Master of Swiss Apps 2020: These are the eleven nominees

The decision who Master of Swiss Apps is not solely up to the jury. The Best of Swiss Apps community also has a vote. The final score will be determined in equal parts by the votes of the jury, the readers of Netzticker and the visitors of the virtual award night on December 2, 2020.

Subscribers to Netzticker can vote for their favorite from November 12 to 16. Everyone who is a registered subscriber by November 11, 2020 is eligible to vote.

This is what the organizers write about the 11 nominated apps:

Bike Kingdom App

With beautiful landscapes, great infrastructure and the new Bike Kingdom app, Lenzerheide is positioning itself as a destination for mountain bikers. The app offers everything a passionate mountain biker could wish for: Test of strength among users, a wealth of quests and challenges and all relevant information about biking in the region. And all that with understandable user guidance and modern design.

Catch a Flight 

Catch a flight manages to make the user look up into the sky and generate wanderlust with its modern design and clear operation. The display and information about the launched flights is quickly visible and with one click the participation in the interactive lottery with addictive potential is possible. All elements of a successful campaign are combined here - a beautiful symbiosis of augmented reality and marketing.

Cybathlon@school with "Flexo

Using the exoskeleton "Flexo", learners are confronted with the challenges that people with physical disabilities face in everyday life. In several modules, they solve tasks together via app and learn to move the robotic support arm via code and joystick. In line with Curriculum 21, the students learn what barriers mean in everyday life and how digital technology can be used to break down analog barriers.

Felfel App

The self-service app from Felfel is an elegant solution for catering to office employees. The dishes are appetizingly presented and the app convinces with its high usability and appealing design. The icing on the cake, however, is the combination of classic app functionality with a practical IoT application: In this case, the app can be linked to the employee's badge and then serves as a key to open the securely locked refrigerator.

Frankly.

With Frankly, a rather boring and dry topic - pension 3a - has been transferred to the digital world in a very convincing way. The app is visually very independent and equally attractive as clear and reduced. The functionality is also convincing: A new retirement savings account can be opened in less than 5 minutes, including digital signature, contract conclusion and onboarding.

Mercedes-Benz 4U Kids

Mercedes-Benz 4U Kids impresses with a large and age-appropriate range of functions. The younger ones can design their own car in a beautifully designed 3-app and print it out as an individual paper craft sheet. For the older ones, there is a complete car racing game, in which the innovative use of augmented reality transfers a playfully self-created race track into a gripping racing game.

MyLivit

MyLivit manages to digitally map the tenant lifecycle. As a tenant, you get real added value - from the application to everyday living. The appropriate implementation of innovative elements such as the signature via slide gesture should be emphasized.
The myLivit app is a perfect example of when and why PWAs are a fantastic solution. Renters have contact with Livit four times a year - too few to download an app. MyLivit provides a frictionless user experience without a download.

Nirlab

The Nirlab app evaluates raw data from a portable spectral analysis scanner. It identifies and quantifies chemicals based on their spectrum and presents the results to the user within seconds - a process that previously took days. For this purpose, the data is analyzed and processed in the cloud using machine learning algorithms. The solution has already been successfully used by the Swiss police in a test phase.

Smartest Learning

The app ports analog learning content with mobile scanning into interactive practice sets. These sets can be shared and learning progress is logged. There is a lot of technological innovation behind it: The app combines computer vision with neuro-linguistic programming to extract documents and automatically create questions from them. The app's operation is fluid and very intuitive, and the roadmap shows how the creators intend to develop it further.

SwissCovid

SwissCovid impressed the jury with its development story, from a hackathon to collaboration with EPFL and ETH Zurich to the final federal app. But of course also with the technical solution to recognize personal encounters via a creative use of Bluetooth. With its simple design and reduced communication, the app gives the user a feeling of security and unagitatedly informs about the individual and national situation of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Typewise Keyboard

The Typewise app has the guts to improve one of the basic functionalities of the smartphone: the keyboard. With larger click areas, a faster layout, answer prediction, word suggestion, intuitive gestures and last but not least the playful easing of the familiarization phase, the keyboard app has an impressive range of functions. The handling is very intuitive and you quickly don't want to miss the new typing features.