Google Reveals Best Android Apps of 2017

It’s been a good year for Google and the myriad of developers that develop apps for the Android platform. Usually, at the end of every year, Google outs a list of most popular apps, games, movies, TV shows, songs and books that were released in the past year.

Earlier this month in a blogpost, they announced the different winners in several categories including Best app, best game, most popular movie and TV show, most streamed song and so on.

Let’s take a look at the list below.

Best app of 2017

• Socratic – Math Answers & Homework Help

Best game of 2017

• CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars

Most Popular New Apps of 2017

• Photo Editor – Beauty Camera & Photo Filters
• What The Forecast?!!
• Boomerang
• TopBuzz Video: Viral Videos, Funny GIFs &TV shows
• Yarn – Chat Fiction
• FaceApp

Top Trending New Games of 2017 (Globally)

• Super Mario Run
• Bubble Witch 3 Saga
• Magic Tiles 3
• CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars
• Ballz

Here are some other categories as chosen by Google PlayStore editors.

Most Innovative Apps Of 2017 

• Pinterest
• Snapchat
• Be My Eyes — Helping the blind
• Google Earth
• Bitcoin wallet Coinbase

Best Kids’ Apps For 2017

• Space for Kids
• Kids Learn Languages
• Miffy’s World
• Pinkfong Shapes & Colors

Top “hidden gems”

• Google Allo
• Socratic
• Cornershop
• Castbox

Top Social Apps

• Slack
• Tandem
• Strava
• Like
• Cookpad

Google also revealed the top movies, songs and games of the year. Moana is the most downloaded film followed by “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Wonder Woman”. Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble’ displaced Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ as the top song. Game of Thrones sits on the Iron Throne as the most popular TV show for the second year in a row.