As the year comes to a close there are so many unanswered questions: Who is Kiki, and does she love me? Should I start a podcast? Where is Donut County? Why didn’t Offred escape Gilead (again!)? Today, Apple reveals the Best of 2018, a global collection of top charts and selects from our editors across every category highlighting all of the amazing things to watch, read, listen to and play across apps, music, podcasts, books, TV and movies. It’s an invariable list of the who’s who and what’s what from the past year that is certain to help answer at least some of the most burning questions and make for fun conversation around any holiday dinner table.
The App Store
Game Trend of the Year – Battle Royale-style gaming
iPhone App of the Year – Procreate Pocket
iPhone Game of the Year – Donut County
iPad App of the Year – Froggipedia
iPad Game of the Year – Gorogoa
Mac App of the Year – Pixelmator Pro
Mac Game of the Year – The Gardens Between
Apple TV App of the Year – Sweat
Apple TV Game of the Year – Alto’s Odyssey
Favorite Watch Apps of the Year
Apple Music
Breakout Artist of the Year: Juice WRLD
Song of the Year: I Like It – Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny & J. Balvin
Album of the Year: Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
Top 100 Global Albums
Apple Podcasts
Caliphate
The Dream
Everything is Alive
Slow Burn
Dr. Death
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Bubble
Bundyville
A Very Fatal Murder
Wolverine: The Long Night
Serial
The Daily
This American Life
99% Invisible
Top 25 Most Downloaded New Podcasts of the Year
TV and Movies
Black Panther
Crazy Rich Asians
Eighth Grade
Green Book*
Hereditary
Incredibles 2
Minding the Gap
A Star is Born*
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
*available for pre-order
Atlanta
Barry
The Expanse
The Good Fight
The Good Place
The Handmaid’s Tale
Killing Eve
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Pose
Apple Books
Best Nonfiction: The Library Book
Best Mystery: The Witch Elm
Best Thriller: Light It Up
Best Bio/Memoir: Educated
Best Romance: Too Wilde to Wed
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy: Spinning Silver
Best Feel-Good Fiction: When Life Gives You Lululemons
Best Literary Fiction: There There
Best Young Reader Book: Harbor Me
Best Nonfiction: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Best Mystery: Something in the Water
Best Thriller: Long Road to Mercy
Best Bio/Memoir: Becoming
Best Business Audiobook: Dare to Lead
Best Health, Mind, Body: Girl, Wash Your Face
Best Family Audiobook: Rebound
Best Humor: Calypso
Best Historical Fiction: The Great Alone
Top 100 Books Non-Fiction