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11 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:12PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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BGR readers, you know what time it is… it’s time for a nice big helping of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free. Today’s list doesn’t have as many apps as yesterday’s did — some of the ones on yesterday’s list are still free, by the way — but it’s got 11 solid premium iOS apps that can all be downloaded right now without paying a cent.

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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.

iFile

Normally $0.99.

iFile – multifunctional file manager for iOS, combining a full-fledged work with files, powerful browser, a nice player and viewer for all known types of files.

The ability to customize control multitouch gestures makes using this application nicer and faster.

Briefly about the many features:
Reads the file types:
– MS Office: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx
– IWork: numbers, keynote, pages
– PDF
– Text: txt, rtf, rtfd and other
– Music: mp3, aif, aiff, m4a, m4r, wav, caf, aac
– Images: png, gif, jpg, tiff, tif, bmp, bmpf, cur, ico, xbm and other
– Video: mov, mp4, 3gp, m4v, mpeg4, mpv
– Source code: c, cc, ccp, h, m, htm, html, xml, php, and other
– Archives: zip, ipa, rar

Perhaps the file manager:
– Copy/Move/Rename/Zip/Remove and Sorting files
– File transfer via Bluetooth and WiFi (via web server)
– Share file by mail, iCloud and Dropbox, and also to other applications
– Image and video gallery
– Display thumbnails
– View available file system

PDF-reader:
– Convenient display of pages
– Fast rendering
– Instant page navigation
– Bookmark pages
– Page Thumbnails
– Ability to print and mailing

Import and export files:
– USB (via iTunes)
– iCloud and Dropbox
– Web Server for Wi-Fi
– Bluetooth Device to Device
– iPod library with ID3 tags and Artwork
– Photo gallery and photo stream

Integrated browser:
– Change the user-agent to the Offer or custom
– Upload any file
– Multi-threaded downloads with the ability to put a download is paused, and then continue with the stopped location
– Support for download in background
– Bookmarks and History
– Setting up a home page
– Integration with iCloud and Dropbox
– Omnibox (optional)
– Private Mode (optional)
– Safari Bookmarklet

Additional features:
– Configurable multi-touch gestures
– Support for local notifications

Download iFile

SA Contacts

Normally $2.99.

SA Contacts is not only the best way to transfer contacts to and from your iPhone without iTunes—it’s the only way! No other app lets you so easily control your iPhone’s most valuable data:

1. Update, modify and maintain your contacts easily and conveniently on your computer using Excel, OpenOffice or any other Excel-compatible application.
2. SA Contacts sends all of your contacts to you from your iPhone in a convenient zip file by email, USB, or through a webpage seen only on your local wifi network! Contact photos are sent, too!
3. Never again rely on iTunes as your only local source of back up. Nor do you need to share your contacts with Yahoo or other websites in order to have a backup. SA Contacts’ zip file contains ALL of your contacts in a convenient, easy format.
4. SA Contacts protects you from iTunes sync accidents which can delete your contacts if, for example, you no longer have access to an Exchange server.
5. Restoring or changing contacts from the spreadsheet is as simple as uploading the file to your phone via USB, email or web. It couldn’t be easier.
6. You can print a hardcopy of your iPhone contacts.
7. You can now export iPhone contacts to an Excel file which can then be imported to Outlook Contacts directly.
8. You can also import contacts from an Excel file that has been exported from Outlook to your iPhone.
9. You can now export/import iPhone contacts to/from a Gmail CSV-format file(UTF-8 encoded or Unicode encoded).
10. You can upload export files over to Dropbox/SkyDrive/GoogleDrive or download import files from Dropbox/SkyDrive/GoogleDrive.
11. You can password protect your export file.
12. All Contact fields except Ringtones can be exported/imported.
13. You can organise your contacts into groups easily on a spreadsheet and also assign a contact to multiple groups.
14. You can remove all iPhone contacts or groups before importing your organized contacts.
15. SA Contacts can support 30,000+ contact entries.
16. All column headers and labels in the Excel file are localized.
17. Export/Import contacts to/from a VCF file.
18. Backup contacts before import.
19. Manage groups easily. You can now create, edit, delete groups and add contacts to groups.
20. Export an Excel file with all photos included – this makes the contacts in your spreadsheet look better.
21. Import your own file by mapping column headers to contact fields.
22. Specify your own column headers in export process.

Tutorial videos on youtube is now available (KEYWORD: “samyuapp”).

Download SA Contacts

Blur

Normally $0.99.

**** The original “Blur” app | Top 100 *****

Maximize every pixel of your retina display with Blur, a fun new app that
transforms ordinary pictures into stunning backgrounds. Just slide your finger
across any picture to get the perfect Blur, set it as your wallpaper, and make your
device look better than ever!

*** New Feature – Tap the Blur logo to load a random photo to blur! ***

How to get the most out of Blur:
– Take bright photos with multiple colors
– Use Blur with other photo apps to get even more lighting and color effects
– Share your Blurs on Facebook and Twitter with #BlurWall

Blur – The most stunning way to upgrade your iPhone.

Requires iOS6 or higher.

Download Blur

orange time

Normally $0.99.

How time flies ! No one can stop it!
Just focus in the work time.

It would lead you a better life !! Orange Time is based on tomato working(Pomodoro).

◎ time setting
focus time (don’t too long)
rest time

◎ sound setting
focus BGM
rest BGM
focus over alert sound
rest over alert sound
mute

◎analyze
record your focus time add oranges.

We spent so much time to make app to let you work efficiently ,of course ,with your support, we will work hard to do better!

Download orange time

Tower in the Sky

Normally $1.99.

Lead a team of unlikely heroes into battle against an ancient enemy and save the Kingdom! Explore a magical world, conquer evil, collect loot, mystical items, and designer T-shirts. Move your characters strategically, time your attacks, unleash powerful spells, and customize your party and play style against dozens of different enemy types to succeed. Can you unravel the truth about the Tower in the Sky?

This is a premium game without advertisements, IAP or pay to win mechanics. Pay once and enjoy the entire campaign. Tower in the Sky was built to provide challenge for all levels of players. Easy to pick up and play on normal and easy difficulty levels, while hard and extreme levels will challenge even the most hardcore strategy role playing game vets.

• A surprisingly deep adventure for mobile devices!
• Victory requires strategy and skill.
• Build a unique party out of a dozen playable characters each with their own unique abilities.
• Customize your party with TONS of weapons, items, and collectible T-shirts.
• Encounter a cast of NPC’s and a cross genre story that arcs across 1000’s of years.
• Dozens of different enemy types that require different strategies to defeat.
• Help an overly opportunistic Tavern entrepreneur be successful!

A side campaign featuring 2 hours of additional playtime is on the way, and will be made available to everyone who purchases the game for no additional cost. The side campaign will be released when we hit 1,000 downloads, so please help out and leave a review of the game!

Thank you for supporting indie gaming!

Optimized for iPhone 6+, 6, 5, 4, and iPad 2 and above.

Download Tower in the Sky

Live Wallpapers

Normally $0.99.

This app is for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus ONLY. Finally, Live Wallpaper on your iPhone! 40+ beautifully designed moving wallpapers to choose from. Live wallpaper for Lock Screen only works on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Please make sure 3D touch is enabled and your iPhone is not in ‘low power mode’.

From christmas trees, aquariums, coral reefs with sharks, fireplaces, candle lights, beautiful beaches and living landscapes to geometric patterns, there is something for everyone.

Swipe between the wallpapers to save the ones you would like to use to your Camera Roll. From there simply take the same steps you normally do to make regular photos your lockscreen and/or wallpaper.

How to set as a live lock screen wallpaper:
+ Simply swipe between Live Wallpapers
+ Touch the photo to play animation fully
+ If you like a particular live wallpaper, press the save button to save it to your Photo’s app Camera Roll
+ To set as a live wallpaper for your lock screen press the action button and select wallpaper action
+ For best quality, please zoom out the picture because it is slightly zoomed in by default
+ If you touch the lock screen it will play your selected live wallpaper

Download Live Wallpapers

Smart Resume Pro

Normally $4.99.

Build and submit a professionally typeset resume in minutes. Simply fill in your information, and Smart Resume Pro produces a clean, properly formatted PDF resume you can email directly, post online, or print out.

Now you have NO EXCUSE not to get your resume done!

BUILD A PROFESSIONAL RESUME IN MINUTES

Smart Resume Pro produces properly designed resumes that send a professional message.

Beware of Apps and guides that encourage you to make “fancy” resumes. Unless you work in a specialty industry, these gimmicks often send the wrong message:
– Using unnecessary colors and styles.
– Using fonts that are hard to read, or don’t render correctly on different platforms.
– Including your photo when one isn’t explicitly requested by the job description.

Smart Resume Pro helps you avoid these common mistakes and more, giving you an edge over other applicants.

It includes 10 professionally drafted examples you can use as a template.

SCORE THAT INTERVIEW

Smart Resume Pro is designed with only one thing in mind: Getting you invited to that interview.

It has a full feature set with everything you need:
– Creates cross-platform compatible PDF resumes
– Email resumes directly
– Print in-App right from your iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch
– Export to 3rd party Apps such as Dropbox, Box.net, etc.
– Create unlimited resumes, one for each company if you want
– 10 professionally drafted examples provide a starting point, or inspiration
– Use pre-defined sections or create custom ones
– Add an optional photo to your resume
– Rearrange sections to suit your needs
– Create a specific cover letter for each company, properly addressed
– Integrated spell check to help avoid typos
– Optional fine adjustments to text and margin sizes to fit the page
– Live previews on the iPad

Download Smart Resume Pro

Rocket Video Cast

Normally $1.99.

Unleash your Chromecast with Rocket Video Cast. With Rocket you can browse the web and stream any web video on your Chromecast attached TV, and you can even downloaded those videos and cast them later.

Rocket is also a fully featured download manager that allows you to download files to your iOS device. You can freely download music, videos, documents and just about anything else you can imagine. You can then view/play the downloaded files right on your device offline or transfer them to your computer, and of course you can cast your downloaded videos to your big screen.

Features:
– Download videos from all major streaming video sites and cast them
– Download from major file sharing sites
– Full featured web browser
– Start screen with the most frequent visited history entry’s
– Open saved tabs on startup
– Real-time search in your browsing history, bookmarks and tabs
– Search engine integration in the Address bar
– Share URL’s via Twitter, Mail
– Search in the website
– Passcode protected
– FTP Server to transfer files in and out of the app
– Download Manager
– FIle Manager to organize your files in folders etc.
– Playlists and background audio
– Address bar search engine options (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, StartPage can be changed App Settings > Search Engine)
– Multi format video/audio player allows you to play almost any video and audio format without leaving the app (wmv, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, 3gp, sf, avi, divx, dv, gxf, m2p, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, moov, mov, mp4, mpg, mpv, mt2s, mts, mxf, ogm, ogv, ps, qt, ts, vob, webm, wm, mp3, m4a, wma).
– Extract audio from mp4 files (convert to mp3)
– File Manager – create folders/organize/move files/etc.
..and lots lots more.
– (NEW!) Import videos from Camera Roll
– (NEW!) Cast your Rocket playlist for files in the app
– (NEW!) Download m3u8

Supported format for Chromecast include mp4, m4v, m3u8, hls, and live streams are supported.

IMPORTANT NOTES, PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING:
Flash video, iTunes purchased videos, Silverlight and other DRM protected videos like Amazon Instant Videos, HBO now, Hulu, Netflix are not supported!

This app is not affiliated with Google or one of its products or trademarks and is developed independently.

Download Rocket Video Cast

Samosa

Normally $1.99.

Sam is an auto driver who lives happily with his pet chicken.
Osa is an evil scientist who wants to conquer the whole world for his own experiments.
When they both come face to face, it is going to be one epic showdown.

Play as Sam the auto driver and shoot at waves of Osa’s minions. Its a fast paced auto runner shooter where you come against plenty of various enemies. The Auto you ride comes with some handy spells which when used correctly can be the difference between dying at the hands of the robots or burning them to the ground. When you think those minions are easy , the bosses wont let you through without a big fight.

Are you ready ? Can you help Sam shoot these bad guys and get to Osa ?

Features –

– Auto which shoots and has upgradable spells.
– 5 different rich beautiful environments.
– 50+ enemies who love taking you down for their boss.
– 5 Big Bosses who wont stop until you are done.
– 40 levels for you to quench your thirst for shooting things.
– Easy to play , hard to master.
– Will challenge your skills and reflexes

Download Samosa

Basic Calc Pro

Normally $1.99.

Focusing on the most basic calculation system

This calculator is focused on the most basic calculation system than other calculator apps.

Excluded engineering calculations. It shows present modifications. It provides calculation history.

This is for common people using in the most easy ways.
It is available for people seeking the simplest method.

Basic Calc Pro for iPad
– No Add
– Calculation history
– Universal app
– Intuitive design
– Able to see present modifications

Download Basic Calc Pro

Pinyin Chart

Normally $7.99.

Join over 250,000 students and perfect your Chinese pronunciation with the most popular Pinyin Chart on the app store!

After a year of work from our development team, we’re proud to release the new version of Pinyin Chart!

Great new features include all possible combinations of sounds and tones in the Chinese language, as well as many themes to excite your learning. Clearly spoken by native speakers, to demonstrate the different tones, this app is essential to all Chinese learners.

Please understand that this is an ongoing development. If you have found any issues or bugs, please let us know by email, support@ondemandworld.com. We will solve them with free updates.

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Our Production Team
Content Editor: Sai Wu
iOS Development: Ocean Zhang
Graphic Design: Annie Li, Kelly Wang
Testing & Support: Jennifer Han
Producer: Terence Lau
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Check out http://www.ondemandworld.com/pinyinchart/ for more info.

Download Pinyin Chart

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