Best of Swiss Apps 2025 is looking for the best Swiss apps
Best of Swiss Apps 2025 is open. Interested parties can submit their app projects until September 8. The Swico start-up support program and the "hack an app" award from ti&m for children and young people are also taking part.
It's that time again: Best of Swiss Apps is launching the search for the best Swiss apps of the year. The deadline for submissions is September 8, 2025. Since its launch in 2013, the Best of Swiss Apps Award (BoSA) has established itself as the most important industry prize for mobile and web-based applications in Switzerland. It is the showcase for digital excellence in app development in Switzerland - and a recognized quality award that makes innovation, craftsmanship and impact visible.
The 2025 edition of Best of Swiss Apps features the following further developments and special awards:
Web Apps category becomes "Technology"
In the "Technology" category, we evaluate the technical excellence of mobile applications and their backend systems. Among other things, we evaluate how performant, stable and secure the solution is implemented, how well the platform guidelines are adhered to, how resilient it is to network or system failures and, in particular, how appropriate the choice of technology is with regard to the project objective.
Web apps category becomes "Extended Interaction"
The "Extended Interaction" category recognizes apps that stand out through innovative and immersive user experiences by pushing the boundaries of traditional mobile interaction. The category evaluates projects that use extended realities (mixed, augmented & virtual reality) as well as smartphone apps that create new forms of interaction and extended digital experiences through the creative use of sensors, camera functions or other technological possibilities.
Swico start-up support program
Swico, the trade association for the ICT and online industry, is supporting start-ups to take part in Best of Swiss Apps. Three start-ups are given the opportunity to submit a project in up to two competition categories for the "Best of Swiss Apps" award free of charge - worth CHF 1,350.
The start-up projects regularly take part in the competition and are assessed by the expert juries in the respective categories. Start-ups that have been entered in the commercial register for less than five years as an AG or GmbH are eligible. Swico membership is not required. Interested start-ups can apply apply here until Thursday, August 21, 2025.
"hack an app" award
The "hack an app" award from ti&m is back on board. For over ten years, ti&m has been inspiring children for IT with its IT youth development program "hack an app". During the four-day courses, they develop their own app with the help of ti&m employees and immerse themselves in the fascinating world of technology in a fun way. To get even more children interested in IT, ti&m has teamed up with Best of Swiss Apps to launch the "hack an app" award was launched. It honors the best app for children between the ages of 11 and 14.
Award Night on November 6, 2025 in the Kongresshaus
This year, the award ceremony will take place on November 6, 2025 at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. The "hack an app" award and the "Best of Swiss Software" award will also be presented.
