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The 9 best paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:02PM EST
Best Free iPhone apps

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We showed you eight great paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free yesterday, and there were definitely a few particularly good options in that post. In fact, a few of them are actually still on sale for free if you hurry. Today, we’re back with nine more apps though, and you have plenty of time to browse through them and snag your favorites. But don’t wait too long, of course…

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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.

Notoriety

Normally $4.99.

Power your productivity with Notoriety, a highly customizable and easy to use note-taking app. Featuring:

– A Modern, minimalist interface that let’s you focus on your notes
– Tag-based organizing for easy sorting and storing
– Themes to suit your style and needs
– A customizable note list display
– An app extension that allows you to take notes from other apps

…and more! Take notes faster and get more organized with Notoriety.

Download Notoriety

SomaFM Radio Player

Normally $3.99.

SomaFM’s official app, giving you access to 24 year-round channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio, with all music hand-picked our award-winning DJs and music directors.

Lifehacker.com says SomaFM is one of the “Five Best Internet Radio Services” and says “completely user and listener-supported, which means no ads or commercials during your broadcasts, and the channels and programs aired at Soma.fm are rarely heard anywhere else.”

Features include:

– No registration required; no additional purchases required!

– View stations by Popularity, Genre or your favorites

– Shows name and artist of currently playing song and history of songs played.

– Bookmark, Tweet and search iTunes for the playing song

– Background streaming: use other apps while listening.

– Stream to AppleTV & Airplay devices.

– Integration with many car stereo units via Dock Connector or Bluetooth

– Remote control: Pause and restart playing as well as skip between favorite channels from your headphone remote, lock screen controls.

– High and low bandwidth streaming: 128k MP3 and 64-80kb AAC-HE (high); great-sounding 32kb AAC-HE and good-quality 40kb MP3 (low).

– AAC-HE support for highest quality audio even at the lowest bitrates (on most channels).

– Latest news and happenings from SomaFM.

– Community gallery of SomaFM listeners
Never listened to SomaFM before? Here’s our lineup, which are all commercial free:

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.
Downtempo electronica, mostly instrumental. Great for work.

Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.s too!
An eclectic blend of cinematic downtempo, stylish lounge, sambas and easy-tempo with an adventurous flair.

Drone Zone: Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.

Indie Pop Rocks!: New and classic favorite indie pop tracks.
Unsigned bands, the hottest new indie artists and a liberal sprinkling of classics.

480 Minutes: Spanning four decades of great post-punk, indie rock and noise pop.
Every Friday from 9am-5pm Pacific, DJ Ted plays and discusses the latest and greatest music in real time.

cliqhop idm: Blips’n’beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.
Experimental techno, also known as Intelligent dance music (IDM).

Beat Blender: A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.
A perfect blend of midtempo and more upbeat electronica.

Dub Step Beyond: Dubstep, Dub and Deep Bass. The place for Bass Music!

Tag’s Trip: Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.

Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.

Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica.

Doomed: Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls.

Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers

Lush: Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence.

Digitalis: Digitally affected analog rock to calm the agitated heart.
DIY laptop rock; screengaze and more.

Suburbs of Goa: Desi-influenced Asian world beats and beyond.
Future music of the Eastern world.

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave, with rarities you forgot you remembered.

Sonic Universe: Transcending the world of jazz with eclectic, avant-garde takes on tradition.
NuJazz/Avant Garde/Euro-jazz.

PopTron: Electropop and indie dance rock with sparkle and pop.
Less guitars, more synths.

Covers: Just covers. Songs you know by artists you don’t. We’ve got you covered.

Mission Control: Ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

SomaFM SF 10-33: Live San Francisco Fire and Police radio with an electronic music soundtrack.

Download SomaFM Radio Player

Make A Call

Normally $0.99.

Make A Call come back!
iOS8 supported perfectly!
Escape boring conversation, prank friends, acting……Whatever you want!
NO ADS Still!
10 international languages supported(简体 繁体 English Deutsch Français 日本語 한국어 русский Español العربية Türkçe)

You must want it very much when:
1.Escape a boring conversation or was embarrassed.
2.Best tools for acting with your wife/husband, boss, mom/dad and friends.
3.Prank friends or to pretend to be powerful, 100% success, 100% effect.

ATTENTION:
For iOS system limited, DO NOT lock the screen or press home button quit the App when you using it.
For real effect, hang up the phone call will quit App, you can run it again.

Download Make A Call

Follow Me for Instagram

Normally $5.99.

REACHED TOP 100 SOCIAL NETWORKING APPS IN 9 COUNTRIES!

Follow Me – See the Location of Instagram Posts
With Follow Me, you can search for Instagram posts using a map, in addition to searching with hashtags and by user name! Simply go anywhere in the world, push and hold down and instantly you will see all the Instagram posts in that area. With Follow Me, you can see exactly where an Instagram post was actually posted.

Get More Followers
Follow Me can also help you get more Instagram followers. Search the globe for Instagram users, search your area for Instagram users, follow them and then they follow you back. It’s that simple, and really awesome.

How Do I Get Started?
Simple. Download Follow Me, link it to your Instagram account and start using our awesome map feature, where you can search the globe and see people posting to Instagram! All you have to do is push to hold down anywhere on the globe and you’ll see Instagram users in that area. Red pins show you the whole area feed, purple pins show you the individual Instagram user’s picture posts and green pins show you the individual Instagram user’s video posts. Follow them so that they can follow you back!

Time Machine
Now you can go back in time up to six months and search the globe for Instagram posts from a specific time and date. Yes, really!

Map Range
Now you can specify the radius that you want to search in miles or kilometers. Go out as far as three miles or down to 1 tenth of a mile. This is really useful when you’re checking either a big city or a very unpopulated area and you want to get the most relevant posts possible.

History & Favorites
Keep a running tally of every place you’ve searched (you can always erase it if you choose to) and store frequently searched places to your favorites list. This way, you don’t have to keep typing it in to the search bar or zoom in and out of the spot you want to search.

Save Your Media
Now you can save any Instagram picture or video directly to your device without having to screenshot your screen and crop. Simply click “save” and save it all right to your device.

User Insights
Follow Me includes useful insights for users such as which users are following you that you are not following back, users that you are following that are not following you back, which users have given you the most and least likes, which users have given you the most and least comments, and which users have given you the most and least combined likes and comments.

My Activities
Keep track of your own Instagram activities by viewing users whose posts you’ve liked as well as the actual posts you’ve liked. You can also see all the users that you are following, all the users that are following you back and go from user to user and see who their followers are.

Who’s Near Me?
At any time you can go to the Who’s Near Me page where you’ll see a list of all the Instagram users in your area. You can follow them one by one or just click to follow all of them at once and then automatically see a new batch of Instagram users in your area.

Auto Follow
With our unique auto follow feature enabled, you will automatically follow back any Instagram user that follows you through the Follow Me app. The more users using Follow Me, the better! If you’re picky about who you follow, you can disable the auto follow feature and check the Users To Follow Back page to see what Instagram users have followed you that you have not yet followed back. From this page you can choose who you want to follow and you can follow them back right here too.

Happy exploring!

Download Follow Me for Instagram

Cloud Hub

Normally $0.99.

Cloud Hub is a simple documents reader and manager for iOS platform.

It allows to download or upload files from clouds services like Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, Drive, iCloud. Built-in FTP client. Import media files from Photo Albums. Manage all local files stored in the app; change name, move, copy, delete, create directories, view the content of the most common file types like PDF, PNG, JPG, MP4, iWork, MS Office files. Share files using social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter etc.

• Cloud Hub reads files:
– PDF
– MS Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx)
– iWork: Keynote, Pages, Numbers
– text (txt, rtf)
– images (jpg, png, gif, tiff)
– MP3, WAV
– MP4, H.264
– html, css

• Access Services (download/upload):
– Dropbox
– Box
– OneDrive
– Google Drive
– iCloud
– FTP

• Local file operations:
– Copy
– Move
– Delete
– Change name
– File details
– Send via e-mail
– Share using social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.)
– Upload to server (Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, FTP)
– View the content of the most common file types
– Image viewer
– Video player (MP4, H.264)
– Music player (MP3)

• Local directory operations:
– Create directory
– Delete directory
– List chosen directory

Download Cloud Hub

Calendar Planner

Normally $2.99.

Manage Time, Goals, Planning & To-Do’s

Apple Watch app shows how BUSY YOU ARE

An App that Creates Time
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◼ Have Enough Time Today?
◼ Your To-Do List Completed?
◼ Time for Friends Today?
◼ Achieving Your Goals?
◼ Get Enough Sleep Today?
◼ Time for Yourself?

How is Time Optimizer different from Calendar or To-Do List apps?
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬
◼ Goal Oriented – not just a Tasks Manager
◼ Time Calculation – not just a List of Tasks
◼ Your Goals are important, they are Primary
◼ Tasks are to accomplish Goals, they are Secondary
◼ Link Tasks to accomplish your Goals
◼ Intelligent Categorization of your Goals & Task
◼ Sometime-Today Tasks – these have the amount-of-time to accomplish the task but not specifically when this task will begin or be completed. Calendars only have All-Day Tasks, which do not have amount-of-time.

Finally, Daily To-Do Lists Under Control
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬
◼ Calendar Planner Keeps track of your Time so you won’t schedule more than you can do
◼ Calendar Planner Graphically displays how busy your are
◼ Calendar Planner’s Ergonomic design makes it easy to view & use your data

The RESULTS
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬
◼ Complete ALL your Tasks
◼ MORE Free Time for yourself
◼ Accomplish your Goals FASTER

◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ▬ FEATURES ▬ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼

◉ Pro GOAL Module [ inApp Purchase ]
◼ Create your Library of all Goals
◼ Display each Goal and the Tasks to accomplish them
◼ Manage your Time, Goals, Planning & To-Do Lists
◼ Goals Management Technology on iPhone
◼ View all Tasks types & Projects for each Goal
◼ Completed Tasks are moved to the bottom of each list of Tasks
◼ Task & Goals are colored by their Category color
◼ Tasks have their time & Projects have their time-frame
◼ List Goals by Category, Date or Name, Ascending or Descending

◉ MONTH Module
◼ Quickly choose a day to view in detail in the DAY and TO-DO Modules
◼ Graphical & numerical overview of ALL your Tasks
◼ View how busy you are, see trends over weeks and months

◉ DAY Module
◼ View all your Tasks types in one simple & powerful view
◼ All Scheduled Task Types, Sometime-today Tasks & Project Frames

◉ TO-DO Module
◼ Time Calculations for Task Types
◼ Time Calculations for To-Do and Done Tasks
◼ Rapidly View, Create, Edit & Check off Tasks
◼ Also, your total allocated time for each day

◉ Date & Time
◼ No More Scrolling to Set Date & Time
◼ The Fastest & Easiest Interface to Create, View & Edit

◉ Category Systems
Categories are all fully editable, reduced or extended. Each Category has customizable color.

◼ Time Management
1 – Physical
2 – Personal
3 – Family
4 – Work
5 – Groups
6 – Spiritual

◼ Corporate DIVs
D1 Communications
D2 Dissemination
D3 Treasury
D4 Technical
D5 Qualifications
D6 Public
D7 Executive

◼ Task Priority
1 – Critical
2 – Important
3 – Normal
4 – Low
5 – Remember

◼ Custom
1 – My Category
2 – My Category
3 – My Category

◼ Use Existing Calendar
[ use existing Categories/Calendar ]

Download Calendar Planner

KidCam

Normally $2.99.

KidCam is the best camera app for kids.
Parents, here’s why you’ll love it:

– Free Up Your Device
Limit to the number of photos and video your kids can take. After the limit is reached, the oldest photo or video will be deleted to make room for any newly snapped photos or videos. Your kids can finally take as many photos or videos as they’d like without you having to worry about your storage running out.

– Separate Library
Keep your camera roll/library clutter free by using KidCam. All photos and video are saved to KidCam’s library and not your camera roll. And yes, you can manually save any image or video taken with KidCam into your camera roll. You can even bulk delete, save & share!

– Tap Anywhere
For younger kids tapping a shutter button can be difficult. Which is why KidCam gives you the option to tap anywhere on the screen to snap a photo or record a video. You can turn this off at anytime to bring back the normal “tap to focus” behavior.

– Monster Overlays
Your kids will love snapping photos with the monster overlays. There are three cute monster face variations for them to choose from that can be overlain on top of photos. These add a bunch of fun to the experience of taking photos as they’ll have a blast transforming their subjects into little monsters.

– Shutter Delay
Kids love to take photos on rapid fire. This fills up your device’s storage and leads to a lot of manually deleting photos. To solve this KidCam gives you the option to put a 1 to 5 second delay on the shutter. This means your child will need to wait for the delay to elapse before taking another photo or video.

Download KidCam

Hatchi

Normally $0.99.

Hatchi is a retro-looking iPhone and watch app sure to get the nostalgia burning for all those who cared for a virtual pet back in the 1990s when they were at the height of their popularity. Just as with the keychain-sized pets of the 90s, iPhone, iPod and iPad users now will feed, clean, play with and generally look after their pets to ensure they grow up to be healthy, happy little Hatchis. He needs YOU!

*** Featured on Touch Arcade Best iPhone and iPad Games***

Your Hatchi monster will go through several stages of growth, and will look different depending on the type of care the player provides. There are also NEW EGGS you can get which give you all new types of Hatchi!

Customise your Hatchi!! You can:
* Choose different backgrounds like the park or the beach!
* Use stickers to customise the background to give Hatchi a better environment!
* Change the color of your Hatchi’s pixels!

How will YOU customise your Hatchi?

Play mini games!! including:
* The Hatchi Matchi memory game
* Hatchi Squares – play against your Hatchi!
* Roshambo – What Hatchi will you pick?
* Hatchi Catchi – move your Hatchi to catch falling food
* Its raining meds – avoid the meds!
* Whack a Hatchi – whack as many as you can!

and now our ALL NEW MULTIPLAYER BATTLING GAME!!
Play Hatchi Battle with your Game Center friends and see who wins!

Feed, clean, play and watch it evolve over several days.

Download Hatchi

iBeer Pro

Normally $2.99.

Drink beer on your iPhone. Voted “Best of iTunes” and downloaded over 90 million times! This hilarious visual trick behaves like a real glass of beer. Connect with friends or strangers for drink sharing, live voice chat and photo sharing!

Tilt to drink, shake for foam, even pour iBeer into other iPhones.
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“Best iPhone app” (CNN & NY Times)
“Must-have iPhone app” (FORTUNE & TIME)
“Top 10 iPod touch app” (Newsweek)
“iTunes Bestseller Awards” (Apple Charts)
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Includes 4 different types of beer, steaming hot coffee, and mouthwash!
Milk, Soda, Wine, Water, Champagne, Vodka etc. available separately.

Select your own photo backgrounds or use our included trick screens.

You’ve seen it on TV, YouTube, and read about it in your favorite paper. Now it can be yours!
Bonus burp included.
Get it today and stop those hangovers forever!

Download iBeer Pro

Zach Epstein
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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.