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10 best paid iPhone apps on sale for free today ($44 worth of apps for free!)

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:03PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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BGR has quickly become the go-to site for info on the latest and greatest paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free. Each day we track down the absolute best paid iOS apps on sale for free, and we share them with you so that you can grab them before these great sales end. Today, we’re kicking the week off on the right foot with 10 paid iOS apps that would normally cost a combined $44, but you can download them all without paying a cent if you hurry.

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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.

mogif

Normally $0.99.

Mogif has an entirely custom editor that makes it fast, easy, and fun to turn a video clip into a GIF.

It’s also perfect for storing your GIF collection — with powerful importing, browsing, sharing, and editing features in a beautiful and simple interface.

Features:

GIF Creation
* Make GIFs from your album videos, or from a new video recorded with the camera

* Intuitive timeline editor – an easy, unique way to select a clip to turn into a GIF
* Choose the quality, speed, and direction (forward, reverse, or palindrome) of the GIF
* Trim, crop, merge, and apply dozens of image effects to your GIF

Saving, Browsing, and Sharing
* Gallery to browse your created (or imported) GIFs
* Paste GIFs, or ‘Open in…’ from other apps into mogif
* Edit GIFs you already have
* iCloud syncing

* Quickly generate a link to your GIF for easy sharing
* Share your GIF directly
* Passcode lock & TouchID support

Download mogif

Choon

Normally $1.99.

Choon is an alternative audio player. It enhances your control over the library by providing clean interface and gestures.

– Add songs on the go. Just swipe right the song, album or even playlist to play it next
– Cue sheet support. Download cue files via iTunes or Safari to manage your podcasts or mixes
– Quick playlists
– Background LastFM scrobbling
– Color scheme based on the artwork of now playing track
– Quick access to current playing artist or album
– Customize fonts
– Search over all your music library
– Rate your tracks
– Compatible with iTunes Match
– All metadata like play counts and track ratings is synchronised. Available filters are Playlists, Songs, Albums, Artists and Podcasts.

Download Choon

Found !t

Normally $1.99.

Have you ever misplaced your glasses or keys somewhere and forgotten where you left them? Now with the Apple Watch, you can mark where you place an item and record it so that you will never forget where you have left an item again.

We have designed an easy to use marking application for the Apple Watch to minimize the loss of you valued items when you set them down. It is a simple setup of your own key categories and label your own locations (with some pre-sets already in the App) on the iPhone App for everyday use on the Apple Watch.

Using “Found !T” is an easy and convenient way to mark where you place an item by simply using the touch screen to add a new item that is to be placed and upon looking for the item it is simply a matter of using touch interface for the locate button to recall where an item had been placed. If you leave an item in the Office or at your desk or even in a specific room at home, you will now be able to refresh your memory easily by using Found !t. You can decide and create any of your key locations for where you have placed an item.

► FEATURES

• Easy and intuitive Application for the Apple Watch which is easy to setup directly on the iPhone associated App.

• Fully customizable locations – Uses location services to track your key locations (eg Office, study, living room, bedroom etc). Users can label their desired locations directly from the iPhone.

• Fully customizable Items – Users can create labels for their specific items (eg wallet, passport, keys, tablet etc). Users can label their items directly from the iPhone.

• Once a user has completed the setup on their iPhone, all of the functions required when placing an item or locating an item can be performed on the watch itself (should a user require the map to locate an item, this can be done with the watch and iPhone in close proximity). Of course the iPhone has the same functionality for when you have your phone in your hand.
This app will save time when searching for your most used and precious items that we all use on a daily basis. Saving time when searching for a simple item, your keys for example, is valuable time that is wasted by trying to search and retracing your steps to simply remember where you left an item.. The time you save will more than make up for any upfront costs of Found !t for your iPhone & Apple Watch.

Forget about your frustrations, and try the new Found !t for the Apple Watch today.

Download Found !t

Fearless Fantasy

Normally $2.99.

As Leon, the world’s most dangerous bounty hunter, you embark on a mission to slay the world’s weirdest creatures, and save a girl from an awful marriage.

– “Fearless Fantasy Shows No Fear In Its Condensed RPG Design” – Hardcore Gamer

– “It’s a strange, silly game that just so happens to also have a unique and unexpectedly challenging battle system.” – VGBlogger

– “A compact adventure with a focus on turn-based skill, a notion as unique as the whole game itself.” – 9/10 – GameGrin

Fearless Fantasy is probably the weirdest RPG you’ll play this year. It’s a gesture-based adventure that’s constantly keeping you on your toes. You use swipes, taps and pauses to both score critical hits and block enemy attacks, resulting in an involved and rewarding experience on every turn.

– Use gestures to land critical hits
– Character design that’s both extraordinary and creepy in equal measure
– Full story store with animated cutscenes and voice-overs
– Upgrades and progression systems to bump up your heroes
– Epic boss fights

Download Fearless Fantasy

Power Line Detector

Normally $1.99.

Easily detect power lines hidden in your walls!

Power Line Detector is making use of the Magnetometer, that is built in every iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

As you may know, every power line is emitting a magnetic field. The built in magnetometer can be used to detect these magnetic fields.

◆ How it works:
• Remove any cover or frame that contains magnetic or metallic parts from your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. Magnetic and metallic parts are disturbing the measurement!

• Start the App.

• Move your iPhone slowly close to the area where you suspect a power line carrying voltage.

▸If a voltage is present the display will flash and the mG reading grows while the message “Voltage detected” appears.
Note: mG stands for milliGauss, which is used to measure the strength of a magnetic field.
You may want to test it before use by slowly moving it to an area where you are sure there is a voltage present, like the cable running to your room light. Computer and electronic devices are not the best choice to test the fundtion of the app, they are often heavily shielded against magnetic and electric fields (which denies a proper reading since a shielding alwaysx works both ways).

Have fun with this handy tool!

Download Power Line Detector

Perfect Studio Pro

Normally $1.99.

Perfect Studio bringing the look and feel of a professional photographer, Perfect Studio lets you express even the most subtle mood on your photos.

◉ PROFESSIONAL EFFECT THEMES
Perfect Studio provides 345 filter effects beloved by professional photographers, all conveniently packed in 10 different themes. Perfect Studio themes vary from the feel of film camera to the unique sets of classy moods or fun creativity. Whether you are looking for vintage sentiments or special effects like skin smoothing, blur, textures, or light leak, you will find it all in Perfect Studio.

Download Perfect Studio Pro

Lumen Trails Weight Tracker

Normally $19.99.

• Apple “New Year, New You” Favorite
• Apple App Store Staff Favorite

Lumen Trails is an omni tracker. It lets you take notes, make lists and keep track of other things in your life, such as time, workouts, expenses, calories, food, weight, sleep or anything else you can think of. Thousands of people use it every day, and they love it because it truly makes a difference in their lives.

“I’ve been using Lumen Trails for 6 months and continue to love it. One of my most sticky and useful apps ever on my phone.” – David D’Souza

The beauty of Lumen Trails is that you can track absolutely anything. There are tons of other apps that allow you to track one or two things, for example, calories and weight. But what if you decide to track something else? Say, how many cigarettes you smoke as you try to quit, your eating habits or even net worth? Lumen Trails is the app for that!

Instead of having one app for your to-do lists, one for tracking expenses, another one for tracking your weight, you can declutter your home screen and just have one app that does it all.

Designed exclusively for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Lumen Trails is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and looks beautiful on the Retina HD Display. It can even backup your data automatically to Google Drive, sync with iCloud, and is fully accessible with Apple VoiceOver in 8 languages. There’s nothing that comes even close to it. And to top it all, your data is not locked on your iPhone. You can export it to Excel or Google Docs!

So what’s truly important to you right now? Your Health? Fitness? Finances? Productivity?

Track it and get things done!

:: Note to iPhone 6 & 6 Plus users

Now you can ask Siri to find information for you and dictate right into Lumen Trails. For example, hold down the Home button and ask Siri: “How many calories are in a chicken sandwich?”. To start dictation, tap the microphone button on your keyboard and just start talking – your words will be turned into text.

Download Lumen Trails Weight Tracker

SharpScan Pro

Normally $6.99.

Turn your iPhone into a jet Fast multi-page document scanner with SharpScan!
Recognize and Share text in Images on 50+ languages (OCR)*.
*For text layer sharing an additional in-app purchase required.

***** I have an iPhone 6 and works great. Not much else to say (KidsITManager)

***** It’s easy, intuitive, & rarely fails. Good editing capabilities. Excellent free version. Saved me many times. Thank you for making such a terrific & useful app!! (Maricopa Maggie)

Perfect companion for busy users, SharpScan automatically produces small, clear, and legible standard PDF documents from any photos at a very high speed.
Share documents as a tiny Black & White PDF. Convert them to Color, Grey or Original anytime with no pixel loss.

Are you on the go and urgently need to send an expenses receipt, business card, presentation slide, or any other document to colleagues?
SharpScan offers a perfect solution to your problem. Check it out!

WHAT MAKES SHARPSCAN UNIQUE

◆ MADE WITH SPEED AND QUALITY IN MIND
Perfect combination of image processing Speed and Quality – takes less than 3 seconds from the image shot to a ready-to-use document without any annoying manual adjustments.

◆ SMART CROP
Fully automatic document boundary detection, cropping, and perspective correction without manual interaction. Of course manual adjustments are also possible.

◆ SIZE DOES MATTER
True Black & White image processing to produce tiny documents with lossless compression. Compare to ordinary JPEG: ~20x smaller with no pixel lost for compression. Can scarcely be overestimated in case of a slow or expensive network connection.

◆ PRO CAMERA
Enable Camera Stabilization to get sharpest documents you can. Use Touch Focus and Exposure to shoot crystal clear photos.

◆ MAGIC COLOR
Content oriented adaptive Color processing profile automatically generates perfect documents.

◆ SAFETY ASSURANCE
Feel free to experiment with your documents – with Non-Destructive image editing you can always revert to the original image.
You can share a document as a tiny Black & White PDF and then convert it to Color, Grey or Original with no pixel loss.

◆ EVERY PIXEL COUNTS
Highest image enhancement quality – get rid of noise, shadows, distortions, and other shooting artifacts at full resolution.
Special mode for strong shadows processing – every detail will be revealed.

◆ PDF POWER
Create industry standard PDF documents.
– Manage document and pages: Move, Copy, and Merge.
– Protect documents with passwords.
– Automatic page size and orientation detection.
– Custom page sizes including flexible (like long receipts).

◆ NO MORE MANUAL WORK
Image processing and enhancement in full auto – no tedious manual adjustments necessary.

◆ WORKING WITH LARGE VOLUMES
Harness the speed and convenience of Batch processing to scan and manage multi-page documents on the go.

◆ SHARING WITH EASE
Share documents as PDF, image or text files on the go.

Download SharpScan Pro

SomaFM Radio Player

Normally $3.99.

SomaFM’s official app, giving you access to 24 year-round channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio, with all music hand-picked our award-winning DJs and music directors.

Lifehacker.com says SomaFM is one of the “Five Best Internet Radio Services” and says “completely user and listener-supported, which means no ads or commercials during your broadcasts, and the channels and programs aired at Soma.fm are rarely heard anywhere else.”

Features include:

– No registration required; no additional purchases required!

– View stations by Popularity, Genre or your favorites

– Shows name and artist of currently playing song and history of songs played.

– Bookmark, Tweet and search iTunes for the playing song

– Background streaming: use other apps while listening.

– Stream to AppleTV & Airplay devices.

– Integration with many car stereo units via Dock Connector or Bluetooth

– Remote control: Pause and restart playing as well as skip between favorite channels from your headphone remote, lock screen controls.

– High and low bandwidth streaming: 128k MP3 and 64-80kb AAC-HE (high); great-sounding 32kb AAC-HE and good-quality 40kb MP3 (low).

– AAC-HE support for highest quality audio even at the lowest bitrates (on most channels).

– Latest news and happenings from SomaFM.

– Community gallery of SomaFM listeners
Never listened to SomaFM before? Here’s our lineup, which are all commercial free:

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.
Downtempo electronica, mostly instrumental. Great for work.

Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.s too!
An eclectic blend of cinematic downtempo, stylish lounge, sambas and easy-tempo with an adventurous flair.

Drone Zone: Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.

Indie Pop Rocks!: New and classic favorite indie pop tracks.
Unsigned bands, the hottest new indie artists and a liberal sprinkling of classics.

480 Minutes: Spanning four decades of great post-punk, indie rock and noise pop.
Every Friday from 9am-5pm Pacific, DJ Ted plays and discusses the latest and greatest music in real time.

cliqhop idm: Blips’n’beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.
Experimental techno, also known as Intelligent dance music (IDM).

Beat Blender: A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.
A perfect blend of midtempo and more upbeat electronica.

Dub Step Beyond: Dubstep, Dub and Deep Bass. The place for Bass Music!

Tag’s Trip: Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.

Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.

Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica.

Doomed: Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls.

Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers

Lush: Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence.

Digitalis: Digitally affected analog rock to calm the agitated heart.
DIY laptop rock; screengaze and more.

Suburbs of Goa: Desi-influenced Asian world beats and beyond.
Future music of the Eastern world.

Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave, with rarities you forgot you remembered.

Sonic Universe: Transcending the world of jazz with eclectic, avant-garde takes on tradition.
NuJazz/Avant Garde/Euro-jazz.

PopTron: Electropop and indie dance rock with sparkle and pop.
Less guitars, more synths.

Covers: Just covers. Songs you know by artists you don’t. We’ve got you covered.

Mission Control: Ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

SomaFM SF 10-33: Live San Francisco Fire and Police radio with an electronic music soundtrack.

Download SomaFM Radio Player

Omicron

Normally $0.99.

Omicron is a color reaction game for 1 or 2 players on the same device.
Eliminate tiles and earn bonus time as the difficulty increases.
Omicron offers 3 game modes, many power-ups and achievements.

A color appears at the beginning of each level.
Tap tiles while they show up in that color to win.
Discover the 3 different game types of Omicron:

– C L A S S I C –
Eliminate all of the tiles while they appear in the right color
and finish the level before you run out of time.
You lose time with each mistake you make.
You win time for every correct tap you make and
time gained is transferred to the next level .
This helps you to reach higher levels.
Speed increases level by level.

– A R C A D E –
In this mode, there are no single levels.
The rate of color changes increases
contstantly while eliminated tiles respawn.
For each mistake you make you lose one life.
Without extra life bonus the game is over after just five mistakes.

– V E R S U S –
Play Omicron with a friend on just one device!
Eliminate all tiles while they appear in the right color.
The first player with 3 points wins the match!

Download Omicron

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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.