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7 awesome paid iPhone apps you can download for free if you hurry

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:56PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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We started the week off with a solid list of eight paid iPhone and iPad apps that were all on sale for free for a limited time, and a number of them can still be had for free if you hurry back to that post. Today, however, we have a great new list for you with seven more paid iOS apps that are all free downloads for a short time.

There are a few real gems on today’s list — especially for all the mobile photographers out there — so be sure to snag them as quickly as possible or you might miss these great sales.

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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.

Aura

Normally $1.99.

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

Joggin’ Safe

Normally $0.99.

Easiest to read run stats monitor ever! Works as the main running app or alongside any other top running apps (like Runtastic & Runkeeper, etc…) to provide a super clear summary of your progress at a glance from any angle (when using an armband). Even the music controls get a boost and are a major improvement over these other apps with intuitive gesture controls. It helps the jogger concentrate on the goals and targets of their run with minimal distraction.

Joggin’Safe Is designed for iPhone 5s, 6 & 6 Plus. It will not work with iPhone 4s, 5 & 5c.

Features:
– Big, Bold, High Contrast & Color coded Display which is easy to read in any condition.
– Adjustable Read Angle is particularly suited for armband use and instant glance readability.
– Advanced Music Gesture Controls provides complete control of your playlists/playback and completes the package to give you the ultimate easy to use Jogging app.
These features are perfect for live progress monitoring of the vital run stats with a simple glance, thereby allowing the jogger to concentrating on the path ahead.
– Integrates with HealthKit to obtain personal information necessary to accurately calculate calorie consumption.

Other Features:
– Innovative, glance free, “safe-mode” which kicks in when you start jogging, dims the screen and minimises battery drain.
– A simple touch of the screen whilst jogging/running brings the screen to life, increasing the brightness for 20 seconds so it is readable in any light condition.
– Each run stat displayed has a unique color for easy of identification at a glance.
– Change track or volume without having to look at screen with a simple tap/swipe control.
– Users with headset controls can use the extended control feature that allows skipping play list/albums using glance free gestures.
– Optimized for iOS 8, iPhone 5s and above.

N.B. Joggin’ Safe is designed for iPhone 5s, 6 & 6 Plus. It uses the latest M7 & M8 chips found in these later generation iPhones for efficient and a more accurate method of calculating distances. It will not work with iPhone 4s, 5 & 5c.

Battery Life:
Joggin’ Safe is designed to continue running in the background should you intrupt your run & continue later. This can adversely impact on battery life if you do not save your run and close joggin’ Safe.

Disclaimer:
– Joggin’ Safe is intended to integrate with HealthKit to gather data, such as height & weight, in order that we calculate calorie consumption more accurately. No data is used or shared with any third party for any other purposes.
– Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Download Joggin’ Safe

Pro Photo Camera

Normally $0.99.

Have precise control over focus, exposure, ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and flash level, just by simply moving the slider while taking a photo.

Pro Camera with Manual Controls gives you DSLR-like controls with an intuitive interface.

Other Features:
• Timer
• Grids
• Zoom (max. 3x digital zoom)
• Photos saved directly to camera roll
• Delete last photo taken

• Focus
Control the lens position of your camera, focus from macro to infinity.

• White Balance
Control the color temperature of your image, to get the most accurate color.

• ISO
Control the sensitivity of your camera to light, balance between better image quality and brighter images.

• Shutter Speed
Control the amount of time your camera’s shutter is open. Short shutter speeds can freeze fast-moving subjects, while long shutter speeds can achieve motion blur effects.

• EV
Fine tune the exposure by adjusting the exposure value compensation.

Enjoy!

Download Pro Photo Camera

Air Transfer+

Normally $1.99.

Air Transfer moves what you’re seeing or playing on Mac/PC to your iPhone/iPad with just single drag&drop! It moves whatever you want; text memo, website address, photo, music, movie, document and so on.

The transferred items are auto-classified into 7-categories according to their type.
You can also see or play the items in Air Transfer right away!

Air Transfer works even in background mode, you can switch to other apps without stopping current transfer.

* Reviews
“Witness This App Pull Off Its Automatic Magic Tricks” – AppAdvice.com

* Built-in Music Player
1) Manage playlist.
2) Playback in background mode.
3) Remote control from control center.

* Built-in Web Browser with File downloader.
You can download files within the browser.

* Classification Categories
1) Text Memo, 2) Website, 3) Images, 4) Music, 5) Movies, 6) Documents, 7) Etc…

* Photo Import/Export
Camera Roll, eMail, SMS, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa.

* Files Air Transfer can show or play
1) JPEG, PNG, GIF, …
2) QuickTime Movie(.MOV, .MP4)
3) MP3, WAV, CAF, …
4) PDF Docs(.pdf), Text(.txt), RTF(.rtf), MS Word(.doc, .docx), MS Excel (.xls, .xlsx), MS PowerPoint(.ppt, .pptx), Pages(.pages), Numbers(.numbers), Keynote(.keynote), HTML(.html, .htm) and more.

* Supported Web Browsers.
1) Safari
2) FireFox
3) Chrome
4) Internet Explorer (File upload is limited in IE).

* How to use
1) Make sure that the Desktop and iDevice are connected to the same local area network or the same WiFi network when using Air Transfer. Otherwise, Air Transfer cannot connect to the Desktop.
2) Click WiFi button and input the Device URL in Web Browser on your Desktop.
3) Drop contents on drop areas on the left side in Web Browser.

Download Air Transfer+

Vintagio

Normally $4.99.

Easy-to-use, but extremely powerful and artistic vintage video app packed with amazing and powerful features, that no other app offers.

▶ HD Filters from 20s to 80s
▶ Authentic Soundtracks
▶ Powerful, Easy-to-Use Editing tools
▶ And much more inside the most awesome vintage video app on App Store

KEEP IT RETRO.
– EXPRESS MODE: create vintage masterpieces in one click
– PRO: become a real retro movie director with advanced editing tools

– VIDEO FILTERS: 80s Disco Blast, 70s Crazy Grooving, 60s Hippie Fair, 50s Sepia, 20s Newborn, Classic Black&white, Classic Sepia

– Flip video (turn from right to left)
– Extract picture from the video
– Trim and split
– Duplicate video fragments
– Import pictures (mix videos and photos)

– 11 original soundtracks of different styles
– Upload music from your library
– Add vintage scratches to soundtracks
– Fade in/out

Video Quality
– Low (192X144)
– High (640X480)
– HD (1280X720)

Video speed
– Slow down your videos to add more drama to action scenes
– Make videos 1.15X to 5.0X faster
– Play video in forward or reverse mode
– Set variable speed (start slow – finish fast and vise versa)

Titles & transitions
– 5 types of stylish transitions
– 7 title cards with different fonts

Online video gallery
– Access the world largest video library of vintage videos created by other people
– Submit your videos to get featured (over 500K people will see it)

KEEP IT RETRO!

Download Vintagio

iHydrate

Normally $1.99.

You’re not drinking enough water. We can help with charts and reminders (included) to keep you going. Every 3 seconds, someone around the world is using iHydrate to track & improve their daily water intake. With over 40,000 users around the world and a 4.5 star rating everyone is enjoying iHydrate.

Water is so critical to your health, we’ve created this easy, intuitive app to help you track your water intake. We calculate a personalized water intake goal for you based on your individual information, lifestyle and exercise choices. With iHydrate you can achieve your goals!

Carefully track how much water you consume during your day to day actives from drinks such as Juice, Tea, Coffee, Energy Drinks, and Sports Drinks.

*** Key Features ***
– Add your own custom pre-defined drink amount
– Get reminders that keep you on track
– Create unlimited custom reminders
– Customize badge notification to your preference
– Manually enter your own drink amount
– Modify the date and time of entries
– Calculate your personalized water intake goal
– Track your drinks consumed
– Visual representation of your daily progress
– Breakdown of total water intake
– Breakdown of which drinks you had
– Graphs showing your daily intake over time
– Universal units of measure and time

Many of us don’t drink enough water, but it is a key element for a healthy life. By increasing your water intake you can benefit in so many ways!

– Help lose weight!
– Help keep your skin look vibrant and young!
– Maintain balance of body fluids!
– Help control calories!
– Help energize your muscles!
– Keep your kidneys healthy!
– Maintain normal bowel function!

Don’t waste another day being dehydrated when iHydrate can get you on track now!

“I too get so busy that I forget to to drink fluids during the day unless I’m exercising or at a meal. And then by evening I’m so thirsty, drinks lots of water and then up several times during the night. Argh:/ This app truly helps me get the fluids I need throughout the day. It’s simple and easy to use. Has a nice UI too. (WHY do people give low ratings for the product not doing something it never claimed it could do???? Don’t buy it if it doesn’t do everything you want it to! I love it:)”

“iHydrate is great! As a dancer I need to keep hydrated so I don’t injure myself. I used to forget about drinking water. Now that I have iHydrate it tells me approximately how much water I need to drink for the day. Now I’m now more conscientious about that amount of water I consume. It’s so easy to use. I love the pie chart feature; which shows me my amount of water intake I’ve had for the day. I appreciate the different drink options, because I like having a variety of juices! It’s a great app, I use it so much!”

“I’ve been looking for one of these for a while. And it’s so useful that it’s on my home screen. I have a very busy schedule and forget to drink water a lot. I’ve even gone a whole day without drinking before. That being said since downloading iHydrate, I have met my goal every day. I especially like how I can calculate for all sorts of drinks, and I’ve noticed it calculates a percentage of non-water drinks. That’s really helpful in helping me see how hydrated I am, when I’m not just drinking water.”

Please Note: This app is designed to help you monitor your water intake based on recognized guidelines. iHydrate is not a medical app. Please consult with your physician if you plan to use it for medical purposes.

Stay hydrated, stay healthy. Get iHydrate today!

Download iHydrate

Textever

Normally $6.99.

Textever is a quick and easy app for your diary, journal and life log. One tap to open, one tap to send and quick edit your plain text notes. Quickly add checkboxes, photos, dates, times, reminders, bullets, tags and select notebooks.

Quick and reliable synchronization between devices through Evernote. Import Evernote notes. Use ‘Textever’ tag to send your notes into Textever.

Text editing assisted with Clear/Undo/Redo and auto-save even in offline. Additional gestures help moving cursor and undo/redo. Select one of several notebook paper choices.

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Features:
– Mutual Synchronization.
– Take and Attach multiple photos per note.
– Import existing Evernote notes.
– Evernote Reminders
– Capture Links (iOS7)
– Bullets
– Preserve indents on new line
– Auto checkbox and bullets on new line
– Support Chinese yinxiang.com Evernote server
– Syncing edit cursor position
– Command+S key (iOS7)
– Discard (Hold Save button).
– Send your notes to Evernote quickly and sync back.
– Insert checkboxes and timestamps.
– Passcode lock.
– Select and create Evernote notebooks/tags in place.
– Offline mode.
– Location support.
– TextExpander support.
– Auto-save.
– Paper choices.
– Gestures: “Undo” and “Redo” with a two-finger swipe; move cursor with one finger swipe; Close/Open keyboard with one finger swipe.
– Queue posts when offline.
– Queue indicator.
– Quick launch for typing on the go, keyboard is up by default.
– Font size options.
– Hardware keyboard support.
– Redo/Undo/Clear Buttons.
– Background sending.
– ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Messages’, ‘AirPrint’ support.
– Delete or archive choices.
– Export tracking.

Download Textever

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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.