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8 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free to download right now – save $49

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:02PM EST
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It’s time to start off the week with some paid iPhone apps that you can download for free right now for a limited time. Today we’ve rounded up eight different apps that would normally cost just under $49 but you can get them all right now without paying a cent. Let’s check them out!

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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.

Spot Light Camera 360 – Leaks Effects, Filters and Photo Editor

Normally $2.99

Spot Light Camera professional light leak camera offers a choice of 496 different types, lets you express even the most subtle mood on your photos,bringing the look and feel of a professional photographer, that let you see the world in a classic way.

◉ KEY FEATURES
Professional light leak camera themselves are very nice and natural looking. Most are not an intense burn, but have pleasing range of warm hues and more subtle, natural light distortions, Spot Light Camera professional light leak camera is designed to be the perfect camera for your iPhone or iPad.

◉ LIGHT LEAKER
A light leak is a hole or gap in the body of a camera where light is able to leak into the normally light-tight chamber, exposing the film or sensor with extra light, light leak happens when light leaks into the camera causing the film to overexpose, this flaw can add an artistic touch to your photo.

Download Spotlight Camera 360

Rotate Video 360°

Normally $2.99

Rotate Video 360° solves the problem of your iPhone or iPad incorrectly orientation when recording videos, you can now rotate your videos in a very easy way, directly on your device. Also, if your videos are sideways or upside down when played on Windows, it can be fixed. The videos can be rotated in any angle!

After rotated, the output videos are saved in the private folder by default. It can be exported to Camera Roll manually.

Download Rotate Video 360°

Quantum Galaxy

Normally $19.99

For the first time, experience the never before seen innovation of the mobile ON-RAILS genre as Quantum Galaxy gives you the ability to Transform your spaceship in real-time via the use of space Pods and Stations. Watch as your ship morphs before your eyes from a tiny spacecraft, to a formidable star-fighter, to a massive MINI-BOSS! All this, combined with a unique use of friendly AI Wingmen to aid you on your new action-packed journey through the Quantum Galaxy.

Featuring:

• Amazing cinematic ON-RAILS arcade action aimed at a casual audience!
• Brand-new JAW-DROPPING RETINA graphics on all modern iOS devices
• Full support for iPhone 5 and iPad with Retina display
• Tilt to steer your ship manually and avoid enemy bullets
• Forgo tilting and Tap your enemies for a casual ON-RAILS experience
• Master the game in minutes with intuitive controls and dynamic tutorial system
• Control, Morph and Transform one of 3 brand new playable spaceships
• Earn XP to Level-Up and FREELY unlock new playable ships and 13 different shields and weapons
• Skip the RPG Grind with Optional In-App purchases
• Explore the vast Quantum Galaxy via the 20 brand new action-packed missions!
• Like never before: morph your ship in real-time using space Pods and Stations
• Defend Space Outposts and team up with friendly AI Wingmen
• Face more than 25 types of enemies with Gigantic Bosses in every level!
• Experience over 45 minutes of original orchestral music
• Game Center support with 7 unique Leaderboards and 18 challenging Achievements
• Near-endless replay value with Dynamic Difficulty and Randomized Enemies
• No boring or complicated Sci-Fi story. Only non-stop arcade action that is accessible to all players with no language barrier!

>> 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.

In addition, completing missions, earning XP and leveling-up your ship to Level 5 will also unlock new playable spacecraft for FREE. You may also skip the RPG grind and instantly level-up via the use of optional In-App Purchases. Each In-App Purchase can also be Restored, thus allowing you to instantly unlock playable ships on multiple iOS devices.

Download Quantum Galaxy

Night Stars

Normally $1.99

Highly addictive game. Once you start, you cannot stop.

There are two modes.

Game rule
Regular:
– Tap two or more blocks, which are same color
– No time limit, once you meet target you can promote to next level

Endless:
– Tap two or more blocks, which are same color
– Tap the blocks as more and fast as you can
– The more block you tap once, the more time will be added
– When level up the time drain will be faster
– Once time up it will game over
– Click the menu (Moon), the time will be paused

Score rule:
Score = block x block x 5

Bonus rule of Regular mode:
For 10 x 10 board:
bonus = 2000 – block x block x 20

For 12 x 12 board:
bonus = 2000 – block x block x 10

For 15 x 15 board:
bonus = 2000 – block x block x 5

Features:
– 3 difficult level, Easy (4 color blocks), Normal (5 color blocks), Hard (6 color blocks)
– 9 different color blocks, you can choose random color or fixed color
– iPhone/iPod can play 10 x 10, 12 x 12 board
– iPad can play 10 x 10, 12 x 12 , 15 x 15 board
– Support Retina display of iPhone4 and New iPad

Download Night Stars

Artkive – Save Kids’ Art

Normally $4.99

As featured TWICE on THE TODAY SHOW, Artkive is the #1 app to chronologically store, share and print your child’s artwork or schoolwork.

Never again feel guilty about throwing away artwork your kids bring home. Get rid of the clutter and start to enjoy your child’s work. Turn your Artkive into a high quality, hard cover book with little more than the touch of a button!

Your kids will love flipping through their Artkives to see their creations and they make great gifts for grandparents and other loved ones.

Download Artkive

Thumbly Keyboard

Normally $1.99

Thumbly is an iPhone keyboard designed to be used with one hand. Standard mobile keyboards are awkward to use, requiring two thumbs to reach all the keys and involve uncomfortable thumb gymnastics. Thumbly’s keys are ergonomically arranged and are easily reached with one thumb using a comfortable side-to-side motion.

Note: Currently only supports the ENGLISH language.

Additional features:
– Suggests the next word you will type based on what you have already typed.
– Allows you to select between left handed and right handed versions of the keyboard via a button “toggle” press.
– Misspelled words are automatically corrected.
– Unknown words appear in quotes as a suggestion. Selecting this suggestion causes the word to be recorded for the future use of the spell checker.
– Easily accessible list of curated emoji.
– Disable setup instructions at will.

What’s New

– You now have the ability to disable autocorrect at will.
– Fonts used are slightly larger and bolder to help with legibility.
– Setup instructions have been improved.

Download Thumbly

Inspire — Paint, Draw & Sketch

Normally $4.99

Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed using the beautiful new features of iOS 8 and painstakingly engineered for the 64-bit CPU and quad-core GPU of the iPhone 6 — Inspire delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.

Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™, based on OpenGL, takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with a tiny bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones.

With no instruction manual or handbook required, whether you are a beginner, expert or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPhone, Inspire.

Brushes
● 70 high quality brushes to choose from, divided into 7 sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Basic Shapes, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers and Chalk
● 60 more brushes are available in the Inspire Shop, divided into 6 sets: Complex Shapes, Paint Splatter, Spray Paint, Shape Outlines, Charcoal and Patterns
● All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending) or Eraser

Brush Settings
● Opacity
● Size
● Rotation
● Pressure
● Paint load amount
● Automatic paint reload
● Glaze
● Paint blending mode
● Spacing
● Scatter
● Taper size and opacity
● Random size and rotation
● Surface size and rotation

Painting
● 3 canvas sizes to choose from: Widescreen (16:9), Screen (4:3) and Square (1:1)
● All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease
● 1000 levels of undo and redo are available
● 3 finger pan gestures can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity and pressure without opening a menu
● The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas
● The canvas can be moved around, rotated and zoomed in and out up to 6400%
● The UI is customizable to fit your painting style and workflow

Canvas Playback Video Recording
● Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any loss of speed
● You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery
● A Canvas Playback video can be exported to your Photos, Email, iTunes Documents or Dropbox
● Exported videos are always high quality 1080p, regardless of the chosen canvas size or orientation

Color Picker
● Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker
● Hue, saturation and brightness sliders accompany a large color circle and opacity slider
● Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint
● You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop

Pressure Sensitive Stylus Support
● Wacom Intuos Creative 1 and 2 as well as the Bamboo Fineline
● Adonit Jot Touch 4 and Pixelpoint
● Ten One Design Pogo Connect 1 and 2
● HEX3 Jaja

Saving, Importing and Exporting
● Paintings are automatically saved in your gallery and easily exported to your Photos
● Inspire files include your artwork’s image, video and all associated metadata, for the ultimate back-up
● Images can be imported from your Photos, iTunes, Dropbox or the camera and positioned, rotated and scaled onto a new canvas
● Paintings can be sent via email from within the app
● Paintings can be uploaded directly to Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr
● Paintings can be printed directly from the app (AirPrint printer required) or ordered online through direct CanvasPop integration

Download Inspire

PDF Forms

Normally $8.99

Fill, sign and annotate Adobe PDF forms and documents. PDF Forms is a powerful processing app for anyone who has to deal with PDF forms and legal documents. With its help you can fill forms, add remarks and notes to the ready document, sign agreements and notices. Moreover, the app offers a choice of handy sharing options such as email, Google Drive or Dropbox and lets print documents via AirPrint.
PDF Forms allows to work with documents you receive by email or via iTunes file sharing, load them from Dropbox or Google Drive folders and open from any application, which generates PDF files, e.g. PDF PROvider.

If you have a document or form that you need to fill and sign on multiple occasions, you can easily turn it into the template. For this, you can create a copy of the document in the File Manager.

PDF Forms makes it easy to add the handwritten signature to your documents. Just save the copy of your signature and use it at any time. Saved signature can be resized and placed in the appropriate area of the PDF form or contract in several taps. More than that, PDF Forms features integrated scanner module specifically for scanning hand-written signatures. The scanned signature is processed by smart mathematical algorithms and can be further added to any PDF document.

For increased security, the access to your documents and signatures can be protected by the password.

With PDF Forms you can fill out any kind of PDF forms. Open the form and fill in the fields. Moreover, your have the option to add remarks or comment any area in already filled documents.

Also, PDF Forms enables you to reorder pages and split filled documents so you can create a new file from the previously generated forms and send back only what was already processed. Any document can be uploaded to Dropbox or Google Drive right from the application or simply sent via e-mail.

With PDF Forms you can:

• Get PDF documents from any application using Open In, from iTunes, Google Drive or Dropbox folders
• Manage PDF documents using folders and ZIP archives
• Sign legal documents (contracts, notices, etc.)
• Fill out various forms
• Mark and comment any text or image in any PDF document
• Split any PDF documents into separate PDF files
• Share ready PDFs via e-mail, Dropbox, Google Drive or print via AirPrint.

Read more about PDF Forms and download the PDF manual at http://www.dar-soft.com.

Download PDF Forms

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.