WWDC 2025 Design Awards: few American developers among Apple’s Global winners

Apple Design Awards 2025 honor global developers at WWDC

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) serves as a platform to showcase the latest software advancements and celebrate developer innovation. This year’s Apple Design Awards highlighted standout apps and games from creators across the globe, emphasizing technical excellence, inclusivity, and creativity.

The 2025 winners spanned multiple countries, including China, India, Austria, and the US, proving that groundbreaking design knows no borders. Below is the full list of winning apps and games across key categories.

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2025 Apple Design Award winners

Delight and Fun

Winner – CapWords (China)
A language-learning app that turns real-world objects into interactive flashcards using AR.

Lumy (India)
A celestial tracker for photographers and astronomers with elegant widgets and Apple Watch sync.

Denim - Playlist Cover Maker (India)
A SwiftUI-powered app that generates dynamic playlist artwork with haptic feedback.

Winner – Balatro (Canada)
A poker-inspired roguelike deck-building game with chaotic mechanics.

Thank Goodness You’re Here! (USA)
A slapstick comedy game blending absurd humor with polished gameplay.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (France)
A revival of the classic franchise with acrobatic combat and intricate level design.

Inclusivity

Winner – Speechify (USA)
A text-to-speech app supporting 50+ languages and accessibility features.

Evolve: Daily Self-Care Coach (India)
An LGBTQ+-focused wellness app with affirmations and journaling tools.

Train Fitness (Canada)
A workout tracker using CoreML for screen-free accessibility.

Winner – Art of Fauna (Austria)
A puzzle game supporting wildlife conservation with accessibility options.

puffies. (Thailand/Cyprus)
A nostalgic sticker puzzle game with high-contrast and motion-reduction settings.

Land of Livia (Australia)
A text-based fantasy adventure with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support.

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Innovation

Winner – Play (USA)
A prototyping tool for SwiftUI designs with seamless Xcode integration.

Moises (Brazil)
An AI-powered music splitter isolating vocals and instruments in songs.

Capybara AI Meeting Translator (UK)
A real-time transcription tool using Apple Intelligence Translate API.

Winner – PBJ — The Musical (Germany)
A snack-themed musical game with hand-animated cutouts and haptic feedback.

Pawz (Singapore)
A Vision Pro game blending virtual pets with real-world environments.

Gears & Goo (Sweden)
A spatial tower-defense game with intuitive eye and hand tracking.

Social Impact

Winner – Watch Duty: Wildfire Maps (USA)
A volunteer-run app providing real-time wildfire updates.

Ground News (Canada)
A news aggregator highlighting media bias across political spectrums.

Opal (USA)
A digital wellness app promoting mindful device usage.

Winner – Neva (USA)
An environmental narrative game exploring ecological decline.

Ahoy! From Picardy (USA)
A Vision Pro game blending whimsy with environmental messaging.

Art of Fauna (Austria)
A puzzle game donating proceeds to wildlife conservation.

Visuals and Graphics

Winner – Feather: Draw in 3D (South Korea)
An iPad app transforming 2D sketches into 3D models.

Vocabulary - Learn Words Daily (USA)
A language app with clean illustrations and haptic feedback.

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CellWalk (Canada)
A Vision Pro app offering an immersive 3D cell biology experience.

Winner – Infinity Nikki (Singapore)
A fashion-based open-world game with stunning fabric and lighting effects.

Control Ultimate Edition (Finland)
A ray-traced action-adventure game with cinematic visuals.

Neva (USA)
A visually striking game using seasonal color palettes to convey emotion.