The year 2011 is coming to an end, there’s not many days left now. So, it’s obvious that companies let their customers know what was the best things that happened to them this year. And Apple has always been doing a best of apps score every year since the App Store went live. Thus, Apple has announced the best iPhone and iPad apps for this year, 2011, so you can have all the best apps on your iOS device.
Apple awarded Instagram the Best iPhone app of the year and Tiny Wings the best iPhone game of the year. Whereas Snapseed photo editing app was the best iPad app of the year and Dead Space was awarded the best iPad game of the year. And for the second year in the row, Angry Birds maintained the lead for the best selling iPhone app. To checkout the complete list of apps and games provided by Apple on iTunes, or see below:
Top apps by category for 2011
Books – Bartleby’s Book of Buttons Vol. 2
Business – Salesforce Chatter
Education – ABC Play
Entertainment – HBO GO
Finance – Bloomberg Radio+
Games – Infinity Blade II
Health & Fitness – iMuscle – iPhone edition
Lifestyle – Cards
Medical – AirStrip – Cardiology
Music – GarageBand
Navigation – Localscope
News – Flipboard
Newsstand – NYTimes
Photo & Video – Photogene for iPhone
Productivity – Orchestra To-do
Reference – Wikibot
Social Networking – Find My Friends
Sports – MLB.com
Travel – Airbnb
Utilities – Living Earth HD
Weather – swackett
Top 10 paid iPhone apps 2011
Angry Birds
Fruit Ninja
Angry Birds Seasons
Cut the Rope
Tiny Wings
Angry Birds Rio
Words With Friends
Camera+
Doodle Jump
Plants vs. Zombies
Top 10 free iPhone apps 2011
Pandora Radio
Words with Friends Free
Angry Birds Free
Skype
Netflix
Angry Birds Rio Free
Groupon
Fruit Ninja Lite
Top iPad apps by category for 2011
Books – Al Gore – Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Business – Roambi Flow
Education – NYPL Biblion: World’s Fair
Entertainment – The Civil War Today
Finance – StockTouch
Games – Infinity Blade II
Health & Fitness – iMuscle
Lifestyle – Appetites
Medical – EyeDecide
Music – GarageBand
Navigation – MotionX GPS Drive HD
News – Zite Personalized Magazine
Newsstand – Project Magazine
Photo & Video – iMovie
Productivity – Pages
Reference – Qwiki
Social Networking – Find My Friends
Sports – MLB.com
Travel – Sullivan’s List
Utilities – Living Earth HD
Weather – Magical Weather
Top 10 paid iPad apps 2011
Angry Birds HD
Pages
Angry Birds Seasons HD
GarageBand
Angry Birds Rio HD
Penultimate
Fruit Ninja HD
Cut the Rope HD
Scrabble for iPad
Keynote
Top 10 free iPad Apps 2011
Angry Birds HD Free
The Weather Channel
Netflix
CNN App for iPad
Angry Birds Rio HD Free
Kindle
Skype for iPad
Calculator for iPad Free
Pandora Radio
Calculator Pro for iPad Free
That’s the complete list of all the apps and games for both iPhone and iPad, the ones that Apple thinks are the best. You should probably try out these best iPhone and iPad apps, since they’ve been given the honor of being the best apps of 2011.
