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10 awesome paid iPhone apps that are on sale for free today

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:00PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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Yesterday’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free was a great one, and there are still a few limited-time freebies if you hurry back to that post and snag them. Today, however, we have our biggest list of the week. There are 10 apps in total on Thursday’s list, and each one would normally cost between $0.99 and $4.99 to buy. Right now, however, they’re all completely free — but only 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.

KeyTouch

Normally $0.99.

◉ KeyTouch requires a Mac with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy running OS X Mavericks or later, and an iOS device with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy running iOS 8 or later. ◉

◉ Make sure you have a compatible Mac, otherwise KeyTouch will not work. ◉

Macs that are supporting Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy:
• MacBook Air from 2011 & newer
• MacBook Pro from 2012 & newer
• iMac from 2012 & newer
• Mac Mini from 2011 & newer
• Mac Pro from 2013 & newer

When you boot up KeyTouch on your Mac, you’ll get notified if your Mac is compatible.

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Unlock, lock and enter your password on your Mac with Touch ID.

Never type in your password on your Mac again with KeyTouch. KeyTouch allows you to unlock, lock and enter your password on your Mac with the Touch ID sensor in your iPhone or iPad.

If you scan your fingerprint when your Mac is locked; your Mac will unlock.
If you scan your fingerprint when your Mac is not locked; your Mac will lock.
If you scan your fingerprint when your Mac has a password prompt opened; your Mac will enter your password. Your Mac automatically knows if there’s a password prompt on the foreground, so you don’t have to worry about anything.

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In the newest update of our app (v1.1) we’ve added a new feature in KeyTouch: KeyTouch for Websites.

KeyTouch for Websites allows you to login to websites in Safari on your Mac.
Your Mac detects if there is a compatible website on the foreground and it will notify your Mac and iOS device.

To see more info about KeyTouch for Websites, go to our website (www.usekeytouch.com) or open the Mac app of KeyTouch and tap ‘Manage KeyTouch for Websites’ in the dropdown menu.

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KeyTouch is connecting with your Mac via Bluetooth 4.0 LE.

To connect with your Mac, you have to download our Mac app from our website (www.usekeytouch.com). From here, you can set KeyTouch up and let KeyTouch for Mac connect with your iOS application of KeyTouch.

Download KeyTouch

Death Rally

Normally $0.99.

THE FINAL BATTLE
Death Rally is an action packed COMBAT RACER with GLOBAL MULTIPLAYER, STUNNING VISUALS and more than 10 HOURS of CARS, GUNS and EXPLOSIVE FUN. NUMBER ONE in 84 countries with more than 14 million gamers worldwide!

Race against incredible boss drivers like DUKE NUKEM. Upgrade and level up you cars and guns in a thrilling single player career mode or global multiplayer! Lock and load and enter the Death Rally, humiliate and destroy your opponents or sabotage the race. You choose how you win, NO TRICK IS TOO DIRTY!

Brought to you by REMEDY, renowned developer of MAX PAYNE and ALAN WAKE! LOAD YOUR GUNS, START YOUR ENGINES… IT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY, LITERALLY! This is no Sunday Drive. This is DEATH RALLY.

* Selected for Apple’s iOS Hall of Fame
* Mashable: #1 racing game on iOS
* Winner of Pocket Gamer Award
* IGN: “Death Rally hits the target.”
* Toucharcade 5/5

* Massive single player career mode, unlock and upgrade cars, weapons and challenges
* Enormous online multiplayer campaign ROAD WARS! Friends play, battle modifiers, unique paint jobs, and a whole lot more!
* Awesome controls with 2 camera angle options
* Featuring guest drivers – DUKE NUKEM, BARRY WHEELER, JOHN GORE
* Leaderboards and achievements via Game Center
* Runs silky smooth 60fps even on the high resolution Retina display devices

= = = IMPORTANT = = =
* Multiplayer requires Game Center account and iOS 4.2.1 or newer!
* Includes voluntary in-app purchases for faster progress to later and more challenging stages of your racing career.

Compatible Devices: Death Rally is ONLY compatible with iPod touch 3rd generation (32GB and 64GB models only!), iPod touch 4th and 5th generation, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, 4S and iPhone 5, iPad 1, 2 and 3.
(iPod touch 3rd generation 8GB model is not a real 3rd generation device, and Death Rally is NOT compatible with it.)

Download Death Rally

Momento

Normally $1.99.

Keeping a private diary / journal has never been so easy. Momento helps you privately capture your daily activities, thoughts, ideas and photos, and combines them with your activity from social networks to create a complete and unified timeline of your life.

** App Store “iPhone App of the Year” Runner-Up / iPhone App of the Week **

Whether you already keep a journal, or like the idea but struggle to find the time, Momento can help make it quick, easy and rewarding.

With Momento in your pocket you can write your diary on the go, capturing moments throughout the day in the short spaces of time you find free. Tag memorable events, people you meet and places you visit for a fast and effective way to browse and search your moments. You can also create custom tags to categorise and keyword moments however you wish.

What really makes Momento shine is its unique ability to import and archive your online activity from popular web services and display it as part of your diary. In minutes Momento can create a searchable record of historic information and media that you have shared online — building a picture of what you were doing, where you were and what was of interest to you. Even if you’re not interested in writing a private diary, this is a great way to record and look back on your day-to-day life.

All this amazing functionality is brought together in a beautiful, easy to use, award winning interface. Momento is quite simply the best way to record, recall and reflect on the memorable moments in your life.

Make every moment last with Momento.

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Essential features
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• Passcode and TouchID protection
• Full text search
• Attach photos
• Rate moments
• Tag people you meet
• Tag places you visit (GPS & Foursquare Places)
• Tag memorable events
• Create custom tags
• Reminders (Presets include dream journal, daily entry and daily photo)
• Share moments (email, message, Facebook and Twitter)
• Calendar view
• Landscape support
• Backup & restore
• Export as plain text
• Beautiful interface

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Supported Feeds
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• Facebook posts and photos
• Twitter tweets
• Instagram photos and video
• Swarm check-ins
• Moves places and activity
• Uber trip history
• Flickr photos
• YouTube videos
• Vimeo videos
• Last.fm loved tracks
• RSS/Atom web feeds

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Perfect use cases
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• Life journal / diary — record your daily activities, experiences and thoughts.
• Travel journal — record your travels, tracking all the places you visit, the people you meet and your daily experiences.
• Dream journal — record your dreams as soon as you wake up for reflection and study.
• Health journal and symptom tracker — track symptoms, medications and feelings to help in reporting to your doctor.
• Study journal — record lecture/exercise notes and study progress.
• Idea journal — record your ideas for your next project or business.
• Pregnancy journal — record your journey through pregnancy, tracking each stage and beginning a journal for your child.
• Prayer journal — record your prayers for reflection and recollection.

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Awards & Notable Recognition
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• App Store “iPhone App of the Year” Runner-Up – 2011
• iPhone App of the Week in UK, US, Ireland, Germany, Australia and New Zealand
• Starbucks ‘Pick of the Week’ in US
• Gizmodo’s ‘App of the Day’
• Winner of ‘Best Visual Design’ in the Best App Ever Awards – 2009

“Momento Is Perhaps The Perfect Passive Diary App.” – TechCrunch
“I’m in love, and I can’t believe it, but it’s with a diary application.” – Macgasm
“Grab it fast before it’s pulled off the App Store by Apple for too much awesomeness.” – Smoking Apples
“No app other than Momento is as inclusive and makes for such a content-rich timeline.” – rated 9/10 by AppStorm

Download Momento

Habit Chain

Normally $0.99.

Habit Chain follows the mindset of Jerry Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain”. Decide on a habit you want to start (go to the gym) or quit (smoking), and start doing it daily! Habit Chain is the only unforgiving app out there. If you miss a day, your entire chain is deleted, keeping you motivated to never miss a day. How long can you go without breaking the chain?

By consistently doing an activity daily you will start to make it a habit. Using HabitChain can help you stay motivated and track your progress along the way. Improve your life by learning new skills and practice them daily.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

HabitChain is perfect for starting or *quitting* a habit. Examples:
+ Tell a joke everyday
+ Read an article everyday
+ Stop smoking
+ Play the guitar
+ Eat fruit everyday
+ Go to the gym
+ Run everyday
+ Take a photograph everyday
+ Write a poem
+ Quit drinking
+ One snack a day
+ Learn a new skill
+ Learn a new language
+ Try a new craft
+ Stop eating sweets
+ The possibilities are endless

Features:
+ Unlimited number of habits in your daily habit list
+ A graphical representation of your status
+ The only unforgiving app. You lose your chain if you miss a day
+ Simple and intuitive interfacer
+ Core statistics needed to track your progress
+ Cool calendar representation of your daily progress

Download Habit Chain

Textkraft Pocket

Normally $3.99.

Textkraft Pocket for iPhone and Apple Watch is a professional writing app and document reader in one app. Be productive, every day, wherever you need information and write down your ideas.

Open multiple files from your cloud or local storage and keep them open, just before your meeting or research starts. Then switch back and forth between your Office- or PDF documents and personal notes with a simple swipe gesture.

The magic about Textkraft is, that you have all documents for your project in one app, side by side, already opened, fast accessible and without additional downloading times. Write down your thoughts with the most sophisticated text editor, all changes get automatically synchronized ––– even directly from your Apple Watch, without unlocking the phone.

The extensive import and export features for all important file formats, easy and precise cursor navigation, fast selection guides, many keyboard extensions and built-in dictionaries with synonyms are making this app one-of-a-kind.

• “Textkraft Pocket is truly a stellar accomplishment” – top rating at TheiPhoneAppReview.com
• “Textkraft is the best text environment I’ve discovered yet” – technologytell.com

Research, note, formulate, correct, read and look up with Textkraft!

= YOUR FILES UNDER CONTROL =
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• iCloud Documents & iCloud Drive
• Microsoft OneDrive
• Evernote
• BOX
• Local storage – Textkraft does not force you to use a cloud
• iTunes File Sharing
• Open MS Office documents, PDF, RTF, HTML, images, sounds, movies and many other formats
• Special scrollbar for large documents
• Delete/rename/create/mark files and folders
• Share documents via e-mail, iMessage, SMS or MMS
• Send files directly to other apps or devices

= WRITE & EDIT =
• Dictate into your Apple Watch or iPhone, your voice is transcribed to real text
• Precise cursor navigation
• Select a word, sentence or paragraph or extend your selection with just one tap
• Change capitalization with a tap – no cursor navigation required
• Unlimited Undo/Redo
• Insert quotation marks and brackets with a single tap
• Forward delete, tabulator, symbols and special characters
• Supports external keyboards
• Text statistics + Flesch readability index (iPhone 6 and 6 Plus)

= FORMAT =
• PDF creation and printing with screen preview: adjust font size, pagination and printing options
• 20 font faces, “dynamic type”, flexible paragraph and line spacing
• Many text and headline styles and colored highlighters
• Enumeration function and interactive check boxes

= CORRECT & RESEARCH =
• 18 dictionaries: Dansk, Deutsch, English (AUS, CAN, GB, IN, SG, US), Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Norwegian Bokmål, Português (PT, BR), Русский, Svenska, Türkçe
• Extended dictionaries with synonyms for English, Français, German, Español
• All dictionaries are working offline
• Search in Wikipedia, translate words and look up several online dictionaries without leaving the app
• Switch between languages without changing the keyboard
• The Spell-Aid buttons jump to unknown words; words can be added
• Auto corrections can be disabled

= AND MORE =
• Post directly to Twitter, Facebook, Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo
• Multilingual text to speech function
• Color themes incl. night mode
• Optimized for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: More work space and more functions
• Apple Watch app with file list, document overview and paragraph editor
• Comprehensive VoiceOver support
• Passcode lock with Touch ID support to avoid unauthorized access

Download Textkraft Pocket

SKEW

Normally $2.99.

Don’t be fixed in typical way to take photos!
Don’t hesitate in what you take!
You know what? We have “SKEW”

Being distort can be correct,
Being tilt can be fit,
Being short can be long,
Being adorable can be seperated in your photos.

This app is composed of what becomes the most adorable photo.

Download SKEW

Sniper Time: The Range

Normally $0.99.

“Sniper Time:The Range” is а new, dynamic first person shooter for iOS with near endless replay value. Feel that Intense shooting atmosphere with realistic graphics and sound effects.

Download Sniper Time: The Range

Thumbly

Normally $1.99.

Thumbly is an iPhone keyboard designed to be used with one hand. Standard mobile keyboards are awkward to use, requiring two thumbs to reach all the keys and involve uncomfortable thumb gymnastics. Thumbly’s keys are ergonomically arranged and are easily reached with one thumb using a comfortable side-to-side motion.

Note: Currently only supports the ENGLISH language.

Additional features:
– Suggests the next word you will type based on what you have already typed.
– Allows you to select between left handed and right handed versions of the keyboard via a button “toggle” press.
– Misspelled words are automatically corrected.
– Unknown words appear in quotes as a suggestion. Selecting this suggestion causes the word to be recorded for the future use of the spell checker.
– Easily accessible list of curated emoji.

Download Thumbly

Translate Pro

Normally $1.99.

Instantly translate text into over 90 different languages! Use your Apple Watch to speak and have your words translated, or type a phrase directly into the iPhone app. Simple, streamlined interface and lightning fast results. The only translation app you’ll ever need!

*** Free for a limited time only!***

Features:
– Translate using your voice (Apple Watch only) or by typing into the iPhone app
– 90+ language options
– Store your translation history to easily recall a previous translated phrase

Download Translate Pro

Rap-Studio

Normally $4.99.

Rap-Studio: The most incredible way to produce your rap album! We’ve made the beats, you choose the ones you like, set the tempo and go!

| Choose music loops | Set the tempo | Rap your heart out | Send your mixes to labels & friends.

Features:
| XMLoops: these loop files adjust to the tempo of your choice
| Use XME’s BeatPad app to create your own XMLoops to enhance your loop library
| Export to iMessage, YouTube, Facebook, Email, Open-In, Studio Online Community and More!
| Rap and Sing HD vocal stacks on 4 tracks
| 4 tracks arranging XMLoop music
| Color Coded Mixer and Wave Views

QuickStart Instructions:
1.| Scroll down, tap info button on the loop modules to select music and beats of your choice
2.| Scrol up to tap the record enable button on a vocal track of your choice
3.| Tap the record button on the bottom right to record your ideas
4.| Record more stacks on up to 4 vocal tracks
5.| Tap the folder button on the bottom control bar to share your idea and start a new song

|*We are in the lab producing more loops for Rap-Studio! Your music can always stay fresh.

Download Rap-Studio

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.