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7 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time (save $56!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:58PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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We’re starting out this week with a bang. We always share great lists of paid iPhone and iPad apps that are on sale for free, but for Monday we have a particularly interesting list packed with pricey apps. These seven applications would typically cost you a combined $56 to download, but right now you can get them all for free if you hurry!

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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.

Camly Pro

Normally $2.99.

Camly is an awesome photo editing app that combines professional editing tools and simplicity of usage.

150 UNIQUE FILTERS AND STYLISH PHOTO EFFECTS

Camly lets you use various effects including unique filters that can easily make your photo special.

Filter packs were created by a team of professional photographers and compile their long photo editing experience. Use the results of their work to give a desirable look to your photo: make the best selfie or add vintage effect to your photo

345 STYLISH STICKERS AND CAPTIONS

Camly has a set of stickers that can turn your photo into an exciting story. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by our stickers. We have everything from hipster moustache to hearts and flowers and even fairy tale characters.

Camly lets you add beautiful captions so that you could express all your emotions on the photo.

PROFESSIONAL EDITING

Camly has a set of professional editing tools especially for the delicate adjustment fans. With Camly you can edit brightness, contrast, optical exposure, light and shadows, hue, colour temperature(warmth), saturation, acutance. You can also use vignette, cutting and rotating tools including straightening the horizon, Fisheye, Anaglyph 3D, barrel and pincushion distortion, keystone distortion, blur, tilt-shift and other useful settings.

DOZENS OF COLLAGES

When one photo is not enough to express all your ideas use collages. We’ve created a huge number of collages for every life situation.

MORE THAN 50 BACKGROUND IMAGE FRAMES

Add new colours to your photo by putting it in a frame. You can choose the most suitable background picture and add bright creative hues to your photo.

FAST POSTING OF THE RESULT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

You can save the edited photo on your phone or share it with friends by posting in your favourite social networks.

Use #Camly when posting photos. We’ll find your photos and post the best ones in our popular accounts with thousands of followers mentioning you as an author.

Moreover, using #Camly you help spreading the application through your friends who will thank you for a great recommendation.

Download Camly Pro

Lumen Trails

Normally $19.99.

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

Lumen Trails is an omni tracker. It 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 HD 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

Pictwo

Normally $1.99.

Pictwo is a tool for making awesome photos. Use your own imagination and creativity to combine two photos into new compositions called Pictwos. By adding textures and colors from your environment to landscapes or portraits, you can create beautiful photos in just a few seconds. Get more involved in the process by recycling your image to add limitless layers– creating collages, surreal compositions, and art pieces.

Features include:
‑ Take new photos or select from library, including textures packaged in the app
‑ Crop, zoom, position, rotate or flip images
‑ Choose a blending mode for your top layer
‑ Set opacity for top layer
‑ Use your finger to erase portions of the top layer, draw back in portions accidentally erased, zoom in for finer precision, and undo the changes to start again
‑ “Recycle” your image to add an infinite amount of layers
‑ Share to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
‑ iOS6 integration to quickly send your composition to other photo apps for further editing
‑ Save your compositions easily to your photo library

Download Pictwo

New York City Secrets

Normally $4.99.

All cities have two sides to them: The one shown in the “normal” guide books and the ones experienced by locals-in-the-know. What’s hot and what’s advertised are frequently not the same thing!

The City Secrets guide is designed to clue you in with the most up-to-date information on entertainment, accommodation and travel available.
It’s fresh, smart and curated with you in mind! You should download your free copy now…

Features:
– Overview
– Shopping
– Entertainment
– Hotels
– Dining
– City & transport maps

Download New York City Secrets

Cash Flow

Normally $2.99.

Find out how much money you’ll have tomorrow, next week or even after n months!

An extremely easy and natural way to see your cash flow using tool you already familiar with – the timeline. Imagine your incomes and expenses as regular events in calendar. Create them, repeat if necessary, change properties or drag them around and see how the summary values are changing automagically. So have a full control of the financial part of your life and focus on the things that really matters.

All the data will be synchronized using iCloud across all your iOS devices.

Download Cash Flow

Blurryfy

Normally $1.99.

With Blurryfy you can select between various filters and effects (blur, downsampling and saturation) to transform your images into beautiful wallpapers for your iPhone or iPad within a few seconds.
Because of the transparency effects in iOS blurred images get an impressive eyecatcher when used.
Share your finished images with your friends or family via a large amount of export functions.
If you don’t like the result, try to use the random button or discard all changes and start from scratch.

Features:

– import your images from your photo albums
– fast and easy editing for your perfect blurred image
– live preview – see the results during dragging the sliders (you can turn this off in settings)
– export to your photo albums, AirDrop, mail, Twitter and messages app
– clearly arranged interface
– universal app for iPhone and iPad
– iOS 8 photo extension. (Currently limited to 1500x1500px export due to technical limitations)

Download Blurryfy

Quantum Galaxy HD

Normally $19.99.

*** ALL In-App Purchases are FREE as of February 3, 2015 until the XP saving bug is fixed! Conquer the new Quantum Galaxy for the first time in new HD with a unique “Transformable Ships” game mechanic, on top of smooth Tilt/Tap controls made specifically for the casual audience in this Incredible HD ON-RAILS 3D Space Shooter! Earn XP, Level-Up and Transform one of 3 BRAND-NEW HD playable ships on your 3+ hour journey through 20 BRAND-NEW HD action-packed ON-RAILS missions with JAW-DROPPING RETINA HD graphics EXCLUSIVELY on the iOS!

For the first time, experience the never before seen innovation of the mobile ON-RAILS genre in HD as Quantum Galaxy gives you the ability to Transform your spaceship in real-time via the use of space Pods and Stations. Watch as your ship morphs before your eyes from a tiny spacecraft, to a formidable star-fighter, to a massive MINI-BOSS! All this, combined with a unique use of friendly AI Wingmen to aid you on your new action-packed journey through the Quantum Galaxy.

Featuring:

• Amazing cinematic ON-RAILS HD arcade action aimed at a casual audience!
• Brand-new JAW-DROPPING RETINA HD graphics on all modern iOS devices
• Full support for iPhone 5 and iPad with Retina display in HD
• Tilt to steer your ship manually and avoid enemy bullets
• Forgo tilting and Tap your enemies for a casual HD ON-RAILS experience
• Master the game in minutes with intuitive controls and dynamic tutorial system
• Control, Morph and Transform one of 3 brand new playable spaceships in HD
• Earn XP to Level-Up and FREELY unlock new playable ships and 13 different HD shields and weapons
• Skip the RPG Grind with Optional In-App purchases
• Explore the vast Quantum Galaxy via the 20 brand new action-packed HD missions!
• Like never before: morph your ship in real-time using space Pods and Stations
• Defend Space Outposts and team up with friendly HD AI Wingmen
• Face more than 25 types of HD enemies with Gigantic Bosses in every level!
• Experience over 45 minutes of original HD orchestral music
• Game Center support with 7 unique Leaderboards and 18 challenging Achievements
• Near-endless replay value with Dynamic Difficulty and Randomized Enemies
• No boring or complicated Sci-Fi story. Only non-stop arcade HD action that is accessible to all players with no language barrier!

>> Game Play Basics:

Steer your ship manually by tilting your device left and right, or tap your enemies to engage the ON-RAILS “Autopilot”. To maximize damage, it is best to be facing your enemies directly before pressing the right “Weapons/Fire” button. Holding the left “Shield” button will allow you to deflect all enemy projectiles. Prolonged use of the Weapons/Shields will cause a temporary overload. Note that it is NOT possible to fire your weapons while Shields are active until you level-up your starship and unlock Translucent Shielding at Level 5.

In addition, completing missions, earning XP and leveling-up your ship to Level 5 will also unlock new playable spacecraft 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 ships on multiple iOS devices.

Download Quantum Galaxy HD

Vintagram for Instagram

Normally $0.99.

Vintagram helps you can create amazing photos with vintage feel. Just select a photo, crop, add one of our beautiful photo effects and share with your friends. It easy, download it today!. Our presets and effects makes modern photos look vintage with our cool vintage photo filters.

Vintagram is loaded with charming pre-saved effects that will guarantee the best result for editing your image and turning it into vintage photo.

Vintagram is a simple-design application with powerful functionality that allows choosing, editing and sharing images “on the fly”.

Vintagram is a vintage photo editor, retro effect simulator, vintage filter generator, vintage effects guru, old picture creator kinda app :-)

Share with everyone! Export function will help you to share your image on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, by e-mail or just copy it to the temporary memory to use somewhere else.

Download Vintagram for Instagram

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.