Apple Unveils its 2017 Best of App Store, iTunes and Apple Music in Southeast Asia

Apple has unveiled its best of 2017 for Southeast Asia, highlighting the best of App Store, iTunes, and Apple Music. It shows the top trends, most popular apps and games, top movies and TV shows, and most listened to music and artists for the year 2017.

According to Apple, the top trends of the year 2017 are:

• Augmented reality: AR has change the way people interact with the world around us y blending digital objects into the real world through our mobile phones. There are plenty of apps and games leveraging on this technology such as Pokemon Go, AR Dragon, Holo, Player Piano 3D, and even books such as My Very Hungry Caterpillar that brings the classic children’s book character to life.
• Competitive gaming: In 2017, Apple saw a rise in users interested in real-time competitive gaming. Popular competitive games include golden oldies like Clash Royale and Hearthstone, and even new ones like Modern Combat Versus, and more.
• Gamifying fitness: One of the best way to start exercising and keeping to the routine is to gamify it. Some of the best apps include Standland, Zombies, Run!, Wokamon – Fitness Game, 7 Minute Superhero Workout and more.
• Facial transformation: This is no surprise; one of the top trends in 2017 would definitely have to be facial transformation apps. Photo editing apps such as B612, BeautyPlus, FaceApp, Facetune 2, MSQRD, and more allowed people not only to digitally enhance their pictures, they also allowed users to add in real-time masks and filters.

As for the top apps and games of the year, these are the results:

• 2017 iPhone App of the Year: Enlight Videoleap
  2017 iPhone Game of the Year: Splitter Critters
  2017 iPad App of the Year: Affinity Photo
  2017 iPad Game of the Year: Old Man’s Journey

On Apple Music, the top song of 2017 is Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”. The artist also wins the top album of the year with ÷. Bruno Mars comes in on a close second on the album chart with “24K Magic”. K-pop artists BigBang and G Dragon also made it to the top charts.

The top charts on iTunes featured powerful female protagonists who inspire such as “Moana”, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Wonder Woman” all within the top five. Other notable mentions include “Harry Potter Complete Collection”, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, as well as family-friendly musicals like “Sing” and “Trolls”.

Image credit: Teresa Lim of @teeteeheehee. Illustrated on #iPadPro and #ApplePencil with Tayasui Sketches Pro 

Here are the top charts for Southeast Asia:

Free iPhone Apps:

1. Grab – Ride Hailing App
2. WhatsApp Messenger
3. Uber
4. YouTube: Watch Listen Stream
5. Facebook
6. Messenger
7. Instagram
8. oBike – Bike Sharing
9. Google Maps – GPS Navigation
10. Carousell
11. Gmail – Email by Google
12. WeChat
13. Spotify Music
14. Google Chrome
15. My Singtel app
16. foodpanda – Food Delivery
17. UberEATS: Food Delivery
18. Google Translate
19. Healthy 365
20. Snapchat

Paid iPhone Apps

1. Gudak Cam
2. TouchRetouch
3. kirakira+
4. Scanner for Me + OCR
5. Enlight
6. Forest by Seekrtech
7. LightX
8. Tabs & Chords – learn and play
9. Afterlight
10. Glitché
11. Analog Paris
12. Plotagraph+ Photo Animator
13. The Wonder Weeks
14. ProCam 5
15. ProCamera.
16. Facetune
17. Slow Shutter Cam
18. Halide – RAW Manual Camera
19. Pixomatic photo editor
20. Fontmania – Add Artworks & Text to Your Photos!

Free iPhone Games

1. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
2. Super Mario Run
3. Fight List – Categories Game
4. Coin Master
5. Word Cookies!
6. Candy Crush Saga
7. 8 Ball Pool™
8. Clash Royale
9. Episode – Choose Your Story
10. Pokémon GO
11. Lords Mobile
12. Piano Tiles 2™
13. Subway Surfers
14. Asphalt 8: Airborne
15. Roll the Ball® – slide puzzle
16. Toy Blast
17. Choices: Stories You Play
18. Clash of Clans
19. Cookie Run: OvenBreak
20. Critical Ops

Paid iPhone Games

1. Minecraft
2. Football Manager Mobile 2017
3. Monopoly Game
4. Monument Valley 2
5. Plague Inc.
6. Assassin’s Creed Identity
7. Hitman Sniper
8. Mini Metro
9. Cytus
10. Heads Up!
11. Exploding Kittens® – The Official Game
12. Bully: Anniversary Edition
13. NBA 2K18
14. Street Fighter IV CE
15. Reigns
16. Monument Valley
17. F1 2016
18. Iron Marines
19. Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition
20. Geometry Dash

Free iPad Apps

1. YouTube: Watch Listen Stream
2. Facebook
3. Messenger for WhatsApp – App for iPad
4. Google Chrome
5. Messenger
6. Netflix
7. The Calculator
8. Gmail – Email by Google
9. YouTube Kids
10. Viu HD
11. Microsoft Word
12. Google Maps – GPS Navigation
13. Toggle.sg
14. Microsoft Excel
15. Google Drive
16. Spotify Music
17. Skype for iPad
18. Google
19. Microsoft PowerPoint
20. Messenger for WhatsApp – iPad Chat Version

Paid iPad Apps

1. Procreate
2. Duet Display
3. GoodNotes 4
4. Notability
5. GoodReader – PDF Reader Annotator and File Manager
6. MyScript Nebo
7. Amaziograph
8. WinZip Pro – The Leading Zip Unzip & RAR Tool
9. Affinity Photo
10. PDF Expert by Readdle
11. Book Creator for iPad
12. Popplet
13. Messenger for WhatsApp PRO
14. Notepad+ Pro
15. Pixelmator
16. Explain Everything™ Classic
17. Green Screen by Do Ink
18. Scanner for Me + OCR
19. PAW Patrol – Rescue Run HD
20. Toca Life: Hospital

Free iPad Games

1. Super Mario Run
2. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
3. Clash Royale
4. Word Cookies!
5. Coin Master
6. Subway Surfers
7. Roll the Ball® – slide puzzle
8. Piano Tiles 2™
9. Candy Crush Saga
10. Asphalt 8: Airborne
11. Lords Mobile
12. Cooking Fever
13. War Robots
14. Pokémon GO
15. Minion Rush
16. slither.io
17. Plants vs. Zombies™ 2
18. Clash of Clans
19. Block! Hexa Puzzle
20. Gardenscapes

Paid iPad Games

1. Minecraft
2. Monument Valley 2
3. Football Manager Mobile 2017
4. Geometry Dash
5. MONOPOLY for iPad
6. Assassin’s Creed Identity
7. Football Manager Touch 2017
8. Terraria
9. Scribblenauts Unlimited
10. Monument Valley
11. Iron Marines
12. Mini Metro
13. Plague Inc.
14. Bloons TD 5 HD
15. F1 2016
16. Teeny Titans – Teen Titans Go! Figure Battles
17. LEGO® Jurassic World™
18. RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
19. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
20. Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2