Welcome
It's hard to believe it has already been a year since we got the first iPhone application awards started. What a year it has been. We have seen the release of over 75,000 additional apps this year. We've got our work cut out for us. How do we go through all those apps to determine the best ones? Looks like it is time to get things moving.
About
The 2009 Best App Ever Awards were created to celebrate the best iPhone apps and games available, as chosen by our readers. Our goal is to help publicize the very best apps available, not just the best-selling apps. This year we have expanded the categories and made them a little more specific. There are 56 award categories in total, covering both apps and games.
Rules
The process for the awards starts with the nomination phase. You are invited to nominate any app in any of the categories. Even though an app may be nominated in any category, it is subject to editorial judgement and data verification. An app may be disqualified from nomination if it does not match a requirement of the category (such as price, app vs. game, etc.).
Each user is allowed one nomination per app per category. Nominations will be accepted until December 31st, 2009.
Once all nominations are totaled and verified, we'll take the top 5 nominated from the site users and combine those with 5 nominations from the list of iPhone bloggers and industry people in the nomination committee. In total we will have 10 nominations for each category.
Best App Ever - Special Award - In addition, the 10 apps that get the most nominations across all categories will compete for the Best App Ever Award.
Voting on the final nominees starts on January 1st, 2010. There will be one winner selected for each category. Voting will continue through January 31st, 2010.
Each user as determined by IP address, will be allowed one vote per category. (Note the rule change January 2, 2010 :: one vote per category per IP per month).
There are no fees for nomination, voting, or awards from the 2009 Best App Ever Awards. The Best App Ever Awards Committee reserves the right to disqualify any nomination or vote it reasonably determines to be fraudulent or submitted by bots or other computer generated voting application. These awards are produced by
148Apps.com.
Winners will be announced at the 2010 Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Timeline
12/7/2009 - 12/31/2009 - Nominations Accepted
1/2/2010 - Top 10 Nominees for Each Category and Best App Ever Announced
1/2/2010 - 1/31/2010 - Voting open
2/10/2010 - Winners Announced at Macworld Expo 2010
Developer Involvement
Application developers are encouraged to direct their users to the site to nominate/vote for their app in the categories the developer wants to focus on. The easiest way to do this is to nominate the app themselves and then grab one of the links for nomination from the sidebar..
Short History
The 2008 Best App Ever Awards was first conceived after the iTunes App Store opened in July 2008. At that point, we knew there would be a need to develop a site that could help people find the very best apps, not just the biggest sellers. Then Apple came out with their Best of 2008 lists based purely on sales. We do not believe this is the best indication of a of a great iPhone app. Please participate in the 2008 Best App Ever Awards to honor the best, not just the best-selling.
Take a look at the
2008 Best App Ever Awards winning apps.
2009 Best App Ever Awards Sponsor
This year we want to step things up a bit. To help us do that,
Medialets have graciously offered to sponsor the awards party at Macworld Expo 2010.
Thanks
Thanks to Apple for revolutionizing the mobile world with the iPhone and the iTunes App Store. Thanks to
TechCrunch -- we took lots of inspiration on how this site would work from their
Crunchies 2008 awards.
