Meet the 20 first-place apps from RevenueCat’s Shipaton 2026

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.

You can get a look at every first place winner below, and read RevenueCat’s full winner announcement for every more.

Mio turns everyday habits into a cozy game

1st place • Grand Prize Winner

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.

Boop makes every dog walk a collecting adventure

1st place • #BuildInPublic

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.

App Store | Devpost submission

Nitelore puts neon racing in your pocket

1st place • Best Game Award

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.

See as Me makes color blindness easier to understand

1st place • RevenueCat Peace Prize

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 gives your alarm clock a personality

1st place • RevenueCat Design Award

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 adds a twist to the memory game

1st place • Catvertising 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.

Bubble Games brings everyone’s phones together

1st place • Next Gen Award

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 gives tic-tac-toe room to grow

1st place • HAMM Award (Help Apps Make Money)

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 starts dinner with what you want to eat

1st place • Influencer Award – Nutrition & Healthy Eating: Abbey’s Kitchen

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.

SnipStash keeps reusable content close at hand

1st place • Influencer Award – Productivity: Christopher Lawley

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.

Rehearse helps you practice the difficult conversation

1st place • Influencer Award – Career Coaching: Leadership Heather

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.

Game Magnet saves the game you spotted in a video

1st place • Influencer Award – Gaming: Mr Lewis Blogs Gaming

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 offers movement that fits your day

1st place • Influencer Award – Yoga & Fitness: Simone Sharice

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.

BoatBrawl gets friends into the same battle

1st place • Ship Kotlin Everywhere

BoatBrawl brings arcade boat battles to a group of up to eight players. Steer, fire, and scramble through interactive arenas, with bots and shared-screen play offering more ways to join in.

Rehaan Cubes and Ashwin K M used Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform to bring the game across phones and computers, including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and the web. Its smooth browser play helped it take JetBrains’ Ship Kotlin Everywhere award.

Trazo gives golf videos a broadcast-style finish

1st place • Most Viral App

Trazo: Golf Ball Tracer adds a ball-flight line to your own golf videos. Select the ball twice to start, and the processing runs on the phone.

Julian Praest’s app won Most Viral App for the way its team introduced the product through organic content. Golf humor and practical advice set up the tracer reveal, making the finished video part of the pitch. For golfers, the appeal is simple: make the shot easier to follow when you share it.

Grandfolio helps collectors identify their next find

1st place • Best App for Galaxy

One Piece Card Game collectors know that similar-looking cards can be very different finds. Grandfolio helps identify artwork variants, manage duplicates, and track collection prices and progress.

The Best App for Galaxy winner impressed judges with layouts that adapt to folded, tabletop, and open-screen use. There’s an App Store release for Apple users, too, making this a relevant discovery even if your collection starts on an iPhone.

Let’s Get Support focuses on the people giving support

1st place • Replit’s Idea to Income

Let’s Get Support by 3Dadz is designed for partners, parents, and friends affected by someone else’s addiction. Check-ins, journaling, boundary-setting tools, and local resources give those supporters a place to focus on their own needs.

Joshua Burgess and Aaryn B. built the app from community conversations in British Columbia, using Replit to turn the idea into a live product. It won Replit’s Idea to Income award. The announcement links to its Android release.

PoquitoTalk helps everyday conversations cross languages

1st place • The Growth Loop Award

PoquitoTalk: Bocas del Toro turns English into local Spanish voice notes for WhatsApp and helps translate the replies. The recipient doesn’t need to install the app, keeping the conversation in a tool people already use.

Creator Dorien Van den Abbeele drew on years of life in Bocas del Toro. Its Growth Loop Award recognizes extensive growth experiments and an honest account of what the measurements could show. The announcement links to Google Play.

Parky! puts useful park updates on your Lock Screen

1st place • Keep Them Coming Back Award

Parky! combines wait times, dining availability, and memories from Disney and Universal visits. Built by former Disney Cast Member Chase Van Derrick, it aims to offer useful help throughout a park day.

Dining alerts can become conversations on the Lock Screen, where you can ask about another time or restaurant. Alongside queue Live Activities and recap messages, those interactive notifications helped Parky! win the Keep Them Coming Back Award.

In Your Own Words makes room for a minute of practice

1st place • Funnel Vision Award

In Your Own Words offers short, real-world speaking scenarios and feedback on pace, hesitation, and filler words. Speech analysis takes place on the phone, giving users a way to practice the words before they need them.

Natasha Wilson’s app won the Funnel Vision Award for connecting a web quiz, a relevant practice deck, and a web purchase that unlocks access in the app. The introduction to the product begins before the download.

Friendpire brings friends into a shared world

Winner • Conflict of Interest Award

Friendpire turns the idea of a board-game night with friends into a shared hex-tile world. Gather resources, build farms and docks, and grow an empire together. RevenueCat employee Erik MacInnis built the game to make it easier to stay connected with friends who rarely find time to play.

Friendpire won the separate Conflict of Interest Award, which was open to RevenueCat and sponsor employees and judged by Shipaton participants. It is included here as an optional sidebar and is not part of the 20 first-place count above.

Discover your next app

From a useful tool for the workday to a game for your next night in, Shipaton’s winners show how much can come from taking an idea all the way to a shipped app. Explore the winners above, or browse RevenueCat’s full announcement for more apps from the competition.

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