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8 awesome paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:04PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps August 24 2015
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It’s a very, very bad Monday to have money in the stock market, so why don’t you cheer yourself up a bit by getting some paid iPhone and iPad apps that are on sale for free right now for a limited time? Check them out below and beat those Black Monday blues!

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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.

Couch Music Player

Normally $2.99

Instantly create as many dynamic playlists as you like and turn your iPad into the ultimate multi-user juke box. Couch Player is the music playback app your iPad has been crying out for, and brings incredible new levels of personalization and organization to your digital music library.

Download Couch Music Player

Ricochet Theory

Normally $1.99

Ricochet Theory is a thought-provoking physics game featuring ricochet based puzzles. Players must solve each level by moving the platforms in order to make the ball connect with all platforms.

Adjust the platforms to test your ricochet theory. There are several ways to complete each level so have fun and give it your all. There are no time limits in this fully featured physics game.

[Ricochet Theory Features]
• Hours of gameplay,
• Simple gameplay mechanics,
• 80+ stimulating levels to play,
• Game Center leaderboard to challenge friends,
• Beautifully designed for iOS,
• NO IN-APP PURCHASES.

Download Ricochet Theory

Work.JOT

Normally $5.99

Work.JOT is easy to master and provides Amazing interface to manage Tasks & log Timesheet entries; so just JOT, Manage, Analyse, Report and make ‘Everyday Productive’.

Our App makes it easy to track your projects across various clients, Keep a log of cost incurred across projects and much more. Create monthly Timesheet & Task reports in PDF format.

Features:

Complete Task management.

Quickly access your Tasks using Today Extensions.

Create multiple lists for ‘Important-Tasks’, Bills , Grocery to get things done.

Intuitive user interface separates current important tasks from future ones.

Get notified when a task is due.

Create & log Timesheet entries and track work done across projects.

Easily add new Clients and Projects.

Maintain different Rate per clients and projects.

Add Tasks & Sub-Tasks for greater project visibility.

Trendy dashboard displays latest Stats & Inspirational Quotes.

Powerful dynamic dashboards to track Project hours & monthly tasks.

Create & Mail Timesheet/Task Reports in PDF format.

Personalise your App experience by setting up your preferences in the app.

Download Work.JOT

Survivalpedia

Normally $4.99

Welcome to the finest collection of Army and Military survival handbooks, field manuals, and valuable knowledge ever collected under 1 app. Survivalpedia is your ultimate resource for all things related to survival and personal protection. Contained here are thousands of pages and illustrations ranging from outdoor survival, personal fitness, first aid, parachuting and knots, to mountaineering, camouflage, military operations, self defense, and much much more!

All Manuals are searchable, and support highlighting, underlining, strikethrough, and annotations. Manuals and pages can be printed, emailed, or shared on Facebook and Twitter.

Download Survivalpedia

Guess What!?

Normally $0.99

Use Five Shapes to built anything you can imagine and have your friends and family guess what you have built!

Download Guess What!?

Rainbow — The Custom Color Keyboard for iOS

Normally $0.99

Bored of the classic grayish iPhone keyboard? Now is the time to add some rainbow color strokes to your keys with the new Rainbow keyboard, exclusive for iPhone & iPad!

Changing the color of your keyboard can be done in seconds, choose the theme that matches your style or even your clothes!

Features
• Select from a set of 20 stylish colorful themes for your keyboard (12 themes are for the Pro version only);
• Familiar layout for both iPhone and iPad. The Rainbow keyboard is using the same layout and functionality as the standard keyboard;
• Auto-capitalization will work just as you expect it;
• Tapping the keys will have the same audio feedback as the standard keyboard (you can also disable this from settings);
• When tapping on a key it will be highlighted to clearly show your selection;
• Special characters are displayed when you tap and hold a key;
• Option to display the keyboard compressed for easy one-hand access to keys on the iPhone 6 and 6+
• Option to display the letters on the keyboard as lower case, when typing in lower case;
• QWERTY and QWERTZ layouts.

Privacy Note: At Bits&Coffee we greatly value our users’ privacy. The Rainbow keyboard will not record key strokes nor send them over the Internet. The „Allow Full Access” option is only required to enable features otherwise not possible.

We are hard at work as we speak to improve this keyboard for all of our users at no extra charge. A nice review from you will help us greatly in improving this app!

Download Rainbow

Private Albums Pro

Normally $0.99

Protect of hide your photos and videos.
You can show your basic gallery to family friends, and fellow workers.
You have to down load immediately, so it can stop guest from using your protected pictures & videos.
You can only when you want.

– Lock function for PIN code.
– Math calculator style
– Control your gallery list. (Creation/correct/delete/move)
– Photo/video & down load & move gallery

– Use I-tunes to copy USB files.
– Dropbox Support
– Send to Email
– Send to text message

– Support image gallery
– Support video player

* Happen to error, use I-tunes to copy USB.
* If you delete the application will delete all hidden data.

Download Private Albums Pro

Kitchen Boy

Normally $1.99

Kitchen Boy is three kitchen tools in one app: an intuitive CULINARY CALCULATOR to convert measurements and units; an easy to use RECIPE SCALER; and an INGREDIENT DICTIONARY with photos and translations between English and Spanish.

This app is the perfect cooking companion at home or on-the-go.

At the center of any recipe – whether you found it online, cookbook, cooking app, or from your grandma – there are ingredients and quantities. Often you might not recognize some ingredients, or it is in units you are not familiar with, or it is for four or six people and you have fewer or more guests. Kitchen Boy will help you adapt measurements, find ingredients, and scale up or down a recipe; this app function will tell you precisely how much of each ingredient you will need to make your dish taste perfectly, whether you cook for four, or for 20 people.

The three kitchen tools are:

•INGREDIENT DICTIONARY – Each ingredient has a photo and lists up to two English-name variations, and up to five Spanish-name variations making translations simple. That’s because people from different countries call ingredients differently. An Argentinian, a Mexican, a Spaniard, and an American call the same ingredient by a different name.
•Intuitive CULINARY CALCULATOR – Users can easily convert measurements and units from Metric to the US Imperial system; and switch between fractions and decimals with just a tap on the screen.
•RECIPE SCALER – Maybe you found the best paella recipe. However it is for 25 people but want to make it for 10. This app will help you scale the recipe maintaining the same flavor and you will not have to eat paella for a week…

This great app helps not only in the Kitchen, but when travelling and don’t recognize the ingredients on the restaurant Menu. Have you ever been on a restaurant overseas or on an ethnic restaurant? Then order something only to find out later that contains ingredients you don’t like? This app might help.

Download Kitchen Boy

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.