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10 Awesome Paid iPhone Apps On Sale for Free for a Limited Time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:01PM EST
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It’s our last list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free this week, and we’re making sure to close things out with a bang. Today’s list features 10 great paid iOS applications that are all on sale for free right now, but these sales could end at any time, so you’d better hurry.

There are also still a few nifty freebies in yesterday’s post if you’re quick!

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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.

Widget Calendar

Normally $0.99.

Calendar, in the today view.

Simply brings you the full calendar in the today view.
Below are what it provides.

– Fetches event data from Calendar app
– Provide mini mode to save space
– Open Calendar App by touching the date cell
– Written in Swift

Check the calendar in the fastest way whenever you need to, event when the screen is locked!

Download Widget Calendar

OfficeSuite Premium

Normally $19.99.

The latest version of OfficeSuite brings the power and capability of a desktop app to the iPhone and iPad like never before! This is the perfect tool for effortlessly viewing, editing, creating and sharing Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents and converting them to/from PDFs.

What our users say about OfficeSuite:
“After viewing the video demo, I was hesitating to download it, because it sounded too good to be true. However, a few days later, I realized that I cannot leave it off. OfficeSuite is absolutely amazing and really more than just an office app. Keep it up!”

“You get the full power of Microsoft Office with this app!”

“OfficeSuite app allows me to perform all my daily office tasks on the fly. Now, I am more flexible and don’t need to stick in the office all day. Thanks you guys!! You made my life easier!”

WHAT MAKES OFFICESUITE BETTER THAN ALL OTHER EDITORS
* Extremely fast and easy to use
* Desktop-inspired user interface – combines familiarity and mobile productivity
* No storage cloud lock-in. Supports Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and iCloud. No complex synchronizations – direct opening and saving to/from the cloud
* Full editor for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
* Edit, annotate and save PDF documents – convert PDFs to Word/Excel, make changes, insert notes and comments, then save PDF document without losing the formatting
* Simply view and edit RTF and CSV file formats
* Supports all Microsoft Office file formats
* Printing support
* Auto-correct while typing
* Extra font pack – 70+ popular fonts now included
* Add camera photo – include pictures in your documents to aid your note taking
* Password protection – set a password for your PDFs and the app for extra security
* NEW! Open ODF files
* NEW! A gallery of Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates

DOCUMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
* Supports .doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf, .txt, .log file formats
* Advanced formatting (fonts, bullets and numbering, tables and pictures)
* Search/Replace feature to easily perform large-scale editing
* Convenient page navigation (zoom, page finder and edit/view modes)
* NEW! Support for document templates
* NEW! Open .odt files

SPREADSHEET HIGHLIGHTS:
* Supports .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv file formats
* Advanced formatting (cell styles, borders, numbering, font color and style)
* Freeze/unfreeze columns and rows, insert and edit charts and pictures
* Multiple sheet support for large documents
* NEW! Support for spreadsheet templates
* NEW! Open .ods files
* NEW! Support for Scatter chart type
* NEW! Conditional formatting
* NEW! Insert chart as new sheet

PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS:
* Supports .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .pptm, .ppsm file formats
* Advanced formatting (insert and reorder slides, adjust pictures, text and shapes)
* Create manual and automatic slideshows and support transition types
* Navigate easily using the Slide Carousel, Search, Zoom, and Go to Slide features
* NEW! Support for presentation templates
* NEW! Open .odp files
* NEW! Create and edit transitions

PDF HIGHLIGHTS:
* Annotate and save PDF documents without losing the formatting
* Regular and full-screen support
* Swipe between pages using the Page Carousel
* Navigate easily using the Search, Zoom, and Go to Page features
* Print and share documents
* NEW! Continuous page view

Download OfficeSuite Premium

Dwelp

Normally $1.99.

Dwelp is an elegant little puzzler with a brand new game mechanic. To complete a puzzle, just link all of the same-colored dots by placing them one near another. There’s a catch, though… Once you have connected two dots, the others of the same color become locked in their place.

It’s so simple to understand, yet it opens up a whole world of possibilities! Why “only” 120 puzzles, then? Because they were carefully selected from hundreds of others, in order to offer you only the best of the best.

Each puzzle has more than one solution (and some have thousands). Will you find the one that requires the least number of moves? That’s the real challenge! Should you complete it, you will be treated to a select number of puzzles that are bordering on impossibility. But the satisfaction of solving one of those can’t be described in words…

Designed specifically for the iOS devices and carefully crafted to the tiniest detail, Dwelp brings you puzzle solving at its finest.

==== FEATURES ====

• 120 hand-crafted puzzles with a smooth difficulty curve

• An ultra-hard puzzle pack, if you are up to a tough challenge and have some good hours to spare

• Bonus puzzle pack with a different type of gameplay

• Game Center integration with 16 achievements to earn and a global leaderboard to conquer by mastering all the puzzles

• Handy features like the puzzle previewer, the progress saver and the powerful undoer, to enhance your gaming experience

• Easy one-handed portrait-mode control

• Working equally fine in landscape mode without any rotation – on the iPhone too

• IAP-free & ad-free

Enjoy!

Download Dwelp

Scanio

Normally $1.99.

Scanio helps you scan documents, invoices, receipts, bills and other.
Send them via email or to another apps or upload to cloud services.
Capture text from image.

Features:
• Automatic detecting page edges, to make a perfect picture
• Enhances document picture
• Export to multi-page PDF files
• Offline Text Recognition supports 15 languages:
English, Arabic, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Download Scanio

Zen Sketch

Normally $1.99.

Zen Sketch is a cross between a note-taking and a painting app. We wanted to give people an app with a balance between power and simplicity: A place that could stay out of the way and let them think, but also contained an environment with the ability to add serious detail to their work. And so Zen Sketch was born. The app goes beyond regular ink handwriting apps by using an industry standard drawing/painting engine, but still organizes your work in a logical fashion like any good note-taking app.

Use Zen Sketch to create powerful notes or paintings. All your work can easily be exported out of the app as images or PDFs, and shared in just about every way imaginable. The app has no learning curve, and lets you work in a streamlined and clean interface designed with the latest technology in mind.

We hope you like the Zen Sketch. And if you do, be sure to check out some of the other great Zen apps we’ve made.

Download Zen Sketch

Cosplace

Normally $0.99.

Cosplace is a photo app for sharing your love of cosplay, whether you’re a cosplayer, a costume or prop maker, a photographer, or just a huge fan.

This is version 1.0 of Cosplace and offers basic functionality.

Who’s Cosplace for?

Cosplayers: Whether you’re creating a costume or prop, or showcasing one at a convention, Cosplace lets you share moments from your cosplay life, and categorize your photos based on the genre or universe you’re cosplaying in. You can even share in-progress costumes in the Workshop category.

Photographers: Showcase your photos taken at conventions and expose your work to a passionate community of cosplay enthusiasts.

Fans and Geeks: Browse amazing photos, select categories to follow including comics, gaming, anime, as well as your favorite universes and enjoy a stream of amazing cosplayers and their creations, and share them with your friends.

We have created a Facebook Group for beta testers to ask questions and get general support. You can request access to the group at http://facebook.com/groups/cosplace.

Download Cosplace

Translator Pro

Normally $5.99.

The time is now for a complete, easy to use and elegant app that allows you to speak over 40 languages with one simple tap.
Using state of the art technologies such as machine translation and text to speech, Translator Pro is the ultimate tool that lets you speak and understand the world’s major languages and many more.

:: :: KEY FEATURES :: ::

● Translate any text between 40 languages
● Share your text via email or on your social networks
● Offline text-to-speech
● You can dictate your text instead of typing ( through iOS 8 speech recognition)
● Browse through your translation history offline
● Optimized for all devices including iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

Our app supports the following languages::

● Afrikaans
● Albanian
● Arabic
● Basque
● Belarusian
● Bulgarian
● Catalan
● Chinese
● Chinese (traditional)
● Croatian
● Czech
● Danish
● Dutch
● English
● Estonian
● Filipino
● Finnish
● French
● German
● Greek
● Hindi
● Hungarian
● Indonesian
● Irish
● Italian
● Japanese
● Korean
● Malay
● Norwegian
● Polish
● Portuguese
● Romanian
● Russian
● Slovak
● Spanish
● Swedish
● Thai
● Turkish
● Ukrainian
● Vietnamese

Download Translator Pro

Splash Canyons

Normally $0.99.

Splash Canyons is a unique and awe inspiring puzzle game. Watch in amazement as you mix brightly colored liquids into deep canyon pools.

Despite sounding easy, this gets harder in every level. Weave the water around and through obstacles like rocks, glass, wind, and more as you solve these beautiful puzzles.

Each level is hand crafted to perfection to give you the ultimate puzzle solving experience. What might be most mesmerizing is the liquid, beautifully rendered and simulated with a real time physics engine, for maximum fun and realism.

Note: The crystal world pictured in the screenshots is available via in-app purchase.

Download Splash Canyons

Hue Widget

Normally $0.99.

The hue control for everyday life.

Switch your lights on or off from the Notification Center – This is the idea of Hue Widget.

Turning on or off of your Hue lights has never been so easy. Just select a group , and your actions are limited to this group. The integrated brightness control provides you for every situation in your daily life an appropriate brightness level. So you can use your lights quickly as a nightlight, subtle lighting while watching TV, as normal lighting or very bright lighting. In addition, the widget contains a random button. Be inspired by the random button by leaving your lights shine in random colors.

The app itself allows you to configure your widget. The widget uses the connection to the bridge that you have set via the app.

Groups
You can easy manage your groups. Create new groups or remove them. Do not worry if you use multiple devices to control your lights. The groups are saved on your Bridge and are available for all your devices.

Scenes
The app shows you all the scenes which are stored on your Bridge. You can pick out your favorite scenes to display them in the widget. Because the bridge can store a lot of scenes, you can also hide scenes so that they no longer appear in the overview of the app.

Addon Store
Expand Hue Widget with addons . You can find the Addon Store in the settings menu of Hue Widget. Currently you can purchase three addons .

– Buttons Plus Addon
The Buttons Plus addon includes additional features for the widget and the watch app .

Alternative Functions
The control buttons of the widget provide alternative functions if you tap them twice . For example you can tap the ON button twice to activate lights in your favorite color.

Fade
If you hold a Control Button you activate its function in a transition. For example you can use the OFF button to turn off your lights slowly over time.

The watch app displays additional buttons to use the new features.

– Color Schemes Addon
With this addon you can create your own Color Schemes and manage them. The widget and the watch app receives an additional button to circle through your Color Schemes. A Color Scheme represents a set of percentage distributed colors. If you use a Color Scheme, the specified colors are randomly assigned to your lamps.

– GUI Color Addon
With this addon you can use your favorite color to give your widget and watch app a personal appearance.

Download Hue Widget

Follow Me for Instagram

Normally $5.99.

REACHED TOP 100 SOCIAL NETWORKING APPS IN 9 COUNTRIES!

Follow Me – See the Location of Instagram Posts
With Follow Me, you can search for Instagram posts using a map, in addition to searching with hashtags and by user name! Simply go anywhere in the world, push and hold down and instantly you will see all the Instagram posts in that area. With Follow Me, you can see exactly where an Instagram post was actually posted.

Get More Followers
Follow Me can also help you get more Instagram followers. Search the globe for Instagram users, search your area for Instagram users, follow them and then they follow you back. It’s that simple, and really awesome.

How Do I Get Started?
Simple. Download Follow Me, link it to your Instagram account and start using our awesome map feature, where you can search the globe and see people posting to Instagram! All you have to do is push to hold down anywhere on the globe and you’ll see Instagram users in that area. Red pins show you the whole area feed, purple pins show you the individual Instagram user’s picture posts and green pins show you the individual Instagram user’s video posts. Follow them so that they can follow you back!

Time Machine
Now you can go back in time up to six months and search the globe for Instagram posts from a specific time and date. Yes, really!

Map Range
Now you can specify the radius that you want to search in miles or kilometers. Go out as far as three miles or down to 1 tenth of a mile. This is really useful when you’re checking either a big city or a very unpopulated area and you want to get the most relevant posts possible.

History & Favorites
Keep a running tally of every place you’ve searched (you can always erase it if you choose to) and store frequently searched places to your favorites list. This way, you don’t have to keep typing it in to the search bar or zoom in and out of the spot you want to search.

Save Your Media
Now you can save any Instagram picture or video directly to your device without having to screenshot your screen and crop. Simply click “save” and save it all right to your device.

User Insights
Follow Me includes useful insights for users such as which users are following you that you are not following back, users that you are following that are not following you back, which users have given you the most and least likes, which users have given you the most and least comments, and which users have given you the most and least combined likes and comments.

My Activities
Keep track of your own Instagram activities by viewing users whose posts you’ve liked as well as the actual posts you’ve liked. You can also see all the users that you are following, all the users that are following you back and go from user to user and see who their followers are.

Who’s Near Me?
At any time you can go to the Who’s Near Me page where you’ll see a list of all the Instagram users in your area. You can follow them one by one or just click to follow all of them at once and then automatically see a new batch of Instagram users in your area.

Auto Follow
With our unique auto follow feature enabled, you will automatically follow back any Instagram user that follows you through the Follow Me app. The more users using Follow Me, the better! If you’re picky about who you follow, you can disable the auto follow feature and check the Users To Follow Back page to see what Instagram users have followed you that you have not yet followed back. From this page you can choose who you want to follow and you can follow them back right here too.

Happy exploring!

Download Follow Me 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.