital Marketing - HarperCollins Christian Publishing Helen Schmitt, NIV Brand Manager - HarperCollins Christian Publishing Scott Bolinder, Executive Vice President - Biblica; Nglish by Merriam-Webster for Merriam-Webster/Encyclopaedia Britannica

Merriam-Webster's Nglish aims to help Spanish speakers learn English on their own schedules. The app offers both a comprehensive bilingual dictionary and an educational platform that enables users to practice the words and terms they want to learn. Nglish includes hundreds of thousands of example sentences in English, as well as synonyms, related phrases, and audio pronunciations by native speakers. The interactive Android app features quizzes and flashcards to help users expand their English vocabulary, while tracking user progress.
Credits: Lisa Schneider, Executive Director, Digital Product Management, Merriam-Webster Mike Guzzi, Executive Director, Digital Product Development, Merriam-Webster Jesse DeWitt, Director, English Language Learning Products, Merriam-Webster Jane Mairs, Director of English Language Learning Publishing, Merriam-Webster Matt Dube, VP Business Development, Merriam-Webster Meghan Lunghi, Director of Marketing, Merriam-Webster John Morse, President, Merriam-Webster Jorge Cauz, President, Encyclopedia Britannica

Retail: RetailMeNot by RetailMeNot, Inc.

Discounts, discounts, discounts. RetailMeNot has 500,000 coupons to more than 60-thousand stores, which means if somebody’s still paying retail it’s because they want to. The RetailMeNot app also provides the ability to “favorite” a retailer or brand and allows users to tailor it to their location. There is a “Best Deal” of the day, location-aware offers so users know where the best savings are locally. There's also 24/7 verification of coupon validity. There's a symbiotic relationship, too, between, shoppers who download both the RetailMeNot app and the particular stores.
Credits: RetailMeNot Mobile Team; Youstice by Youstice
Some people are more comfortable yelling at companies than praising them. Often, though, these are the complaints of people who are next to impossible to please. Youstice, on its site, facilitates the complaints and responses between customer and business owner. Launched in 2014, it already won the "Customer Game Change Award." And even if customers and business owners can’t agree, Youstice allows for a third party designee to officiate the disagreement. Currently available in 12 languages.
Credits: Zbynek Loebl (CEO) Juraj Ondris (Investor) Matyas Bene (CTO) Martin Fabian (Operations); Chairish by Chairish

Chairish was voted the “Can’t Live Without” decorating app by Architectural Digest, which worked out well, because the app is all about the selling of new and vintage furniture. For homeowners or renters, for people who live in apartments, condos, their old bedroom in their parents’ house, any place that needs furniture and furnishings -- this is the app. It handles the marketing, sale, shipping and details of a transaction, whether buying or selling. Listings are free and verified. How elaborate is Charish? At the moment 35,000 hand-picked items that are ready to ship.
Affiliated Agency: NA
Credits: Chairish Andy Denmark, CTO Nate Racklyeft, Engineer Thor Denmark, Engineer Steve Lindstrom, Engineer Josh Hudner, Engineer Giacomo DiGrigoli, VP of Product Madalynn Priester, Product Manager

Restaurants/Food/Beverage: Domino’s Pizza USA by Nuance Communications & Domino’s Pizza for Domino’s Pizza

Domino’s Pizza has always been on the forefront of menu innovation and that tradition is carried forward in its apps. With the Domino’s Pizza app, developers added a new Siri-like voice system, where customers can now place orders through its virtual voice ordering assistant, Dom. Dom takes the order, ask for clarification on what type of sausage, what size the Sprite should be, and if you want the latest Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake, all while giving human-like responses.
Affiliated Agency: Nuance, the leading provider of virtual personal assistants and voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world, collaborated closely with Domino’s on the creation of its new virtual voice ordering assistant, Dom.
Credits: • Dennis Maloney – Vice President of Multimedia Marketing, Domino’s Pizza • Andy Mauro – Senior Director, Cognitive Innovations Group, Nuance Communications; Fantasy Flip by Vokal for Michael Mina Restaurants

Fantasy Flip by Michael Mina’s Tailgate is the latest game-changer in customer rewards and loyalty programs. The Fantasy Flip app utilizes geofencing technology and gives users more access once they are onsite at Michael Mina’s Tailgate restaurant located at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco. Users earn points and have a chance to win exclusive rewards, which vary from stadium tours to 49ers memorabilia to lunch with your favorite players. Fantasy Flip is looking to be a first ballot hall of famer of reward programs.
Credits: Brian Flavin, Senior Interaction Designer Max Bare, Visual Designer Scott Ferguson, Director of Systems and Web Engineering Sean Wolter, Director of iOS Development Erik Krag, iOS Developer Nick Fedesna, Android Developer Corey Richmond, Android Developer Bill Best, Director of Android Development Cory Faller, Web Architect Chris Marshall, Frontend Web Engineer Michael Butkovic, Backend Systems Engineer Holly Findling, Account Director and Product Owner *All from Vokal; Reserve by Reserve

The Reserve revolution is coming! The dining experience has never been easier with Reserve. Reserve is your “digital concierge” to finding dinner at restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston. Customers tell Reserve how many diners and the date and time they would like to eat, and Reserve will offer a list of restaurant partners and secure the reservation. Once customers finish their meal, Reserve also acts as a mobile payment service with the check automatically being billed to the customers’ card in their Reserve account.
Credits: Greg Hong - CEO

Search Tools: Handpick by Handpick, Inc.

Handpick's mobile app lets cooks search for recipes based on the ingredients in their pantry by allowing them to input ingredients on hand. The search returns food posts from 1.6 million chefs, home cooks and food lovers from Instagram, hundreds of top food blogs, and unique recipe sites. Users can collect, save, follow and share food topics that interest them. The app lets users browse thousands of food trends, diets, occasions, and cuisines.
Credits: Payman Nejati - CEO Joel Wang - CTO Mariana Abdala - Head of Product Dustin Balictar - Associate Product Manager Nobuhiro Sato - Visual Designer Christina Nee - Content and Community Manager; ShadeScout by FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc.

ShadeScout by FaceCake, a mobile iOS or Android app, lets individuals take a photo of something and match the color to the same shade of makeup, such as lipstick or eye shadow. The technology sorts through an unlimited number of products from more than 40 major and luxury brands to instantly deliver direct product matches in any makeup category. Search by favorite brands or explore new ones. A virtual feature lets users see how the product looks on them, and then share the photo with others.
Credits: Linda Smith - Founder & CEO, FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc. Clayton Graff - Director of R&D, FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc.; Blippar by Blippar

The Blippar app augments reality through visual search and image recognition by allowing individuals to hold their phone's camera lens up to an object, rather than using a keyword in a search box. The camera lens reads the image and pulls in an overlay of data and information. AR technology provides a layer of information on top of the physical image. The company recently raised $45 million in new funding from undisclosed investors and plans to use the financing to expand its engineering team and expand globally.
Credits: Ambarish Mitra, co-founder and CEO of Blippar Omar Tayeb, co-founder and CEO of Blippar

Social Sharing: Match™ - Dating App to Flirt, Chat and Meet Local Single Men and Women by Match.com LLC for Match.com

The Match app completely reimagines dating for mobile and allows scoping out potential mates anywhere, anytime. The app introduces two new ways to meet people: Stream and Mixer. Stream uses the user’s location and shows off more sides of a members’ personality by bringing secondary photos to the forefront. Mixer allows users to give a quick “yay” or “nay” to profiles with a quick swipe. Messaging is simplified with members only seeing conversations with the people they’ve connected with. Despite the small screen, larger photos grab attention.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Deryl Dorsett, Director of Mobile Technology, Match.com Chris Cooper, Lead iOS Developer, Match.com Hai Phung, iOS Engineer, Match.com Tony Paine, iOS Engineer, Match.com Austin Wendelken, Sr. Art Director, Match.com Kevin Green, Sr. Writer, Match.com Beth Wilson, SVP Product, Match.com Anna Schneider, Sr. Mobile Product Manager, Match.com Stephen Warren, Lead iOS Test Engineer, Match.com Jerry Pellman, Sr. Mobile QA Engineer, Match.com Jay Kalita, QA Engineer, Match.com Sanjay Patel, QA Mobile Manager, Match.com Christopher Conner, Sr. Mobile Product Manager, Match.com Christopher Logan, Sr. UX Designer, Match.com Jerilyn Huddleston, Sr. Director Product, Match.com; SameGrain by SameGrain, Inc.

SameGrain is like a dating app but for meeting friends. It’s essentially a platonic version of Tinder that brings people together based on shared interests. The app features sections like Locate (for locating friends nearby), Match (finding the like-minded), Discover (meeting people at nearby venues and event), and Chat (duh!). It is a rather cool idea for those who may be shy to meet new people and would rather be introduced on the Internet.
Credits: Anne Balduzzi, Founder & CMO of SameGrain Eric Eller, Co-founder & CEO of SameGrain Ron Diegelman, Co-founder & CFO of SameGrain Jonathan Seale, Data Scientist for SameGrain; Weev by V-Poll, Inc. for Weev

Weev represents the quintessence of social networking. It aims at bringing like-minded people together in a fun format of short videos. Albeit without the ingenious Ze Frank. It lets users communicate face to face about the things that matter to them. As a result, people from all over the world create a chain of videos that are -- that’s right -- weaved together. Users can start conversations, join or create groups, view streams of answers, and, ultimately, connect
Credits: Andrew Sachs - CEO & Co-Founder Stephen Moyer - Co-Founder

Sports: Montreal Canadiens by Mirum for Montreal Canadiens

The club almost has as many names as it does titles, including Les Glorieux (or Nos Glorieux), Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. The Montreal Canadians: They are the most celebrated team in the National Hockey League. They are the New York Yankees on skates. This app is where its fans go—where anybody should go to learn about loyalty and love of hockey. This is a 24/7 portal to the club with every player, every game, even a interactive hockey pool, and tour of the stadium. (At a game, you can even order a hotdog through the app). Mirum, all agree, has created the NHL team-branded app with over 500-thousand downloads. It's what you'd expect from its Number One team. Magnifique!
Credits: Mickael Kanfi, Chief Product Officer, Mirum Annasara Geva, Senior Art Director, Mirum Scott W. Gray, Senior Copywriter, Mirum Patrick Salomon, Associate Technology Director, Mirum Jonatas Moraes, Senior Web Developer, Mirum Christian Bisson, Project Manager, Mirum Alexandre Contat, Designer, Mirum Rafael Bitencourt, Front-End Developer, Mirum Marc Brunet, QA Engineer, Mirum Brendan Best, Technology Director, Mirum Liesa Cummings, User Experience Director, Mirum; BHOF Beacon by Sullivan for The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum

Say the word Cooperstown you almost hear the crack of the bat and smell the freshly mowed lawn, and the hushed, rarified murmurs of those who, correctly, think the game was brought to us by God himself. The BHOF Beacon, a mobile experience, is a collection of the sports greatest memories at Cooperstown, from Josh Gibson to Bob Gibson. There’s a geo-relevant content for individual needs. Baseball is America’s pastime and Cooperstown is where the memories are kept.
Credits: Nancy Schulman, Executive Director of Strategy, Sullivan John Paolini, Executive Creative Director, Sullivan Alison Grippo, Principal of Digital Strategy, Sullivan Noah Harlan, Managing Director of Digital Strategy Todd Wilcox, Associate Creative Director, Sullivan Ian Cox, Senior Designer, Sullivan Maya Desai, Senior Producer, Sullivan Lynn Koble, Senior User Experience Architect, Sullivan Donny Lowe, Director of Digital Strategy, National Baseball Hall of Fame; PGA TOUR by PGATOUR.com LLC for PGA TOUR

It’s not just a golf thing, it’s not even a PGA tour golf thing, it’s a PGA Tour iPad app golf thing. With its proprietary data, the PGA tour info is a touch away. Users can download every piece of news, video, stat. They can follow every player, look at tee placements and generally keep up with every shot made on tour (and if you are doing this, you really might have a problem). Then, users can share thoughts and content with others on the site, regardless of the device or operating system or handicap.
Affiliated Agency: Omnigon - App Design and Feed Development POSSIBLE Mobile - iOS Developer
Credits: Jeff Powell, Project Manager, PGA TOUR Ryan Maddox, Project Manager, PGA TOUR David Plant, Director - Product Development, PGA TOUR Brad Rossini, Project Manager, Possible Mobile Bradford Dillon, Technical Architect, Possible Mobile Lindsay Giachetti, Director - User Experience, Possible Mobile Danielle Reubenstein, Director - User Experience, Possible Mobile Elizabeth Morahan , Project Manager, Omnigon Ketan Patel, Project Manager, Omnigon Nick Arcuri , Director - Sports Products, Omnigon Bora Nikolic , Chief Creative Officer, Omnigon

Television/Video App: Vidoozi by HooplaHa ~ Life with a Smile

Vidoozi (Hooplaha-Life with a Smile) allows you--let me repeat, YOU-- to make homemade videos with just your iPhone and your own vision. The app takes you step by step, through introduction, font, content (and you can use your own videos and photo) and background music and then enables you to produce and send a :15 video to others or post on Facebook, Twitter, or your own email. Your story for the world to see. It even comes with editing software in case you take yourself too seriously and want to cut a little--like that will ever happen.
Credits: Imran Jaffery, Project Manager, HooplaHa Michael Bosari, Director of U.S. Operations, TangoModem Gustavo Katcheroff, Senior Project Manager, TangoModem; Reuters TV by Reuters TV

The Reuters TV App is designed for people who don’t watch a lot of news on television. There are sections including On Demand, Up to Date, Relevant to You, Any Duration, the last of which is exactly what it sounds like—stories from five minutes to 30. The content, both editorial and reporting, originates in London, Hong Kong, New York and Washington and calls on Reuters’ more than 2,500 journalists worldwide. It’s personalized without pandering; it’s real time on any device.
Affiliated Agency: Ueno - Creative Agency
Credits: - Isaac Showman, Managing Director, Reuters TV - Eric Johnston, Engineering Director, Reuters TV - Haraldur Thorleifsson, Creative Director, UENO - Elizabeth Pace, Senior Marketing Manager, Reuters TV - Marcus Eckert, Senior Engineer and Motion Designer, Reuters TV - Pedro Gomes, iOS Tech Lead, Reuters TV - Dan Colarusso, Executive Editor, Reuters TV - Joanna Webster, Editorial Director, Reuters TV - Jenny Harris, Senior Producer, Reuters TV; MLB.com At Bat by MLBAM

A number for you—11 million. That’s how many times MLB.com At Bat was downloaded last year. To say this site is for baseball junkies is to offend junkies. One can follow every baseball game, every stat, player, pitch, stadium, replay (you get the idea) throughout the season, from the most meaningless exhibition game to the 7th game of the World Series. Think about that. In 2014, this app was the number one sports applications on iPhone. The app was accessed 35 million times per week during last season.
Credits: MLBAM

Travel & Tourism: A Walk in the Park by Hill Holliday for Friends of Public Gardens

At 24 acres, Boston Public Garden is a sea of green in a major metropolis. The Victorians established its style in 1837, championing the gardener’s art. It’s also resplendent with memorials, a lagoon bridge and statues, including one of Bagheera, the panther from Kipling’s “Jungle Book.” The app’s goal is to one-up a guided tour by personalizing it. As visitors stroll the garden, they literally move through its history. An interactive audio tour reveals the backstory to its wonders.
Credits: Chief Creative Officer: Lance Jensen Creative Directors: Scott Noble, Bob Gates Art Director: Kar-Kate Leung Copywriters: Nate Kerbin, Eric Gorodetsky Designer: Dylan Gould, Kyle Koenig, Kyle Ernst Digital Producer: Jenny Villone Account Team: Kate Linzmeyer Planner: Katherine Coyne Integrated Operations: Mike Rubenstein Social Media Strategist: Michelle McCudden Digital Director: John Running Developers: Nat Wales, Eric Callan, Michael Walton Interface Designer: Kyle Mitchell QA Specialist: Chris Martin Media Team: Derek Welch, Elyse Szostkiewicz Sound Engineer Mark Wong Voiceover Talent: Allie Pirolli, Lawson Clarke Business Affairs: Marie Rafanan, Val Thomas; BHOF Beacon by Sullivan for The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum

America’s pastime just went digital. The Baseball Hall of Fame is chockfull of the sport’s history. To build excitement for the museum, the app lets users experience relevant moments and action-packed sports photos wherever they are. Make like Jack Kerouac and go on the road, exploring baseball’s great locales — like where Jackie Robinson stole home — en route to Cooperstown, NY. It’s a reminder that baseball is part of the fabric of American life. For fans, it’s a home run.
Credits: Nancy Schulman, Executive Director of Strategy, Sullivan John Paolini, Executive Creative Director, Sullivan Alison Grippo, Principal of Digital Strategy, Sullivan Noah Harlan, Managing Director of Digital Strategy Todd Wilcox, Associate Creative Director, Sullivan Ian Cox, Senior Designer, Sullivan Maya Desai, Senior Producer, Sullivan Lynn Koble, Senior User Experience Architect, Sullivan Donny Lowe, Director of Digital Strategy, National Baseball Hall of Fame; CheapOair App by CheapOair

CheapOair’s new, user-friendly version, launched in August 2014 and offers streamlined design. Book cheap flights (and seats) from 450+ airlines, as well as last-minute hotel rooms. The app displays deals within three days of your chosen dates, answering the question: How low can you go? Travelers can also book airlines up to four hours before takeoff with the FlyNow deals. CheapO is flying high: Since August, it has been downloaded 3 million times.
Credits: In-house CheapOair team

Wearables: Vonage Mobile by Vonage Holdings Corp.

Vonage wanted to make it easier for consumers with wearable devices to answer the phone on the go, but also ignore in-coming calls with a double tap. The feature sends a pre-set message to the caller. There's a voice-to-text function, and five preset responses when responding to text messages. The free-to-download app supports "high-definition" calling, texting, group messaging, photo sharing, video calling, video messaging and video voicemail app-to-app worldwide. The app, which works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, can make international calls from the U.S. to landline and mobile phones in more than 200 countries.
Credits: Mobile Development Team, Vonage; Domain Android Wear App by Domain Group - Fairfax Media for Domain.com.au

The Domain Android Wear App aggregates searches from a variety of sites looking for property in Australia based on preset criteria. It offers a search feature that notifies the wearer when property in the area becomes available. The preset notification feature drove up the click rate by 40% on more than 400,000 monthly alerts. The wearer can catch a glimpse of the new properties on the wearable device, and then open the image on their phone for an in-depth look.
Credits: Damon Pezaro - Chief Product Officer Henrique Marassi - Product Manager Paul McManus - Technology Director Gary Lo - Lead Android dev Konstantin Burov - Android dev Zarah Dominguez - Android dev Praveen Prasannan - Software Engineer David Meier - Head of Design Dan Johnston - Head of UX; iMeet Agenday by PGi

Productivity at work on the wrist makes PGi's iMeet Agenday Smart Calendar App for Smartwatches an interesting app. It runs on an iOS or an Android interface allowing wearers to schedule meetings, view calendars, and set agendas. It offers a variety of pre-set features such as running late icon, join meeting reminder, and polling feature. When employees run late, they can send an update directly from the smartwatch. The app also offers video features. Employees also can join any meeting through the app's video collaboration service iMeet.
Credits: Boland T. Jones, PGi founder, chairman & CEO David Guthrie, PGi chief technology officer Daniel Graff-Radford, PGi VP Technology - iMeet Agenday Kaushal Panjwani, PGi Lead Developer - iMeet Agenday Therese Mushock, PGi chief designer - iMeet Agenday

Utilities/Device Enhancement: Automatic by Automatic Labs

Automatic is like a wearable technology for cars. It’s a matchbox-sized car adapter synced to the Automatic app that provides drivers with a real-time driving data collected straight from the vehicle's onboard computer and transmitted via bluetooth to the driver’s smartphone. Automatic provides technological solutions to automotive challenges like engine diagnostic, collision detection, and real-time feedback on driving habits. The app essentially increases the awareness of the car and driving behavior.
Credits: N/A; APUS Launcher by APUS Group for APUS Launcher

With its end-users in mind, APUS Launcher smoothes the Android experience, which sometimes may be a bit rough around the edges. Some of its coolest features include APUS Mobile Search in trending searches, Notification Toolbar, APUS Folder that lets users swipe to the home screen from inside Folder. Not only does APUS put the favorite apps at user’s fingertips, it boosts speed and battery life of the phone, while making the user experience as seamless as iOS.
Credits: Li Tao, CEO of Apus Group; DocuSign by DocuSign, Inc.

DocuSign is a personal electronic signature application that allows individual consumers and businesses to safely and easily complete forms, sign them, and return them via email – all directly from tablet or Smartphone. Users also get notified in real-time when documents are being completed. No more printing, faxing or scanning. It all can be done digitally now.
Credits: Robin Ducot, VP of Product Development, DocuSign

Weather: Yahoo Weather by Yahoo

Yahoo Weather isn’t the go-to weather gauge on users’ smart phones the way it is on many of their desktops. That said, it’s well worth going out of one’s way to access, owing to perhaps the most elegantly designed and immersive experience of all the weather apps. Current weather conditions are back-dropped by user-generated Flickr photos, rather than standard graphics. The message: while a depiction of snow cascading from the sky does a fine job of announcing that, indeed, it is snowing outside, that’s not the only way to graphically convey the information.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Albert Song, VP of Design, Yahoo Catherine Tai, Visual/Interaction Designer, Yahoo Amy Lee, Visual/Interaction Designer, Yahoo Shenglong Gao, Associate Product Manager, Mobile Weather, Yahoo Stephen Hodnicki, Principal Software Engineer, Yahoo Adam Mathes, Senior Director Product Management, Yahoo Greg Choi, Director, Mobile, Yahoo Stephane Karoubi, Senior Director of Engineering, Yahoo; Sunnycomb by Fueled for Weathernews Inc.

Weather apps largely boast the same features and functionality: current conditions, alerts, longer-term forecasts and the like. Thus Sunnycomb feels both novel and a little bit quirky at the same time. While it offers all the usual weather-app standbys, it also attempts to make weather personal. Owing to a well-nurtured community, Sunnycomb boasts an abundance of user-submitted photos as well as shared, decidedly non-scientific information about weather conditions and patterns wherever its users happen to find themselves.
Credits: Ryan Matzner-Strategist Glenn Hitchcock-Designer Lead Joe Mortell- Designer; NOAA Radar Pro by Apalon

For people who take their weather seriously -- who take it far beyond “should I pack an umbrella?” or “do the kids need a sweater” -- NOAA Radar Pro is the weather app to have. As its name makes clear, the app is all about radar images, which appear on an interactive map that also includes the expected condition readings and weather alerts. Additionally, the hi-def nature of NOAA Radar Pro’s images make the experience as graphically alluring as it is informative.

Wildcard: Slidely Show Movie Maker by Slidely

With the Slidely Show Movie Maker, users can edit photos, videos, and music together to create beautiful and creative movies to share with others. Slidely allow creators to select photos and videos from the device as well as from Facebook, Instagram and Dropbox and input music from SoundCloud and Youtube to complete the movie. The user interface is simple to use as is the simple “tap to capture” function that allows for easy editing.
Affiliated Agency: N/A
Credits: Tom More, Founder & CEO David Davidov, Chief Product Officer Tomer Sagi, VP Product Marketing Yariv Azatchi, VP R&D Max Pevsner, Lead iOS Developer; Adobe Brush CC by Adobe

Adobe Brush CC allows designers to capture real-world elements in a photograph to create a custom brush that can be used in other Adobe tools such as Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and the Illustrator Sketch mobile app. It is easy to use for beginners and complex and refined enough for professionals. The app allows designers to manipulate and edit the size and color of the brush and also save them to a Creative Cloud Library for sharing with friends and colleagues.
Affiliated Agency: Edelman, PR
Credits: Chris Nuuja, senior engineering manager, Flash Player, Adobe Systems Sebastian Marketsmueller, Senior Programmer, Adobe Systems Werner Sharp, Software Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc Tinic Uro, Senior Computer Scientist, Adobe Mas Kagitam Adobe Yinan Liu, Software QE Developer, Creative Cloud, Adobe System Erik Natze, Principal Designer, Adobe Will Eisley, Principal Product Manager, Adobe Eric Snowden, Director of Design, Adobe/Behance; Shuffle by Media Group of America for Shuffle

Throw Tinder, CNN, and Gawker into a blender and Shuffle is what pours out. Shuffle is an app that changes the way readers consume and share the news. The app delivers important news stories in a clear and easy-to-use format and caters the stories to the reader’s interests using Shuffle algorithm. Stories are displayed like a deck of cards where swiping left will throw it away, tapping will lead you directly to the story, and swiping right will save the story to the user’s reading list. Shuffle remembers the direction of swipes and refines what news stories come up.
Affiliated Agency: MGA - Media Group of America
Credits: Alex Skatell, Founder, Shuffle Carl Sceusa, Product Team Leader, Shuffle Adam Wojtonis, Developer, Shuffle

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