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10 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:07PM EST
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We’re past the halfway point, but this week is still far from over. Don’t worry about all of those meetings you still have to fight through to get to the weekend, let this great list of 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free put your mind at ease. And if 10 aren’t enough, you can always check back in yesterday’s post, where you’ll find several freebies that are still live.

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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.

Hidden

Normally $0.99.

Hide and secure all your notes from strangers with a Touch ID and password lock in the Hidden app.
Store personal notes, passwords, and other information knowing you are the only one with access.
Ensure that your notes are only to be seen by you.

• Simplistic and elegant interface
• Create unlimited notes and keep them hidden from everyone else
• Set your super secret password to anything you want along with your fingerprint
• App locks when the app closes to ensure complete secureness
• Auto Locks your notes to make sure they are always protected
• Change you password anytime to increase security

Download Hidden

DayEntry

Normally $2.99.

Have one single Evernote note for any day. Log your thoughts, notes, records, timestamps, photos, reminders, geotags to the note quickly.

All your notes are stored in the special Evernote notebook chronologically. The note is labelled with the current date automatically. You can have many journals selecting different notebooks.

It’s best for doing your journal, diary, life log in Evernote. You can choose the date to make an entry freely if you miss the day.

App automatically inserts geotags and timestamp. When offline the entries are stored locally until app is online. You can choose prepend or append notes, any date format.

Features:
– Separate journals for each notebook.
– Choose any date for entry.
– Take and attach multiple photos per record.
– Quick recent photo.
– Insert checkboxes, bullets.
– Add tags to the note.
– Auto geotagging and auto timestamp.
– TextExpander support.
– Offline record queue.
– Gestures: “Undo” and “Redo” with a two-finger swipe; move cursor with one finger swipe; Close/Open keyboard with one finger swipe.
– Hardware keyboard support.
– Auto-save in case device crash or battery depletion.

Settings:
-Append/Prepend note modes.
-Option for timestamps, geotags.
-Switching day time.
-Default notebook.
-Default tags.
-Font size.
-Date and time formats.
-Save to camera roll.
-Photo size.
-Photo quality.
-Send Note on home button.
-URL Schemes:
dayentry://new
dayentry://new?content=c
dayentry://new?content=c¬ebook=n&tags=t1,t2

Download DayEntry

Scanner+ Pro

Normally $3.99.

TOP 5 Productivity app in US, Italy, France, Spain and other countries.
1 000 000+ downloads.
Average rating – 4,5 stars.

Scanner+ Pro is a great app to scan paper documents into PDFs. Turn your iPhone into a scanner in your pocket.

Scanner+ Pro allows you to easily scan receipts, documents, checks and any other paper documents into digital copy!
Once you scanned a document, you can e-mail or upload it to Dropbox.

The app uses special magic tricks to make your scanned documents look clean and crisp! It removes all shadows, fixes perspectives, creating a beautiful and professional PDF.

With Scanner+ Pro you can scan:

-Checks and Receipts – to keep track of your expenses
-Books – to read or print certain pages
-IDs – to use for legal procedures
-Documents – to send to your clients, friends, co-workers
-Agreements – to e-mail or upload to Drobox

Scanner+ Pro allows you to:

-Scan papers into PDFs
It is super easy to scan a piece of paper. Once scanned, you’ll get a good-looking PDF file that you can share.

-Automatically detect the borders of a document
While scanning, Scanner+ Pro will automatically find the edges of a document. This makes scanning very intuitive, easy and fast.

-E-mail and print your scans
Once you have your scan ready, you can e-mail or print it right away. Just a few taps and it’s done!

-Upload your scans to Dropbox
Cloud support is vital. That is why you can upload your documents to Dropbox in seconds!

You’ll love a new scanner in your pocket!

Download Scanner+ Pro

Piksel

Normally $0.99.

Dodge the blocks and guide your Piksel to a high score.

Gain achievements for surviving as long as you can and share your scores on Facebook, Twitter and save to your camera roll for sharing with friends and family.

Download Piksel

Photo Typer

Normally $1.99.

Photo Typer is a fun and powerful photo editor that lets you quickly be pro, even if you’ve never edited a photo before. Photo Typer has Beautiful interface, tons of editing options and dozen’s of filters make this the premier mobile editing suite on the market.

You will absolutely love this app.

Features :

– Enhance any photo with one-tap Magical Enhance filter.
– Adjust Brightness, Saturation and Contrast.
– Adjust Orientation, Crop and Sharpness.
– Red-Eye, Whiten and Blemish.
– Stickers, Drawing, Text. – Ten beautiful stylistic effects to make your photos stand out.
-Text w/ Adjustable Font
– Powerful Sharing Functions Share your edited photos on Twitter, Facebook, and other apps on your phone.
– Random Effects with Just One Touch You can apply various random effects with just one touch. Get ready to be surprised!
-Real time multi-preview to take a picture fast as you see the visual effect directly!

Download Photo Typer

Active Alarm

Normally $1.99.

Wake up in a fun and engaging way. Turn off the alarm by playing a mini game that is designed to stimulate mental or physical activity. If your goal is to have fun waking up or prevent sleeping in, Active Alarm is here for you.

The alarm will repeat every minute until you successfully complete the Active Challenge that is launched when you respond to the alarm.

Features

Stimulate the mind: Active Memory will test your ability to focus and memorize, moments after waking up.

Get up and move around: With Active Step, the only way to turn off the alarm is to get out of bed and walk around.

Dynamic Wallpaper: The background animates based on the time of day. In the morning, a colourful sunrise fills the screen. In the afternoon, the sun makes a splash in a perfect blue sky and the northern lights flow during the midnight hours.

Inspirational Quotes: Get inspired every morning by successful entrepreneurs, athletes, artists and philanthropists.

Practice Mode: Users have access to the Active Challenge mini games at anytime, for fun on the go.

Note:

Active Alarm was designed for the iPhone.

For the best experience: We recommend that users with an Apple Watch, turn off notification mirroring for Active Alarm in the Notifications Settings located in the Apple Watch App.

The Active Step mini game is not available on iPhone 4s or iPhone 5.

Practice Mode is not available on iPhone 4s.

Download Active Alarm

Social Media All In One App

Normally $1.99.

Login to ONE App and access all your social networking services, Facebook,Twitter, Instagram,Youtube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, in one place. (see full list below)

No more toggling from one app to another. Now login once and your done!

This is a transformational social experience which has a number of advanced features such as having multiple social networks open simultaneously in a 3D Box.

Too many social networks to follow and update? Use this One App to keep up.

Supports ALL your social platforms:

Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Instagram
Youtube
Pinterest
Match
Linkedin
Tumblr
Flickr
deviantART
Reddit
Yahoo Answers
LiveJournal
Dailymotion
Badoo
Xing
Digg
Meetup
Tagged
Taringa
MySpace
MyLife
Twoo
Taringa

Download Social Media All In One App

Get 3

Normally $0.99.

Get 3 is the latest breakthrough in getting things done efficiently.

You can only choose 3 tasks and you only have 24, 48 or 72 hours to do them.

Focusing on the 3 most important tasks every day is a very powerful method to focus your effort and attention.

Take a rest from the overwhelming lists you have in other to-do list apps.

Clear your mind and focus!

+ Task timer.
+ Daily reminder.
+ Extended statistic.
+ Tasks list.
+ Automatic start task.

You can change your life if you throw out long to-do lists and only focus on the most important tasks every day.

Develop the habit of taking small steps every day towards your goals.

Change your daily routine and save your time with the simple & original app – Get 3.

Download Get 3

Water Reminder

Normally $1.99.

Do you drink enough water every day? It’s one of the simplest things you can do to become healthier, because water plays a very important role in our live.

The amount of drinking water required is variable, It depends on your gender, weight and age. Use calculator to determine how much water you need every day

Receive reminds to drink water properly every day.

Make you own collection of drinking sources. At home and in the office Water Reminder will be you good companion.

Features:
– Oz and ml units
– Create and manage your drinking sources
– Water intake calculator
– Create and manage notifications
– Recent water intakes
– Undo and Redo functions
– Daily goal
– Notification sounds
– Graph to see your progress
– Easy to use
– Friendly interface

Download Water Reminder

WikiPal USA

Normally $0.99.

WikiPal has over 160,000 United States (USA) Wikipedia & Wikivoyage geocoded places in its database. You can browse places around your current USA location or around a chosen location.

WikiPal USA features 3d maps of select cities, 3d touch so you can quickly access places nearby, search for quick access to over 5000 featured locations in the United States and a Watch OS2 compatible watch app.

WikiPal may be used offline.

Available Offline: proximity notifications, Wikipedia & Wikivoyage article text, nearby places in the watch app and offline maps.

Not Available Offline: driving & walking directions and the ability to choose a location other than your current location.

Download WikiPal USA

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.