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

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:14PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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What, you thought we were done after yesterday’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free? Of course not. We showed you 10 solid premium apps that were on sale on Wednesday, and some of them are still free downloads today as well. Thursday’s list has 11 fresh apps though, and you’ll find them all laid out below.

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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.

Remote • Pro

Normally $3.99.

Need remote control for your Mac? You found it – Remote is Swiss Army knife of remote apps.

FEATURES:

• Control volume while playing music or mute it entirely
• Launch or quit any app installed on your Mac – Kodi, Plex and etc.
• Use your iPhone or iPad as trackpad and keyboard
• View documents or photos from any disc on your Mac
• Stream videos to any device from your Mac

COMING SOON:

• Upload photos, videos and other files to your Mac
• Download music, videos and other files to your iPhone/iPad

SECURITY:

• File access is password protected so you don’t have to worry

REQUIREMENTS:

OS X 10.7 or newer
iOS 8.0 or newer

SELECTED REVIEWS:

Perfect functionality by My nickname is Yochi
I use it mostly for Spotify, which I play through my stereo connected to my computer. Sometimes my computer volume is set low, so that supersedes and limits any Spotify volume adjustments. This remote app lets me raise volume (and launch Spotify if it wasn’t running!) from anywhere in my house. Perfect!

Fantastic with a Mac, could be upgraded by Ozzkid5
Dudes, this app works great and even allows smooth remote trackpad movements, while doing well with single, double, and two-fingered taps. Hasn’t crashed yet. Could be better if Siri (or equivalent) voice recognition typed words into things, or if there was a keyboard

Works fine! by Mrs. Mary Francis
I got this just for volume control and it does that just fine. The best part is that it seems to stay linked to my Mac even in the background. Wonder if that effects my iPad’s battery life? We’ll see I guess! I would definitely like a larger volume control slider – like, the full width of the interface maybe? That would give me finer control.

Awesome app by Sheths2001
Best for Mac users.

Download Remote • Pro

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

Tindrops

Normally $0.99.

Tindrops is a brisk action game with a colourful appearance.

A game by Markus Heukelom and Jos Blom. Music by Bo Koek.

‘Tindrops is a casual one touch puzzle action game that blew us away…’
– App Spy

‘This is sweaty-palmed touchscreen abstract action, and it put a wide smile on my face’
– Pocket Gamer

Tindrops was 2nd place winner at the Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connect London 2015

Download Tindrops

Zombie FX Creator

Normally $2.99.

Welcome to Zombie FX Creator – the app that their boring pictures with over 40 different effects in Zombie in a real horror cenario transformed . Shock them with friends and family with the realistichen Zombie FX effects.

– User friendly !

– Over 40 different zombie effects

– Share your finished pictures on Facebook and Twitter or send them by email or massage . you can also easily in your gallery store .

– Quick paste Zombie FX effects to your images.

– Choose between camera or library .

– The effects are freely scalable .

We wish you a lot of fun while creating your own horror movie fantasy!

Download Zombie FX Creator

Stream

Normally $1.99.

Stream was created to give you a seamless listening, managing and syncing cloud music experience. It allows you to create a personal streaming service with cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk to save space on your device and have access to all of your music.

How it works?
Upload all music to your favourite cloud storage then use Stream to connect and enjoy your music anywhere.

Add your music to your device without iTunes, easy and fast using local WiFi transfer or download music to your iPhone to play it without internet (Offline mode). It’s a multi-cloud system therefore you can stream lists of music regardless where they are stored.

Access your favourite music across all your devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod library, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Yandex.Disk and your computer. Stream your music with in advanced and powerful media player.
App Features:
– Full iOS9, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Support!

Music player:
– Full featured media player
– Sleep timer
– Lock screen playback controls
– Background music playback
– Equalizer with BassBooster
– Over 20 realistic EQ presets
– Stylish audio Visualizer
– Fine scrubbing
– Album cover art

Playlists:
– Create your own playlists

Media Library:
– Import music from your iPod library
– Tabs for Songs, Albums, Artists

Manager:
– Wi-Fi Transfer
– Download and upload music, pictures, archives from
– Box
– Dropbox
– Google Drive
– OneDrive
– Yandex.Disk
– Move, rename or delete tracks & songs
– Search by artist, title, album
– Create and manage folders

Download Stream

PriCalculator

Normally $1.99.

PriCalculator can hide your photos, videos, recordings, documents, notes, diaries, web browser, password book, contacts and other files behind a calculator. What everyone can see is just an ordinary calculator. You can access your private world by entering your password on the calculator.

App features include:
1. File Viewer
1.1 Powerful image & photo browser that supports all common image formats, such as | .png | .jpg | .jpeg | .bmp | .tiff | .tif | .gif |, and support for slide shows.
1.2 Powerful video / movie player that supports all common video formats such as | .avi | .mov | .rm | .rmb | .rmvb | .wmv | .mp4 | .mkv | .mtv | .dat | .3gp |. amv | .dmv | .asf | .flv | .swf |, and support srt subtitles mounted.
1.3 Powerful audio player that supports all popular audio formats, such as | .mp3 | .wma | .wav | .aac | .amr | .mid | .m4r | .m4a | etc.
1.4 PDF reader, support for labels.
1.5 Document viewer, supports common file formats such as .doc | .docx | .ppt | .pptx | .xls | .xlsx | .csv | .htm | .html | .xml | etc.
1.6 Text viewer and editor that supports common text and code format viewing and editing, as | .txt | .log | .ini | .cpp | .h | .m | .c | .java | .cs | .php | .aspx | .mm | .css | .cxx | etc.
1.7 Files, folders, sorting, supported by name, size, modification time, creation time, etc. in ascending or descending order.

2. Files management
2.1 Batch import photos and videos from system albums.
2.2 Quickly take pictures and shoot video and safely stored.
2.3 Transfer files via a wireless WiFi, easy to operate, using the latest HTML5 technology to support multi-file uploading.
2.4 Transfer files via WebDAV service. Using as U-Disk on computer.
2.5 Unlimited create a text file and edit and save.
2.6 Recording and save.
2.7 Zip and Unzip file(s)
2.8 Support files, folders rename, copy, paste, move.
2.9 Unlimited create the folder.

3. Files Sharing
3.1 Share photos or other files via other APP, such as facebook, Twitter and so on.
3.2 Mail photos or other files.
3.3 Share photos or other files to other device via AirDrop.

4. Today Widget:
– Access your private world by entering your password on the Today Widget.

5. Private Web Browser:
– Your private web browser.

6. Private Password Book:
– Manage your passwords.

7. Private Contacts:
– Manage your private contacts.

8. Private Notes:
– Unlimited to create notes.

9. Private Diaries:
– Unlimited to create diaries.

10. Recording:
– Unlimited recordings.

11. QR Code Reading:
– QR Code reading for open url or search in web browser.

12. More Features:
12.1 Simple & Fast calculator.
12.2 Automatically back to calculator when the app in background.
12.3 The APP name is ‘PriCalculator’ on springboard.

Download PriCalculator

FileOpener

Normally $1.99.

FileOpener is the ultimate app to download, organize and view all your files on your iPhone or iPad. Easy to import files, documents & media from PC/Mac, email attachments, google drive to FileOpener along with amazing transfer features. You can carry or browse all your files along with FileOpener to anywhere.

DOWNLOAD FILES:

Getting your documents onto your iPhone or iPad is really easy. You can download your files from your computer using iTunes or import them from Google Drive. You can also open file attachments from E-mail. Import options are:

-iTunes
-Google Drive
-Email
-From other apps using share extension

ORGANIZE DOCUMENTS:

With easy to interface you can organize the files the way you want. The app allows you to:

-Create Folders
-Email Files
-Unzip Files
-Move Files from one folder to another folder
-Sort Files By Date, Name or Type
-Rename Files/Folders
-Open files with other apps
-Play media files with in the app
BROWSE/VIEW FILES:

FileOpener allows you open any kind of file with in the app. Supports all major file types.

– PDF Files
– Microsoft Office Files (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
– iWork Files (Pages, Numbers and Keynote)
– Image Files (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF etc.)
– HTML Files
– Web Archives
– Plain Text Files
– Audio Files (MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, WAVE, AIFF, CAF)
– Video Files (QuickTime, MP4, M4V, MPV)
– Archive Files (.zip/.cbz, .rar/.cbr, .7z/.cb7; handle passwords, splits)
Transfer Files Via USB:

Simply connect iPhone/iPad to any PC/Mac and Transfer files(Both download and upload allowed)

Download FileOpener

Politica

Normally $0.99.

Prep yourself for the 2016 Presidential Election with Politica, your go-to app for all things leading up to the big election! Politica has all of the up-to-date polling information for all of the candidates from both sides. While checking the polling numbers you can read up on all of their details and view their trend graph to guess where they’ll be next! If you don’t believe a poll’s results, go ahead and change the poll, there are several polls available for each side! You can’t forget about the news though. The “front page” of the app features a great collection of current news from a wide variety of political news sources.

Features:

» The most up-to-date candidate polling information and news available!

» A wide variety of polling data available at all times!

» View a trend graph for each candidate and predict their next results!

» Get a notification when a new poll is added!

» Get the scoop on each individual candidate by tapping on their name!

» Read the summary or go straight to the source with any article in the app!

Download Politica

SwipeList

Normally $1.99.

Try Metro style experience in iPhone task management!
SwipeList is the most simple, intuitive & awesome way to manage your tasks you’ve ever seen!

With SwipeList you easily can:
• Create your todo lists, guest lists, shopping lists etc.
• Group your tasks by colour
• Set each task’s priority by changing it’s colour with only one tap
• Set your tasks in needful order by just dragging and replacing them
• Enjoy it’s convenient controls, pleasant animation and sounds

Make your task-managing process quick, productive and enjoyable!

Download SwipeList

AURA

Normally $3.99.

With over a million creative users, AURA has redefined how to beautify your photos!

Snap, Edit & Share your photos, easier than ever!
Our powerful and beautifully designed tools will help you add beautiful frames, filters, text and so much more to your photos, in the most creative & playful way ever!

• High-Quality Filters
Apply stunning filters to your photos, easier than ever! Choose between a beautiful collection of stunning filters to make your photos achieve the specific look and glow you want.
We will continually be adding more filter packs for your photos to enjoy!

• Stunning Effects
Choose from a perfectly categorized collection of stunning effects such as Spot, Bloom & Gloom to easily make your photos stand out!

• Beautiful Text
Simply add beautiful text to your photos with many artistic fonts to choose from. Express yourself, with the most perfectly designed text editing tool for your phone!

• Artistic Frames & Borders
Add beautiful frames and borders to your photos, easier than ever! Tons of designs to choose from, all for free!

• Simple Sharing
Share your favorite photos with your friends in just 1 tap! Our simple sharing features, allows you to post your pics to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or whatever social network you use, faster than ever!

Tag your photos on Instagram with #AuraCam and follow @AuraCamera for a chance to be featured on our official Instagram

Download AURA

8bitWar: Netherworld

Normally $1.99.

8bitWar puts your strategical and tactical thinking to the test!
Hire units and place them in strategic formations to counter the enemy’s army.

A total of 180 levels!
Play against a friend on the same device or online.

Download 8bitWar: Netherworld

Zach Epstein
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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.