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10 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time only

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

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We put lists of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free together every day, but today’s list is special for a few reasons. First, it includes a number of high-profile apps that rarely go free — including one that leaps off your iPhone 6 into the physical world and lets you take hands-free 360-degree panoramic photos and videos. And with 10 paid iOS apps on sale for free, this is also our biggest list of the week, so you have plenty of great apps to choose from.

Looking for even more paid apps on sale for free? You’ll find a few more terrific options that are still free in yesterday’s post.

DON’T MISS: 5 LG G4 features that might make iPhone users jealous

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.

Cycloramic for iPhone 6

Normally $1.99.

▶▶ The Handsfree mode only works with the iPhone 6 (Not the iPhone 6+) and must be used on a polished level surface (granite/marble counter top or wood desk).

As Seen on SHARKTANK!
Cycloramic Revolutionizes the way you take panoramic photos and videos! Handsfree!
– Steve Wozniak: ”Unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time!”
– TechCrunch: “The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013”
– The New York Times: “Pogie Award for Brightest Ideas of 2012”
– Gizmodo: “Coolest thing we’ve seen an app do in a while.”

15 Million total downloads worldwide.

▶ GUIDED Mode (All iPhones and iPads): The easiest, fastest panorama taking app. Just follow the guided system to take the perfect panorama photo every time.

▶ HANDSFREE Mode (iPhone 6 ONLY): This revolutionary, fully automated mode lets your phone do all the work.
Just put your iPhone 6 on top of your power adapter on a smooth and level surface (granite, marble or wood desk) and it will automatically rotates 360 degrees using the phone’s internal vibration motor. As it rotates, the phone takes multiple photos, instantaneously stitches them together, and generates a panoramic photo viewable in our immersive viewer.

▶ CYCLORAMIC UNIQUE FEATURES:
– The easiest panorama guidance system.
– The fastest panorama capture (less than 3 sec for 180 degree panorama with the iPhone 6)
– up to 360-degree panoramas.
– Award winning photo editing and enhancement tools from Aviary: filters, frames, stickers, adjustments (crop, rotate, contrast, brightness, etc.) and more. The photo suite can also be used on your regular photos taken outside of Cycloramic.
– Immersive viewer.
– Video Conversion: Convert any photo into a video (240p, 360p, 480p, 720p or 1080p resolutions).
– Panorama Photo to INSTAGRAM Video converter.
– Share to Facebook, Twitter, INSTAGRAM (photo and video), email, sms and camera roll.
– … And for the iPhone 5/5S, the revolutionary Handsfree Mode.

Download Cycloramic for iPhone 6

Colorful Pro

Normally $2.99.

A Colorful live filter camera: Show colorful world for you!

Can you imagine the effect of installing a variety of color transparent filters on a camera lens? You don’t need to go to specially buy real color filters! This APP can also achieve such effect!

The principle of this camera APP: before shooting, paste all kinds of transparent colored filters on the cam of the camera, and then a filtered world through transparent colored filters will be present while shooting….

The important that you can make the filters for yourself.

Download Colorful Pro

Lingvo Dictionary

Normally $5.99.

Know what you’re saying and what they mean! Have more than 50 comprehensive dictionaries for 29 languages, right at your finger tips; from within the app for one price!

Want more? We offer over 200 additional premium guides for 19 languages to you; Easily accessible dictionaries from the world’s leading publishers, such as Macmillan, Random House and more…all in one place!

Once you install Lingvo Dictionaries, you have access to the basic set of more than 50 general dictionaries for the following language combinations, including 41 English dictionaries (download required):
• English «» Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Czech, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish
• English -» Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish
• Russian «» English, Spanish, French, German

There are over 200 additional dictionaries for 19 languages available for purchase directly from within the application. Accurate translations, phonetic transcriptions, synonyms, and examples of use are available for the following language combinations:
• English «» French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
• German «» French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
• Russian «» Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian
• Ukrainian «» English, Polish, Russian
• Monolingual English, German, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian dictionaries

For a complete list of dictionaries with detailed descriptions, visit our website at http://abbyy.com/lingvo_ios/en

You do not need an active Internet connection to use the dictionaries that have been downloaded on your device.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (iOS 7.0 and later)
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KEY FEATURES:
• Photo translation function (iPhone only) – translation of words from the photo taken with iPhone built-in camera
• Flash cards for effective learning new words
• Two ways for fast words learning: “Introduction” (turn over card by card to memorize words, translations, usage examples etc.) and “Lesson” (recall translation and check your answer by turning single card over)
• Hypertext – instant translation of any word found in the dictionary entries with just a single tap
• Quick translation directly from the clipboard
• Native audio pronunciations for most common words (in some dictionaries)
• All available dictionaries can be used as one. Merged list of headwords allows consultation all dictionaries simultaneously. If a word is found in many dictionaries, all relevant entries are displayed in a single window
• You can easily transfer previously purchased dictionaries to all your iOS devices with a single tap on a “Restore purchases” button within the app
• Cloud synchronization of learning cards over app’s own cloud storage between your iPhone, iPad and iPod

Download Lingvo Dictionary

Flick Kick Field Goal

Normally $1.99.

Step up and see if you have what it takes in the ultimate field goal challenge!

With ease to learn controls and hard to master challenges, Flick Kick® Field Goal is the addictive football game that’s impossible to put down! Curve your kicks and earn rewards in ever-changing conditions. Prove your skills in the must-have game for any football fan!

Features:
– Intuitive Flick Kicking: Control the angle and curve of your kick with the flick of your finger.
– The stadium: 360 degree wind with shifting severity. Anything from a light breeze to gale force winds must be taken into account if you want to succeed.

Multiple Game Modes:
– PRECISION MODE – get rewarded for perfect kicks, and see exactly how great your kicking skills really are!!
– SUDDEN DEATH: The classic test of skill. No time limit, just focus and keep making kicks to add multipliers to your score.
– PRACTICE MODE: Perfect your technique and learn how to become the best kicker in the world.

We love to hear from our players!

On Twitter? Drop us a line @pikpokgames

Have a screenshot? Share it on Instagram with #pikpok

Flick Kick Field Goal offers some game items for purchase with real money. You can disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings.

Download Flick Kick Field Goal

Carmen

Normally $2.99.

See your iTunes music come to life with amazing visuals! See your music on your Apple Watch!

Clean display designed for iOS 8 with easy tap and gesture support, perfect for use in your car or anywhere else!

Carmen plays music from your iTunes music library, analyzes it while playing, and displays the sound through a variety of amazing visualizers.

Features:

• Custom music library picker to browse through your iTunes library.
• Designed for iOS 8.
• iPhone 6 and 6 Plus optimized.
• Apple Watch support. See a version of the Signature visualizer on your Apple Watch. The colors match the Signature visualizer colors on your iPhone or iPad.
• Fully functional music player that you can use instead of the default iPod player for most cases.
• Elegant and simple user interface allows you to focus on the visuals.
• Universal and supports full resolution retina displays, in all orientations, on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
• Full AirPlay and external display support. Control the playback from your device while you visualize the music on the external display.
• Several diverse visualizers to choose from.
• Customize the colors of the visualizers.
• Custom music picker that works in both portrait and landscape modes.
• Choose music by song, artist, album or playlist.
• Shuffle mode.
• Remote control when docked.
• Control playback and see album art on the lock screen.

Carmen does not use the microphone for audio input. It analyzes the music directly from your library while it is playing.

Carmen is perfect for viewing and listening through headphones, AirPlay or a speaker dock.

You can easily control playback with simple gestures, such as a two finger tap for play / pause, one finger swipes for next / previous, two finger swipes for changing visualizers and more.

When using with your Apple Watch, be sure to run Carmen on your iPhone first so that it can properly play music.

NOTE: Carmen cannot visualize songs that are protected by DRM, nor can it visualize songs that have not been downloaded through iTunes Match. Songs that cannot be visualized will be filtered from the music picker.

Download Carmen

iCalendar

Normally $2.99.

*** A MUST-HAVE CALENDAR APP FOR EVERY IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD ***

iCalendar is the ultimate calendar for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch focusing on your productivity.

iCalendar’s seamless, highly usable interface allows you to enter events very quickly and helps you keep track of your busy schedule. It integrates with your iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, or Yahoo! account to provide you with the most convenient calendaring experience.

EASILY TRACK YOUR SCHEDULE
– View your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule.
– Custom color-code your events. Use predefined colors, or make up your own color.
– Quickest way to navigate between dates on the market
– Fast and powerful search: Search events by title, location, and notes.

NEW IN VERSION 4.0
– Task Manager: Manage your tasks within your calendar in a fun and easy manner and sync with iOS Reminders. Available as in-app purchase for USD 0.99.

FULL OF PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
– Drag and drop an event to update its timing.
– Copy and paste events.
– Tap and hold an event to view quick editing options. Tap and hold an empty space to create a new event.
– Create custom/complex repeating events (e.g. repeat on the third Friday every month, and many more).
– Add custom alerts/reminders for events and snooze alerts
– Set default values for all event fields.
– Create templates for your most frequent events and use them to quickly add new events with a single touch.
– Ability to show event times in the Month view.
– Access your event details quickly by tapping on the event.
– Customize the visible time period (e.g. from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) to help you focus on the most important events.

SUBSCRIPTION TO INTERESTING CALENDARS (In-app purchase)
– Subscribe to your holidays calendar (national/religious).
– Subscribe to interesting calendars (e.g. local/global sports events, stocks, weather, phases of the moon, and many others).

EVEN MORE
– Time Zone Support: View (and create) your events in your preferred time zone and never get confused when you travel.
– Complete print functionality. Print daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views.
– Export any view (day, week, month, year) as a PDF file.
– Past events can be dimmed to help you focus on your upcoming events.
– Use built-in maps to set the location of your events.
– Ability to customize the alert sound.
– Dial into a conference call with one touch right from iCalendar. Add phone numbers from your contacts to events with the ability to use pause and wait, which is ideal for conference calls.
– Set the location of an event as the address or phone number of one of your contacts.
– Access all your events directly from the Month view – no need to go to each individual day to review the full list of events.
– Use the app icon badge to indicate either the number of upcoming events or the day of the month.
– Birthday events show the age of the person.
– Ability to select the font size of your events (small, normal, large, and extra large).
– Google Calendar sync: sync all of your calendars, create and edit Google Calendar events, and use Google Calendar custom reminders (SMS, email and/or alert).
– Add, edit and delete calendars right from iCalendar.
– Choose what calendars to show/hide on iCalendar.
– Support of portrait and landscape to match your orientation preference.
– Select one of seven great-looking themes (dark grey, light grey, green, blue, red, orange, and white).
– iCalendar is a universal app. Download once and use across all your devices.

Download iCalendar

Web of Deceit: Deadly Sands HD

Normally $6.99.

Pay once, play forever! No in-app purchases!

While visiting your uncle, you stumble upon a curious case. Men are vanishing, reappearing dead days later. Who killed them? Find out in this incredible Collector’s Edition!

• TRACK DOWN A VENOMOUS KILLER
Morgana, an evil black widow preys upon men by injecting them with spider venom! Her venom has no cure, so you must put a stop to her!

• YOUR UNCLE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
After receiving a distressing message from your uncle, you travel to the remote village of Transvaal. You learn that he has been traveling the world, hunting down the deadly killer.

• TREAD CAREFULLY
The sands are always shifting and danger is around every corner. Are the murders actually the work of Morgana…or something even more sinister?

• TEAM UP WITH MORGANA IN AN EXCITING BONUS GAME!
Unlock the Collector’s Edition to gain access to the thrilling bonus chapter. Discover all of the great concept art and wallpapers too!

Download Web of Deceit: Deadly Sands HD

Guitar Elite Pro

Normally $2.99.

⋆ Play chords on your device as if playing a real guitar! ⋆

Guitar Elite is an exceptionally crisp, lifelike collection of astonishing virtual guitars designed to fit both the beginner and the experienced guitarist. You can choose to play chord buttons or, like no other app, form chords on your device extremely forgivingly as Guitar Elite will always find a matching chord to the position of your fingers. Play the strings softly or strum loud. All sounds are studio recorded, note-by-note, from the very same guitars whose professional pictures make up for the user interface. It is the most realistic guitar feel on any mobile device.

When ready, choose to record your favorite songs and share with users all around the world. You can learn to play uploaded songs by just watching how they are played and save their chords and sequence for later use. Even enable mic to sing while playing and share your songs with friends and loved ones via email or SoundCloud.

Enjoy!

Download Guitar Elite Pro

Fotocam Weather Pro

Normally $1.99.

Do you want add rain, rainbow, snow, stars and fog effect to your photos?
*****
Transforms your photo into various nice season by adding weather effect to your photo instantly!
*****
* LIMITED TIME PROMOTION *

All effects are designed together by professional photographers and real artists to provide you the most amazing effect to your photo. There are 30 type of different effects to choose from. We have more than 5 MILLION users, so we know what you want.

* INSTANT one click effect.
Even your child know how to use it.

* LIVE EFFECT.
Easily adjust your camera before you take photo!

* SHARING to FACEBOOK / TWITTER / SINA WEIBO / TENCENT WEIBO / FLICKR / EMAIL / SMS / AIRDROP.

* PRINT and “SAVE TO CONTACTS” directly.

* CAN BE USED WITHOUT INTERNET.
Save to PHOTO ALBUM for personal collection. Upload when the Internet is available.

Download Fotocam Weather Pro

WikiWatch

Normally $0.99.

*** Note that WikiWatch requires an Apple Watch to operate ***

WikiWatch brings the facts and figures of your immediate surroundings straight to your wrist, backed by the powerful combination of GPS and Wikipedia!

WikiWatch knows where you are, and presents you with the 25 Wikipedia entries most closely related to your location. You can read the introduction for each entry on your Apple Watch, which includes a map to its location. Options are also available to open the full entry on Safari on your phone, or to save the entry to read later. Saved entries to read later are displayed within the iPhone app, time and date stamped with when you saved them.

WikiWatch is fun and easy to use!

Standing in front of an unknown structure and want to know all about it? Raise your wrist and open up WikiWatch!

In the middle of a strange town and want to know what interesting places and things are around? Raise your wrist and open up WikiWatch!

Heck, wherever you are, raise your wrist and open up WikiWatch to learn something new!

Wikipedia is available in multiple languages, and WikiWatch is capable of handling them all. Choose to query any of the following Wikipedia databases: Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish or Vietnamese. (Did we miss one you want? Drop us a line and we’ll add it!)

We hope you have fun with WikiWatch! Please let us know what other interesting uses you have found for it!

Download WikiWatch

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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.