Apple Design Awards: German developer wins prize for the third time

In the run-up to the WWDC developer conference, Apple has announced the winners of its App Awards. The champagne corks are also popping in Germany.

Der Apple Design Award.

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Jun 7, 2024 at 9:42 pm CEST

4 min. read

Mac & i

By

Malte Kirchner

This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated.

42 finalists were in the running – 14 apps and games received the coveted award: Apple has announced the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards in the run-up to the WWDC developer conference, which begins on Monday, June 10. Among them is the app djay, a winner from Germany – it is already the third Apple trophy for the Munich-based company.

"We are incredibly honored to be recognized by Apple at the forefront of innovation", the German developers announced via their X account. The DJ software was recognized in the newly created "Spatial Computing" category for its native version for the Apple Vision Pro.

Three Germans were in the final

According to Karim Morsy, founder and CEO of Algoriddim, the app was created after studying computer science and music as a product of his passion for DJing. Together with fellow students, he created the software, which exists for several operating systems and has been on the market for many years. The relationship with Apple is close: Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Algoriddim in September 2019 as part of a visit to Germany.

There were a total of three nominees from Germany in the finals for this year's Design Awards. Apple presents the award in seven categories: fun and enjoyment, inclusion, innovation, interaction, social impact, visual and graphic design and spatial computing. Below is an overview of the winning apps.

Apple Design Awards 2024 (13 Bilder)

Die Gewinner der diesjährigen Apple Design Awards: Bears Gratitude (Bild: Apple)

The other winners

Fun and enjoyment:

Bears Gratitude by Isuru Wanasinghe (Australia): A diary app with gratitude exercises designed to make users happier.

New York Times Games by New York Times Company (USA): The internationally renowned newspaper has recently expanded its catalog of games in the app. Apple praises the design and user-friendliness.

Inclusion:

oko by AYES (Belgium): The app uses haptic and acoustic feedback to alert pedestrians to the status of traffic lights and is therefore particularly aimed at visually impaired people.

Crayola Adventures by Red Games Co (USA): The colorful adventure game offers many creative options, such as making decorations, solving puzzles and reading storybooks.

Innovation:

Procreate Dreams by Procreate (Australia): The design tool can be used to create 2D animations. Apple praises the intuitive controls and interaction with the Apple Pencil.

Lost in Play by Happy Juice Games (Israel): The game offers a journey through a child's imagination with puzzles. The point-and-touch adventure is characterized by hand-drawn graphics, easy-to-learn interactions and gameplay.

Interaction:

Crouton by Devin Davies (New Zealand): The app can be used to save recipes and create shopping lists and step-by-step instructions for the kitchen.

Rytmos by Floppy Club (Denmark): Rytmos challenges you to solve puzzles by creating paths with simple dragging gestures. After each completed level, a new element is added to an evolving song.

Social Impact:

Gentler Streak Fitness Tracker by Gentler Stories (Slovenia): The app aims to improve people's lifestyles. It is based on optimistic and encouraging reminders that take into account both physical fitness and mental well-being. Health data is organized and integrated to assist in monitoring exercise, rest and well-being.

The Wreck by The Pixel Hunt (France): In the visual novel The Wreck, you follow the story of Junon, a writer who is suddenly called to a hospital to make a life-changing decision that will affect her family forever.

Visual and graphic design:

Rooms by Things, Inc (USA): Rooms provides users with a blank whiteboard on which they can create imaginative scenes.

Lies of P by NEOWIZ (South Korea): The adventure game reinterprets a classic fairy tale. You control a robot puppet created by Geppetto, which has to survive a march through a burnt-down city to find its creator.

Spatial computing:

djay pro - DJ App & AI Mixer by algoriddim GmbH (Germany): djay is an entirely new way to interact with music in a spatial environment, praises Apple.