A cozy habit tracker, a smarter snippet library, and a rooster that wants you out of bed: this year’s Shipaton winners offer plenty of new apps to explore.
RevenueCat’s annual app-building competition drew 3,985 project submissions in 2026, according to its winner announcement. Across the 20 first-place categories, developers tackled everyday frustrations, built inventive games, and found new ways to connect people.
Keeping a routine is easier when there’s something to look forward to. Mio pairs self-care and habit tracking with a pixel companion that grows as you make progress. Check off habits, earn coins, and unlock new companions and collectibles, with friends and groups adding a social reason to keep going.
Mio took Shipaton’s Grand Prize, with RevenueCat highlighting its revenue and growth in a crowded habit-tracking market.
That dog you met on your morning walk can become part of your collection. Boop identifies cats and dogs and turns their photos into stickers for a digital book, giving pet lovers a playful reason to pay attention to the animals around them.
Creator Taiwo Omisore’s “100 Boops” challenge took the app into the real world, where printed pet portraits and conversations with owners helped shape the product. That hands-on approach earned Boop first place in #BuildInPublic.
If you have fond memories of futuristic arcade racers, Nitelore has a familiar appeal: hovering vehicles, neon tracks, and plenty of speed. Chase your own ghost in time trials, take on combat races, or compete online.
Free tracks offer a starting point, while paid unlocks and daily and weekly challenges give players more to explore. RevenueCat’s Best Game judges singled out the art direction, effects, and haptics.
Explaining how you see color can be surprisingly difficult. See as Me: Colorblind makes that conversation visual, using a split-screen camera to compare different types and degrees of color blindness. A shareable link lets someone else see the comparison without installing the app.
Developer Javier Jiménez drew on his own experience with protanopia. That personal perspective helped the app earn the RevenueCat Peace Prize.
Clucky’s rooster is determined to get you out of bed. Turning off an alarm can require solving a problem, moving around, or finding an object, bringing a little friction to the temptation to snooze.
Its personality runs through the entire interface, including a time picker that uses the rooster’s scrolling eyes and yellow beak. That consistent character, animation, and attention to detail earned Clucky the RevenueCat Design Award.
Adversary starts with a familiar challenge: flip cards and find matching pairs. The catch is a hidden Danger card with no matching partner. Reveal it, and an ad becomes part of the board you’re trying to remember.
That idea earned Niv Ben-porath’s game the Catvertising Award. Players can continue with ads after an initial ad-free period, or choose a permanent unlock that removes ads and adds difficulty options.
Put a few phones on the table, and Bubble Games turns their screens into a shared game board. Objects move between devices as friends compete in minigames, including a virtual hot potato.
Built by four software engineering students at Université Laval, the Next Gen Award winner uses the phones people already have to create a shared activity. Its Shipaton submission includes ten minigames. The winner announcement links to the Android release on Google Play.
GRIDLOCK takes a game everyone knows and adds up to four players, online rooms, and eleven special moves. The result offers more ways to disrupt an opponent’s plans than the familiar three-by-three board.
Its HAMM Award win recognizes how the business model fits the game: a shared Credits currency connects rewarded ads, optional packs, and a subscription, while core modes remain free. Players can choose the option that fits how often they play.
Just Add begins with a craving. Type what you feel like eating, describe it aloud, or take a photo, and the app suggests three meals built around it, adding protein, fiber, and healthy fats to round out the plate.
Shopping support, hands-free cooking, and remembered preferences help carry the idea through to dinner. The winner of Abbey’s Kitchen’s nutrition challenge also impressed judges with a dinner-host feature that accounts for other people’s preferences.
The reply you send every week, the PDF you keep hunting for, and the image you paste repeatedly can all live in SnipStash. It organizes reusable text, images, and files across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a keyboard, Mac quick palette, hotkeys, and Shortcuts bringing them within reach.
Private iCloud sync connects the library across devices. Its speed and native interface helped it win Christopher Lawley’s productivity challenge.
Knowing what you want to say and saying it aloud are different things. Rehearse – Hard Conversations gives you an AI counterpart to practice with before a difficult workplace discussion.
Choose from 33 prepared scenarios or bring your own situation, then review feedback on clarity, empathy, assertiveness, and structure. A prep card helps you take the useful points into the real conversation. The app won Leadership Heather’s career-coaching challenge for its focused, straightforward approach.
You see a game in a short video, mean to look it up later, and forget its name. Game Magnet lets you share the clip to identify the games and save them to your backlog.
Processing happens in the background, with a notification when the result is ready. Shelves, ratings, and ranked lists help organize what comes next. The app won Mr Lewis Blogs Gaming’s challenge by making discovery and keeping track of games easier.
FeelGood: Movement Menu starts with a short check-in about your energy, available time, and how you want to feel. It then offers a small menu of movement, with an appetizer, main, and optional sides.
The options span yoga, Pilates, strength, walking, stretching, and breathing. Rest is part of the experience, too. Yusra Salam and Ameena Malik’s app won Simone Sharice’s yoga and fitness challenge, with judges praising its calm, inviting design.
