Google Reveals Best Apps And Games of 2025: Focus Friend And Pokémon TCG Pocket Lead, Check FULL List

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The year-end is not far away, and the best apps of 2025 by Google have been announced. Well, this is nothing unusual as the tech giant usually announces the best or the top downloaded apps every year. Google says the idea is simple – make Play more than just a store and give users a more personalised, discovery-friendly experience. Also Read: 7 Google Tricks For Smarter Online Shopping

This year’s Best App title goes to Focus Friend, created by Hank Green. It is a minimal, calming app designed to help people disconnect from distractions and stay focused – something we all need in 2025.

Best Multi-Device App

Luminar: Photo Editor won the Best Multi-device App award. With AI-powered photo editing tools that work across phones, tablets, and PCs, the app impressed Google with how smooth and creative the experience feels across devices.

Category-Wise Winners

Google also announced winners across multiple categories, each designed to highlight a different side of daily life:

• Best for Fun: Edits – Instagram app
• Best for Personal Growth: Focus Friend
• Best Everyday Essential: Wiser – 15 Minute Audio Books
• Best Hidden Gem: Pingo AI Language Learning
• Best for Families: ABCmouse 2
• Best for Watches: SleepisolBio
• Best for Large Screens: Goodnotes
• Best for Cars: SoundCloud
• Best for XR Headsets: Calm – Sleep, Meditate, Relax

Apart from the best apps on Google Play Store, Google has also shared its favourite books across fiction and nonfiction. From thrillers to memoirs, fantasy to young adult picks, the list covers a wide range of genres. 

Google Play Best Games of 2025

Taking the top spot is Pokémon TCG Pocket. Google praised it for recreating the excitement of the classic Pokémon Trading Card Game – from opening booster packs to collecting beautifully designed cards. It brings a familiar nostalgia but with a modern digital twist. Apart from this, the title of Best Multi-device Game goes to Disney Speedstorm. 

Google also named winners across different styles of gameplay:

• Best Multiplayer: Dunk City Dynasty
• Best Pick Up & Play: Candy Crush Solitaire
• Best Indie: Chants of Sennaar
• Best Story: Disco Elysium
• Best Ongoing: Wuthering Waves
• Best on Play Pass: DREDGE
• Best for Play Games on PC: Odin: Valhalla Rising