Microsoft announces the Microsoft Store Awards 2025 winners

Every year, Microsoft holds the Microsoft Store Awards to celebrate and honor "outstanding applications that elevate user experience," and 2025 is no exception. The winners of this year's awards have now been announced, even though we had no public nominations like in previous years.

The Microsoft Store Awards honor outstanding applications that elevate user experiences, drive productivity and inspire creativity across the Windows ecosystem. We are proud to announce this year’s winners, each exemplifying technical excellence, user satisfaction and transformative potential.

Here are this year's categories and their corresponding winners (only the first AI Assistants category has a tie):

• AI Assistants category: Perplexity by Perplexity AI and ChatGPT by OpenAI
• Business category: Invoice Maker & Estimate Creator by Moon Technolabs
• Computer-Using Agents category: Manus by Manus AI
• Creativity category: n-Track Studio by n-Track S.r.l.
• Developer Tools category: ngrok by ngrok
• Education category: Scratch 3 by Scratch Foundation
• Game category: Castle Craft by Clever Apps Pte Ltd
• Music category: Moises Live by Moises Systems, Inc
• Productivity category: Notion by Notion Labs Inc

In addition to the worldwide awards, Microsoft held special awards in China. If you are curious to see what apps won the awards over there, head to Microsoft's official blog on WeChat.

Like in 2024, each winner of the Microsoft Store Awards received a special badge in the store, "signifying their contribution to the Windows community." You can click the badge in the store to read more about the award. However, unlike the previous year, no prize hardware is handed out this time. In 2024, Microsoft sent out a unique Surface Pro 11 to all Microsoft Store Award winners. You can check out the winners of the previous year's contest here.

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Posted Thursday 4 December 2025 at 12:24 pm AEST (my time).

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