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

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:09PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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The countdown to Black Friday 2015 continues, but none of the deep discounts you find at your local big box retailer will drop prices all the way down to $0. Here at BGR, however, we’ve plenty of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for you to check out. Today’s list features 10 premium iOS apps on sale for free, and you can also check out yesterday’s post if you want a few more freebies.

WARNING: Amazon suffers potential password leak, unknown number of accounts affected

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.

Air Login

Normally $0.99.

Wherever you go, there’s your Mac.

New from Avatron, the folks who brought you Air Display, Air Stylus, Air Sharing, Air Dictate, and Print Sharing … Air Login keeps you connected to your home and office Macs while you’re on the go.

Air Login connects over the Internet to present your Mac OS X screen on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. A virtual trackpad lets you move a mouse cursor around on the screen and interact with the Mac user interface.

There are other remote-access clients in the App Store. But none can compare with Air Login’s ease of use. With Air Login you spend less time panning around a big screen and more time working with your Mac apps and documents.

• Air Login keeps the Mac menu bar pinned at the top of your iOS screen, even while you zoom and pan the rest of the screen to focus on small UI elements. The menu works instantly because it’s cached locally, and doesn’t need to communicate back to the computer until you select a menu item.
• A Mission Control-like feature called App Grid lets you quickly focus on a particular Mac window or app.
• A custom keyboard gives you all of the special Mac keys that you need.
• Avatron’s advanced Air Connect server connects your devices even if they’re behind firewalls, on a cell connection, or on a very restrictive network. If your Mac can surf the Web, Air Login can operate it remotely.

This version of Air Login can only access Mac computers running OS X 10.7 or later. You will need to install the free Air Connect app on your Mac.

And the Air Connect app itself gives you awesome great connectivity power:

• Connect from Mac to to a remote Mac
• Use Mac OS X’s excellent built-in sharing services
• Screen Sharing (VNC)
• File Sharing (AFP)
• Terminal (SSH)
• Encryption of all communications

We love cloud-storage apps like Dropbox. But with Air Connect, you can stay on the free DropBox plan. Rather than storing every file that you might want to access remotely, inside your Dropbox folder, just use Air Connect to go back to your remote Mac to grab a file when you need it. Never pay $100+ per year again for getting to your own files. As an added security benefit, when you access files through Air Connect, your files never go through our servers and are never stored in the cloud.

Your free Air Connect account lets you use Air Login to connect to any number of computers on your local network, and lets you connect any local Mac to any other. If you want to connect to a remote Mac, you can subscribe to the “Air Login Anywhere” service.

If you like Air Login, please leave a user review here in the App Store. If you have questions, visit avatron.com/support for tech support via email or live chat.

Download Air Login

Fragment

Normally $1.99.

Fragment (featured in 153 countries) can transform any image into totally unique, one-of-a-kind prismatic art you’ll want to share with everyone.

It all begins with your images. Take your camera and compose a photo, or select from your Camera Roll. Once you have your image, the enhancing is in full effect. Unleash your inner artist and choose from a collage of inspired frames, shapes and patterns. Watch as your image is “fragmented” instantly into a myriad of prism-like glass pieces, thanks to a lightning-fast interface that works in real time. No lag time here, thank you.

Now dive in and manipulate at will. Rotate, resize, frame, drag, zoom, crop – Fragment is completely scalable and a true reflection of your imagination. Add colors and adjust levels. Desaturate. Blend. Blur. Invert. Or go for something completely random and tap shuffle. It’s all up to you where you want to take it.

Ready to share? Send your vision to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other photo enhancement apps with just a tap. Still going? Hit “Refragment” and keep creating. Simple, and yet so beautiful, isn’t it?

With Fragment, the pieces add up to something extraordinary every time.

Download Fragment

Pinpoint

Normally $0.99.

You take screenshots. But sometimes you need to mark them up a bit before sharing them with your friends (or enemies). You know: point stuff out, blur out your business, jot down thoughts. Pinpoint’s got you covered.

With Pinpoint you can:

• See all the screenshots you’ve ever taken
• Draw arrows and boxes to pinpoint the important parts or the stuff that’s weird
• Write text to explain what you’re thinking
• Blur out your sensitive info to keep it from prying eyes
• Share your finished screenshot masterpiece with literally anyone
• Ditch the original screenshot so it’s not clogging up your photo library
• Get new colors so that you’re cooler than your friends

That’s it. It’s super simple by design. One thing: mark up your screenshots.

Download Pinpoint

Private Web Browser

Normally $0.99.

If you want to surf websites privately and don’t want people to know where you have been, this is definitely the app for you.

You can visit any website privately without clearing history and cookies! All you need to do is to tap the Home button.

******* Features ********

1. Only enter your setup password can be used
2. Very fast and easy to use
3. Multi-tabbed browsing
4. Full screen supported
5. Portrait and landscape orientation supported
6. Files download and manager
7. Quickly download all the images in the web page
8. Marked your favorite web site
9. Scan QR Code and open
10. And more

Download Private Web Browser

Search Ace

Normally $1.99.

“Search Ace” is a WebSearch App that allows you to access your favorite site quickly.

TUTORIAL
1.Input search word
2.Choose from a number of “suggest word”
3.Select the favorite site

Download Search Ace

Cloud Camera+

Normally $0.99.

Take photos and auto sync to your net disk.

Every time you take photo, the photos are automatically uploaded to your designated net disk. Supported: Dropbox, Google Drive. Supports simultaneous upload to multiple net disk.

Special effects filters, retro, painting, drawing …, left slide switch, waiting for your discovery.

Download Cloud Camera+

Secretizer

Normally $0.99.

Secretizer is the app to store your private photos and videos! It is independent of the standard Photos app on your iOS device – all your files inside the app will be secured with your personal pin-code instead.

You can store as many photos and videos as you like, and you can save back to the Photos app at any time.

– Import at original quality, fast. Really fast.

– Use Touch ID to quickly access the app

– Take photos or videos with Secretizer built-in camera support

– Enjoy beautiful and simplistic user interface

– Share files to social networks, send them via e-mail or transfer to other apps

– Secretizer is optimized for all iOS devices, including 3D Touch as well as Slide Over, Split View and Picture in Picture on the iPad

– Even if you’ve forgotten your pin-code over time we got your back with built in pin recovery option*

* Available as a separate in-app purchase (and this is the only in-app purchase that you’ll see in this app)

Download Secretizer

SMobile – For Craigslist

Normally $2.99.

Customer Quotes:
This is the best application for craigslist I’ve experienced on iPhone by rpaulmerrell Jan/11,2013
The application works great with VoiceOver and reads quite nicely on the iPhone.if you are blind or visually impaired and need reliable access to crags list, this application is all you need.

Wow by Biggwappz Dec/29/2012
What a great app, type what ur looking for and you get the listings with small pics on the side,way better then the computer site. And if u want to want the person it quickly integrates with ur email app.

Best CL App for iPhone by Tscheu – Dec/19/2012
So far this is easily the best free Craig’s list app I have found for my iPhone. Simple to use and easy to read. Everything you want is in this App. I’ve tried them all and this one takes the cake.

Simply works! by Kitihawk2 – Dec/17/2012
Simple to use, and very stable. Exactly that I want out of a Craigslist App.

Works great by Crickett925 – Dec/15/2012
Good App! I like how it tells you how long ago the ad posted. I have another Craigslist App that had been using, and I like this one much better. Everything works so far, which is more than I can say for the other CL Apps but there.

Craigslist app brings Craigslist to your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, it makes browsing and posting Craigslist items at your fingertips,Craigslist anytime,anywhere.

Features:

**General**:
• App is officially licensed from craigslist
• Small binary size,Great performance, and very stable.
• Simple,Clear, and intuitive design.
• Support iPhone 5.
• One Universal App supports iPhone,iPod touch, and iPad.
• Locate your nearest Craigslist cities according to your GPS or zip code.
• Pick location from your recent selected cities.
• Be able to change font size.
• Works great with VoiceOver and reads nicely.
• And much more….

**Search/Browser**:
• Support multi-location search, (be able to search whole state)
• Time since post Label
• Read/Unread indicator for items.
• Detailed Filter function according to categories.
• Support multi-Neighborhood Filter.
• Support Original Web Post and Map view.
• Integrated with iOS email/SMS/Phone to respond to posters or forward to your friends.
• Detect the phone number automatically and call the number with single click.
• Integrated with iOS Map App to get the directions.
• Automatically add posts you responded to your favorites
• View the location on the map.
• View detail address on the map for posting which has address.
• Pinch and zoom the pictures in the post.
• Full down to refresh.
• Click and Hold picture to save picture.
• Easily add/remove item to/from your favorites.
• Save your frequent searches and recall them with one tap.

**POST**
• Similar way as Facebook to attach multi-pictures for your post.
• Smart Algorithms to Post items directly from the App.
• Support all categories for posting.
• Craigslist Account Manager (Sign up a new account,Login,Logout,My Posts).
• Post without an account.
• Secure password strategy for preventing account hijack.

There are two versions for this App, Free version is supported by iAd.
Free feel to contact us through in-App setting.

Download SMobile – For Craigslist

Local Cloud Pro

Normally $6.99.

*** Thank You for Over 200,000 Downloads ***

The local Dropbox for your photos, music, and documents!

Open files stored on your Mac or PC directly with your iPhone and iPad. Want to see Local Cloud in action? Go to http://www.delitestudio.com/go/local-cloud-video/

Local Cloud combines the simplicity of the cloud with the protection and speed of your local network. And because it was built for businesses, it gives you the level of security and control you need. It works securely inside your firewall and uses modern encryption methods to transfer files.

Local Cloud integrates seamlessly into your home or office. No hardware required and a one-time set up that happens in seconds. Download(1) and install the free server on your Mac or PC. Don’t even need administrator rights to run it.

Local Cloud is a full featured file manager with Dropbox and Google Drive integration, compatibility with File Transfer and a built-in viewer which lets you open and view virtually any file type, including documents, pictures, music, and compressed archives.

What you can do with Local Cloud:

• Open files stored on your Mac or PC directly with your iPhone and iPad.
• Store virtually any type of file on your device.
• Use the built-in viewer for common files.
• Play your music with the built-in player.
• Send files to specific third-party apps.
• Send files as email attachments.
• Choose to compress attachments on the fly before sending them via email.
• Import photos and videos from the library of the device, at full resolution and preserving Exif metadata.
• Accept any type of file from any other app.
• Browse and view the contents of ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, and TAR files on the fly without having to uncompress the entire archive.
• Open password-protected ZIP and RAR files.
• Create folders to organize your files.
• Print your files with AirPrint.
• Browse files and folders in your Dropbox and Google Drive without leaving Local Cloud.
• Send and receive files, folders, and clipboard in real-time over WiFi or Bluetooth(2).

Built-in viewer for:

• Documents (pdf, doc/docx, xls/xlsx, ppt/pptx, pages, numbers, keynote, txt, htm/html, …)
• Pictures (jpg/jpeg, png, tiff, gif, bmp, …)
• Compressed files (zip, rar, 7z, and tar)
• Audio files (mp3, m4a, aac, wav, flac, …)
• Video files (mov, …)

Local Cloud is optimized for iOS 8, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus.

Delite Studio develops high-quality native applications and delivers a great customer service. Do you enjoy using this app? Write a positive review. Do you need help? Let us know, we will do everything to help you.

(1) Available on http://www.delitestudio.com/app/local-cloud
(2) Bluetooth can be used only between iOS devices.
(3) Available on http://www.delitestudio.com/app/file-storage/
(4) Available on http://www.delitestudio.com/file-transfer/

Download Local Cloud Pro

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

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.