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9 awesome paid iPhone apps you can now download for free (save $21!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:50PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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It’s the last day of a great month, so we clearly need to end on a high note. BGR has saved app lovers hundreds of dollars in July by sharing awesome paid iPhone and iPad apps that have gone on sale for free for a limited time, and today we’re finishing strong with the most apps we’ve shared in a single post all month. We’ve got nine nifty paid iPhone and iPad apps in total to share with you on Thursday, and as always, download anything that looks appealing immediately because these great sales could end at any time.

These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they are free at the time this post is published. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “free,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Camera Pic

Don’t let this app’s simple name fool you — inside Camera Pic, you’ll find a great user interface and tons of sleek filters.

Camera Pic contains over 320+ filters, allow you to beautifully express the best moments of your life.

◉ MORE AWESOME FEATURES
Camera Pic is the perfect image editing app for quick and straight forward editing. Our simple design, paired with powerful and snappy tools, will give you the look you want in seconds, you can be a professional photographer!

Camera Pic™ You can be a professional photographer.

Normally $2.99, this app is now free for a limited time.

Download Camera Pic

Chewy

Is Chewy the ultimate recipe app? You be the judge.

With Chewy, you can create beautiful recipes using our simple import feature or simply create a recipe of your own. Edit and customize your recipes with ease and look them up whenever you need an inspiration on what to cook for that special occasion or any meal of the day.

You can share your recipe to your friends via Facebook, Twitter, LINE, e-mail.

Our import function supports following English sites.

allrecipes.com
foodnetwork.com
food.com
epicurious.com
simplyrecipes.com
myrecipes.com
taste.com.au
tasteofhome.com

Supporting Japanese sites:

cookpad.com
recipe.rakuten.co.jp
ntv.co.jp
allabout.co.jp/recipe
recipe.gnavi.co.jp
chefgohan.com

Chewy is free for a limited time, down from its regular price of just $0.99.

Download Chewy

My Music

Track. Discover. Listen. Watch. Enjoy.

A perfect to do list for your music. Keep track of new artists you’ve just discovered. Watch their hot new music videos. Explore their discography. Listen for free to samples of their tracks. Read up on their story. Conveniently link to their iTunes music store page.

Beautifully designed. Extremely helpful. Amazingly simple.

If you are like me you listen to a lot of streaming music and radio. When I hear a great new sound or discover an artist I can never remember them after the song is over. With My Music not only will I remember them later, but I will be able to explore more of their tracks and videos.

-The colors and themes for each artist is dynamically created to match the colors of the album art work.
-Search and save any artist in the iTunes library.
-Tap and hold artist to organize the layout of saved artists.
-Swipe to the left to delete.
-Read Wikipedia entries in app of your saved artists.
-Watch music videos in app via YouTube.
-Dive deep into the discography of saved artists, to find new tracks and albums.
-Listen to a sample of any track provided by iTunes.
-All artists, albums and tracks have a convenient link to the iTunes Store.

If you love discovering new music, you will love this app!

My Music is regularly $1.99 but it’s free right now.

Download My Music

Instaflash Pro

Instaflash Pro is like an incredibly advanced equalizer for your photos that can dramatically enhance the quality of images you capture on your iPhone.

Perfect your photos instantly with Instaflash Pro.

Instaflash Pro gives you more photo editing control with Pro photo adjustments including: Shadows, Highlights, Light EQ, Tone EQ, Color EQ, Split Toning, Fill Light, Soft Light, Clarity, Vignette, Focus, Noise Removal, White Balance, and more.

Simulate depth of field like an SLR or tilt-shift lens using the focus tool. Fine tune your photo’s lighting, tone, and color with equalizer controls. Clarity softens photos without losing edge sharpness or enhances details without over-sharpening edges. Skin Tune magically reduces blemishes and wrinkles for smooth and glowing skin in seconds. Color Splash enables selective color editing allowing you to creatively splash on the color to accentuate key elements of your photo. Use shadows, highlights, and denoise to bring low light shots back to life and save photos that would otherwise be throw away.

Save your favorite image adjustments as a preset and then save time by applying them again to your other photos.

Under the hood, patented LCE technology provides advanced exposure correction to add natural-looking illumination to the dark areas of your photos while still preserving contrast and detail. Achieve HDR-like results by stretching the dynamic range of your photo, making it appear more like the scene appeared to the human eye.

Instaflash is a universal app that supports iPhone and iPad devices.

This app is normally a hefty $4.99 but it’s free for a short time.

Download Instaflash Pro

AVPlayer Plus Pro

How many apps can play just about any video format you throw at them AND squeeze the words “plus” and “pro” into the same app name?

Would you like to watch videos on the go? Do you feel frustrated when your favorite video’s format is not supported? Or do you hate the time -consuming hassle of trying to convert the video formats to your devices?

Try our AVplayer Plus! It can play almost any video format through iphone, such as AVI,RWMV,DIVX,MKV,MP4,XVID,MOV,WMV,MP3,MP4,MPEG,MPK…..

Much more easier & No converting hassles!Just drag and drop your video into the AVplayer’s Medias. Watch everything, Go anywhere!

Support formats: avi,mkv,ts,mov,vob,mp4,mpg/dat,3gp,rmvb/rm,wmv,flv,OGG,Flac,ape,AAC(M4A),WAV,mp3,wma…

*Powerful Player:
– High quality video processing
– Select built-in track & subtitles
– Edit Contrast, Saturation
– TV-Out

* Control the playback
– Sweep upward on the left : increase Brightness
– Sweep downward on the left : decrease Brightness
– Sweep upward on the right : Turn up the volume
– Sweep downward on the right : Turn down the volume
-Sweep to the left: move to backward 10 sec
– Sweep to the right: move to forward 30 sec

* Additional features
– Support Batch edit
– Rotation Lock / Aspect ratio Control
– Folder Management: Move/Rename/Create
– Mini TV support
– Home button

Just synchronize your file with iTunes, and share with your friends through AirDrop now !!

A fair value at $2.99, this app is currently on sale for free.

Download AVPlayer Plus Pro

Be S.M.A.R.T.

Making goals is easy, but this nifty universal iPhone and iPad app will help you reach them.

What helps people achieve their goals? Yes, the right goal setting! How to set the goal in right way? It’s simple! Use the most well known system in the world – S.M.A.R.T. A lot of successful companies and people use this system for many years. Now it is available for iPad and iPhone and you can set your S.M.A.R.T. goals whenever you need it! This application will help you to learn about S.M.A.R.T. system, to set the goals for you and also other people and prepare action plan for each goal. You can track the progress, correct the actions if needed and finally achieve the goal.
This application provides:

1. Description of SMART principles

2. Examples of wrong goals and SMART goals

3.Ability to set unlimited number of goals

4.Goals can be set for yourself and also for other people (for example for your employees)

5. Each goal can be assigned to a category: Career, Family, Health & Fitness, Knowledge & Skills, etc. To live in harmony one should set goals in different categories.
6. Goals can be assigned priorities from extremely low to extremely high
7. You can set the time when the application should remind you to update the status
8. For each goal you can set an action plan which you are able to update.
9. Achieved goals will go to the box of achieved goals, so you could see what is you progress
10. Outstanding goals are shown in the “current goal” box
11. If you have multiple users for an iPad or iPhone and don’t want to share goals, you can sign up with different user account details.

Be S.M.A.R.T. with your goals!

Be S.M.A.R.T. is currently free, on sale from $1.99.

Download Be S.M.A.R.T.

Afterglow+

Hundreds of effects… dozens of filters and textures… all in one neat app.

Afterglow is the perfect image editing app for quick and straight forward editing. Our simple design, paired with powerful and snappy tools, will give you the look you want in seconds.

Download now and look forward to free content and app enhancements monthly!

15 ADJUSTMENT TOOLS
Use any of our 15 uniquely made adjustment tools to enhance your images to perfection with ease.

59 FILTERS
Afterglow has 27 fully adjustable Original Filters, 14 Guest Filters by various Instagram users, and the new Seasons filter pack including 18 filters.

66 TEXTURES
Afterglow includes a range of real and natural light leaks we created with 35mm film and instant film, to simplistic scratchy film textures.

CROPPING & TRANSFORMING TOOLS
Crop your photos with our quick and easy cropping tool with 15 different presets.
Transform your photos with our rotating tool, vertical and horizontal flipping tools, and straightening. Now with the new Double Exposure tool.

FRAMES
We provide a list of 128 different simplistic and adjustable frames, paired perfectly with Instagram. Now including the new Wallpaper Pack.

Tag your photos on Instagram with #Afterlight and follow @afterlightapp for a chance to be featured on our official Instagram.

Afterglow+ is free for a limited time, on sale from $1.99.

Download Afterglow+

Personal Photo Locker

Want to hide your naked selfies from prying eyes? Want to do it for free? Look no further.

The Best and Most Private Photo and Video App for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

√ PHOTO MANAGEMENT
• Create Albums right in the App
• Import/Export from Photo App
• iTunes Syncing
• Wireless Photo Transfer
• Email Photos
• Text Message Photos

√ PHOTO VIEWING
• Image Gallery
• Slideshow
• Intuitive Interface just like Photo App

√ VIDEO SUPPORT
• Import/Export from Photo App
• Watch Videos

√EASY CONTROL

* Multitouch control – Zoom, Swipe, Rotate
*Take private photos from within the app
* Import and export photos from or to Camera Roll.
* Share photos via email
* Full retina display support

This app is usually $0.99 but it’s free for a limited time.

Download Personal Photo Locker

Do Not Move

Last but certainly not least, we have a fun little app that gamifies breaking you of your smartphone addiction.

Don’t move your phone. You’ll get points for every second your phone doesn’t move!

Do Not Move:
▪ Increases your social being!
▪ Has an Attractive Interface Design!
▪ Skips the Swiping, Typing, Touching stuff!
▪ Detects the most gentle movements!
▪ Appoints you points when you don’t move your phone
▪ Gets you up to 250 times the basic amount of points!
▪ Has Game Center leaderboards: Highest Scores, Lowest Scores, Longest Steady Time
▪ Contains elaborate in game info and tips to get more points
▪ You can try to move, good luck!

Did you move your phone?
The movement bar at the bottom of the screen will change color from green to red. But, more importantly, the rate at which you receive points decreases.

Challenge others!
By reaching the highest amount of points. Or be different and try to keep your score at the same number for as long as possible!

Try to be different!
Get the lowest possible score, for example by using Do Not Move while fitnessing. You’ll prove the higher scores wrong by improving your health AND winning in the low score leaderboard!

Normally $1.99 and worth every penny, Do Not Move is now free for a short time.

Download Do Not Move

Zach Epstein
Zach Epstein Executive Editor

Zach Epstein has been the Executive Editor at BGR for more than 10 years. He manages BGR’s editorial team and ensures that best practices are adhered to. He also oversees the Ecommerce team and directs the daily flow of all content. Zach first joined BGR in 2007 as a Staff Writer covering business, technology, and entertainment.

His work has been quoted by countless top news organizations, and he was recently named one of the world's top 10 “power mobile influencers” by Forbes. Prior to BGR, Zach worked as an executive in marketing and business development with two private telcos.