Top iPhone & iPad Apps of the Year 2010

Over 300,000 applications have made the Apple’s iTunes App Store, a marketplace of enormous potential. Apple has released its annual iTunes Rewind feature and named its apps of the year, which makes this the perfect time to reflect on the apps that have managed to beat the competition and rise to the top of the charts this year. Apple has recently named Flipboard its iTunes Rewind 2010 iPad app of the year and selected Hipstamatic as its favorite app for iPhone. These applications have the feature of being hand-selected by Apple, which comes with the added additional benefit of being distinctive prominently in the app store.

Out of those Mashable have picked the top 10 achievers on the performance scale by device &category, in which AngryBirds stands with the widely popular iOS app ranked 6 out of 10. Plants vs. Zombies was also a repeat winner and is listed as a top grossing iPhone & iPad app and the bestselling iPhone app. In social networking platform, Facebook‘s iPhone beat out every other free iPhone application in the market. The app’s supremacy speaks to the social network’s mobile growth and is especially interesting considering that Facebook seems to be missing an opportunity to reign dominant on the iPad by not developing an application for that device as well. Apple’s own iPad applications faired quite nicely. iBooks was the free iPad app of the year, and Pages & Numbers made the top three for both the grossing and paid categories as well. (Mashable quoted).
Apple has too accepted the facts that third party applications are more popular among regular users than its own.
iOS Apps of the Year:
Top 10 Free iPad Apps
1. iBooks
2. Pandora Radio
3. Netflix
4. Google Mobile App
5. Solitaire
6. Movies by Flixster with Rotten Tomatoes
7. IMDb Movies & TV
8. Kindle
9. Google Earth
10.Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD
Top 10 Paid iPad Apps
1. Pages
2. GoodReader for iPad
3. Numbers
4. Angry Birds HD
5. Keynote
6. Glee Karaoke
7. WolframAlpha
8. Pinball HD
9. Friendly Plus for Facebook
10. Star Walk for iPad
Top 10 Grossing iPad Apps
1. Pages
2. Numbers
3. Keynote
4. LogMeIn Ignition
5. SCRABBLE for iPad
6. Documents To Go Premium–Office Suite
7. Angry Birds HD
8. Real Racing HD
9. Plants vs. Zombies HD
10. Proloquo2Go
Top 10 Free iPhone Apps
1. Facebook
2. Angry Birds Lite
3. Words With Friends Free
4. Skype
5. Tap Tap Revenge
6. The Weather Channel
7. Paper Toss
8. Bing
9. ROCK BAND FREE
10. Talking Tom Cat
Top 10 Paid iPhone Apps
1. Angry Birds
2. Doodle Jump
3. Skee-Ball
4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz
5. Fruit Ninja
6. Cut the Rope
7. ALL-IN-1 GAMEBOX
8. The Moron Test
9. Plants vs. Zombies
10. Pocket God
Top 10 Grossing iPhone Apps
1. MLB.com At Bat 2010
2. Angry Birds
3. Call of Duty: Zombies
4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz
5. FriendCaller 3 Pro
6. Zombie Farm
7. TomTom U.S.A.
8. TETRIS
9. Plants vs. Zombies
10. Doodle Jump