Apple is revealing its 2024 game and app awards for the App Store.
Apple is revealing its 2024 game and app awards for the App Store.
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Apple unveils the most-downloaded games and apps of 2024

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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As 2024 comes to a close, Apple is unveiling the most downloaded games and apps of the year in the U.S.

Now available on the App Store’s Today tab on iPhone and iPad, year-end charts include the top Apple Arcade games, as well as top free and paid games and apps. Here’s the list of the most-downloaded games on the list. It’s a follow-up to the winners of the 2024 App Store Awards released last week.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.