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Best Apps of the App Store in 2018

Jan 25, 2026 January 25, 2026 3 min read 📰 Radio Farda
📋 Key Takeaway

Apple announced the best apps of 2018 for its platforms, highlighting Procreate Pocket for iPhone and Froggipedia for iPad. The App Store's revenue significantly outperformed Google Play, indicating its dominance in the app market despite a higher proportion of paid apps.

🔍 Quick Context Guide
💡 Bottom Line: Apple's App Store continues to lead in revenue and app quality, setting trends that may influence global app development.

👥 Key Players

Apple Inc. MENTIONED
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"Apple is a leading player in the global technology market, influencing app development and digital consumption trends."
Google MENTIONED
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"Google is a major competitor to Apple in the app market, particularly with its Google Play store."

📰 What Happened

Apple announced the best apps of 2018 for its platforms, highlighting Procreate Pocket for iPhone and Froggipedia for iPad. The App Store's revenue significantly outperformed Google Play, indicating its dominance in the app market despite a higher proportion of paid apps.

  • Procreate Pocket was named the best iPhone app of 2018.
  • The App Store generated $12 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2018, 93% higher than Google Play.

💡 Why It Matters

🇮🇷 For Iran: The dominance of the App Store may impact app availability and pricing in Iran, where access to technology is often limited.
🌍 Regional: The competition between Apple and Google may influence regional tech markets and app development strategies.
🌐 International: The success of the App Store highlights the growing importance of paid apps in the global market, potentially affecting international developers.

📚 Background

The app market is a significant part of the technology industry, with platforms like the App Store and Google Play shaping user experiences and developer opportunities.

App development trends Revenue models in technology
📡 Source: NEUTRAL
📊 Confidence: 70%
The information is based on industry reports and announcements, providing a factual overview of the app market.

The best apps of the 'App Store' in 2018 were introduced by Apple for various platforms of the company. A drawing app for the iPhone named Procreate Pocket was named the best iPhone app of 2018. This app is a lightweight version of the original program designed for the iPad. With Procreate Pocket, users can draw by swiping their fingers on their mobile phones. This app uses techniques to simulate the movements of various pens and conveys the feeling of creating a real painting to its user. In the iPhone version of this app, users can create various drawings with their fingers using 3D touch. The best app for the iPad is Froggipedia. This app is actually an augmented reality program. This augmented reality program can be a suitable educational tool for better understanding of various sciences. For example, anatomy can be easily learned in this program in augmented reality. Apple has released the new iPad to compete with Google's Chromebooks in educational environments, and for this reason, many educational apps are expanding on this platform. The new iPad has added support for a stylus. This feature has entered this category of iPad devices for the first time, and now in Froggipedia, the Apple Pencil can be used as a surgical knife. In this app, one can study various animals from different angles. The Pixelmator Pro app was introduced as the best for Mac. With this program, one can edit various photos. This program, using machine learning and artificial intelligence, can easily remove objects and also identify layers of objects without the past challenges. Sweat was also introduced as the best app for Apple TV. In the gaming section, Apple is currently witnessing more games for its users. However, it should not be forgotten that Apple systems are still far behind competitors in gaming. For iPhone, the game Donut County, for iPad Gorogoa, for Mac The Gardens Between, and for Apple TV Alto's Odyssey were selected as the best games of 2018. In the section of the most popular games, Fortnite achieved the highest rank. This program is an open-world survival game with players in a group environment. In this game, 100 players are on an island where the safe area is shrinking at every moment. Throughout the island, weapons and special items can be found scattered in various locations. The goal of the game is to survive, meaning if you are the last person remaining on the island, you win. While this game has become the most popular game of the year in the 'App Store', a similar game named PUBG has become the best in Android games. This product has about 50 million downloads on Android systems. In the current year, the 'App Store' has had a better status compared to Google Play. According to the third-quarter report of 2018, the revenue of the App Store was reported to be 93% higher than Google Play. The revenue of the App Store in the third quarter of this year was reported to be around $12 billion. This amount has increased by 23.3% compared to $9.7 billion in the third quarter of last year. Meanwhile, the revenue of the Google Play store was reported to be $6.2 billion. Higher revenue has allowed the 'App Store' to be more successful in applications than Google Play. However, one of the problems in the 'App Store' is that most applications are paid; while in Google Play, the number of free applications is higher compared to the 'App Store.'

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