Here Are The Top 10 iPhone And iPad Apps Of The Year 2012

2012 is drawing to a close, and among the bunch of round-up posts we’re going to be seeing throughout the blogosphere, Apple has piped up prematurely with its annual Best Of list. Every year, the Cupertino company hand-picks its favorite apps of the year alongside the bestsellers, and with hundreds of thousands of new entries every year, it can be easy to miss some of the very best. Here, we run through each and every one.

Incidentally, two of our own favorite releases make up the top two in Apple’s picks. Rayman Jungle Run, which costs $2.99 over at the App Store, takes Apple’s Game of the Year award, while the free-to-play marvel that is Letterpress takes second spot. As enjoyable and nostalgia-probing Rayman Jungle Run was, Letterpress has us all completely hooked, and if we had to pick between the two, we’d probably vote Letterpress as our favorite release of the past twelve months.

But they aren’t the only two great releases of the year, and as ever, there’s a diverse, eclectic mixture of different apps on the lists.

Top Free iPhone Apps

Youtube
Instagram
Draw Something
Flashlight
Facebook
Pandora Radio
Temple Run
Pinterest
Twitter
Skype
Top Paid iPhone Apps

Angry Birds Space
WhatsApp Messenger
Draw Something
Camera+
Where’s My Water?
Angry Birds Star Wars
Fruit Ninja
Angry Birds
Bejeweled
TETRIS
Top Free iPad Apps

Skype for iPad
Temple Run
Facebook
Netflix
The Weather Channel For iPad
Draw Something Free
Kindle – Read Books, eBooks, Magazines, Newspapers & Textbooks
Pandora Radio
Angry Birds HD
Calculator Pro for iPad Free
Top Paid iPad Apps

Angry Birds Space HD
Where’s My Water
Pages
Draw Something
Notability – Take Notes & Annotate PDFs with Dropbox & Google Drive
Sync
Angry Birds Star Wars HD
iPhoto
Minecraft – Pocket Edition
Where’s My Perry?
Words With Friends HD
iPhone Game of the Year

Rayman Jungle Run
Letterpress
iPhone App of the Year

Action Movie FX
Figure
iPad Game of the Year

The Room
Waking Mars
iPad App for the Year

Paper by FiftyThree
Action Movie FX
Impressively, Action Movie FX makes the top two for both iPhone and iPad, and if you’ve managed to use it at one point or another, you’ll understand exactly why it’s so reputable. Like its description suggests, you can turn your boring videos into cinematics, and with pretty much every user giving it a five-star rating, I’m glad it has been given the recognition it so thoroughly deserves.