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7 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free downloads for a limited time (save $48!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:54PM EST
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Yesterday’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps that were on sale for free included several great options, including a few that are still free if you hurry. Today we have a fresh list, however, and it contains seven solid apps that are normally worth a combined $48, but right now you can download each and every one of them without paying a cent.

FROM EARLIER: Meet the amazing $174 gadget that lets you shoot fireballs from your wrists

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.

Foggy

Normally $0.99.

Add some color on your forecast with Foggy, an amazing weather app with fluid animations and effective interface that is both beautifully simple, yet powerfully addictive.

Foggy is built around the idea of giving you a radiantly crafted forecast at a glance. Swipe through forecasts and see the weather at a glance.

Features:

◆ A beautifully crafted simple experience.
◆ Works world wide. Supports both ºC and ºF.
◆ Multiple day forecast.
◆ Background animation on days.
◆ Exact location based weather data.

Download Foggy

Stackables

Normally $0.99.

App Store’s Best New Apps in over 170 countries!

App Store’s Editor’s Choice in Brazil!

Voted “Staff Favorite” at App Advice for the week of Feb the 17th, 2014!

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Stackables is the most advanced and comprehensive effects layering and blending app. It’s packed with over 200 effects expertly crafted by photographer Dirk Wuestenhagen. These include tasteful grunge textures, light leaks and bokeh textures, painterly textures, abstract sky and clouds textures, emulsion textures, grit and grain textures, analog film emulation filters, gorgeous gradients, elaborate geometric patterns and much more – all stackable, all adjustable, all undoable, all breathtakingly beautiful!

In addition, Stackables comes equipped with over 20 professional adjustment tools most notably White Balance, Color Balance, Vignette, Sepia, Grain, Blur, Tilt Shift and Depth of Field. And for the first time ever on a mobile device, these tools are added as layers, giving you unprecedented control over color and tonal levels in your composition.

Stackables’ layers-based architecture and nondestructive workflow encourage experimentation and foster creativity. Add layers to your heart’s content and see impressive results with every new layer. And have peace of mind knowing that all edits are completely modifiable and reversible regardless of when you’ve done them in your editing process.

Instantly transform your photos into works of art with 30 preset formulas meticulously constructed by Dirk. Explore dozens of user-created formulas hand-picked from hundreds of submissions. Or save your own edits as formulas and never lose a custom edit you love. And with our proprietary social editing platform, you can share your formulas with friends via email or transfer them between your devices.

With its revolutionary design, easy to navigate interface, and streamlined workflow, Stackables is perfect for any skill level. Whether you’re an avid photographer or an aspiring enthusiast, Stackables provides you with the tools you need to elevate your mobile artistry.

MAIN FEATURES:
◉ 200+ unique effects (many with multiple variations)
◉ 20+ professional adjustment tools
◉ Unlimited layers. Modify, rotate, rearrange, hide and delete layers.
◉ 18 blend modes with live preview
◉ 30 preset formulas, dozens of user-created formulas and the ability to save your own edits as formulas and share them via email

OTHER:
◉ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and email sharing options. Also supports iOS’s “Open in Other Apps” protocol.
◉ Supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF formats
◉ Supports all image aspect ratios
◉ URL Scheme “stackables://”

SUPPORTED RESOLUTIONS:
◉ 16MP (4000 x 4000) on iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina 2G, iPad 3G, iPad 4G, iPad Air, iPad Air 2
◉ 9MP (3000 x 3000) on iPod Touch 5G, iPhone 4s, iPad mini, iPad 2
◉ 4MP (2000 x 2000) on iPhone 4

Download Stackables for iPhoneDownload Stackables for iPad

My.Shopping

Normally $0.99.

My.Shopping is the ideal app for managing shopping items you buy for your home or business. Organize any type of shopping or grocery item, lists, things to sell, gifts given and received, coupons, products, online credentials and sellers with a shopping organizer you can trust from the productivity experts at LightArrow.

See which one of our apps is best for you: http://lightarrow.com/compare

If you want to manage your shopping in context with everything else you do in your life and business, consider purchasing our complete organizer, LifeTopix.

BUILT-IN FEATURES

+ Central shopping portal: Organize shopping through the Home view. See alerts and shopping items.

+ Create a collection of your favorite stores and online sellers: Save an unlimited number of sellers. Add details for stores where you purchase products — including contact information, location, URL, categories and referred by information.

+ Create a collection of your favorite products: Save an unlimited number of products — categories, descriptions, sellers, prices, audio notes, photos, video, bookmarks and coupons. Add one or more sellers to products.

+ Create and save reusable shopping lists: Create any number of shopping lists with your favorite products. Manage individual shopping items or manage entire shopping lists.

+ Organize online user names and passwords for favorite sellers: Passwords are secured with a PIN (AES 256-bit encryption).

+ Plan shopping trips by location: Save time by viewing upcoming shopping items through Near Me. View seller’s locations on a map and see the shopping items associated with it. Find nearby stores, events and other businesses (Powered by foursquare®).

+ Manage coupons: Take photos of your coupons and promotions for stores that accept non-paper coupons. Know when coupons are due by adding dates. Include bookmarks, text or handwritten notes, audio or video for supporting information.

+ Manage gift lists: Keep track of gifts for holidays or events such as birthdays or weddings. Create due/received dates and spend amounts for gifts given/received.

+ Track things to sell: Do you sell on eBay, Etsy or via Craigslist? Easily track things you sell and keep your home clutter free.

+ Customize shopping product categories to your liking: Group and view shopping items by your own categories, such as store aisles, name of store or nutritional value.

+ Works with your iOS calendar: All shopping items can seamlessly show on your calendar. Receive alerts via local notifications.

+ Customize your app: Through settings, control your main & accent color, passcode, default device calendar and timing of your calendar reminders.

Shop privately: Keep your shopping habits private. Stores your data privately on your device. No ads and no web logins required. Sharing and Cloud syncing is optional.

+ Print, Hot list (favorites), Search, Data backup, and Help

IN-APP PURCHASE AVAILABLE

With the optional Sync + Share Pack, share and collaborate by syncing with online services (Dropbox™ or Box™) or mail your shopping list to family members or housemates so they can open it directly in My.Shopping on their device.

UNSURPASSED CUSTOMER SUPPORT

When we say that we value our customers, we really mean it. We respond to every submission received by our support team (support@lightarrow.com). We are totally committed to our users’ complete satisfaction. And we encourage communication at http://www.lightarrow.com from any web page or publicly through social media! See for yourself at http://lightarrow.com/lifetopix/comments-and-replies

If you have an issue, give us a chance to help, you will be pleasantly surprised! We will never give up on you. We appreciate feedback from our users.

My.Shopping uses the foursquare® application programming interface but is not endorsed or certified by Foursquare Labs, Inc. All of the foursquare® logos (including all badges) and trademarks displayed on My.Shopping are the property of Foursquare Labs, Inc.

Download My.Shopping

SaveGram

Normally $1.99.

View, search and save any image/video you see in Instagram with the highest quality.

Repost Instagram videos and photos easily.

SaveGram makes it easy to save Instagram photos and videos from your own, or any user to your iDevices.

Did you love one beautiful Instagram photo or amazing video and want to keep it forever?

SaveGram helps you to download Instagram photos and videos to your Camera Roll, allowing you to see them anytime, anywhere.

This product uses the Instagram API but is not endorsed or certified by Instagram.

Features:
– Save Instagram photos
– Save Instagram videos
– Support BATCH DOWNLOAD
– Repost photos & videos
– User and hashtag search
– Detailed user profiles
– Follow/Unfollow users
– “Like” feature
– “Repost” feature
– Share Instagram photos to Facebook, Twitter etc
– Simple and straight to the point interface.
– Designed for iPhone, iPod and iPad
– Support iPhone 6 and 6 plus, iOS 8

Note:
Please do not use this app to save photos or videos without the permission of the respective owners. Respect the rights of the Instagram users.

SaveGram uses the Instagram public API and depends on the Instagram servers.

Download SaveGram

Lumen Trails Money Tracker+

Normally $19.99.

• Apple “New Year, New You” Favorite
• Apple App Store Staff Favorite

Lumen Trails lets you take notes, make lists and keep track of other things in your life, such as time, workouts, expenses, calories, food, weight, sleep or anything else you can think of. Thousands of people use it every day, and they love it because it truly makes a difference in their lives.

“I’ve been using Lumen Trails for 6 months and continue to love it. One of my most sticky and useful apps ever on my phone.” – David D’Souza

The beauty of Lumen Trails is that you can track absolutely anything. There are tons of other apps that allow you to track one or two things, for example, calories and weight. But what if you decide to track something else? Say, how many cigarettes you smoke as you try to quit, your eating habits or even net worth? Lumen Trails is the app for that!

Instead of having one app for your to-do lists, one for tracking expenses, another one for tracking your weight, you can declutter your home screen and just have one app that does it all.

Designed exclusively for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Lumen Trails is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and looks beautiful on the Retina Display. It can even backup your data automatically to Google Drive, sync with iCloud, and is fully accessible with Apple VoiceOver in 8 languages. There’s nothing that comes even close to it. And to top it all, your data is not locked on your iPhone. You can export it to Excel or Google Docs!

So what’s truly important to you right now? Your Health? Fitness? Finances? Productivity?

Track it and get things done!

:: Note to iPhone 6 & 6 Plus users

Now you can ask Siri to find information for you and dictate right into Lumen Trails. For example, hold down the Home button and ask Siri: “How many calories are in a chicken sandwich?”. To start dictation, tap the microphone button on your keyboard and just start talking – your words will be turned into text.

Download Lumen Trails Money Tracker+

Fotor HDR

Normally $1.99.

Capture life’s full range on the go!

Perfectly compatible with iOS 8. In addition, we have listened to our users requests and added the “import” function. You can now import your photos to generate great looking photos with Fotor HDR.

• Fotor HDR – The best choice for HDR! The most advanced HDR app allows you to create your masterpieces in just a couple of clicks with the best, easiest inspired interface.

• Dual capture mode – Innovative technology lets you shoot and process HDR immediately, or shoot and automatically save the multiple-exposure sets for later processing so you can keep shooting fast!

• 1-Tap to apply one of 10 exclusive brand-new HDR preset styles to suit your mood, from natural looking to surreal and artistic options.

• Further refine the HDR preset styles by fine-tuning the brightness, contrast, saturation and Vignette for complete artistic control.

• Advanced alignment and ghost-reduction technology lets you shoot hand-held without worrying about moving objects.

• Take your HDR show on the road, no more carrying around heavy gear or figuring out crazy exposures.

• Fotor HDR is the first app in the App Store with the most advanced capture modes, keep multiple-exposure sets, full 32-bit HDR processing, and a range of editing options. The easiest, most powerful way to capture, process, and share you HDR images.

It all started with HDR at Fotor, and now we’re going back to our roots with Fotor HDR!

A revolutionary app that sports a High Dynamic Range camera with multiple HDR Styles. So capture life’s full range with a single tap and then spice it up using one of Fotor’s exclusive HDR preset styles. It’s slick, fast, easy and powerful!

No need for heavy equipment or complicated interfaces. Just reach in your pocket, open the app and fire away. Fotor HDR was designed for you, so you’re totally in control from capture to completion. Immortalize those special moments in High Dynamic Range and exactly as you see them… on the go, wherever you are, and every time inspiration strikes. Fotor HDR is the first app in the App Store to give you all these functions and more for complete control of your images.

Fotor HDR has arrived to let you capture life’s full range on the go!

Download Fotor HDR

Benjamin Gunships

Normally $19.99.

Experience the Next-Generation of Arcade-Style 3D Helicopter Combat as you protect the skies above the futuristic offshore buildings owned by the banking cartels. Intensely cinematic non-stop action awaits you during the 20 mission campaign as you pilot, level-up and upgrade one of 3 playable Helicopter Gunships.

*** NOTICE: Benjamin Gunships features Standard-Definition support and LOW QUALITY GRAPHICS specifically designed for older iOS devices, which include: iPod Touch 3, iPod Touch 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 1. Featuring:

• Never before seen Arcade-Style 3D Helicopter Combat experience, with sights, sounds and non-stop action that will take your breath away!
• Enjoy Simple and Intuitive Controls: tilt your iOS device left/right to steer your Helicopter Gunship around city obstacles while skillfully avoiding enemy missiles.
• Alternatively, for a casual ON-RAILS experience: forgo tilting and simply tap your enemies to engage the “Autopilot” while controlling your Afterburner and Weapons with a smooth 2-button interface.
• 20 action-oriented campaign missions (including 2 bonus Endless Gauntlet levels) offer over 4 hours of action-packed Arcade-Style game play.
• Face more than 30 different types of enemies, including: modern jets, attack helicopters and GIGANTIC money-packed transport aircraft!
• Game Center support: with 7 Leaderboards and 18 elusive Achievements that demand an additional 10+ hours of game play.
• RPG Style Progression System allows you to FREELY acquire, pilot and level-up 3 unique Helicopter Gunships while unlocking 18 different types of Afterburner and Weapon upgrades.
• Optional In-App Purchases allow you to skip the RPG grind and instantly acquire any of the playable Helicopter Gunships. In addition, you can Restore your existing purchases to unlock content on multiple iOS devices.
• Team up with friendly AI wingmen in the later stages of the game, and watch as your enemies fall before your elite squadron.
• Over 30 minutes of memorable original music will dynamically accompany your Arcade-Style cinematic experience.
• Adaptive AI and Randomized Enemies with Dynamic Difficulty: provide for a near endless replay value, as your opponents constantly change and adapt to your style of game play each time you engage a new or existing mission.

>> Game Play Basics:

Steer your helicopter manually by tilting your device left and right, or tap your enemies to engage the ON-RAILS “Autopilot”. NOTE that you must be facing your enemies directly before pressing the right “Weapons/Fire” button. Holding the left “Afterburner” button will allow you to avoid enemy missiles as well as steer around various city hazards. Remember that the game’s Dynamic On-Screen Tutorial System will always guide you on the right course of action, while prolonged use of the Weapons/Afterburner will cause a temporary overload. Also, note that your gunship is equipped with automatic repair systems which will activate shortly after you stop taking damage.

Completing missions, earning XP and leveling-up your gunship to Level 5 will unlock new playable aircraft 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 gunships on multiple iOS devices.

Download Benjamin Gunships

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.