Cream of the crop: Here are Apple’s best apps of 2015

Apple has revealed the “Best of 2015” apps and games with Twitter’s Periscope acing the general category, Tomb Raider Go picking up top spot in the gaming category. Launched with 500 apps, the iOS App Store contained 9,676 apps within four months in November; a four-month timespan that produced almost 10,000 in total.

Twitter’s TWTR, -2.56% live broadcasting app, Periscope, topped Apple’s AAPL, -2.60% cherry-picked list of best apps for 2015, released Wednesday. As expected, games make up a large percentage of the apps – more than 38 percent.

There are over 20 main categories for developers to publish their apps on Apple TV App Store.

You can check them all out by loading up the App Store on iPhone and clicking into “Best of 2015” prominently featured at the top of the App Store landing page.

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, told Mashable: “I continue to be really impressed with the types of apps that are getting created”.

App Figures also provides a breakdown of the average price. Entertainment comes in second (in terms of available apps) with 417 apps on Apple TV, with education and lifestyle apps next in line, with 175 and 138 apps, respectively. A “Free up space” feature has also been added that allows users to remove the full-size originals of photos that have already been safely backed up to Google’s cloud, letting you conserve space on your device.

However, according to data collected by appFigures, tvOS is on its way to becoming another popular platform for developers to build on. The app, which is available for Apple and Android devices, has been downloaded over 10 million times.

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“It feels like set top boxes and smart TVs could be the natural successor to the traditional games console, side-stepping games into people’s entertainment diet and blurring the lines between linear and interactive media”, Her Story creator Sam Barlow told Develop at the time.