Winner: 4weather

A weather app that lets you zero in what the weather will be like when and where you actually plan to be outside by utilizing a new adaptive forecast feed at its root, an extended and more informative set of "climacons" and finally the choice of the best forecast data vendor for your region.

Winner: fitCHAMP

A social fitness app that combines the powerful APIs of the personal fitness trackers that you and your friends use onto a single, beautifully designed dashboard where you can track and compete with your friends through certain metrics like distance moved, steps taken, and calories burned.

Winner: HappyAppy

A smile is contagious and what better way to spread a smile than by sharing a dance? HappyAppy is an interactive mobile application that allows friends to connect by dancing for one another when words are not enough. This allows people to virtually connect in a physical and emotional way that is not currently possible.

Winner: Tide

A Surfing forecast app that creates a more gestural way of exploring the waves through time whilst allowing fast access to the data that most is important to surfers.

Winner: TripUs

Connect all your social activities about a trip through one app. Organize all your pictures, Facebook updates, check-ins and tweets into a Trip timeline with invited friends and share information and photos with those friends in your network.

Finalists:
Honorable Mentions

Apps the jury felt deserving of additional recognition.

AccenTiles by Itay Galim, Israel

"Very very simple. Does one thing well, and could be an entertaining way to personalize your phone." —Jennifer Bove

"This one has a way with naming—I love "accentilize"—the social aspect is the most interesting, sharing colors rather than theme-ing your phone." —Eric Ludlum

Bleblo by Steven Brewis, South Africa

"A nice idea for anyone who likes to share real objects with friends." —Chris Caldwell

Dear Diary by Madelena Mak, USA

"A great way to ponder the meaning of life, the universe, and everything without creating a massive wake of inconsequential social fodder and musings that I find most social platforms leave behind." —Chris Caldwell

DriveWithMe by Caleb Khazoyan, USA

"Seems like an easy extension of mapping/directions and social connectivity. Simple, focused, can track data in the background and only present itself /notify drivers when needed." —Jennifer Bove

Fleet Keeper by Adrian Longega, Germany

"Mobile record keeping for fleet management, nice presentation of dense data sets. Could be useful for people who need to access this kind of information." —Jennifer Bove

"Really like the name and especially logo, the overall aesthetic is very appropriate—data viz / maintenance manual." —Eric Ludlum

Frigo by Marion Fröhlich, Germany

"I love this simple social twist on tracking weather." —Chris Caldwell

"This could be killer, it is the ease, and then the "ambient" information that is emotionally connective." —Eric Ludlum

leadme by Alan Asher, USA

"I like how the unique UI of Windows Phone can result in a clean, easy-to-use accessibility features." —Pratik Kothari

Letter Pick by Sittitsak Jiampotjaman, Thailand (designer of winning app, TripUs)

"What a fun and creative way to create personal postcards for friends and family!" —Corrina Black

"Super focused, easy to grasp, creative, delightful." —Jennifer Bove

"Excellent. There should be a tough version of it called ransom note." —Eric Ludlum

Memorable by Manasphon Siripak, Thailand

"Seems simple and original. I can see application in printed photo albums if printing code onto/beneath pics in an elegant way." —Jennifer Bove

"Unique extension of video sharing. I like how it utilizes QR code and augmented reality while still keeping simple design elements."—Pratik Kothari

Museo by Andrei Ganci, Romania

"Nice design and concept." —Chris Caldwell

OMG Moments by Helon Lee, USA

"This app is well-designed. The storytelling/journaling experience is delightful, focused, and appropriate for the phone, and the interface is clean and feels like it belongs on Windows Phone. Looks like fun and I would love to try it out." —Corrina Black

"The appeal of the function being to keep things orderly and accessible, and the name which indicates the crux is capturing (ranking) your immediate reaction to various things and see what sticks out over time." —Eric Ludlum

Pomo by Polina Flegontovna, Spain

"Simple and intuitive interface. Everyone needs a good task management app. This app focuses on one method of achieving tasks and does it well." —Pratik Kothari

Proto Hound by Geof Harries, Canada

"I like the ease of use in this design. An app designed to allow creation of prototypes can become very complex and challenging. This design focuses on the key items and keeping things simple." —Pratik Kothari

"This is Balsamiq-like in my opinion and apps like this are great for quick and dirty wireframe type prototyping. I like where this is going." —Corrina Black

"Nice simple design with an easy to understand guided introduction into the usage is refreshing and one of the only apps to really address the first time usage of the app." —Chris Caldwell

Scrapd by Andreas van der Griendt, Netherlands

"I like how the designer has thought through the various buckets (steps) of design process." —Pratik Kothari

"Designer scrapbook! Love it. The different sections that are contained in each project are great and communicate what I can do in the app (concepts, inspiration, thoughts, and reads). I like the clean and simple design as well. Nicely done!" —Corrina Black

Showmehow by Peter Lackman, Finland

"The ability to easily find do-it-yourself content in a phone optimized form sounds great, as browsing the web on the phone is often times not awesome, and an app like this could provide a better experience if it had sufficient, high-quality data to make it a compelling source. Interesting concept!" —Corrina Black

"Simple navigation of/access to potentially useful information. The corporate implementation idea is interesting." —Jennifer Bove

Slice by Regimantas Vegele, Lithuania

"This is a nice idea, which has undoubtedly been tackled a million ways." —Jennifer Bove

"Interesting idea." —Eric Ludlum

SnapCals by Roman Pohorecki, USA

"Great idea to build a data base of calorie content for foods." —Corrina Black

"Apps that help you determine your caloric intake in a useful and easy way are almost non-existant. This app takes a unique approach to helping address that problem." —Chris Caldwell

Think Creative by Mitchell Dunn, Australia

"I was skeptical at first but this is a nice implementation of a project organization tool that doesn't over-constrain the process. Clean, easy to navigate, incorporates phone functionality and considers web." —Jennifer Bove

"The basic concept is "mood-boarding IRL" which is great, but success will hinge on ease of acquisition, categorization and notation. Seems like it might be ok in these regards, uses visuals well." —Eric Ludlum

Time Vault by Mark William Salerno, Italy

"A great idea, its dominant use will be gifting, and the waiting is a delicious part of the present." —Eric Ludlum

"The whole count down idea certainly would build excitement, and it would be great to see interesting content left by friends and family once opened." —Corrina Black

"A visually wonderful experience that could be really fun and engaging on a social level." —Chris Caldwell

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