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9 awesome paid iPhone apps you can get free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:53PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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Is there a better way to celebrate hump day than by downloading a bunch of cool paid iPhone and iPad apps for free? Yesterday’s list had eight great apps on it — some of which are still free — and today we’re back with another nine iOS apps that are on sale for free. As is always the case, of course, these sales could end at any time so hurry up and grab them before these great sales come to an end.

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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 are free at the time this post is published. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “free,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Trapper

Normally $0.99.

Trapper is an idea-catching and story development tool. Helping you to capture your ideas right when you experience that moment of unexpected inspiration.

– Be Inspired
Your best ideas can come to you any time and without any notice…”in the wild.”

– Trap your idea
We’re your wild-idea-capturing tool ready at a moment’s notice, wherever you are.

– Place your idea into a narrative
Give your idea a home by placing it into a bigger story, or keep it wild a little longer.

– Develop your narrative
Work on your narrative while you’re out and about, re-arrange the order, add new ideas and edit old ones.

– Export and present
Send your narrative to your email as an editable text document, or present your story right from the app.

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Trapper believes in great storytelling.

Trapper was created to bridge the gap between the story creation process and the way we live our modern lives.

Inspiration comes in unexpected moments. Sometimes it hits while sipping a cup of coffee, during a long walk, on a bike ride, even when watching a movie or reading book. Yet, when we sit down to work, we expect to be able to flick it on like a switch.

By trapping your ideas in the moments of inspiration, work becomes a creative time of developing captured ideas. Ideally, this means less time working and more time to get out, enjoy life and be inspired.

— Ideas & Narratives —

Ideas:
Ideas can be anything; a scene in a story, a joke, a compelling quote, or simply an idea that popped into your head. All ideas are building blocks to a bigger story to tell.

Narratives:
A narrative is a compiled collection of ideas. It could be a novel, speech, business presentation, article or a comedy sketch. You build your story by adding new ideas to the narrative, re-organizing and editing within the narrative as needed.

Download Trapper

Wallax

Normally $0.99.

Fix, Find, Make & Share Wallpapers.
Look no further for your wallpaper needs. Has all the options needed to make wallpapers. You can resize freely, tweak, add effects and preview your wallpaper.
Download top wallpaper posted by other users everyday and you can share your own wallpapers by posting it on Wallax through CloudKit.

NOTE : Find & Share features use CloudKit, so those are available only on iOS 8 or above.
– Optimised for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus & iPads, iPad Air & iPad Air 2.

FEATURES:

Fix Wallpapers
– Scale & Resize your wallpapers on black, white, color, gradient or blurred background.
– Freely resize your photos & make them fit lock screen, the way you want.

Find & Share Wallpapers (Available only on iOS 8 or above)
– You can post your best wallpapers on Wallax using CloudKit to everyone.
– You can browse and download Top & Recent wallpapers from Wallax posted by others.
– Wallpapers of right size.

Add Following Effects
– Blur
– Bokeh
– Text
– Adjustment
– Filters
– Colorize
– Pattern
– Splash Effects

Tweak Wallpaper
– Add Refection
– Tile Photo
– Frame
– Shapes

Make Minimal Wallpaper
– Color
– Gradient
– Pattern
– Bokeh
– Text

Download Wallax

Quick Drafts

Normally $2.99.

Capture and share your ideas with Quick Drafts. Easy, fast and reliable. Quick Drafts is a lightning fast notepad. It offers various ways to handle your notes. You can use them as todo lists, send them via email, iMessage, Facebook or Twitter. You can post them to your calendar, save them to Dropbox and Evernote or forward them to your favorite text editor.

– Beautiful page view: Quickly swipe through your notes like pages in a book.

– Todo lists: Convert any note into a checklist with selectable items.

– Quick capture: Every time you open the app you get a new blank note ready to capture your ideas.

– Export notes to anywhere: Send notes via email, SMS, iMessage, Twitter, Facebook and any app that can receive text on your device.

– Link mode: Capture phone numbers, addresses and URLs and make them tappable links.

– Reminders and alarms: Add notes as alarm events to your calendar or tap the Email Self button to send notes to your email inbox.

– Dropbox: Save your notes to your Dropbox with a single tap. Or append them to a “Quick Drafts Journal” text file that is created in your Dropbox.

– Evernote: With a single tap create a new note in the default Evernote notebook.

– Getting things done (GTD): Use Quick Drafts for your projects, tasks or shopping lists.

– Reliable: Every single character is auto saved the moment you type it. Never lose an idea.

– Landscape mode: For fast two handed typing.

Download Quick Drafts

Florence/Geneva Travel Guide

Normally $3.99 each.

SPECIAL FEATURES

– AUGMENTED REALITY – AR
– STOP CARRYING BOOK GUIDES!!!
– 100% OFFLINE TRAVEL GUIDE
– ZOOMABLE 100% REGIONAL OFFLINE MAPS: Florence, Arezzo, Pisa and Siena. Tuscany region.
– PICS GALLERY
– LOCAL AUDIO
– GPS CAPABLE
– INTERACTIVE POINTS OF INTEREST on the maps showing public bus stops, restaurants, pubs, hotels, hospitals, museums, theatres, and many others.
– DAILY BASED ITINERARIES
– BUDGET BASED HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
– WHERE, WHAT & HOW TO SHOP
– NIGHTLIFE ACTIVITIES
– CITY TIPS, MOVING AROUND, COMMUTING
– SAFETY TIPS
– IPHONE, IPOD TOUCH & IPAD COMPATIBILITY
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Stop carrying heavy city tours guide in your pocket. TRAVEL LIGHT!!!

With eTips Travel Guides you have a full city guide in your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

This tourist guide is built to be used offline. No connection to Internet required, meaning no extra charges in your phone bill!!

AUGMENTED REALITY, unlike other tourist guides you will be able to discover the city with the best iPhone and iPad tool – AR – Just click on the AR button, turn yourself 360° and view on the screen where the best spots are and how to find them. You can also scroll up and down to view the closest and furthest attraction.

After many requests, we bring to you your own steps with a GPS feature. Do not get lost around the Tuscany region, just take a look where you are standee.

It is a very practical city guide including Tuscany region since it is designed to be used by itineraries. There are 4 different itineraries for the city depending on the duration of your journey. We also provide tips and advices to travellers, how to get into the city, how to move around, where to shop, where to go at night, most popular places, safety tips, etc…

Unlike other guides, this Tuscany region guide provides you with interactive zoomable OFFLINE MAPS (x6 zoom + GPS capable) of the region showing the attractions, public bus stops, restaurants, pubs, hotels, hospitals and many other useful points of interest. You cannot get lost around the Tuscany region!. With this guide, you will not only visit the city but also move around its region.

Tourist info for must see attractions such as Santa Maria del Fiore, Duomo, Campanile, Baptistery, Piazza della Signoria, Fountain of Neptune, Arno River, Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio, Vasari Corridor, Church of San Lorenzo, Uffizi Gallery, Piazza della Signoria, Bargello, Accademia dell’Arte del Disegno, Palazzo Pitti, Boboli Gardens, Santa Croce Basilica, among others within the Tuscany region.

The travel guide is made based on travelers advices. Unlike other city guides, we can guarantee we have already visited these places and would like to give you a fancy and practical tool to make your visit a more enjoyable one.

Download Florence Travel GuideDownload Geneva Travel Guide

Pics2Mov

Normally $0.99.

With Pics2Mov, anyone can make a cool video easily and quickly. When your precious memories are too good to be kept as a still photo, when you want to share your everyday events as single themed memories, and when you want to keep your loving child’s memories as they grow, have a go at making an HD video with various music. You can share your precious moments using our easy and concise interface.

Quick media open
– Taking many pictures in a row from within the app and loading
– Loading many pictures from the album (You can set the order of the pictures to be loaded)
– Provides 656 theme music, download music from the library, load music sent from other applications
– You can bring pictures from Facebook.

40 Filters (Fast and easy editing)
– Video ratio can be set. 1:1, 16:9 or 9:16 (when sharing with Instagram 1:1 ratio setting is better)
– Photo start, end, position, and zoom settings
– 40 different filters can be used on each photo individually for cool effects.
– Photo copy ability is provided.
– Many photos can be included at a specified time.

– Over 46 transitions of the photos are provided. Transitions are constantly updated.
– A function to apply chosen transitions to all is provided

Over 656 theme music
– Over 656 theme music is provided. Try adding extra music based on your mood.
– Audio section editing is provided. Sections can be edited to match the length of the video file.
– Audio volume can be changed
– Audio start, end, fade in, and fade out functions are provided.
– Projects being edited are automatically saved and can be modified at any time.

Supports 285 fonts
– You can add texts and edit the font attributes
– We provide the function to rotate the text.
– You can change the text background.
– You can change the line spacing of the texts.
– You can change the letter spacing of the fonts.
– You can save the frequently used fonts.

1121 frame designs & 194 wallpapers (Apply frame design)
– Over 1121 various frame designs are provided
– Over 194 Wallpapers are provided
– The size of the frame designs can be adjusted
– The frame color and transparency can be changed

Design sharing service (Cover Design Pack)
-You can receive other people’s designs and use them.
-The designs created by users can be shared with other users.

22 themes (Change of settings on the project being edited)
– Fade in/out transition times can be changed
– Video length can be set. Minimum of 5 seconds, maximum of 2 minute 15 seconds (depending on the video file the frame transition times will be re-set.)
– Video background color can be changed.
– Photo start, end, position setting can be changed to fixed or random.
– Fade in to or fade out from the background color can be set.

– 22 themes provided (Basic, Stop Motion, Panorama, Random, Scrolling, Cycling, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Left Side, and Right Side, Gradient, Mask, Arrow, Diagonal1, Diagonal2, Rectangle, Circle ZoomIn, Circle ZoomOut, Etc) themes are constantly updated.

– You can insert texts and clip arts on individual images.
– You can produce images with the back-ground color set in the project.
– The size of the video can be selected. HD-720p or FullHD-1080

Various quick sharing methods
– Share videos on Facebook, album, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, iMessage, AirDrop, email, instagram,Theater

Download Pics2Mov

WebDisk

Normally $0.99.

WebDisk lets your iphone/ipad become a file website over wi-fi netwrk.You can upload/download your document to your iphone/ipad on your pc browser over wi-fi
And it is also a document viewer.let you direct view your document on your iphone/iphone

1.Website access file
You can upload /download file to iphone/ipad on your pc browser over wi-fi
Support large files(More than 100MB)

2.Support files exchange between two device on wi-fi

3.WebDisk+ for PC
WebDisk+ is A PC Client.It let you easy to view your document or download your document

4.Document direct View
WebDisk can let you direct view your document on iphone/ipad
It can display following items:

iWork documents
Microsoft Office documents ( Word、Excel、PowerPoint)
Rich Text Format (RTF) documents
PDF files
Images
Text files (txt)
Comma-separated value (csv) files
Instructions for upload files to ipad/ipad

1.Start the app
2.Ensure enable “enable web access”
3.Enter the url which display on the app to your pc browser
4.Then you can upload or download files to you ipad /iphone by the web page
WebDisk+ on your PC:
1.Go to http://www.airphotohd.com/webdisk.html download and install WebDisk+ on your computer
2.Start the WebDisk+
3.Tap File Folders and select the File folders which you want to access
4. Ensure that your mobile device and your computer in the same wifi network
5.support ios7

Download WebDisk

River Raid

Normally $1.99.

The River of No Return!

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What’s unique about this remake of the Atari 2600 River Raid?!

1. We used original maps of river raid for creating them!

2. This is the exact remake of River Raid!
We tried to make the exact remake of this fantastic game with its marvelous atmosphere in every possible aspects of the original game (sounds, graphics, gameplay, scoring, etc.) and added few touches here and there, like adding Game Center for online scores.

3. Fly over green areas, Destroy houses and trees and other cool items could be unlock in the shop.

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Gameplay:
Your mission is to score as many points possible by destroying enemy tankers, helicopters, fuel depots, jets and bridges before your jet crashes or runs out of fuel. For each 10,000 points you score, you’re given an additional fighter.

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Features:
– Shop
– Everyplay (Recording and sharing game replays)
– 100 original River Raid maps
– 6 types of control
– Exact remake of Atari 2600 River Raid!
– This is the real AirFox!
– Play with Black Fighter!
– iOS Contoller Support
– Universal: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
– Responsive controls
– Game Center

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Shop items:
– Fly over green areas!
– Destroy hourses and trees!
– Destroy with touch!
– Fly with Brazil, US, UK, Black, Invisible Fighters!
– Double jet speed;
– Double fuel.
– Etc.

Download River Raid

Beluga

Normally $1.99.

Beluga is a simple task-sharing app. Whether you’re getting groceries for home, creating to-do lists for groups, or pushing to make your latest work project a reality, Beluga makes task-sharing easy. Create groups around projects, teams or ideas, write tasks wherever you are in the app, and share it with the appropriate group member by swiping left and tapping their initials. Once you’ve completed a task, you can nix it off your list by swiping right. You can see the tasks of everyone in the group, and move from one project to another with ease. Collaboration made easy and beautiful, buddy!

WHAT BELUGA DOES:

– Create groups of up to seven members. As many as you want, as often as you want.
– Tap the Buddy icon to see all your tasks in one place.
– Assign colors to group to help keep you organized.
– Beluga can create personal or shared todo lists.
– Take Beluga with you: your lists sync across devices.
– Receive notifications each time a task is pitched to you, or when someone else completes a task you’ve pitched.
– Simple, approachable design makes task-sharing less of a pain.

HELP, PLEASE:

If you’ve discovered a bug that needs squashing, something just isn’t working for you, or you have a suggestion for making Beluga better, drop us a line: hey@getbeluga.com. (We also welcome suggestions for new beers to try, if you have them. Beer is delicious.)

We like Beluga. We think you might, too. Thanks for reading! .__.

Download Beluga

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.