- PUBG was not in the list of nominated Apps
- IAF developed game “IAF- A Cut Above” featuring Wing Commander Abhinandan Vardhaman was also nominated.
- The movies nomination saw Indian movies like “Thugs of Hindostan” and “Badla” too.
Moments after Apple unveiled its picks for 2019’s best iOS apps and games, Google announced its annual winners for Best of Play. The list highlights apps and games that Google claims have been Android’s best over the past year, and unlike Apple, it also contains a User’s Choice tab that shows the results of Google’s surveys that have been running on Android for the past few weeks.
User Choice Award Winners:
Best Game: Call Of Duty: Mobile
Call of Duty: Mobile beat PUBG Mobile and Fortnite to secure both the Users’ Choice and Google Title- best Android game of the year. But the nominations for Users’ Choice Game included Assassin’s Creed Rebellion, Angry Birds Dream Blast, Harry Potter: Unite Wizards, and more. In contrast, the year’s Apple title was a much less popular one called Sky: Children of the Light.
As per the Sensor Tower data, Call of Duty was the most downloaded smartphone game across both App Store and Google Play worldwide in October. It saw a whopping 14.6 crore installs across the platforms last month. The countries generating the maximum installs were the United States at 16 per cent and India at 11 per cent.
“The 2019 Best Game should be fun, accessible, and deliver compelling, playable gameplay that is a blast. It also needs to push the boundaries of what we’re expecting on mobile, and the winner this year does all that without skipping a beat, “Google wrote in the Play Store post.
Interestingly, Indian game- “Indian Air Force: A Cut Above” the IAF game developed by Delhi-based Threye Interactive also found space in the nomination list.
Best Movie: Avengers Endgame
This is a justified award as this movie has broken all the previous records. The MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Fans have once again voted for the movie of the decade.
On the other hand, Google selected Ablo, a social network that translates languages in real-time during video calls and text conversations to enable you to communicate quickly with new people from around the world, as the best 2019 Android app.
Well, it is quite interesting to note that two Indian movies also were nominated in the category- “Thugs of Hindostan” and “Badla”.
Best Book: Everything Is Fucked:
After the great response to the earlier bestseller: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, Mark Manson is back with another bestseller in the series. The recent book has been awarded as the best User Choice ebook of 2019 on Google Playstore.
It is to be noted that the nominations also contained contenders like “Inner Engineering” by Sadhguru, the renowned Indian thinker and orator.
Best App: Spotify
The User’s Choice App of the year award was clinched by music app Spotify. Spotify has lately been promoting its app in India and it seems like the efforts have finally brought fruits. It’s “playlist for every occasion” campaign has garnered a great response from users all over the world.
The nomination also contained Indian apps like Hike in the category.
“This year, one app really stood out from the rest: with its ingenuity and polish, it surprised and delighted us. It’s our Best App of 2019, beautifully designed and thoughtfully executed,” added Google.
Meanwhile, InShot Video Editor’s video editing app took home the Users’ Choice App award-winning nominations like Ablo, Drops Scripts, Enlight Pixaloop, and Peloton.
Google did not announce which apps accumulated as many downloads as possible in 2019. But in several different categories, it has named the best apps and games. Appy Weather led the Best Everyday Essentials bracket, Peloton in Best Apps for Personal Growth, Big Bang AR from CERN in Best Hidden Gems, and many more. On the Google Play Store, you can search all the winners.
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