Taiwan’s Best Annual Google Play 2020 List Announced; business collaboration, health and fitness apps are popular

At the end of the year, it is time to review this year’s results again. On Day 1, Google announced Taiwan’s “Best Google Play 2020 List”, which includes 16 best apps and 20 best games on the list. Under the new normal, we can see the rise of applications such as business collaboration, health and fitness; Furthermore, Taiwan’s independent game development team still has dazzling results.

In response to the New Normal under the 2020 epidemic, many new and practical applications appeared on the list, reflecting changes in users’ daily routines and new demands for digital tools. Among them, apps in the business collaboration category accounted for the largest share. “Microsoft Office” and “ZOOM Cloud Meetings” help users maintain smooth communication when working remotely. “Microsoft Office” was voted the “Most Popular Application”. Compared to the previous awards for this award, it was mainly for leisure and entertainment. It also shows the importance of remote collaboration services this year.

Additionally, “Boosted: Business & Brand Video Production Tool” and “AdDirector: Advertising Marketing Video Editing Production” developed by CyberLink provide convenient tools to help small and medium-sized businesses and brand owners generate digital marketing audio and video materials. . The demand for digital marketing tools has increased.

The rise of fitness and health apps on the list means the public is paying more attention to regularity and healthy living under the new normal. These include the “Healthy Eating and HealthBuy Consumption Guide” which helps in recording and tracking diet, and the “Good Sleeping-Smart Sleep Monitor”. Professional sleep monitoring and white noise meditation to aid sleep, and “Nüli-Home Class and Retraining Program” launched by Taiwanese YouTuber “Candice Sweat Life”.

Among them, “Nüli-Home and Retraining Class Schedule” invites YouTubers like “May Fit” and “Yalan Yalan” to provide multiple fitness training programs to help beginners establish regular exercise routines and instructions, while adopting concepts of healthy and positive diet. , To help women strengthen their fitness and confidence. This app won the annual “Best App” award, which shows the popularity and importance of female fitness services.

It can also be seen from the list that TV shows and dramas have undergone a digital transformation through applications to open diversified services, including “Food Players”, which started from television and entered the application services this year. Not only does it provide store information, but it also expands through group purchases. E-commerce operation, and the audiovisual platform “PILI”, the local Taiwanese official application of the internationally renowned Pili puppet show, offers new and classic Pili movies, community exchanges, music services, etc. to provide the public with various entertainment experiences.

Taiwan’s independent game development team continues to deliver dazzling results even in this changing year. The puzzle game “Life Gallery” created with a peculiar artistic atmosphere, and the role-playing game “Subscribe to My Adventure” that explores real social problems of the Internet. Both won the “Best Independent Game” awards in Taiwan and Hong Kong. “Life Gallery” also stood out from the list of games surrounded by strong enemies from around the world and won Taiwan’s “Game of the Year”. This is the first time that a Taiwanese development team has won this list on Google Play, showing great development and originality. strength.

In addition, the list of the best games this year includes several games for mobile devices created by the IP extension of film and television animation, such as “Disney Frozen Adventure: A new match-3 game”, “One Punch Man: The Strongest Man “,” Slam Dunk “. “SLAM DUNK”, “Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse: Chase”, “New Swordsman M”; and “Three Kingdoms Heroes M”, “Animal Crossing Friends Club Pocket Camping Plaza” and other classic adapted desktop and console games Cheng’s mobile game is on the list.

(First image source: Google Play)