Contests run by app stores and platform marketplaces in Ukraine: which ones reward entries and votes
The checked material names no contests run by app stores and platform marketplaces in Ukraine. It does name two app-linked public awards and polls: the Mobile-first Award 2025, which Devlight ran with an expert jury and open voting, and the public polls in the Diia app, organised by the technical administrator of the Diia portal under Cabinet resolution No. 90 of 7 February 2022. Its Eurovision 2025 selection poll was open to everyone from 14 years old.
Rechecked on 28 October 2026.
Two app-linked awards and polls are named in the checked material
The first is the Mobile-first Award 2025, which the reporting calls Ukraine's first mobile app award, with 11 nominations. Devlight, the IT company behind it, announced the start of its open public voting, so the award is a contest in which apps are the nominees. The second is the set of public polls held inside the Diia app, whose technical administrator organises them. Those polls ask people questions inside an app, which makes them a different kind of thing from an award.
Both sit on this list because each one is a contest or poll tied to an app, and neither is run by an app store according to the checked material. A reader who asks who ran a given poll or award should look first at the organiser named in its own rules, since the organiser sets the dates and the terms of entry. The app that hosts a poll is not, by that fact alone, the one that organises it.
The two differ in how much the checked material says about each. The Mobile-first Award states its jury and open-voting arrangements on its own site, together with a closing date. The Diia polls are described only through the resolution that names their organiser and through one selection poll, so the material says far less about them. A reader should weigh the award's stated arrangements above any general impression of how these contests work.
- The Mobile-first Award 2025 is a mobile app award in Ukraine.
- Devlight ran open public voting for the Mobile-first Award 2025.
- Diia's public polls are a second app-linked poll in Ukraine.
- Two app-linked awards and polls are named in the checked material.
- No app store is named as the organiser of either one.
The Mobile-first Award 2025 pairs an expert jury with open voting
On the award's own site, winners are chosen by an expert jury alongside open voting, so the public part is one input to the result rather than the whole of it. The jury includes leaders of the mobile industry, product managers and design directors, which makes it a panel of people who build and run apps. The site therefore describes an arrangement in which a crowd does not pick the winner alone. A reader who expected a pure public choice should read this award as a mixed one from the start.
Two counts therefore sit side by side in this award: the jury's decision and the public tally. Keep them apart when reading any result, because a jury decision is not a public tally, even when both are published on one page. A result read as a single number would mix two different kinds of judgement, and the checked material gives no single number for the award.
The closing date is the one checkable marker the award gives. The page states that voting runs until 5 July 2025, so a reader arriving after that day can see that the public part has closed. The jury's decision is a separate step, which the page places alongside the public part. Read the closing date first, then the jury's role, because the first tells you whether the open part is still running.
- Winners of the Mobile-first Award 2025 are chosen by an expert jury.
- The award pairs a jury decision with open public voting.
- Its jury includes mobile industry leaders, product managers and design directors.
- The award's page states its closing date as 5 July 2025.
- A jury decision is not a public tally.
Diia's public polls are organised under Cabinet resolution No. 90
The resolution names who organises the Diia app's public polls: the technical administrator and owner of the Diia portal. Its date, 7 February 2022, is the reference a reader can cite when asking who set up a poll. Nothing else in the checked material sets an organiser for these polls, so the resolution is where that question is answered. The name of the organiser is the first thing to check, before any question about a poll's rules or dates.
The Eurovision 2025 national selection was held as an online poll in the Diia app. It was open to everyone from 14 years old, and that age floor is the only one the checked material gives for any poll in the app. Read the floor as a rule of that selection poll, not of every poll the app runs. The material gives no age for the Mobile-first Award, so the two cases cannot be set side by side on age.
An app's sign-up rules and a poll's entry rules answer different questions. The 14-year-old floor is written for the selection poll, so it is a term of that poll, and the checked material describes no general account rule for the app. A reader should not assume a rule from one poll carries over to another, and should read each poll's terms as they are stated for that poll.
- Diia polls are organised under Cabinet resolution No. 90.
- The Eurovision 2025 selection was an online poll in Diia.
- That selection poll was open to everyone from 14 years old.
- The age floor belongs to that selection poll, not every Diia poll.
- Resolution No. 90 is dated 7 February 2022.
Dates come from each organiser's own announcement
Devlight announced the start of open voting for the Mobile-first Award 2025 on 27 June 2025. The award's page states that voting runs until 5 July 2025. Those are two separate facts, the start announcement and the closing date, and a reader should check both before deciding whether the window is still open. The gap between them is the period in which the award's public part runs.
For the Eurovision 2025 selection poll in the Diia app, the checked material says that Suspilne Kultura announced the dates but does not print them. Its opening and closing days therefore have to come from that announcement, because the material cannot supply them. A reader who has the announcement in hand can check the calendar in the same way as for the award, one date at a time.
Dates matter for any contest of this kind, because a closed window takes no more entries. Three dates define the calendar: the announcement, the opening and the close. For the Mobile-first Award the material gives two of them, and for the Eurovision poll it gives none. Count the missing dates as missing, not as assumed.
- Devlight announced open voting for the award on 27 June 2025.
- The Mobile-first Award 2025 closes on 5 July 2025.
- Suspilne Kultura announced the dates of the Eurovision selection poll.
- A closed window takes no further entries.
- Three dates define the calendar of any such contest.
A result is checkable only against the organiser's published rules
Three things can be checked against the organiser in this material: the jury role in the Mobile-first Award 2025, the closing date printed on the award's site, and the organiser named in the Diia resolution. Each is stated by the organiser itself, so a reader can compare it with the page that carries it. That comparison is the whole of what a reader can verify from here, and it says nothing about the count itself.
What the material does not show is how a platform checks votes. It names no app store, so it describes no platform check on votes, and this page does not describe one. Nothing in it accuses either organiser of misconduct, and no disqualification is quoted for either the award or the poll, so none is set out here. Where a rule is missing from the material, this page leaves it missing.
Read a result as the organiser's own statement of how it was reached, and treat any missing step as missing rather than assumed. For the Mobile-first Award that means the jury decision and the public part are read as two parts, each checked against the page that states it. The same discipline applies to the Diia polls, where the material supplies the organiser and the age floor but little else.
- The jury role is stated on the Mobile-first Award 2025 site.
- The award's closing date is on its own site.
- The material names no platform check on votes.
- No disqualification is quoted for either the award or the poll.
- A jury decision and an open vote are two parts to read apart.
Rules that apply
Each award or poll in the checked material has its own organiser, and that organiser sets the rules for it. Devlight organises the Mobile-first Award 2025, and the award's site states that an expert jury chooses the winners alongside open voting. The Diia app's public polls are organised by the technical administrator and owner of the Diia portal under Cabinet resolution No. 90 of 7 February 2022. The checked material cites one legal instrument, that resolution, and it cites no law for the award. No app store is named as an organiser there, so this page treats no store's terms as the rules of these awards and polls. Read each award or poll against its own organiser's published arrangements, and do not let an app's account rules stand in for the rules of a poll.
What we decline
This page does not name an app store or platform marketplace as the organiser of any contest in Ukraine, because the checked material names none. It does not explain how the Mobile-first Award 2025 counts its public part next to the jury, and it cannot say whether any Diia poll was counted correctly. The organisers set their own dates, eligibility and results, and nothing on this page changes them. Nor does the page offer a verdict on any award or poll. The page does not help anyone buy votes in a contest or poll. The sources named here were checked and reviewed on 28 October 2026.
Questions and answers
The checked material names two app-linked public awards and polls in Ukraine: the Mobile-first Award 2025 and the public polls in the Diia app. It names no app store or platform marketplace as the organiser of either one, so no store-run contest is listed here. Each one is run by its own organiser, and this page gives those organisers by name: Devlight for the award, and the technical administrator of the Diia portal for the polls.
No counting method for any app-linked award or poll in Ukraine is in the checked material. The Mobile-first Award 2025 pairs an expert jury decision with open voting, and the material does not say how the two parts combine into one result. For the Diia polls it names the organiser under Cabinet resolution No. 90 of 7 February 2022 and says nothing about a tally, so a count cannot be stated from it.
For the Mobile-first Award 2025, Devlight announced the start of open voting on 27 June 2025, and the award's page states that voting runs until 5 July 2025. For the Eurovision 2025 selection poll in the Diia app, Suspilne Kultura announced the dates, but the checked material does not print them, so the opening day has to come from that announcement.
No, not from the checked material. The only item in it with a stated audience, the Eurovision 2025 selection poll in the Diia app, was open to everyone from 14 years old. The material gives no age limit for the Mobile-first Award 2025, so no answer is given for it, and no app store's audience rule is described at all.
Each rule in the checked material comes from the organiser of its award or poll, and none comes from an app store or a platform marketplace. The Mobile-first Award 2025 states its jury and voting arrangements on its own site. The Diia polls fall under Cabinet resolution No. 90 of 7 February 2022, which names who organises them.
The checked material names no results venue for any app-linked award or poll in Ukraine. For the Eurovision selection poll it records only that Suspilne Kultura announced the dates, which is an announcement of dates and not of a winner. Winners therefore have to come from each organiser's own announcement, which this page does not reproduce, and no result is printed here.