Kino and Adobe Lightroom Honored Among Apple’s 2024 Apps of the Year [Video]

Apple revealed the winners of its 2024 App Store Awards, celebrating and honoring 17 apps and games across a diverse range of genres throughout the Apple ecosystem. Apple picked these 17 winners from 45 finalists.

Split into “Apps” and “Games” categories, there are a couple of very familiar faces featured this year.

The superb mobile filmmaking application, Kino, is the 2024 iPhone App of the Year. This app, released in May, is created by the Lux Optics, the team behind the acclaimed photography app, Halide. Kino aims to revolutionize shooting video on iPhone with professional features and controls, including high-end tools for capturing, editing, and grading videos.

Kino received a major update in July to include more control over focus and color grading and then was further significant improvement in Novemberwhen Lux added 4K/120p recording and Camera Control compatibility to keep the app up to date with Apple’s technological advancements on the iPhone …