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11 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free right now

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:09PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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And so another week full of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free comes to an end, but not before we can squeeze in one last post — and today’s entry is one of our biggest of the week! There are still a few freebies left in Thursday’s post if you head back there and check them out, but today we have 11 fresh apps on sale for you to try.

MUST SEE: When did Apple products get so… ugly?

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.

BeetleCam Gallery Cleaner

Normally $3.99.

BeetleCam Gallery Cleaner makes it super easy to free up tons of valuable storage in iPhone and iCloud. This smart tool automatically detects unwanted photos in your device. Users using this app have optimized their storage and saved an average of 1.83GB on their devices, give it a try now!

This is an ultimate photos cleaning tool that smoothly scans and deletes duplicate or similar photos. Free up tons of disk space by deleting duplicate photos in just a click! If you have taken photos in burst mode, retouched them, having hugh HDR photos etc, it will find and list them in groups.

BeetleCam Gallery Cleaner works like a charm and has the ability to detect similar photos. It helps in situation where you taken photos of the same scene in quick succession to capture the perfect shot, or where you piled up storage by creating backups in the camera roll.

BeetleCam Gallery Cleaner is extremely fast when it comes to analysing and comparing a large number of photos within seconds. This is due to the smart algorithms that make the search of similar photos extremely fast, giving excellent comparison results.

If you opt to receive notifications, our app will remind you to perform a clean on a weekly basis, so that you can always keep your phone storage clean.

**Don’t forget to empty the “Recently Deleted” album in your photos app to secure your free space!**

Download BeetleCam Gallery Cleaner

iCal Widget

Normally $1.99.

NO need to unlock your device to see your calendar events!!!
Day or week timeline view to see ALL your iPhone calendar events from the notification center.

The app is used to view existing events from the iPhone calendar, with the following features:

․ Day timeline
․ Week timeline
․ Scroll through 24 hours
․ Scroll through days and weeks
․ Tap on event to open event or iPhone calendar
․ Handles complicated event overlapping
Remember: if you do not see events in the widget make sure to select the calendars that you want to see in the widget from the app so you can see them in the widget. The widget allows you which calendars to show in the widget.

More features will be added soon!
Please send us what you want! We will add it!

Download iCal Widget

Home Design 3D

Normally $4.99.

– FEATURED ON APPLE’S BEST OF APP STORE 2012 AS ONE OF THE BEST CREATIVITY APPS FOR IPAD!

– MORE THAN 20 MILLION OF USERS WORLDWIDE!

“Now apps offer a quick and powerful way to indulge your home design fantasies. Home Design 3D is one of the better ones”
(NY Times.com – May 1, 2013)

“Designers have used complex software to help plan renovations for years, but with this app anyone can do it”
#2 best property app by The Telegraph

Selected by Buzzfeed as one of the best Handy Apps Every Home Design Lover Needs.

“A brillant app” Stuff

Selected by Buzzfeed as one of the best Handy Apps Every Home Design Lover Needs.

“A brillant app” Stuff

Home Design 3D is that perfect balance between ease of use and extensive features.

With Home Design 3D, designing and changing your home has never been so intuitive and quick. Whether you want to redecorate, redesign or create the home of your dreams, Home Design 3D is the perfect app for you!

Floorplan and room layout:
In 2D, you can draw rooms, create openings, and now add single and small walls.
You can just as easily change the height or the thickness of the walls, the shape of the room itself, and its orientation (thanks to the compass function).
By simply dragging/dropping, make your choice from among hundreds of objects and pieces of joinery proposed and change both the interior and exterior of your home.

Advanced features and sharing:
Import any plan (architectural or hand-drawn) and display it on the background of the project.
Home Design allows you to share your plan via Dropbox.
Whether for professional or personal purposes share and synchronize your project so several people can work on it!

Customization and 3D visits:
Upgrade to 3D mode and get the most out of your project. Thanks to its all-new 3D engine, you can take a look at an impressive photo-realistic preview of your project. The new day/night function will show you exactly where the light will fall at different times of the day.
Choose from the textures to customize your project either by double tapping or with a simple drag & drop.
Each texture is available in 450 different shades giving you an almost infinite choice. You can easily find the shade you want in just a few seconds thanks to the color chart.
False manipulations no longer possible in 3D. If the texture applied is not suitable, you can now go back and cancel it.

Suitable for the iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS latest generation.
In 3D the ‘Beautiful Mode’ has been optimized and is now available for the iPhone 4S/iPad 3 and more. For those of you with the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, ‘Fast Mode’ is advised for faster browsing.
Video : http://bit.ly/SQnqUu

•Easy to use and intuitive interface
•Drag and drop any object or piece of furniture where you want (windows, doors, tables, desks, carpeting, etc…. This applies to textures too.
•An enormous variety of features (copy/paste, magnetism, single walls, wall height adjustment, plan importing…)
•More than 800 different objects and joignery available for the house and the garden
•Select the dimensions of every element of the house (walls, objects, furniture, …)
•Import you plan and place it under your project
•Share your project on Dropbox
•New 3D engine for a photo-realistic rendering
•Visit your home in 3D with 2 navigation modes (First Person view and Observer mode)
•Advanced unlimited customization! All cladding and materials can be customized whenever you like and as much as you like.
•Share your projects on the website http://www.homedesign.net and take advantage of the Home Design 3D community knowledge!
•Save and edit all your projects easily
•No internet connection
•Illustrated tutorial available

Download Home Design 3D

Vanish Weight Loss Tracker

Normally $0.99.

Keep track of your weight loss goals and post progress photos straight to Instagram with the Vanish 12 week weight loss tracker.

Perfect for Bikini Body Guide, Fit Girl Guide and other 12 week body transformation programs.

Enter you starting and goal weight, then update each week as you get closer and closer towards your goal. Take selfies along the way and share before/after comparison photos direct to your Instagram fitness account in one click.

Great for keeping all those fitness selfies & healthies in one place and off your iPhone photo app.

No registration or personal data required, the app is perfectly anonymous and all your stats and photos are deletable at any time from within the setting section.

Share your progress, stay motivated and see real progress with the Vanish 12 week weight loss tracker app.

Download Vanish Weight Loss Tracker

eBook Search Pro

Normally $0.99.

If you’d like an almost endless supply of FREE books delivered directly to your iBooks, Kindle, or Nook app — or almost any other eBook reader app — then you’ll want to install eBook Search Pro right now.

The PRO version gives you all the free books of eBook Search, but with none of the annoying advertising and over 60,000 more books. Books from the ManyBooks catalog with–as you might expect—scores of books, and–by popular demand–the Munseys catalog known for its unsurpassed collection of free Pulp Fiction, Religion books, and hard to find titles.

It’s like having VIP access to the world’s largest bookstore… crammed to the rafters with over 2 million books, and open 24/7. Best of all, it fits into your iPhone or iPad.

No matter where you are — lying by the pool, chilling in your local Starbucks, or waiting at the airport — you’ll always have a great book to read.

You’ll simply browse through the eBook Search Pro catalogs, pick a book, and after a couple of taps on the screen you’ll be reading the book on your favorite eBook reader app — iBooks, Kindle, Nook, or MegaReader (or most other reader apps)… it’s up to you.

eBook Search Pro taps into a little known supply of classic books — by authors like Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. All the books you’ve promised yourself you’ll read “one day.”

That day is now. With eBook Search Pro you’ll catch up on all the reading you’ve missed, with a world of great literature at your fingertips. But it’s not just the classics you get with eBook Search Pro.

Modern-day stories — thrillers, mysteries, fantasies, science fiction, and more — are there at the touch of your finger. It doesn’t matter which genre “floats your boat”, you’ll discover a huge selection to choose from. And you’ll stumble on wonderful books you’d never heard of that’ll send you down new paths of adventure and excitement.

All those wasted minutes, when you could’ve been reading “if only you’d brought a book”… are instantly transformed into hours of pleasure with eBook Search Pro.

And remember, you can read all of these books on any eBook reader. Kindle, Nook, iBooks, MegaReader, or almost any other app, it doesn’t matter. There’s no need to learn how to use some new-fangled eBook reader. eBook Search Pro puts your chosen book directly on to your favorite eBook app.

But here’s where it gets really good. Every single book you get with eBook Search Pro — and there’s over 2 million of them – is absolutely free.

When your friends are handing over their hard-earned cash for an eBook from the big name stores (and moaning about the outrageous price for a book you can’t even hold in your hands), you’ll have instant access to more books than you could possibly read in a lifetime… and they won’t cost you a single cent.

While your friends are paying $9.33 for “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, you’ll be reading it for free. While your friends are paying $14.93 for “Tom Sawyer”, you’ll be reading it for free. And it’s the same with thrillers, romances, science fiction, and more.

It’s up to you. Keep on throwing your money away buying books from those other guys — you know the ones. Or, keep the cash in your pocket, and get 2 million free books with eBook Search Pro.

Tap that blue button right now and install eBook Search Pro.

Download eBook Search Pro

Splashtop Wired XDisplay

Normally $2.99.

**** Use your iPhone as an extra monitor to your MAC or PC! ****
**** Developed by the Creator of Splashtop Remote Desktop, the #1 iOS Business App Developer, with over 20 million users! ****

*** Please contact us at http://support-xdisplay.splashtop.com/home if you have any problem extending or mirroring your computer screen to your iPhone. The App Store does not offer a way for us to respond to user issues. ***
Splashtop Wired XDisplay turns an iPhone into an extra display for your computer, enhancing productivity.

FEATURES
* High Performance (1080P or retina display at 60fps)
* Support for Windows 7 default Aero desktop theme featuring translucent windows
* Auto orientation when iPhone is turned (works in both landscape and portrait modes)
* Ability to choose the position of your extended display relative to the computer
* Secure wired connection

Simple Setup
1. Download Splashtop Wired XDisplay (this app)
2. Download and run the FREE Splashtop Wired XDisplay Agent on your MAC or PC at http://www.splashtop.com/wiredxdisplay
3. Connect your iPhone to MAC or PC using a lightning or 30 pin cable

Computer Supported
* Windows 7, 8, 10, and later
* MAC OSX 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, and later
LIMITATIONS
* Currently only supports computers with at least one unused video display output
* When Windows Aero is disabled, certain functions might not be available
To learn more: http://www.splashtop.com/wiredxdisplay

Download Splashtop Wired XDisplay

Destiny Emerald

Normally $2.99.

Classic 16-bit action RPG using a whole family of adventurers. Traverse massive dungeons, collect tools, and fight devious monsters!

Journey through a massive dungeon of hundreds of rooms and exotic warp locations over the mountains and under the seas. Collect unique weaponry and gadgets to outsmart monster swarms and solve formidable puzzles in this retro action RPG.

******* HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS *******
Game optimized for iPad 4 and above. In the Settings on the title screen, you can change the Sfx to ‘All’ for better sound effects. If you experience slowdown or loading problems in this mode, we recommend that you change the Sfx setting back to ‘Minimum’ to improve gameplay speed.

******* REVIEW *******
Want to learn more about the game before playing? Head to Touch Arcade to read an honest and comprehensive review:
http://toucharcade.com/2015/05/08/destiny-emerald-for-ipad/

******* FEATURES *******
* Gameplay inspired by 80s NES action RPGs such as the Legend of Zelda.

* Play as 4 different family members: Warrior, Mage, Rogue, and Swordsboy, each with unique attacks and abilities.

* Find the Five Shards of the Destiny Emerald within a massive dungeon with hundreds of rooms!

* Dozens of monsters each with distinct attacks and movement patterns. Can you outsmart them all?

* Break blocks, bomb walls, freeze water, and burn down concealing shubbery to uncover lots of secrets and treasures!

* Depending on your preference, you can use the original Free 360 swipe controls or a Direction Pad to control your heroes.

The puzzles will be challenging. The monsters will be devious. The game will be fun. It is a game that’s everything you’ve loved about the classic action RPGs. Plus, you get to control 4 different family members each with unique abilities and tactics.

Download Destiny Emerald

Dream-X

Normally $4.99.

Dream X – Ultimate solution for managing all of your thoughts.

The mind map app, Dream-X will help you easily and quickly take your ideas and map them out visually to help you become more productive. Awesome and easy to use, watch the video and see how easy!
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Create and handle simple and complex mind maps in the elegant way.

Do you want to jot down a few ideas during a brainstorm? Are you going to plan a vacation? Have you got a massive idea which needs a really detailed plan? You can work on a project of any size if you are using Dream X. This app has everything you could possibly need for an effective mind map.

It’s easy to make your mind maps vivid:
▹color code different branches and individual ideas
▹add any images, labels and text to your ideas
▹assign various icons to the ideas
▹choose the app color scheme which works best for you

You can get things done with Dream X:
▹set start and due dates to individual tasks and branches
▹indicate current progress of an idea or the whole branch

Dream X has a smooth learning curve:
▹ the interface is simple and intuitive
▹ video tutorials will assist you with getting a grasp of Dream X controls
▹a few samples will help mind map beginners design the first mind maps

Export mind maps if you need to share them:
▹save a picture with the mind map to Camera Roll
▹send your mind map to email

Download

 Dream-X

Starglobe Free

Normally $4.99.

Starglobe – A new way to discover the night sky.

Starglobe enables you to point your iPhone or iPad at the sky and see what stars, planets, galaxies and constellations you are looking at in real-time.

Even if your view is obscured by clouds or daylight, Starglobe
will know which stars, planets, galaxies and constellations are hiding from your view! You have to use this app to realize just how amazing it is!

Starglobe is simply magical!

– Cool 3D view of the whole sky

– Real time motion tracking tells you what stars are above you in the sky

– Impress your girlfriend/boyfriend with your knowledge about stars

– Want to know how the night sky looks in another hemisphere ? With Starglobe you can see how the sky looks from any place on earth

Download Starglobe Free

K Blocker

Normally $0.99.

Enjoy Kardashian-free web browsing. Instantly vanish Kim, Kylie, Khloe, Kendall, Kourtney, Caytlin, Kanye and the rest of the Kardashians from the interwebs.

K Blocker filters out links, websites and photos that contain keywords related to the Kardashian clan.

K Blocker uses the latest iOS Content Blocking capabilities. It integrates directly into Safari, so you do not need to change anything about the way you browse the web. Simply enable K Blocker and you will see how photos, images and links related to the Kardashians just disappear. K Blocker also blocks website URLs that contain Kardiashian-related keywords, so if you accidentally follow a link to one of these sites, you will only see a blank page.

In addition to working in Safari, K Blocker also works in certain apps that use Safari Webkit for web browsing. K Blocker does NOT work in apps such as Facebook for iOS or Twitter for iOS. However, it will work if you access these services via the Safari web browser.

LIMITATIONS: K Blocker is intended for entertainment purposes only. It has been tested on a large number of websites. It will dramatically reduce your exposure to Kardashian-related content. However, it cannot block 100% of the Kardashian content on 100% of the websites. It may also affect the display of some web content that mistakenly identifies as Kardashian-related.

Download K Blocker

TextVideo

Normally $2.99.

TextVideo will give you a simple way to add text on video. Especially, text can be warped, rotated and animated.

Features
– Hundred fonts are available
– Various transition effect for text
– Various animation effect for text
– Live preview before share out
– Crop & Trim Video
– Add background music
– Rotate & Flip Video
– Shape video in different shapes
– Share your video montages on Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr…

Download TextVideo

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Zach Epstein has been the Executive Editor at BGR for more than 15 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.