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12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now

Published Dec 2nd, 2016 11:21AM EST
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Can you believe we’re less than a month away from 2017? New Year’s Eve is just four short weeks away, but we’ve still got plenty of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free to share with you before 2016 comes to a close. Today’s list features 12 different apps on sale, and some of them are almost never made available for free so you’ll definitely want to check them out.

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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.

Onion Browser

Normally $0.99.

Onion Browser is the original Tor-powered web browser that helps you bypass censorship and access the internet with more privacy.

“The best Tor-related offering on iOS right now is Onion Browser” – The Daily Dot, October 14, 2015.

Featured in: The New York Times, The Guardian, Salon, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Macworld, The Daily Dot, & others.

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• Internet access tunneled over the Tor network:
– Websites do not see your real IP address.
– ISPs and insecure wireless networks cannot see your browsing.
– Access .onion websites: anonymous “hidden service” sites only accessible through Tor.

• Defeat internet filters and censors with “obfs4” & “meek” traffic masking. (See DISCLAIMERS below.)

• Fight online tracking: use a new IP address and clear your cookies/history/cache in one button.

• Block third party cookies or all cookies.

• Disable scripts and multimedia content that can be used to track you.

Download Onion Browser

GIFit

Normally $4.99.

The ULTIMATE GIF experience; create, view, save, edit, personalize, and share gifs with everyone. You are now a GIFit creator.

App Features:
– convert photo or video to gif
– preview any gif on your camera roll
– share gifs to your social media with just a click
– save gifs to your device or send to a friend
– customize gifs with over 10 different settings (dimensions, frame delay, loop count, aspect fit/fill, etc.)
– rearrange gif frames by clicking and dragging
– landscape and portrait mode
– and MORE!

Start GIFit! Convert images and videos into gifs, then customize them to your perfect settings. Preview already made gifs from your camera roll or create custom gifs on-the-go. Share to social media or simply save to your own device. With GIFit, your animations are LIMITLESS!

As you may already know, it sucks that gifs saved on your device appear as a normal picture– GIFit allows you to see which gifs are on your phone, preview them, and CUSTOMIZE them. We are done with the desktop to phone shifting– have all your gifs and gif tools in one place!

Live EDITOR lets you be in control! Edit your own gifs; drag and drop the frames in the order you want. No more dealing with unorganized uploads.

Customization is key! With over 10 different settings, GIFit allows you to make the masterpiece you’ve been visioning. Change the SIZE of your animation, the frame DELAY, loop count, aspect fit/fill, preserve transparency, CROPPING, and more. All this GIFit power right at your finger tips.

SHARE to your favorite SOCIAL networks! Easily press on the share button and send to friends, save the gif to your device and upload to social media, iMessage, email, and more.

For All iPhones and iPads

Download GIFit

WOOSIK

Normally $6.99.

WOOSIK is the ULTIMATE music player for any Soundcloud user that finds their native app to be too clunky! WOOSIK is simple and intuitive, allowing the user to focus on the music. With completely AD FREE listening, WOOSIK is the only music player to offer exclusive access to Soundcloud with no cost and no ads. Don’t waste your time skipping Soundcloud ads… Just get WOOSIK!

WOOSIK is the best way to search for millions of free music and audio tracks via Soundcloud… AD FREE!

Listen to any song, album, podcast, or audio recording that is available on Soundcloud for absolutely free, no strings attached.

No sign up required.

WOOSIK Key Features:
– ENTIRELY AD FREE
– Explore trending music by genre and playlists
– Search unlimited free music, audiobooks, and anything else available on SoundCloud
– Create and Manage your Playlists
– Keep track of all your recent songs
– Use unique colors to customize your WOOSIK experience
– Background Play & Select music from the lock screen
– Simple Music Player is available on all pages for convenience

Compatible with iPhone and iPad, all versions.

Download WOOSIK

Web Recorder Pro

Normally $1.99.

This application is a solution for those who want to record browsing tasks. If you find out interesting things on the webs and like to share it with your friends, or you want to instruct them doing some manipulation on webs, “Web Recorder Pro” will help you by the fastest way.

How to use this app:
Click (Start) button to go to the web browser screen, and then type a website address. Click on the phone symbol to start recording, and hit this button again if you want to stop.
Recorded files will appear on the list, and are always ready for you to share!

“Web Recorder Pro” will bring to you the best video quality, run smoothly and very easy to use.
We hope this app will be useful for you.

Download Web Recorder Pro

Faux Browser

Normally $9.99.

Let’s say you are browsing some adult web site.

Your girlfriend, spouse, coworker, roommate or your mom walks into your room.

Don’t panic.

Just press Home button.

Pressing Home button wipes the page clean.

Even the multi-tasking screen is cleaned out.
Firefox browsing mode
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Faux Browser does Desktop browsing mode. Find the Desktop browsing mode setting at.

1) Open Settings -> Faux Browser -> Firefox Desktop browsing
2) Tap it to turn it on.

Use it to browse the Firefox only websites.
Privacy Browsing
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Faux Browser does not use Google, who records your searching keywords and sell them to unknown third parties.

We use DuckDuckGo, a private search engine which does not record anything about you.

Moreover. all online tracking cookies are removed when you are done. Traces of all sites you visited are wiped clean.
Analytics Opt-Out
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We respect our users privacy, and we understand that it is an individual choice.

With Faux Browser, you can now Opt-Out from Analytics.

To do so.

1) Open Settings -> Faux Browser -> Allow Google Analytics
2) Tap it to turn it off.

Download Faux Browser

Tomatodo

Normally $1.99.

PomodoroToDo combines Pomodoro Technique and traditional task management (GTD), PomodoroToDo make you easy to collect & arrange tasks in your work&life. You can use the Pomodoro Technique to complete task efficiently, PomodoroToDo makes your work&life more productive!

Key features:

• Organize your tasks for life, work and everywhere in between in with Projects
• Show progress of projects, and every project workload in detail.
• You can set the number of Pomodoro, deadline, reminder, repetition, note&subtasks.
• Integrated Pomodoro Timer, you can work more efficiently by use it.
• Detailed reports, you can check your number of completed tasks, number of completed pomodoros, and the general trend in the number of completed tasks and the number of completed pomdoros.

Download Tomatodo

Sneezies HD

Normally $2.99.

Grab a cup of tea, relax on your favorite beanbag, and enjoy the soothing, melodic gameplay and fantastic HD graphics in remastered version of the iPhone’s most addictive, casual viral game, Sneezies – an overload of cuteness!

Sneezies HD is now a universal app, including iPhone, iPod, iPad, & Apple TV support.

Drifting around the touchscreen are a host Sneezies with a tickle in their nose, ready to cause a chain reaction as their fellow balls of floating fluff sneeze, taking viral gameplay to a very literal new height.

Touch the screen to drop a burst of sneezing powder into the field of floating Sneezies and watch as they sneeze themselves out of their bubbles in a marvelous chain reaction. Try to rescue as many Sneezies as you can in one go by setting off the chain reaction at just the right place, and at just the right moment.

Play through 45 relaxing levels of Sneezies in the Classic Mode, or unleash your skills in the 15 Challenge Mode levels and post your high scores online to see how you stack up against other Sneezies players around the world.

THE MEDIA HAS CAUGHT THE SNEEZIES BUG

“Sneezies is a great, fun, and amazingly cute puzzle game. 4.5/5.”
– 148apps.com

“Sneezies is a game that is extremely easy to pick up and play, not to mention lots of fun and addictive as well. Grab it!”
– TouchMyApps.com

HIGH DEF SNEEZIES SPREADING ON THE BIG SCREEN

•Simple, relaxing, single-finger gameplay that’s highly addictive.
•All new high definition version of the hit iPhone game.
•Over 60 different levels of increasing difficulty to play through.

FOLLOW A CHAIN REACTION OF SNEEZIES STUFF

Download Sneezies HD

Short Menu

Normally $1.99.

In times of social networks and smartphones we use URLs all day. But they can be really long – too long! They neither look pleasant on our small screens nor in longer texts on big screens. They take away space – important space.

Short Menu solves this problem. It sends your long URL to a service of your choice, which then returns a short URL you can use instead.

Short Menu, its 2 Action Extensions and Today Widget support 18 different services (5 require sign-in) and is extremely easy to use. On launch it will automatically take the URL from your clipboard. You only have to press one button, then Short Menu will shorten your URL and automatically copy the short URL for you.

After shortening, Short Menu saves both the short and long URL in your history, which will be synced with iCloud to ensure you got all your short URLs on all your devices (even on your Mac if you’re using the macOS version).

Short Menu perfectly integrates with bit.ly, Rebrandly, Google, Hive, tiny.cc, Droplr and CloudApp (for using Rebrandly, tiny.cc, Droplr or CloudApp, an account is obligatory). You can easily manage all your accounts in Short Menu’s settings and, if you added multiple accounts for the same service, activate the account Short Menu shall use.

Got your own URL service? Short Menu can handle it. You can add as many custom services as you like. Short Menu can send both GET and POST requests, add HTTP headers and supports different encodings for POST requests. To avoid the need of entering the same information about your custom services again and again, they will be synced with iCloud.

TL;DR

– Lightning fast URL shortening with 18 services supported by default
– 8 of the default services and all custom services support custom keywords
– Use the two Action Extensions to shorten URLs system-wide
– Shorten URLs from anywhere using the today widget
– Add as many bit.ly, Rebrandly, Google, Hive, tiny.cc, Droplr and CloudApp accounts as you want
– Add an unlimited number of custom services
– Copy and share any URL from your history
– Your history and custom services will be synced with iCloud
– Supports x-callback-urls for Launch Center Pro

Download Short Menu

Treble Radio

Normally $4.99.

Great music discovery is effortless and free with TREBEL Radio. Just start with the genres and we will do the rest. It’s easy to stream personalized radio that play only music you’ll love.

Tap into an entire world of music, including almost a century of popular recordings – new and old, well known and obscure. Create up to 30,000 radio stations with your free account.

Not sure where to start? Explore hundreds of music and comedy genre stations with new stations added weekly.

Download Treble Radio

RepostToStories for Instagram

Normally $3.99.

Now you can share Instagram posts with your followers on Instagram stories.

When you find an interesting post, repost it to your stories so that your audience can also enjoy it.

Don’t want to mess up your perfect Instagram page by re-posting random content? Well now you can repost them all to IG Stories.

WHY REPOST TO STORIES?

+ Easily provide valuable content to your audience by reposting
+ Be visible to your audience and others
+ Gain more followers by staying on Stories feed
+ When you post constantly to your stories you will be discovered by many new users on discover page on IG.
+ No need to repost random content to your Instagram page.
+ Keep your Instagram page clean.

FOR BRANDS:
+ This could be a great way to feature your customers. Showcase your customer’s photos on Stories daily and inspire others.

FEATURES:

+ No login required
+ Just Copy Share URL and open the app to Repost
+ Auto detect copied Instagram post share URLs
+ Three Layout styles
– Repost pictures with caption
– Centered
– Color Fill – Automatically detects matching background color and fill the empty space
REQUIREMENTS:
– The app is to be used with Instagram

Note:
– RepostToStories App is in no way associated with or endorsed by Instagram.
– Currently supports only picture reposts only (Video repost coming soon)
– Sharing private posts not supported
– This app is not for Reposting Stories it is for reposting posts to stories.
– Make sure to ask permission to repost if required

Download RepostToStories for Instagram

Live Memories

Normally $0.99.

Enjoy your Live Photos
– You can see your Live Photos.
– Your Live Photos will be played automatically.

See Every Single Moment
– You can see all frames of your Live Photo.
– You can save the frames as photo.
– You can also save the video.

Download Live Memories

dB meter

Normally $0.99.

dBA Meter app well calibrated with professional noise meter tool OKTAVA 110A-PRO.

Measure sound SPL level/noise:
-Current average SPL level
-Peak SPL level
-Average maximum SPL level
-Absolute maximum SPL level

Graph histogram for (change in settings):
-Current average SPL level
-Peak SPL level

Additional features:
-Save measurements
-Upside down orientation to easy use.

Download dB meter

Zach Epstein Executive Editor

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.