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7 awesome paid iPhone and iPad apps that are free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:54PM EST
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Another day, another batch of awesome paid iPhone and iPad apps that you can download right now for free. Yesterday’s post had eight nifty iOS apps that were on sale for free, and you can still grab a few of them without paying if you move quickly. Today, however, we have another seven apps including a very cool collaborative drawing app that lets you see what your partner is drawing remotely in real-time as they work, and a panoramic photo and video app that seems like magic.

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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.

aNote

Normally $1.99.

aNote for Safari & Photos provides a screenshot extension for Safari & Photos on iOS8

– Take Full page screenshot in Safari.
– Annotate screenshot with freehand draw.
– Save the screenshot to Image & Share to anywhere you want.

Download aNote

Cycloramic for iPhone 6

Normally $0.99.

▶▶ The Handsfree mode only works with the iPhone 6 (Not the iPhone 6+) and must be used on a polished level surface (granite/marble counter top or wood desk).

As Seen on SHARKTANK!
Cycloramic Revolutionizes the way you take panoramic photos and videos! Handsfree!
– Steve Wozniak: ”Unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time!”
– TechCrunch: “The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013”
– The New York Times: “Pogie Award for Brightest Ideas of 2012”
– Gizmodo: “Coolest thing we’ve seen an app do in a while.”

15 Million total downloads worldwide.

▶ GUIDED Mode (All iPhones and iPads): The easiest, fastest panorama taking app. Just follow the guided system to take the perfect panorama photo every time.

▶ HANDSFREE Mode (iPhone 6 ONLY): This revolutionary, fully automated mode lets your phone do all the work.
Just put your iPhone 6 on top of your power adapter on a smooth and level surface (granite, marble or wood desk) and it will automatically rotates 360 degrees using the phone’s internal vibration motor. As it rotates, the phone takes multiple photos, instantaneously stitches them together, and generates a panoramic photo viewable in our immersive viewer.

▶ CYCLORAMIC UNIQUE FEATURES:
– The easiest panorama guidance system.
– The fastest panorama capture (less than 3 sec for 180 degree panorama with the iPhone 6)
– up to 360-degree panoramas.
– Award winning photo editing and enhancement tools from Aviary: filters, frames, stickers, adjustments (crop, rotate, contrast, brightness, etc.) and more. The photo suite can also be used on your regular photos taken outside of Cycloramic.
– Immersive viewer.
– Video Conversion: Convert any photo into a video (240p, 360p, 480p, 720p or 1080p resolutions).
– Panorama Photo to INSTAGRAM Video converter.
– Share to Facebook, Twitter, INSTAGRAM (photo and video), email, sms and camera roll.
– … And for the iPhone 5/5S, the revolutionary Handsfree Mode.

▶▶▶ CYCLORAMIC’s Patented Technology:
If you are interested in using Cycloramic’s Vibration-Induced Rotation Patented Technology SDK, contact us at contact@egosventures.com

Also featured in Petapixel, ABC News, INC, Sharktank, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Crunchbase, NY Times, Gizmodo, CNET, Lifehacker, TUAW, TechCrunch, LA Times, The Telegraph, mac4ever, Le journal du geek, Presse Citron…

Visit Cycloramic.com for our Blog, Pressroom, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Support and Tutorials.

Download Cycloramic for iPhone 6

God of Light

Normally $1.99.

Sit back and become immersed into the world of God of Light, the game that rethinks the physics puzzle genre with its unique environment exploration gameplay, amazing graphics and exclusive soundtrack created by electronic music icon UNKLE.

Join cute game mascot, Shiny, on his way to saving the universe from the impending darkness. Play through a variety of exciting game worlds and dozens of levels with mind-blowing puzzles. Your goal is to explore game levels, seek for game objects that reflect, split, combine, paint, bend and teleport rays of light energy to activate the Sources of Life and bring light back to the universe.

This game more than delivers when it comes to great gameplay experience, so what are you waiting for? Get ready for an amazing trip. Become God of Light!

• Explore 5 different game worlds and 125 levels.
• Use mirrors, prisms, splitters, collectors, black holes and filters to control rays of light energy.
• Unlock and share your achievements with friends. Do you have what it takes to earn them all?
• Collect glowing creatures that help you solve puzzles.
• Receive regular updates with new game worlds and levels to explore.

Download God of Light

Pocket Reader

Normally $2.99.

Pocket Reader turns any online article/blog into an audiobook-like experience. Easily navigate forward and backwards as if it was an audiobook.

This app was made to solve a problem I had. I used to sit in traffic for two hours each day, so to make use of my time I would read my Pocket articles while driving. Since reading and driving is a bit dangerous, I decided to build this app so that my phone could read to me instead.

Enjoy, I hope you like it!

Pocket Reader is fully integrated with the Pocket system. This means that all updates and changes you make from your Pocket App or this Pocket Reader App will be in sync.

Please email me if you encounter any bugs! I take pride in what I build and want to make sure anyone using my app has a fantastic experience!

Download Pocket Reader

Letters and Dots

Normally $1.99.

Letters and Dots is an addictive (and colorful) puzzle word game.

The goal is pretty simple; connect letters to create the longest words that you can and earn as many points as possible in 20 turns. New letters fall to replace the ones you used. More points are awarded for longer words and you get a bonus if all of the letters used were the same color.

As you find new words, they’re added to your wordlist so you can keep track of every word you’ve ever found. It might take a while to find every word in the dictionary, but we believe you can do it!

Feeling strategic? Or tired? You can also just connect dots of the same color. This is a great way to help set up the board for a really long word. It’s also the best way to rest your brain in between serious point expeditions.

Letters and Dots was created with a lot of love, so we hope that you have a ton of fun playing it. If you do, tell all your friends (and us)!

Finally, we heart feedback. Do you love the game? Is there a word that’s missing in the dictionary? (Sorry!) Do you just want to say hello? We’d love to hear from you, so reach out to us on Twitter: @lettersanddots

That’s all we got. Have fun and may that elusive seven letter, same color word be in your near future!

Download Letters and Dots

iStock

Normally $1.99.

iStock
Portafolio and Market at a Glance

– unique monitoring stock behaviour.
– your portfolio is compared with the market behaviour all in one simple row easy to read.
– filter the stock list, display only active transaction or active and historical transaction all one view.
– provide a summary of your portfolio organized by currency.
– unique summary organized by currency, for each currency is provided the complete list of stock with Profit and Loss.
– lists of the major World index.
– list of the major World currency.
– simple tap on a currency to get exchange rate

Download iStock

MolaSync

Normally $5.99.

MolaSync is an innovative tool for Collaborating and Recording.
Realtime collaboration/ recording/ sharing/ communication/ drawing.
****Launch ‘full-page collaboration’, No limit any more****
With MolaSync specially designed for iPad, You can draw to record your inspiration at anytime, anywhere, insert pictures and words and even record to write notes and annotate to modify the PDF document. More exciting, by MolaSync collaboration function, you can exchange views and work together with your friends. Together complete a painting, a document, a design, a trip plan, and share your achievements or show them via social network. All the content you created in MolaSync will be collaborated to the cloud and be used on different platforms to ensure your records are up-to-date on all your devices. The local cache enable you use your MolaSync without network. Powerful vector graphics make MolaSync capable from sketch to professional drawing design. MolaSync significantly expand the value of iPad, make iPad achieve more.

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–Infinite–
Infinite length layout can let your imagination to the limit.

–High-definition–
Unlimited zoom in vector text and graphics without distortion, more in line with Retina display effect.

–Collaborating plus sharing–
Powerful and easy-to-use features support real-time and off-line teamwork and files sharing.

–Local plus cloud–
Supported by the local cache and cloud storage, MolaSync can be used offline, and synchronized automatically. You can continue your work and open your files at any place.

–Powerful edit functions–
Hand drawing, text inputting, files recording, images inserting, web pages and maps tipping, all of which could help you achieve your dreams.

–Search–
Quickly search and easily manage to what you need.

–Document management–
Can preview and share most format of documents as PDF, DOC, XLS,PPT,key,numbers,pages and even mp4. Besides, it can capture and note the document and support import docs from Google driver, Dropbox and iTunes

–SNS–
Works created or collaborated on MolaSync can directly shared with friends via Weibo, facebook or twitter.

–Export–
Can be exported as images and PDF and support Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and iTunes

More exciting functions for you to discover—Molanet

Download MolaSync

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.