It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code upgrade26. Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. Fitbod: Get stronger, faster with a fitness plan that fits you. Get 25% off your membership. Links and Show Notes: List of Nominees (Spoilers Below) Best Overall iOS App Final Cut Camera Mango Baby Carrot Weather Ivory Callsheet Best Newcomer iOS App Tapestry Focus Friend Athlytic Cassette Best Overall Mac App Numbers Mimestream ChatGPT Claude Ice ChatGPT Mimestream Obsidian Things Best Newcomer Mac App Longplay Superwhisper Claude Ice ChatGPT Festivitas Affinity Hyperspace ChatGPT Ghostty Tapestry Best Feature: Best Implementation of a ’26 OS Feature** iPad Multitasking Clipboard History for Mac Private Cloud Compute in Shortcuts Athlytic Liquid Glass iPad Multitasking Call Screening Game of the Year Herdling Donkey Kong Bananza Balatro Clair Obscure Expedition 33 Favourite Movie Thunderbolts* Superman Flow My Old Ass Sinners F1 One Battle After Another Favourite TV Show The Pitt Ludwig Murderbot Pluribus Severance The Studio Favourite Book Moonbound by Robin Sloan Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Apple in China, by Patrick McGee Ensh*ttification, by Cory Doctorow Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green Favourite Podcast Connected Crash Course Pods: The Universe Wavefrm The Town Kinda Funny Gamescast The Rest is History Connected Upgrade Favourite Apple Product iPhone 17 Pro AirPods Pro 3  iPhone Air iPad Pro M5 MacBook Air M4 Favourite Non-Apple Product RoboRock vacuum Combustion thermal probe Traeger pellet grill Nintendo Switch 2 Bambu Labs P2S 3D Printer Trmnl E-Ink Display Worst Gadget / Most Disappointing Tech “Sky Blue” MacBook Air XTEINK X4 Cord Cutting Drama AI Liquid Glass Apple Intelligence Most Life-Changing Hardware RoboRock vacuum Combustion thermal probe M4 MacBook Pro and Second Desk Lutron Shades Vtech RM7767HD iPad mini in the Nursery AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch Nintendo Switch 2 Favourite Tech Story “Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son” - Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge “Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed” Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino Apple Succession Alan Dye Leaves Apple AI Arms Race Announcement of the Steam Machine Favourite Tech Screw Up Apple gives up on personalized Siri until “the coming year” Jony Ive and Sam Altman share a coffee in SF Apple, Epic, Judge Gonzalez Rogers — Apple losing ability to charge 30%, being held in contempt, etc Apple Intelligence AWS / Cloudflare Outages Liquid Glass Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Record of Previous Winners – Upgradies.com