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11 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:10PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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It’s Christmas! Look, it’s OK if your presents didn’t live up to your expectations this year. Your family will try harder next year. In the meantime, our gift to you is this great list of 11 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free.

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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.

har•mo•ny 3

Normally $1.99.

Apple Best of June 2015

har•mo•ny 3 is a puzzle game of beautiful color and captivating music, unified in perfect harmony.

“As close to puzzling perfection as you can get” – AppAdvice

“Every part of this game oozes relaxation…” – TouchArcade

“My favorite iPhone game has a new sequel…” – BGR

“…sure to lull you into a meditative experience” – MacLife

A Work of Art…

New chapters feature 170 exquisite levels, each handcrafted to aesthetic perfection. Your objective is to strategically rearrange blocks to reassemble each palette to its correct order.

New Features… New Challenges…

Color palettes subtly morph before your eyes. Gameplay elements fade and dance to beautiful music. With a rapidly increasing difficulty level, har•mo•ny 3 will delight your eyes and ears while stimulating your brain in a relaxing, near-hypnotic experience. You simply have to experience it to believe it.

Mesmerizing Ambience by Hammock…

Treat your ears to nearly three full hours of some of the most beautiful music you will ever hear. har•mo•ny 3 is an encore presentation featuring some of the most-loved music from the sequel while adding 6 new, unreleased tracks featured only in the game.

Wallpapers Galore…

Every level you reach contains a beautiful wallpaper rich with color that you can save to your device.

Experience the Sound of Color…

Go ahead and treat yourself to har•mo•ny 3. Your eyes, ears and mind will thank you.

Download har•mo•ny 3

GifBoom Pro

Normally $1.99.

The ultimate tool for making and sharing animated GIFs on iPhone. GifBoom Pro brings an easy to use yet powerful interface to make interesting stop motion pictures! It’s easier than ever to express yourself in motion!

VERSATILE CAMERA MODES
• Automatic, Stop Motion or Timer modes
• Support both Front and Back Camera
• Flash modes
• Adjustable burst speed to make time lapse or real time video quality GIFs
• Onion Skin: adjust frames based on previous frame position

PROFESSIONAL FILTERS
• Real time Vintage Filters to add styles to your GIF
• Aspect Ratio: not limited to square. Crop anyway you want
• Rotate and Flip photos to create new effects
• Text Overlays to make memes, reaction gifs and funny captions

GIF CONTROLS
• Loop mode: forward, backward or yoyo
• Speed: adjust GIF speed

SHARING
• Share to multiple tumblr blogs as GIFs
• Share to Instagram or WhatsApp as looping videos
• Plays in Twitter and Facebook timeline.
• Special GIF gallery in app for easy browsing your creations

Download GifBoom Pro

UniWar

Normally $0.99.

4.5 millions of games played and counting.
2011 Best Multiplayer Game Award 2nd place – bestappever.com
The BEST MULTIPLAYER TURN-BASED STRATEGY Game

“…it’s impossible to pass up if you’re even remotely interested in turn based strategy games.” – TouchArcade

“…I’m truly in awe of everything that has been captured and neatly packaged in UniWar…” – AppCraver – 10/10

“…It’s probably the best strategy game on the iPhone right now…” – PixelatedGeek

UniWar™ is a classic multiplayer turn-based strategy game with an online community.
Players take turns building their army and fighting against each other. It is like chess with multiple races and boards where terrain affects attack and mobility of units.
FEATURES:
– 3 races, each with 8 varied units.
– 10,000+ user created maps to choose from.
– Play multiple games at once.
– Team play allows 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4.
– Campaign with 21 missions.
– Play modes: Multiplayer online, Vs. AI, Vs. a friend on the same phone (hot seat).
– Worldwide Global Ladder.
– Email or push notifications when it is your turn.
– In-game chat and main chat room.
– 5 landscape themes with fog of war.
– Select a fast or slow turn duration from 3 min to 3 days.

It is a blend between Advance Wars and StarCraft. Also in the same genre as Lux DLX on the iPhone but with a real online multiplayer mode added. Whether you are looking for an RTS or RPG, UniWar will satisfy your needs.

You enjoy multiplayer online games like Rogue Planet or Texas Hold’em? Try UniWar™ and prepare for endless fun…

Download UniWar

Drink Advisor

Normally $0.99.

DrinkAdvisor – the bars and drinks guide for frequent travelers and locals, is a application featuring outstanding number of well established bars and nightclubs, reviewed and rated by users worldwide. DrinkAdvisor is available in 9 languages, making it the only international mobile digest totally dedicated to high-end drinks, bars and nightclubs.

FEATURES

– The world’s most comprehensive and constantly updated nightlife near me guide.

– Over 10 000 bars and midnight clubs reviewed and rated in 210 megacities and smaller towns in 70 countries.

– Top suggestions for nightlife San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Sao Paolo, Sydney, Istanbul and Moscow

– Explore the world’s party capitals nightlife and find directions to the hottest bars around me in Las Vegas, Miami, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Lima, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Reykjavik, Gothenburg, Thessaloniki and Prague.

– DrinkAdvisor will quickly set your location and then help you to illuminate and easily find address of bars near me or bars close to me.
– You can reveal venues by type using one of the suggested filter, i.e.: cocktail lounges, dance bars, rooftops, night clubs, outdoor terraces, karaoke bars, hookah cafes, live jazz, sport spots, speakeasy joints and others.

– Subscribe for your favorite venues activities – events and deals and keep it on your party radar in just one click of Like button on venue page. Now, you can always do what you Like!

– Your opinion matters! Share your opinion about spots you visited, signature cocktails you tried and ambience you experienced. This will help your friends and other users make the right choice.

– If you want to draw a house party, get some great ideas for the cocktails to prepare at home. Filter them by style, flavor, alcohol strengths, base liquor, mixer or even a method of preparation you like the most.

– Step by step cocktail making process and detailed recipes. Negroni cocktail will be great if stirred with ice. While your Daiquiri cocktail will be perfect if shaken.

Please Note that Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Download Drink Advisor

Charged

Normally $0.99.

Charged is the simplest way to check your iPhone’s battery from your wrist

Download Charged

Money

Normally $0.99.

The Money app is a simple iPhone app that helps you to keep your daily expense and or income tracked. The whole app contains only one single view and you can manage your personal finance with tap and swipe gestures. In this main view it shows sum of your expense and income, as long as a progress bar to indicate the budget status of current month.

The Money app supports not only categories just like other similar apps do, it also allows you to set one or multiple customized tags for each record of expense or income. By swiping left or right on the list in the main view, the app gives you statistic for both tags and categories of the month.

Additionally, you can view all records in a specific category or tag. And in most cases you can easily see and set budget for months, categories or tags with a single tap on the little progress bar like rectangle between “Income” and “Expense”.

Money also supports setting customized accounts to keep track of your balances. Simply by pulling down the view all your account balances show up.

One more hint:
Swipe on the month title to navigate between months.

Download Money

MarkDisk

Normally $0.99.

Powerful tool to transfer and manage your files and documents with iPhone.
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FEATURES
– Transfer file though WIFI: You can transfer files between your phone and computer, without cable;
– Unlimited storage, given your phone storage is sufficient;
– View your documents/images on iPhone and web browser; Support different file formats;
– Play videos from your iPhone or web browsers;
– You can take photo or import photos;
– Support all iOS versions, from iOS7 to iOA9

Download MarkDisk

iPicBox

Normally $5.99.

Easy to use! Smooth! Awesome!
iPicBox is the most beautiful and powerful picture manager that is easy to use in the world.
If you like picture, if you are addicted to collecting pictures, if you have some privacies, and would like to show off, yeah~That is it! Got it!

******Main Features******
—Support iOS9
—Touch ID for locking single folder and image
—Gorgeous themes that are changed by heart
—Folder cover that is splendid
—Unlimited folders that permit you to sort pictures
—Unique tree view of folders that is clear at a glance
—Unique split mode that shows tree view and list view at the same time
—Press to download picture easily
—Quick capturing as you need
—Import albums that have huge amount of pictures
—Search pictures you want and locate the position
—Lock pictures and privacies will not be touched
—Batch operations that make you better efficiency
—All kinds of gestures that make you natural
—Smooth basic operations including Add, Del, Edit, Move
—Trash box that gives you a chance to go back

* * * * * *
All your photos stored in iPicBox are 100% private. Your photos are only stored on your device and are never uploaded to our servers. We have no ability to remotely access your photos.

Download iPicBox

BlackCam

Normally $1.99.

BlackCam the Professional Black&White Camera

BlackCam helps you to take stunning black and white photographs with live preview

Features:
– Very simple to use
– Different colored lens filters
– Different professional conversion set filters
– Filters are shown live on camera screen
– Live contrast, brightness & exposure slider
– Add simulated film grain
– Add black vignetting
– Custom EXIF Artist Credit entry
– Export your photos to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and email
– Outputs images in full resolution
– Add black and white filters to your existing photos

You like BlackCam!? Please give us 5 stars! Your feedback is very important to our work.

Download BlackCam

Budget and expense tracking

Normally $3.99.

Where did your money go? Try easy and simple expense tracker, It will tell yo. Not confusing or complicated to use! Perfect for tracking expenses quickly and completely. Exactly the type of app you looking for to compliment your busy lifestyle! Try it!

– Budget, help you save money, set a goal!
– Calendar, get your freely replacement query, navigate!
– iCloud backup to help you protect data security, free replacement devices, sharing data between multiple devices!
– Reports, help you analyze, statistics at any date!
– Export excel (CVS) data, you can edit data on the PC side, let you to do more complex data statistics!

– Multiple currency conversions, automatically calculated according to the exchange rate, update the latest Exchange rates to facilitate the travel of your life!
– Edit the categories of cost, depending on your lifestyle, edit their own categories!

– Rich technical support, mature technology team, senior technology architect, ensuring continuous updates!

Enjoy it!

Download Budget and expense tracking

Fliptastic Pro

Normally $1.99.

Turn your amazing photos into engaging flips with photo filters, transitions, and music, all in ONE app– Fliptastic!

“It has a lot of features that most competing apps don’t have in one place.” – Mel Martin, TUAW

“Fliptastic is a really fun way to take a bunch of photos and make them into a digestible postable viewing experience.” – Robin Rhys, AppAdvice

“My seven-year-old taught me how to use this app (no joke).” – Valerie Rice

Features
• SELECT: Choose up to 100 photos from Instagram, photo albums or take a new picture using the camera
• PHOTO EDITOR: Crop, Add Caption or apply unique Filters to your photos!
• MUSIC: Add background music to your videos with Fliptastic soundtrack (over a dozen songs included), or use songs from your music library
• SPECIAL EFFECTS: Add Snow, Heart and Starry effects, only on Fliptastic!
• TRANSITIONS: Apply cool animated transitions including Crossfade, Slide, Light Saber and more
• SHARE: Upload to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or save to your Camera Roll and share using other apps!
• INSTAGRAM: Simply tap on the Instagram logo to automagically optimize for Instagram video!
• Designed and optimized for iOS 8, compatible with iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad running iOS 7 and above

Remember to hashtag #fliptastic for a chance to be featured on our Instagram account!

Download Fliptastic Pro

 

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.