Google has unveiled the Play Store’s annual Best of 2024 Awards, putting a spotlight on the most popular and most innovative apps, games, and books on the platform. As with the past awards, these are based on user ratings, downloads, quality, user engagement, and the opinions of Google Play editors.
This year, Google has continued to improve the platform’s user experience by enhancing discoverability, expanding gaming options, and optimizing rewards.
Read on to see the full list of winners for the Google Play Best of 2024 Awards for the US market. For more information about them, you can go here.
Best overall app and game
- Best app: Partiful
- Best game: AFK Journey
Best multi-device app and game
- Best multi-device app: Max
- Best multi-device game: Clash of Clans
Best apps of 2024
- Best for Fun: Mila by Camilla Lorentzen
- Best for Personal Growth: UpStudy – Camera Math Solver
- Best Everyday Essential: MacroFactor – Macro Tracker
- Best Hidden Gem: Timeleft
- Best for Watches: Baby Daybook – Newborn Tracker
- Best for Large Screens: Infinite Painter
- Best for Google TV: Peacock TV: Stream TV & Movies
- Best for Cars: PBS KIDS Video
Best games of 2024
- Best Multiplayer: Squad Busters
- Best Pick Up & Play: Eggy Party
- Best Indie: Yes, Your Grace
- Best Story: Solo Leveling: Arise
- Best Ongoing: Honkai: Star Rail
- Best for Families: Tab Time World
- Best on Play Pass: Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance
- Best for Google Play Games on PC: Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures
2024 books picks
- Favorite fantasy: “Dragon Rider” by Taran Matharu (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite thriller: “All the Colors of the Dark” by Chris Whitaker (ebook,audiobook)
- Favorite romance: “House of Flame and Shadow’ by Sarah J Maas (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite fiction: “All Fours” by Miranda July (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite memoir: “Knife” by Salman Rushdie (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite horror: “The Eyes are the Best Part” by Monika Kim (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite graphic novel: “Homebody” by Theo Parish (ebook | audiobook)
- Favorite cozy manga: “Breakfast with My Two-Tailed Cat” by Ai Shimizu (ebook)
- Favorite business book: “Teams: Getting Things Done with Others” by David Allen and Edward Lamont (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite personal development: “Supercommunicators” by Charles Duhigg (ebook, audiobook)
- Favorite historical fiction: “James” by Percival Everett (ebook, audiobook)
