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9 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:06PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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This past weekend was a huge weekend for Apple, and there are now more than 13 million people in possession of shiny new iPhones. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus were huge sellers among Apple fans, but buying a new iPhone is only the first step. Now, you’ve got to fill it with nifty new apps — and perhaps BGR can be of some assistance.

Today, we’ve got a great list of 9 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time, so be sure to grab them all before these sales are over.

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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.

MacLock

Normally $0.99.

-MacLock was featured in US MacWorld’s “The Week in Mac apps”
-Macrumors user: “The apple watch app for MacLock is pretty brills”
-User review: “Such a great looking app yet so stable! Best app for this concept out there. Check it out”

Unlock, Restart or even Shutdown your Mac using Touch ID!

MacLock supports:

√ Unlock Mac right in the iPhone’s Lock Screen! No need to open the app. A notification arrives whenever you wake your Mac.
√ The included Widget allows you to see, lock or unlock the macs that are currently in range!
√ Shake or just Tap your Mac to get it Locked even from a distance.
√ Interactive UI that lets you choose which Mac you want to lock or unlock.
√ Apple Watch Glance notifies your to unlock your Mac at super speed.
√ No battery draining thanks to enabled Bluetooth practices that allows us 0% energy consumption.

No Touch ID? No problem! MacLock uses it’s own PIN mechanism as a secondary way to unlock your Mac!

Head Over to maclock.gr in order to get the required OS X app.

MacLock Requires:
MacBook Pro 2012 or later
MacBook 2015 or later
MacBook Air 2011 or later
Mac Mini 2011 or later
Mac Pro 2013 or later
iMac 2012 or later

If you have a previous model you can buy a bluetooth 4.0 compatible adapter and enjoy locking and unlocking your Mac!

Download MacLock

Typorama

Normally $2.99.

Love typography and making text graphics? Typorama instantly transforms your text and photos into beautiful typographic designs. Just choose a background, type in a few words and your creative typography is ready!

Typorama saves you tons of work by automatically creating complex text layouts with different fonts and typefaces. By just a few taps, you instantly get your text beautifully laid out on a background of your choice. This would take hours if you were using Photoshop or a similar photo editor. (The text designs are not templates and they are generated randomly as you choose different styles)

Use Typorama to:
– Make beautiful typographic text layouts
– Create Instagram, Facebook, Twitter posts with stylish text designs
– Create flyers and posters for your events or business
– Make headers for your blog or wallpapers for your iPhone
– Enrich your family photos adding creative text styles and share your love

Features:
– 35 different, randomly generating typographic text styles
– More than a hundred different fonts and typefaces from the world’s top designers
– Badges, ribbons, curved text and artistic ornaments enriching your designs
– Ability to 3D distort, apply gradient colors, shadows to your text
– Ability to gradually delete parts of text, useful for placing your text designs behind other elements in your photos
– Professional photo filters, overlays and adjustment tools to polish your photo backgrounds
– Hundreds of pre-installed quotes to inspire you
– Fun color combinations for your words
– Thousands of completely free stock photography from Pixabay
– Endless stylish randomizations
– 2048 x 2048 high resolution super crisp output
– Advanced crop options to create the perfect size pictures for social media posts, wallpapers, posters, flyers and postcards.
– Ability to design your own watermark / logo and add it to your creations. Once you add it, it automatically gets added to all of your future creations, great for social media managers, promoting their brands!
– Easily share your creation on your favorite social networks or send it to your friends via instant messengers

Typorma is featured as:
– “Best New App and Best Apps of April 2015” by Apple
– “Best Apps of the Week” by the TIME magazine
– “Honorable App of the Week” by AppAdvice

Follow us on Instagram at @TyporamaApp to get inspired by what our professional editors are making with the app. Also tag your posts with #typorama to get featured to our community of more than 100K people.

Got a suggestion to make or running into bugs? Contact us at support@typorama.co, we’ll get back to you in 24 hours!

We’re excited to see how you’ll be using Typorama!

Download Typorama

Humidity

Normally $2.99.

Humidity is a beautiful and ad free way to view your humidity levels and other various weather statistics based on your current location.

Receive up to the minute updates on
– Humidity
– Temperature
– Precipitation
– Cloud Cover
– Wind Speed
– O Zone
Watch app coming soon!!

Download Humidity

Edge Of Oblivion: Alpha Squadron 2

Normally $4.99.

In Edge Of Oblivion: Alpha Squadron 2, you get the chance to jump into the cockpit of a powerful starfighter and join the galaxy’s most daring pilots as they face off against the evil Hadian Empire. You’ll engage in perilous battles against hordes of enemy fighters, lumbering mechs, gigantic tanks and huge capital ships. Aerial conflict takes place in a variety of beautifully rendered environments including snow, deserts, highlands, oceans, volcanic lava fields, alien cities, amazing deep space locations and even the interior of a massive space station. Watch out for dangerous combat hazards such as space mines and asteroids as you fight your way to victory in each of the eight starfighters, bombers and assault craft at your disposal. Edge Of Oblivion features stunning visuals and sound, be prepared to immerse yourself in an intense action-arcade experience!

Astonishing 3D details include fully rendered cockpit interiors, real time lighting and special effects (explosions, smoke, engine glow, tracer fire and more). Features fast and furious space, air-to-air and air-to-ground combat that immerses you completely in the game! Each starfighter comes with many different configurations, allowing you to choose the best match for your combat style! Features retro inspired space and atmospheric battles in the tradition of the STAR WARS™: ROGUE SQUADRON 3D series of games and includes two campaigns and over 80 missions including an insane survival mode!

With an epic storyline that will keep you glued to your seat and a medal/rank system that will make you want to play again and again to score a gold, you will not want to put this one down! Includes MFI gamepad support!

NON-LINEAR OPEN WORLD FLIGHT COMBAT
• Not ON-RAILS, fly wherever you wish and take on secondary mission objectives
• Intelligent enemies that learn from your combat style and team up with each other to try and defeat you
• Many different enemy types, including fighters, bombers, interceptors, giant mechs and tanks

AMAZING BATTLE ENVIRONMENTS WITH REALISTIC WEATHER FX
• Beautifully rendered space and planetary locations including sprawling deserts, alien cities and volcanic lava fields
• Experience different times of night or day and weather effects such as volumetric clouds, rain and snow
• Several different camera modes that let you view the 3D action however you wish

BATTLE GIANT ENEMY BOSSES IN AN EPIC STORY
• Take on gigantic bosses, massive battle cruisers, enormous tanks and destroy a galactic superweapon
• A story packed with twists, betrayal, mystery and revenge
• Fully voiced characters throughout the game

DIFFERENT WAYS TO CONTROL THE ACTION AND YOUR INTELLIGENT WINGMEN
• Control schemes to fit any taste, including on-screen touchpads, tilt control & even bluetooth gamepads
• Give commands to your wingmen during battle and watch them exterminate your enemies
• Several different gameplay modes including two story campaigns, dogfight missions and survival mode!

If you love this game and want to see more please rate it!

Note: Game will not run on devices with less than 512 MB of ram. Second campaign and some craft require in-app purchase.

Download Edge Of Oblivion: Alpha Squadron 2

Sqrs

Normally $0.99.

Sqrs is a simple sliding tile puzzle game with a futuristic twist. Every game has a fresh color scheme that must be arranged from light to dark.

I hope you enjoy!

Download Sqrs

ReBoard

Normally $1.99.

Do everything within the keyboard without switching apps!

*** Free for a limited time to celebrate an amazing launch!

“ReBoard is great as a time saver. With ReBoard, the same action took 20 seconds rather than 2 minutes.” -TheNextWeb

“With ReBoard, tasks like these can easily be completed from within the keyboard window itself without switching apps” -TechCrunch

“it does its job” -LifeHacker

“..best third-party keyboard” -TapSmart

If you are in WhatsApp, how do you schedule a calendar appointment? By switching to Calendar app. Right?

What if you could schedule an appointment from within WhatsApp itself? Wouldn’t it save you lot of time?

Meet ReBoard – The Revolutionary Keyboard. Its a system wide keyboard which lets you do lots of such tasks from within the keyboard window.

You can schedule a calendar appointment using natural language input without leaving WhatsApp or any other app you are using.

HOW IT WORKS:
a. Press the command key.
b. Type what you want to search for.
c. Tap an action (eg: search icon).

That action takes what you typed as input and presents the results within the keyboard area.

ReBoard has 19 powerful & easy-to-use actions (like: Calendar, Dropbox, Image search, Calculator etc.) embedded in the keyboard itself.

Every action lets you do more with the results like: copying link, downloading image, inserting link into the app you are using and lots more.

* A few actions require in-app purchase. See list below.

CALENDAR:
Using Calendar action, you can create appointments using natural language input (currently English only) and from any app!
Examples:
1. Project meeting tomorrow 4pm
2. House party next Saturday
3. Call David in 2hrs

DROPBOX:
Search your Dropbox files and share files’ links with others.

GOOGLE DRIVE:
Search your Google Drive files and share files’ links with others.

IMAGE SEARCH:
Search, preview, download images to your Camera Roll and share them.

SLACK:
Search & Post messages to your Slack groups and channels directly from within the keyboard.

WUNDERLIST:
Add tasks to any list without leaving the app you are using.

FIND NEARBY PLACES:
Search local places, view/share their addresses, call them directly, view their maps within the keyboard or open the location in Google Maps app.

MUSIC:
Search your local music library including songs from Apple Music that you have added in your library. Generate their iTunes links and share with friends.
ALL ACTIONS:
1. Calendar
2. Dropbox (in-app purchase)
3. Google Drive (in-app purchase)
4. Image search
5. Web search
6. Calculator
7. Reminders
8. Translate
9. Wunderlist (in-app purchase)
10. Slack
11. eBay
12. YouTube
13. Wikipedia
14. Google local search with maps (in-app purchase)
15. News lookup
16. Local music search
17. Dictionary
18. Social sharing and save to Pocket
19. Unit converter

More coming soon…
MOVE CURSOR WITH SPACE KEY:
Just move your finger over the space key to move the cursor!

THEMES:
Spice up your ReBoard with 11 colourful themes or load a random theme every time ReBoard appears.

INTUITIVE FAST TYPING:
Swipe up on alphabetic keys to type numbers & punctuation. Swipe up on delete key to delete by word. Swipe up on emoji key to type a quick smiley.

PREDICTIVE EMOJI:
No need to search for the right emoji. ReBoard shows you the most relevant emojis to what you just typed.

FULL EMOJI SUPPORT

SUGGESTION VARIATIONS:
Double tap a dotted suggested word to view its variants. eg: complete word shows completion, completed, completing as its variations.

SWIPE DOWN TO HIDE KEYBOARD
PLEASE NOTE:

1. Some actions, themes require in-app purchase to unlock. See All Actions list for details.

2. Supported languages: English, Spanish, French, Deutsch, Italian, Portuguese.

3. Full access required.

Download ReBoard

Burn

Normally $0.99.

Burn is the simplest calories burned calculator and tracker on the app store. With over 100 different exercises and activities, you can track your calories for the entire day!

Ever wondered how many calories you burn walking, working in an office, doing Yoga? Burn makes it easy!

Features:
– Beautifully simple design
– Integration with Apple’s Health app to track calories burned each day
– Built in timer to track calories burned in real-time
– Instant filtered search results
– Units of kiloJoules (kJ) available

More exercises and activities coming soon!

Download Burn

Good Morning

Normally $0.99.

Get your morning started right! Good Morning is your morning assistant, providing a spoken summary of your day. Simply set the time you would like it to greet you or awaken you, and the rest is automatic!

Good Morning will let you know key things about your day:
The weather
When the sun rose
The events on your calendar
The tasks you have not completed
How long you slept
Your battery percentage

Please note: This app has three modes, each working differently. Please go to Setup Greeting > App Mode to learn more about the app modes and which one is best for you. Hope you enjoy!

Download Good Morning

WatchHapticMetronome

Normally $0.99.

Run a metronome on your Apple Watch and receive haptic feedback for each note. No longer do you have to listen for the metronome sound to tell you when the beat has hit. Instead let it tap your wrist.

Think of this, playing live on stage with your instrument and nearest to your instrument is your wrist tapping to the beat. I can’t think of a better place and way to keep the beat.

No more needing to tap your foot. Let Apple Watch tap your wrist instead.

This tool is for entertainment purposes only. As the Watch doesn’t allow apps to continuously run, the metronome will stop at either 15 or 70 seconds based on your General-Wake Screen-On Tap setting on your watch. For best results, place the watch on the inner portion of your wrist so that the watch doesn’t automatically shut down because of lowering your wrist.

Download WatchHapticMetronome

Zach Epstein
Zach Epstein Executive Editor

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.