New Delhi: Microsoft has recently announced its winners of the 2025 Microsoft Store App Awards, recognising applications across the categories ranging from AI assistants to gaming, creativity and productivity. The awards highlight the applications that improved the users’ experience on Windows devices throughout the year, by offering deeper integration, performance improvements and consistent updates. This year, AI-focused tools and cross-platform applications dominated multiple categories, reflecting user demand for automation, intelligent search and creative features.
Each year, The Microsoft Store Awards honor outstanding applications that elevate user experiences, drive productivity, and inspire creativity across the Windows ecosystem. This year, we are proud to honor 10 winners. 🏆
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— Windows Developer (@windowsdev) December 4, 2025
AI Applications:
The AI assistants category has resulted in a tie, with Perplexity and ChatGPT jointly winning the award. Perplexity’s Windows application brings multi-modal AI search, voice dictation and deep desktop integration for quick research. It supports personal and enterprise workflows through IT policies, keyboard shortcuts and guided research modes. ChatGPT for Windows secured equal recognition for its instant answers through the Alt + Space companion window, support for image and file uploads and enterprise-level privacy controls. Its Windows first features make it more useful for both individuals and businesses.
Business and Automation applications:
In the business category, Invoice Maker and Estimate Creator by Moon Invoice have won the award for their perfect ability to simplify invoicing, expense tracking and financial record-keeping with the templates and multi-channel sharing tools. However, Manus has won the Computer Using Agents category. It is basically used as a sandboxed automation architecture to run code, manage files, control browsers and execute complex workflows. The application’s multi-agent system and Manus’s Computer interface enable the users to track and guide tasks in real-time.
Creativity, Education, and Music Application:
In this creativity category, the n-Track Studio won by offering a full-featured Windows-based audio recording and editing with support for unlimited tracks, VST plugins and AI-powered tools. Scratch 3 has secured the education award for helping the students to learn coding concepts through the visual block-based programming and hardware extensions like micro:bit and LEGO robots. Moises Live has won the music category by using its real-time AI audio separation to isolate vocals, instruments or dialogue at the system level, with all processing performed locally on Windows devices.
Gaming and Productivity Application:
In gaming, Castle Craft has won for delivering resource merging mechanics, quests and optimised controls suited for Windows hardware. Notion has claimed the productivity award for turning scattered notes, tasks and documents into an integrated workspace with automation templates and offline access. Microsoft has also stated that the winners will receive a special Store Award badge, marking their contribution to the Windows ecosystem.
