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Apple reveals 2025 Design Award winners ahead of WWDC25

Celebrating a dozen outstanding titles across six categories leveraging native Apple technologies to advance accessibility, engagement, visual appeal.

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Overview

  • Apple honored 12 winners—one app and one game across Delight and Fun, Innovation, Interaction, Inclusivity, Social Impact and Visuals and Graphics—just before WWDC25.
  • CapWords won Delight and Fun for its interactive language-learning stickers and Speechify secured Inclusivity honors for its multilingual text-to-speech features.
  • Play earned the Innovation award for SwiftUI-based prototyping tools and Feather: Draw in 3D was recognized in Visuals and Graphics for its seamless 2D-to-3D modeling.
  • Game winners spanned Balatro’s strategic card-building, PBJ — The Musical’s rhythm-driven storytelling, DREDGE’s horror-fishing adventure and Infinity Nikki’s fantasy visuals.
  • Watch Duty: Wildfire Maps and Neva claimed Social Impact awards for real-time wildfire tracking and an environmental narrative adventure.