Apple selects 2015's best apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch

Price: Free
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Streaming to the masses: that seems to have been the slogan of the year as with apps like Periscope, it is now easy to start streaming all sorts of events live on video straight from your phone, no complicated setup required.

Price: $3.99
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This clever photo editing app that allows you to do some profound modifications to images including tweaking the levels and colors, all in a very ingenious visual interface that is easy to use on a phone.

Price: Free
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Robinhood has caused quite the stur: after all, it's a free trading app (only works with US bank accounts) that allows you to save up to $10 for each trade that you perform using the platform. Simple and easy to use, it brings a well-crafted design that works great in the context of a small phone screen.

Price: $2.99
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Workflow is an automation tool that allows you to drag and drop any combination of actions to create powerful workflows for your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Among those actions are such for Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, and iCloud Documents, to name a few.

Price: Free
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Instagram, the popular image sharing platform, has grown to immense heights, but it is the clever integration of 3D Touch features, the awesome filters and expanded image sizes available that have probably contributed to it becoming Apple's favorite for the year.

Price: $4.99
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Lara Croft Go is a turn-based adventure game with outstanding graphics style that brings the adventure of the popular heroine to mobile in a game with well-tailored controls and lots of exciting levels to play through.

Price: Free
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Called Fallout Shelter, the game basically puts you in control of your own vault, with all the cool things that might be happening in there, much like a life simulator, Sims-style. Optimized for a touch screen, Fallout Shelter allows you to build new quarters and level the residents up, plus you can really reproduce them the old-fashioned way, but we will save the details on that bit for when you install the game and play around with it a while.

Price: Free
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A platformer game for Flappy Bird-inspired masochists. That about sums it up: Mr. Jump is challenging: you have to jump over sharp objects and water and time the jumps well in order to survive and it's very hard to reach a high score. That's what makes it so sweet when you do, though.

Price: $1.99
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Dark Echo puts you in an environment where you are trapped in darkness and you ought to visualize sound guides to find your way out. The sounds you create bounce of the boundaries of this dark world revealing you its shape, but hidden in the dark is something that devours sound and souls.

Price: Free
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Warhammer 40,000 Freeblade is the latest game in the Warhammer series, this time making its way straight onto mobile devices with all the risks associated with this. The story revolves around a young Imperial Knight who sees their noble house destroyed by the twisted forces of Chaos. The action uncovers across over 40 single player campaign missions as you command your Freeblade squad on a journey of redemption and vengeance. Test your skills in special objective missions and patrol the world of Tarnis to slay endless waves of invaders.

Price: $3.99
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Create robots. Test robots. Collect robots. Build with exoskeletons, zephyr mechanisms, hydrostatic tentacles, machinos locomotors, G-Force mixers, and more! Make any robot you can imagine! Robot cats. Robot samurais. Robot spies.

Price: Free (req's monthly sub)
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HBO NOW is the new standalone streaming service from HBO, currently available for a limited-time, introductory free trial. Now all you need is the internet to get instant access to all of HBO, including all the big premieres at the same time they air on TV. Watch every episode of every season of Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Jinx, Girls, The Sopranos, The Wire and so many more series, as well as hundreds of exclusive movies. A subscription (30-day free trial, then $14.99/month) gets you instant access to the best of HBO: the original series, movies, comedy specials, documentaries, special events and smart talk shows.

Price: $9.99
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Create dynamic drum patterns with the swipe of a finger. Make evolving, poly-metric rhythms, four-on-the-floor dance party jams, or laid back R&B grooves. Use Patterning’s independent loop settings to explore untapped rhythmic possibilities. Automate parameters to create intricate & complex beats.

Price: Free
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LiquidText gives you the tools to focus on what matters, compare distant sections, take notes, build upon thoughts, and pull out key facts from the text.

Price: Free
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uMake is a simple and intuitive to use 3D design app that will help you set your ideas free. uMake allows you to easily sketch on 2D planes in a 3D space, as well as import photos and use them as a reference for your next idea.

Price: $3.99
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Prune is a love letter to trees. A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation. With a swipe of a finger, grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil.

Price: Free
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This latest instalment in the popular Rayman platformer series, Adventures brings the familiar graphical excellence and fun gameplay in the adorable Rayman world.

Price: $9.99
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Twenty years after the fall of Earth, the remnants of the Human race are once again faced with extinction. The time has come to justify our existence. A mysterious life form known as the XADA squares off against humanity's last weapon - the War-Mech series III battle suit.

Price: $1.99
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Her Story is a fresh take on the police procedural from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. Playing like an interactive true crime documentary, the game lets you go hands on with a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe Gideon and the Shark.

Price: $4.99
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Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey is the first instalment in an ambitious full-scale JRPG series. When Cael touches one of the forbidden Celestial Shards, he sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever, and may threaten the existence of everyone on Orcanon… Set off on an epic journey to discover the hidden truths of Orcanon and the secrets of your own past.

Price: $3.99
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Dark Sky is a clever iPhone app that has launched on the Apple Watch bringing not only weather forecasts, but timely warnings when it is going to rain in the next few minutes, so that you go out prepared.

Price: $2.99
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Rules is a neat little game that brings you daily brain mini challenges in a puzzle form.

Price: $39.99
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Some have gone as far as to call Affinity Photo a 'Photoshop killer', and while it might be a bit far off for professionals, it definitely does an outstanding job with image editing and allows you to easily manipulate images to bring out the best in them.

Price: $19.99
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PDF Expert is a productivity app with rich functionality and convenient interface: it allows you to fill out forms and browse through PDF books and documents of various sizes and forms.

Price: $33.99
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In Pillars of Eternity you lead your own band of companions across a new fantasy realm and into the depths of monster-infested dungeons in search of lost treasures and ancient mysteries.

Price: $24.99
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The game introduces the innovative Nemesis System, through which every enemy encountered in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition is procedurally generated and unique to each player, from appearance, to personality type, to strengths and weaknesses, to distinct enemy missions