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7 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time (save $42!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:56PM EST
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Today’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps that are on sale for free has some pretty big shoes to fill after yesterday’s solid list, and there are even a few great apps from Wednesday that are still free downloads if you hurry. For Thursday though, we have seven fresh paid iOS apps that are typically worth a combined $42, but right now they’re all completely free for a limited time.

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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 were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Note Rocket

Normally $1.99.

Get your message across with Note Rocket. Use this lightweight app to take photos of your projects. Highlight areas of interest and share with your team to get clarification or give instruction. Effortlessly add typed text and voice memos. Export with e-mail, Evernote, Goodreader, Dropbox , Twitter and more. Create an almost unlimited number of folders to archive photo notes in a snap.

At the heart of all great productivity apps is a solution to a specific problem. But what actually makes a good productivity app?

1. Must save time or steps from a task you need to do frequently.
2. You have to use this app daily or multiple times per week.
3. It should improve your life in some way.

This being said, Note Rocket gives you everything you always wanted, without the things you don’t.

– Productivity without the clutter –
Send visual questions to colleagues, share photo notes from meetings or off site events…designers, architects, product managers, sales executives can iron out all manner of issues and enable swift and detailed responses to problems.

– Photos & Recordings-
Capture from camera or choose photos from your library. Record reminders, comments or instructions that will automatically attach to your photo notes.

– Share Easily –
Note Rocket makes sharing your notes a breeze. Quickly send notes with e-mail or sync with Box or Dropbox. Export to Evernote and Goodreader or post your annotated photo on social media.

It’s not just for professional use though. Out shopping and not sure what to buy? With Note Rocket you can snap, annotate and share with your friends and family…you can underline the cool things, highlight the funny things, ask questions or just show off what you’re trying or buying! Take pics of an amazing night out and add a snapshot voice recording of your evening to let everyone see and hear what you got up to at the weekend!

Download Note Rocket

scan me

Normally $4.99.

** scan me is compatible with iPhone 5 or newer. iPhone 4 will be supported with the next update **

Brilliant scans and premium character recognition: Your pocket PDF & JPG scanner

The Premium Scanner app, scan me, combines cutting-edge scanning technology with outstanding Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by Abbyy Europe. Whether recipes, invoices, contracts, newspaper articles or learning material – scan me enables you to conveniently scan, edit and search documents of all kinds and share them with friends.

scan me puts you in the driving seat in every situation

Have you just tried out a new recipe which you would really love to scan and keep? Has someone handed you a business card? Or do you simply want to scan documents to keep better control of your private filing system? Then use scan me! With the PDF & JPG scanner app, you will immediately find…

… every single recipe,
… every invoice,
… every contract,
… every business card,
… every script, and
… every article.

The special attraction

Regardless of what you have scanned with scan me, you can carry out a full search of your scans thanks to the premium scanner’s automatic optical character recognition (OCR). Keen cooks will therefore find any recipes using “pasta” for example in just a few seconds; students will instantly be able to lay their hands on the right learning material; and anyone scanning their filing will have every invoice and every contract at their fingertips in PDF form, anywhere and as quick as a flash.
All functions at a glance

1.) Scan documents in brilliant HD quality
• Live image frame detection
• Optimization using different quality filters
• Perspective correction
• Rotate and crop scans

2.) Use practical editing functions
• Insert your signature
• Highlight text passages
• Add notes
• Edit the file name

3.) Find any scan in seconds
• Automatic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) runs directly on your iPhone
• Full search facility for scans
• No internet connection needed
• Supported Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish and Italian

4.) Export your scans to other services
• Save scans in organize.me
• Save scans in cloud services Google Drive and Dropbox
• Save scans in your photo media library

Regardless of what you scan and want to keep as PDF or JPG, nothing will ever get lost again with your pocket scanner app!

Download scan me

Memoriah

Normally $0.99.

As the great writer George Orwell: «He who controls the past, controls the future.»

It is this quotation formed the basis for creating app “Memoriah” that remembers every event in your life, its exact date, time and place, to remind you where it happened and keep all the events in the story in chronological order.

Use the app “Memoriah”, manage their future, without forgetting the importance and you will always have the answer to the question – When and where was it?

The main features of the application:

– Intuitive interface and easy to use;
– Recording of events by category and display them in the history in chronological order;
– Create a reminders event as by date and by geoposition;
– Ability to share your events with family and friends via WhatsApp, E-mail, SMS, twitter and Facebook;
– Synchronization all events via iCloud.

Download Memoriah

DDLN Cam

Normally $1.99.

DDLN Cam is a camera app that has a plethora of fabulous editing features. Besides a number of cool filters, the camera will also take mirror shots. When you’re done editing your masterpiece, you can have it sent to friends and family using social media.

◉ CLASSIC CAMERA
– Manual Camera mode(IOS8 or later).
Classic Camera provide 28 Live Filters, including Fx, Vignette, Funny, Sketch modes.
– Fx mode provide 7 live filters:
Elegance / Etikate / Amatorka / Tone / Hue / Sepia / Gray
– Vignette mode provide 7 live filters:
Black / White / Red / Fuchsia / Lime / Yellow / Blue
– Funny mode also provide 7 live filters:
FishEye / FishEyeR / Bulge / Swirl / Mosaic / Stretch / Pinch
– Sketch mode provide 7 live filters:
Sketch / Sketch-T / Tone / Tone-S / Emboss / SobelEdge / CannyEdge

◉ MIRROR CAMERA
You can choose the original image position by Option Panel.
– Options:
Left original image / Right original image / Top original image / Bottom original image.

◉ BROWSE THE LIBRARY
Supports Photo Browsing and Automatic Preview.

◉ EFFICIENT EDITING
– Tools:
Effects / Splash / Whiten / Crop / Orientation / Frames / Enhance / Adjustments / Focus / Blemish / Sharpness / Text / Meme / Draw / Stickers / Redeye

◉ VOLUME BUTTON CAPTURE
Supports Volume Button Capture.

◉ SHARE
Easily share your images with friends and family via Facebook, Twitter, Weibo and other Social Networking Services, and also can put the favorite photo set as Left Menu’s Wallpaper.

◉ SETTINGS
If you need to tagging the location information or choose photo quality, please set in the Settings.

◉ RECOMMENDED DEVICES
iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, and iPod touch.

Download DDLN Cam

Cities

Normally $0.99.

Cities are beautiful. Explore cities around the world and feel as if you are there!

Cities uses Flickr to find the best pictures, it organises these pictures to best fit your screen.

Download Cities

Quantum Legacy HD

Normally $29.99.

BRAND NEW UPDATE: with new JAW-DROPPING RETINA GRAPHICS for iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C and iPad with Retina display, as well as new ON-RAILS action in the next generation arcade-style 3D SHMUP that is Quantum Legacy HD! Pilot one of 4 unique spaceships during your 3+ hour ON-RAILS journey through 20 action-packed ON-RAILS SHMUP missions filled with breathtaking cinematic game play and highly stylized storytelling, EXCLUSIVELY on the iOS! Featuring:

• Brand New SHMUP DLC: offers a new playable drop-ship, 50% faster SHMUP-style game-play, new level variations, new graphics/effects, new AI, plus a never before experienced speed and finger-twitch ON-RAILS intensity worthy of a next-gen 3D Space SHMUP!
• Enjoy Simple and Intuitive Controls: tilt your iOS device left/right to steer your ship manually while providing an opportunity for a skillful avoidance of enemy projectiles.
• Alternatively, for a casual ON-RAILS experience: forgo tilting and simply tap your enemies to engage the Auto Pilot while controlling your shields and weapons with a smooth 2-button interface.
• Bright and awe-inspiring JAW-DROPPING SHUMP graphics with highly polished game play will take your breath away! For the first time ever, Quantum Legacy HD provides you with full native retina support on the iPhone 5, and iPad with Retina display.
• 20 story-oriented SHUMP campaign missions offer over 3 hours of action-packed SHMUP-style game play.
• Face more than 25 different types of enemies, including unique Gigantic Bosses in every mission.
• RPG Style Progression System allows you to FREELY acquire, pilot and level-up 4 unique starships (including a brand new drop-ship) while unlocking over 16 different types of shield and weapon upgrades.
• 5 Brand new In-App Purchases allow you to skip the RPG grind and instantly acquire any of the playable ships! In addition, you can Restore your existing purchases to unlock content on multiple iOS devices.
• Game Center support: with 6 SHUMP-DLC Leaderboards and 21 elusive SHUMP Achievements that demand an additional 10+ hours of game play.
• Over 40 minutes of original music was created to accompany your Quantum Legacy HD experience.
• Highly Stylized and Action-Oriented Storytelling is told through the com-sat radio of your starship, with full voice-overs for the game’s array of quirky characters.
• SHUMP AI with Dynamic Difficulty and Randomized Enemy Waves: provide for a near endless replay value, as the enemies constantly change and adapt to your style of game play each time you engage an existing mission.

>> Game Play Basics:

Steer your ship manually by tilting your device left and right, or tap your enemies to engage the ON-RAILS “Autopilot”. To maximize damage, it is best to be facing your enemies directly before pressing the right “Weapons/Fire” button. Holding the left “Shield” button will allow you to deflect all enemy projectiles. Prolonged use of the Weapons/Shields will cause a temporary overload. Note that it is NOT possible to fire your weapons while Shields are active until you level-up your starship and unlock Translucent Shielding at Level 5.

Successfully completing each mission will unlock new game content while allowing you to level-up in an RPG-like fashion. Completing missions 5, 10 and 15 will allow you to FREELY acquire one of 4 unique playable starships.

Download Quantum Legacy HD

O’Timer

Normally $0.99.

O’Timer differs from all other timer for its exclusive features “pre alarm” and “expired… ” .
Thanks to O’Timer you will be prepared to deadline you’ve set or you will know how many time elapsed in order to let you remedy .

Italian Cooking is an alchemy of good ingredients and the right time. In the kitchen ,you have to arrive prepared at the expiration of recipe times. We realized that usually when the timer sounds is too late. To drain the Pasta after nine minutes you’ll need at least a minute in order to break away from whatever you’re doing, to prepare the tools , and to arrive on time to the deadline. O’Timer ’s “pre alarm” feature resolves this issue.
And if the timer has expired, with the O’Timer ’s “expired…” feature give you the opportunity to remedy .

We are a group of Italian, enthusiasts about cooking and technology. With O’Timer we gave answer to these problems .

O’Timer has following features:
* “pre alert”
* “expired…”
* favourite timers
* three temporal dimensions (minutes, hurs, days)
* favourite colors
* customizable notifications
* set timer by gestures
* set timer by numpad
* transform timer in a reminder
* disable auto-lock

“Pre alert”
You can set a pre alert from 1 to 60 minutes before timer deadline.

“Expired…”
Check how many time elapsed from timer deadline.

Favourite timers
You can save and load your favourite timers. You will be able to reload timer duration, color, and description.

Three temporal dimensions
Manage your timer using one of the three available dimensions: minutes, hours, days.

Favourite colors
You can choose your favourite colors to easily recognize your timers.

Customizable notifications
Set your preferred timer title that will be used in timer notifications.

Set timer by gestures
Use your finger to set the timer duration. Swipe your finger up or down to increase or decrease the duration. Or follow the circle clockwise or counterclockwise to change minutes.

Set timer by numpad
Make tap on the timer duration to set the timer using the numeric keypad .

Transform timer in a reminder
Click on the timer expiration label just above the main circle to add a reminder.

Download O’Timer

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.