iOS 782: App Store Awards: Apps - Winners for All Your Apple Devices!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This year's App Store Awards are shaking things up, spotlighting indie apps and clever tools for neurodivergent users, rather than corporate giants. Mikah and Rosemary break down which surprising winners deserve a spot on your home screen.
- Timo: Neurodivergent-friendly AI planner wins iPhone App of the Year
- Detail: Auto-editing video app takes iPad App of the Year
- Essayist: Citation-powered writing app honored for Mac
- Explore POV: Immersive video app wins Apple Vision Pro App of the Year
- Strava: Fitness tracking app crowned Apple Watch App of the Year
- HBO Max: Redesigned streaming app lands Apple TV App of the Year
- Cultural Impact Awards: Be My Eyes, Focus Friend, Storygraph recognized
- News: Apple leadership shakeups as key execs retire and Apple Fitness+ expands to 28 new markets
- Shortcuts Corner: Automating HomeKit switch notifications and safety cutoffs
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS Today, the App Store Awards are here, and Rosemary Orton and I talk about the apps that you should be checking out. |
| 0:10.1 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:15.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:17.7 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:27.6 | This is Twit. This is IOS today with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent. Episode 782, recorded Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 for Thursday, December 18th, 2025. |
| 0:36.6 | App Store Awards, apps. |
| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to iOS, today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPad OS, WatchOS, |
| 0:47.1 | HomePod OS, and all the other OS says that Apple has to offer. |
| 0:50.1 | This is the show where we talk about apps and settings, gadgets, gizmos, and everything in between to help you make the most of your devices. |
| 0:59.0 | I am one of your hosts, but one of your hosts. |
| 1:01.8 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:03.9 | And my name is Rosemary Otrude, and I am but one of your hosts as well. |
| 1:08.3 | But hey, I think we're going to have an awarding time today, I guess. |
| 1:12.1 | Sorry, and then amazing? |
| 1:14.7 | I like it. |
| 1:16.3 | Yes, we, every year, I think, do our best to make sure that we talk about the end of the year App Store Awards. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, as we've talked about before, these are different from the awards |
| 1:28.6 | that Apple hands out at its Worldwide Developers Conference. |
| 1:32.2 | At that conference, Apple hands out awards |
| 1:35.2 | to developers who create using the tools |
| 1:40.4 | that Apple provides in clever ways, creative ways, etc. These apps and games are kind of the |
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