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8 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free to download right now

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:59PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps Apr 17

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It’s Friday and what better way to kick off your weekend than by installing some paid iPhone apps that you can get for free right now for a limited time! In our latest list, we’ve brought you some great games, photo filter apps and productivity apps. Let’s get started!

DON’T MISS: 5 great free Android apps that do amazing things the iPhone can’t

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.

myCal PRO

Normally $3.99

No more dots in your calendar! myCal PRO displays what you need to see, your events! myCal PRO is THE BEST replacement for the internal iDevice calendar app!

myCal PRO displays the meetings and appointments you created in the Apple Calendar app. With myCal PRO you can add more calendars *and* set the color you want your events to be displayed in!
For example: add new calendars for Work, Home, and Sports and optionally set the colors to Red, Green and Blue respectively. Simples!

◆◆ NEW: Better Facebook event support. You can now hide declined events! ◆◆
◆◆ Time Zone support! ◆◆
◆◆ Cut, Copy and Paste options!! ◆◆
◆◆ List View!! ◆◆
◆◆ Powerful scrolling week view! ◆◆
◆◆ Invitee support! ◆◆
◆◆ Additional contact dates can appear as events! ◆◆

Create beautiful calendars just like these screenshots!
* Day background colors or images requires an InApp purchase. Event background colors is included, no InApp purchase required.

Download myCal PRO

Ready Steady Play

Normally $1.99.

Ready Steady Play is a Wild West-themed game starring an affable cowboy and his trusty hobby horse. Easy to learn and hard to master, Ready Steady Play expands on the beautifully minimal aesthetic and gameplay of its predecessor, Ready Steady Bang.

Jump in and play five addictively challenging games:

• Shooting Gallery
• Hobby Hurdles
• Coin Shooter
• Crazy Cattle
• Disco Cowboy

Ready Steady Play utilises Game Center to provide you with the following features:

• Sync your achievements and high scores
• View online leaderboards
• See your friends’ high scores go past as you beat them in-game
• Challenge your friends to beat your achievements and high scores
• Invite your friends to play against you

Download Ready Steady Play

NC – Twitter Widget for Notification Center

Normally $1.99

View your twitter timeline & mentions on the lockscreen or inside any app to quickly get updated about the world around you with NC.

NC adds a twitter widget to your Notification Center so you no longer need to quit the app you’re using or even unlock your device to check your twitter feed. You can even favourite, retweet or open the tweet in the default twitter app/tweetbot/twitterrific right from the widget!

With NC you can see recent news, facts, quotes, mentions and everything on twitter without even the need to unlock your device or quit the game/app you’re using.

Download NC – Twitter Widget for Notification Center

Rune Gems

Normally $1.99

Rune Gems is an excellent, well-presented game, friendly to both long and short play sessions.
Five Star from -insidemobileapps.com

The whole game is well executed and we really love to tap on one of the runes, for the animation is so smooth.
Five Star from -fun2tap.com

Rune Gems is a new & unique puzzle game.

HOW TO PLAY:
1.You have a tray that holds 7 tiles.
2.Any tile you tap goes into your tray.
3.All tiles that enter your tray are automatically sorted by color and once you have EXACTLY 3 matching tiles of one of one color, those 3 tiles disappear and you score some points.

If you happen to tap on too many unmatched tiles so as to clog up the tray with no way to form a group of three matching tiles from the available tiles on the board, the game ends the second you add that 7th tile and it isn’t immediately part of an existing set.

Download Rune Gems

QUEST: Level Up Your Life

Normally $1.99

QUEST is the most interesting task management app in the world. Clear your tasks like a game. Once you clear your tasks, 8-Bit character will grow up, too!

• It’s an easy and basic task management app yet even it’s fun to use.
• Add and complete tasks with a simple gesture.
• You can easily categorize to do list.
• Check Completed Log for completed tasks list.
• Alarm for reminder of day, week, month, and year tasks.
• You can easily manage tasks at Today widgets.(iOS 8)
• Once you complete your tasks, you can get a new item.
• 8-bit of cool game characters and sound are waiting for you!

● BEST USE for QUEST ●
– Tasks and To-Do
– Check list
– Shopping list
– Idea memo
– Wish List
– Bills and payment schedule
– Things you have to remember

Add and manage tasks and lists from the app or simply check at Today widgets.
Once you complete tasks and collect items, you can create a cool 8-bit game characters!

Download QUEST

Stackables – Layered Textures, Effects, and Masks

Normally $1.99

Stackables is the most advanced and comprehensive effects layering and blending app. It’s packed with over 200 effects expertly crafted by photographer Dirk Wuestenhagen. These include tasteful textures, light leaks, emulsion, grit and grain, analog film filters, vintage gradients, elaborate geometric patterns and much more.

In addition, Stackables comes equipped with over 20 professional adjustment tools most notably White Balance, Color Balance, Vignette, Sepia, Grain, Blur, Tilt Shift and Depth of Field. And for the first time ever on a mobile device, these tools are added as layers, giving you unprecedented control over color and tonal levels in your composition.

Stackables’ layers-based architecture and nondestructive workflow encourage experimentation and foster creativity. Add layers to your heart’s content and see impressive results with every new layer. Have peace of mind in knowing that all edits are completely modifiable and reversible regardless of when you’ve done them in your editing process.

Usher in a whole new world of creative possibilities with advanced masking tools. Whether used to partially apply effects or as building blocks in abstract art constructions, masks are an indispensable part of any workflow. Choose from dozens of gradient and geometric masks and enjoy unprecedented creative freedom and control.

Instantly transform your photos into works of art with 30 preset formulas meticulously constructed by Dirk. Explore dozens of user-created formulas hand-picked from hundreds of submissions. Or save your own edits as formulas and never lose a custom edit you love. And with our proprietary social editing platform, you can share your formulas with friends via email or transfer them between your devices.

With its revolutionary design, easy to navigate interface, and streamlined workflow, Stackables is perfect for any skill level. Whether you’re an avid photographer or an aspiring enthusiast, Stackables provides you with the tools you need to elevate your mobile artistry.

Download Stackables

Stealth Inc.

Normally $4.99

Stealth Inc is a fast-paced stealth platformer featuring brutal hazards, ruthless enemies, fiendish puzzles and red pixels galore. Jump, sneak, and be chunked through 80 levels. Will you make it out alive?

Armed with only your wits and a pair of top of the range Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life. With no weapons and no armour, being seen means instant death.

Stay out of the light to avoid the attention of deadly security robots! Leap like a lusty salmon to avoid those zap-happy lasers! Think fast as the walls close in around you! Only the fastest and sneakiest will make it to the exit. Will you be among them?

Download Stealth Inc.

Binaural Sleep Beats

Normally $1.99

Binaural beats are scientifically proven frequencies designed to induce specific states of mind. The beats in Binaural Sleep have been engineered to help you sleep, power nap, or for people with tough racing minds it has a longer cycle to get your brain ready for relaxation and deep sleep mode.

Download Binaural Sleep Beats

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.