3D Drawing App Receives Apple Design Award for Innovation and Excellence
Unleashing Creativity with Apple's Design Awards 2025: A Glimpse into Cutting-edge Apps
Take a peek at the brilliant bunch that snatched the 2025 Apple Design Awards! The spotlight has fallen on a standout 3D drawing app for the iPad, known as Feather, which has been creating quite a buzz on social media for its mindblowing ability to transform flat art into dazzling 3D artworks.
Beside Feather, the awards have recognized other exceptional creations on various fronts, such as the ravishing game Neva, the UI design prototyping app Play, and the shopping app Taobao. These winners reflect the jaw-dropping ingenuity and sophisticated skills of the developers, as well as the tantalizing potential of Apple hardware, including top-notch tablets for drawing.
Apple Design Awards 2025: Spotlight on Champion Apps
The awards dance for 12 apps and games, each demonstrating exemplary design prowess. Winners hail from six distinct categories: Delight and Fun, Innovation, Interaction, Inclusivity, Social Impact, and Visuals and Graphics.
Feather: Craft in 3D
Winner in the Visuals and Graphics category, Feather: Craft in 3D (by Sketchsoft, South Korea) is a luminous treasure for artistic minds, letting users embark on 3D creations using traditional brush strokes, made possible through astute Apple Pencil interactions. Drawers can move freely in a 3D environment, sketch from various angles on a can-do canvas, and export their masterpieces in 3D formats [1][2].
Play: Choreographing the Future
Victor in the Innovation category, Play, developed by Rabbit 3 Times, is an app for UI designers to create fluently navigable SwiftUI prototypes for interactive experiences across Mac and iOS devices. Its seamless syncing capabilities allow for real-time collaboration between team members [1][3].
Enticing Entries in Gaming Realm
Neva: A Symphony of Light and Darkness
Claiming the prize in the Social Impact category, the hauntingly beautiful Neva (published by Devolver Digital for Mac [4]) lures players into a side-scrolling adventure following the plight of Alba, a young woman accompanied by her wolf companion Neva. Through their journey across four seasons, players experience poignant themes of affection, leadership, and the price of environmental degradation [1][5].
Other Astonishing Pieces
- Speechify: This app, honored in the Inclusivity category, empowers users to navigate life effortlessly, catering to diverse abilities and preferences [1].
- Infinity Nikki: Inspiring the hearts of gamers, this engaging open-world adventure adorned with magic charms won the Visuals and Graphics (Game) category, enchanting players with lavish landscapes, extraordinary garbs, and a wrinkle of surprise [2][3].
As Apple continues to delve deeper into the gaming realm, the whispers of a revolutionary Apple gaming app set to debut at WWDC have started to reverberate. Rumors also suggest that the tech behemoth's engineers have concocted a VisionOS plug-in for Godot Engine, which may entice an influx of indie developers to churn out VR and XR games using one of the top-tier game development programs [3].
Want to know more about these thrilling victors? Head over to the Apple Design Awards site.
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- Feather, a 3D drawing app for the iPad, has won the Visuals and Graphics category at the Apple Design Awards 2025, showcasing its ability to convert flat art into 3D artworks using traditional brush strokes.
- The UI design prototyping app, Play, developed by Rabbit 3 Times, has triumphed in the Innovation category, offering seamless SwiftUI prototyping for interactive experiences across Mac and iOS devices.
- In the Social Impact category, the hauntingly beautiful game Neva, published by Devolver Digital for Mac, captivates players with poignant themes of affection, leadership, and environmental degradation.
- The app Speechify, recognized in the Inclusivity category, empowers users with diverse abilities and preferences to navigate life more effortlessly.
- In the Visuals and Graphics (Game) category, Infinity Nikki, an open-world adventure dripping with magic charms, enchants players with lavish landscapes, extraordinary garbs, and a twist of surprise.
- A revolutionary Apple gaming app is expected to debut at WWDC, while rumors suggest that Apple engineers have cooked up a VisionOS plug-in for Godot Engine, enticing indie developers to create VR and XR games using one of the top-tier game development programs.
- The creative minds behind these winning apps and games will be inspirational fodder for other UX, UI, and creative designers, as well as 3D artists exploring new frontiers in technology and art.
