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10 awesome paid iPhone apps you can download for free right now (save $36!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:55PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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Merry Christmas! Thousands upon thousands of people across the country unwrapped new iPhones, iPod touch handhelds and iPads today, and the best thing you can do once you get your new iOS device activated is start filling it with awesome apps. We shared our biggest list ever of paid apps on sale for free on Wednesday, and some of them are still free downloads if you hurry over to yesterday’s post.

Today, however, we have another great list of 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps that would regularly cost you $36 in total to download, but each and every one of them is free right now for a limited time.

DON’T MISS: This great free app will instantly stream photos from your iPhone to any smart TV or PC

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.

Week Calendar

Normally $1.99.

***** BEST CALENDAR APP WORLDWIDE *****
Does your ordinary iPhone, iPod or iPad calendar give you insufficient insight and options? Then Week Calendar is the solution for you. Whether you use iCloud, Exchange or Google calendar, Week Calendar is the most user friendly and the all-round calendar app worldwide for everyone that needs to get the most out of their calendar app.

AVAILABLE IN 24 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Week Calendar is available on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and will soon be released on other platforms. Week Calendar supports 24 different languages.

FAST AND EASY TO USE
Adding, repeating and moving events is now much easier than ever before. And with its magnificent interface and intuitive usability, working with Week Calendar is a pleasure for both light as extensive users.

CALENDAR CLARITY
Week Calendar provides a clear and detailed overview based on day, week, (mini)month or year level. Furthermore, Week calendar takes away the limitations of the standard iOS calendar, for example by showing a weekly overview of all your appointments for the upcoming week.

PACKED WITH USEFUL FUNCTIONS
Move your appointments by simply dragging, copying and pasting them. Clear up a busy schedule by assigning different colors to various appointments and events. Powerful reminder functions make sure you’ll always remember your events. Customizable week numbers or repetitive options and many other functions suited to your own personal needs. Using your digital calendar was never easier!

SUBSCRIBE TO HOLIDAYS, SPORTS AND OTHER EVENTS
Add additional subscriptions to sports games, national holidays and more to your calendar from the calendar store. Accidentally scheduling an appointment on your free day now belongs to the past!

MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES:
* Attachments
* Local calendar invite, enabling you to send invitations using a local calendar too.
* Magnificent overview of your appointments and events
* Viewing all your events for the week at one glance
* Simply relocate events using drag and drop
* Calendar overview by day, week, month and year
* Batch operations
* Various icons for different events
* Group templates
* Works without setup for all calendar services supported by iOS (CalDAV, Exchange, iCal, iCloud, birthdays, subscriptions)
* Supports synching of the calendars
* Quickly add events on the right time using tap-and-hold
* Pinch to zoom
* Relocate, cut and paste appointments
* Link contacts to events
* Rotates with screen
* Templates
* Advance repetition rules
* Customizable display
* Full customization of events
* Full screen support
* Invite participants/ share appointments and events by e-mail
* Time zone support
* Adaptable week numbers
* Better birthday integration (shows age of your contacts)
* Hide weekends when there are no appointments /on weekdays/not rotated
* Completely adaptable and customizable action menu to quickly change appointments and events
* Unlimited search
* Support for TextExpander touch snippet expansion

Download Week Calendar

Amount

Normally $0.99.

Amount is the most intuitive, lightweight and easy to use unit converter you’ve ever seen.
Amount let you convert units in a way you’ve never seen before: with just two tap of your finger you have all the results you’re looking for in a single display, side by side.
When you use Amount you don’t have to think what are number is and choose from a long list of values which unit assign to it, spending time. Just let it do all the stuff!

FEATURES
• Incredibly lightweight, fast and easy to use.
• Simple graphic and intuitive interface.
• Over 700 units across more than 30 categories.
• Real time conversions in one screen.
• Create your own customized lists. You can change the order as you like and select just the units you want to see.
• View your conversion history log (the history keeps even old exchange rates for currencies).
• Search feature to let find the unit you want and instantly convert it.
• Custom units can be added easily for each category.

Categories Amount can handle: Acceleration, Angles, Area, Clothing (men and women), Cooking, Currency, Data, Density, Electric current, Energy, Flow (mass and volume), Force, Frequency, Fuel Consumption, Illuminance, Length/Distance, Luminance, Metric System, Network speed, Power, Pressure, Radiation, Speed, Temperature, Time, Torque, Typography, Viscosity (dynamic and kinematic), Volume and Weight/Mass.

TIPS
• Move between screens using swipe gestures.
• Long press any category or unit to see more options.
• Shake the device to change the sorting of category or units (only on iPhone).
• You can change the number directly in the conversion screen by simply tapping it.

Download Amount

Hiversaires

Normally $2.99.

Hiversaires is a cryptic point & click adventure game in a textless world.

Created for the players who remember the times when you had to draw maps, the dark labyrinth of Hiversaires features an original Aliceffekt soundtrack to guide you through its networks of corridors entangled.

Download Hiversaires

Oquonie

Normally $2.99.

Oquonie is a iOS puzzle game for iPad and iPhone created in collaboration with illustrator Rekka Bellum where you must find your way across an intertwined megastructure. You will not be alone, your incarnations will have the help of bizaroid characters speaking an obscure language.

Download Oquonie

Emoji++

Normally $0.99.

Emoji++ is the fastest way to type Emoji on iOS. Built using the advanced capabilities of iOS 8 you can now replace the default keyboard with custom ones. Emoji++ is a replacement keyboard designed exclusively around the idea of typing Emoji as quickly as possible.

Rather than having to page through dozens of screens to find what you are looking for all the Emoji are in a single convenient list.

Use the Speed Search Bar to fly quickly through our carefully organized list.

You can also build custom collections of Emoji characters in the Favorites area or quickly reference commonly used Emoji in the Recents area. Your Favorites area is completely customizable in order and layout.

Download Emoji++

Shift

Normally $0.99.

Until now, photo filters have been limited to what someone else has created for you. Shift lets you create your own personal photo filters with one tap of a button. Shuffle through an endless combination of textures, colors, and blends to produce stylish effects like grit and grime, vintage, light leaks, and high contrast black and whites.

You can then dial in the color and intensity using the slider controls, and position the effect using the three touch points on the screen to create the perfect photo filter.

Save your custom filters using the Favorite button and start building your unique filter library — your go-to filter toolbox. With no limit to the number of filters or the looks that you can create, you’ll have a perfect filter to beautify any and all of your photos.

Tap into your inner artist. Shift — infinite photo filters designed by you.

Download Shift

Manually

Normally $2.99.

Manual Focus & Custom Exposure for your iPhone Camera.

Use a beautiful interface with adjustment dial for full manual control over
Manual Focus, ISO, Shutter Speed, Exposure, White Balance and more.
– Manual Focus
Control the lens position of your camera, focus from macro to infinity

– ISO
Control the sensitivity of your camera to light

– Shutter Speed
Short shutter speeds can freeze fast-moving subjects

– EV
Fine tune the exposure by adjusting the exposure value compensation

– White Balance
Control the colour temperature of your image

– 5x Zoom

– Dial Vibration

– Sound Effects

– QUICK START GUIDE
Camera begines in full auto mode. Press I(ISO) , S(Shutter Speed),
F(Manual Focus), E(Exposure value) and use dial to adjust.
Double tap dial to change auto mode.

Shoot manually!

Download Manually

tinyCalc

Normally $0.99.

tinyCalc is a custom calculator app & widget for iPhone and iPad. Full-featured, yet simple.

You will love how comfortable it is to use with one hand, including on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus!

Widgets should be compact, but comfortable to use. The tinyCalc widget was designed with this in mind.

The tinyCalc app allows you to see all of your functions- no need to rotate your phone to get to everything, and the minimalistic design lets you focus on what matters.

Work in the app or in the widget- whatever you do syncs between the two. You can even customize the buttons, so, from students to professionals, tinyCalc is the calculator for everybody.

Features:

– widget, exclusively on iOS 8, works without even unlocking your device
– all standard scientific calculator functions
– customizable buttons, including the Magic Buttons
– move functions to the Magic Buttons and they appear there in the widget as well
– looks great on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
– open app from anywhere by tapping the top area of the widget
– copy/paste the currently typed number in the app
– settings include:
> degree/radian modes and optional animations
> 8 great themes
> move the numpad to the bottom to make tinyCalc more like traditional calculators

Please note: tinyCalc is a simple, single-step/immediate execution calculator. You will have to keep this in mind to preserve order of operations (ex. 1+2*3 = 9, but 3*2+1 = 7). The one exception is the ‘%’ function, which allows for tip calculation (ex. 100 + 20% = 120). We are considering adding an option for formula calculation in the future!

Download tinyCalc

Globo

Normally $0.99.

What time is in Tokyo right now?
What will be the time in Melbourne if in Milan is 9:42 AM?
What’s the distance from Abu Dhabi to Miami?
Can you remind me when in Madrid it’s 23 o’clock?
What’s the weather in San Francisco right now?

All these questions easily have an answer with Globo, a stunning world clock with a gorgeous feature-rich yet easy to use interface.
If you travel a lot, need to stay connected with other people around the world or you’re just simply curious to discover informations about different locations in the world, Globo is the perfect app for you.
With a clean graphic, an innovative and simple navigation and a great user experience, Globo is your best companion for your time check needs.
Last but not least, did I say Globo is completely offline and also the WHOLE world map is covered?

FEATURES
• Gorgeous user interface with time-based colors.
• Find every location in the world.
• Create a list of your favorite clocks and manage them in a completely new way.
• Useful data for every location: time zone, time interval and distance from another location, coordinates, weather and much more!
• Change the time in a location and instantly see how it change in other places in the world.
• Create up to 64 custom location-based alarms.
• Can work completely offline.

TIPS
• Long press the clocks screen and then drag around your finger to quickly change the date.
• Swipe left every clock to delete it.
• Tap everywhere on map or weather section of every clock to display informations in different formats.

Download Globo

Flying Benjamins HD

Normally $19.99.

*** EXTRA FREE BONUS: Receive FREE access to the brand new HD Blackhawk Helicopter by completing the first mission, or via a FREE in-app purchase!

Experience Modern Aerial Combat in Flying Benjamins HD like never before! Powered by a brand new HD 3D Physics Engine with brand new HD graphics and effects, along with 5 new HD Aircraft and full Retina support on iPhone 5 and iPad with Retina display in addition to brand new support for iPad Mini.

Defend the skies of the newly built offshore banking communities, stopping the most daring money heists imaginable, as you pilot one of 5 upgradeable HD modern aircraft (including highly detailed Jets and for the first time in HD: Attack Helicopters). Next generation of cinematic arcade-style game play awaits you during your 5+ hour journey through 20 action-packed missions, amidst the destructible HD high-rise city environments. Featuring:

• New HD 3D Physics-powered Engine with completely redefined Modern Aerial Combat arcade experience in full HD. With brand-new HD 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 aircraft 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.
• RPG Style Progression System allows you to FREELY acquire, pilot and level-up 5 unique Jets and Helicopters while unlocking 30 different types of Afterburner and Weapon upgrades.
• Face more than 30 types of enemies, including: modern jets, attack helicopters and GIGANTIC money-packed transport aircraft!
• Game Center support: with 7 Leaderboards and 22 brand-new elusive Achievements that demand an additional 15+ hours of game play.
• Team up with friendly AI wingmen in the later stages of the game, and watch as your enemies fall before your elite squadron, known as the “Flying Benjamins”.
• Highly Stylized and Action-Oriented Storytelling is told through the radio of your aircraft.
• 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 jet-fighter 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 destructible 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 aircraft is equipped with automatic repair systems which will activate shortly after you stop taking damage.

Completing missions, earning XP and leveling-up your jet/helicopter 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.

*** NOTICE: Flying Benjamins can only run in LOW QUALITY GRAPHICS mode on older iOS devices, which include: iPod Touch 3, iPod Touch 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 1.

Download Flying Benjamins HD

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.