The best apps of the year from the Google Play Store
Table of contents:
- 1. Best Wellness App: Woebot
- 2. Best Accessibility Experience: Envision AI
- 3. Best Social Impact: Wisdo
- 4. The most beautiful game: Shadowgun Legends
- 5. Best Living Room Experience: Neverthink
- 6. Cleverest App: Tick Tock
- 7. Best App for Emerging Markets: Canva
- 8. Best Breakthrough App: Slowly
- 9. Most Advanced Game: Marvel Strike Force
A few hours before the Google I/O annual developer event kicks off, the Californian firm has announced the winners of the 2019 Google Play Awards. The Google Play team has chosen 45 applications in total of nine categories, five applications per category, although only one winner per category has been proclaimed. In this way, we find different apps in which general quality, design, technical performance and innovation have been taken into account. The winners are the following.
1. Best Wellness App: Woebot
Woebot is a kind of virtual therapist, like a chatbot, that will help you improve your mood and depression. Its goal is to help people have better mental he alth through daily monitoring based on small talk, puns and positive video recommendations All the questions that Woebot asks patients are based on the conversation model used in cognitive behavioral therapies.
In this way, thanks to this app you will be able to address negative thoughts from day to day to be able to analyze them from a more objective perspective.
2. Best Accessibility Experience: Envision AI
This app is perfect for people with vision problems, as it allows them to live more independently.With Envision, visually impaired users will be able to shop in stores, comfortably use public transport, take a look at food menus in cafeterias and restaurants, find lost objects, recognize their relatives, among other things. All this without the help of another person. This app is capable of processing an image, extracting the information the user needs It can also read texts on any surface with fluidity and precision. It is also capable of automatically detecting the language of the text, reading it in the correct dialect.
Envision also does a great job describing scenes, being able to give details of what you see around you in a way that is easier to understand .
3. Best Social Impact: Wisdo
Wisdo is a kind of life guide, helping you find and connect with people who have gone through the same experiences as you.You will be able to interact and discover people who are veterans of certain things you want to get answers about, such as motherhood, illness, depression, anxiety, a love break...
With Wisdo you will never be alone and the path ahead will always be clearer.
4. The most beautiful game: Shadowgun Legends
The prize for the most beautiful game is not exactly childish or colorful. The winner is Shadowgun Legends, a game with RPG elements with realistic and amazing graphics In the futuristic world of Shadowgun Legends, humanity has to deal with an alien invasion .
On the last line of defense are the Shadowguns, warriors and heroes who have a chance to turn the tide of battle. You can be one of them and rid the world of the alien horde.
5. Best Living Room Experience: Neverthink
Imagine if every time you wanted to watch a good YouTube video, someone gave you a great one: 100% selected from thousands of people so you can see only the stuff coolest, craziest and funniest on the Internet. Neverthink is an application that does exactly that.
The app is perfect for those times when you just want to watch something while doing other things like cooking, working out, doing your nails or just relaxing at the end of the day . Also, with the advantage that you know what is the best of today.
6. Cleverest App: Tick Tock
The most ingenious app award went to Tick Tock, a collaborative puzzle game in which you have to play with another userto complete the levels. It is necessary for each player to install the game on their mobile device.After the installation is complete, everyone will see half of the screen.
The plot is quite funny: you and your friend are trapped in a mysterious and dark world. As time passes, you'll have to solve increasingly complex puzzles in order to escape. Only together can you leave the place alive.
7. Best App for Emerging Markets: Canva
Surely you've heard of Canva before. It is a well-known app for carrying out all kinds of customizable template designs: logos, birthday invitations, Instagram stories or Twitter banners. Use Canva from your computer or mobile device and design whenever you want,wherever you are.
8. Best Breakthrough App: Slowly
Do you remember those days when in order to communicate with someone you had to go through a long and tedious process? Online communications quickly replaced and killed postal mail,leaving the impatience of receiving a response and the excitement of waiting in the background.Slowly wants to bring all that back a bit.
It's basically like sending letters by mail, only from an app. You can "letter" with people from all over the world who share your interests and hobbies. Of course, slowly and deliberately, just as if you were sending the letter and waiting the answer.
9. Most Advanced Game: Marvel Strike Force
Marvel has taken the award for most advanced game with Marvel Strike Force. In this game you will have to defend the planet side by side with Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Groot,Rocket Raccoon, Loki, Venom, Elektra, Iron Man, or Captain America to prevent enemies from reaching their goal.
We must highlight the graphics, quite elaborate and realistic.
