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12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:09PM EST
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Welcome to our biggest list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free of the week. And even better than the quantity of apps is the quality of today’s edition, which includes a number of top-rated apps and some lesser-known ones that you’ve almost certainly never heard of. Sit back, relax, and let these terrific limited-time app sales whisk you away.

Also be sure to check back in yesterday’s list, which includes a number of apps that are still available to download for free.

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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.

MaxCurve

Normally $0.99.

MaxCurve is a professional photo editor which has the most comprehensive curve edit function. MaxCurve achieves a great innovation with 20 curves. Most of them you have never seen on other apps, even Photoshop can’t achieve such an exquisite adjust performance. MaxCurve is able to edit every detail of your photos in maximum and recover your photography works perfectly. It’s essential for photographers and stand out as great assistant for artists.

RGB KIT
– RGB curve, like RGB curve in Photoshop;
– Red curve, like red curve in Photoshop;
– Green curve, like green curve in Photoshop;
– Blue curve, like blue curve in Photoshop.

LIGHTNESS KIT *
– Contrast/Lightness curve, first created ever;
– Exposure/Lightness curve, like shadow/highlight in Photoshop;
– Gamma/Lightness curve, first created ever;
– Temp/Lightness curve, first created ever;
– Lightness/Hue curve, like hue/saturation in Photoshop;
– Black&White/Hue curve, like black&white in Photoshop.

HSL KIT *
– Hue curve, like hue/saturation in Photoshop;
– Hue/Saturation curve, first created ever;
– Hue/Lightness curve, like color balance in Photoshop;
– Saturation curve, first created ever;
– Saturation/Hue curve, first created ever;
– Saturation/Lightness curve, first created ever.

LAB KIT *
– a curve, like a curve in Photoshop;
– a/Lightness curve , first created ever;
– b curve, like b curve in Photoshop;
– b/Lightness curve, first created ever.

PROFESSIONAL EDIT
– Support for Jpeg, Tiff and transparent Png formats;
– Full resolution edit, support up to 4096×4096 pictures;
– Reserve EXIF and GPS information as original picture;
– Save pictures in 100% quality;
– Analyze pictures by professional histogram;
– Crop, rotation, mirror and ratio tools;
– Open MaxCurve in system Photos app as filter extension.

EASY TO USE
– Save curves into presets for using next time;
– Simply hold down (or 3D touch) picture to compare the before and after editing effect;
– Tap any position in picture to add anchor point to corresponding curve value and then drag freely.

SHARE CURVES
– We set up an online curve sharing platform for you to share photography artworks and curves without registration;
– Find inspiration on a publication highlighting creatives from around the globe;
– Save curves of other photographers to local presets.

Download MaxCurve

Attack the Light

Normally $2.99.

**Destructoid’s Best Mobile Game of 2015 Nominee**

**Paste Magazine 10 Best Mobile Games of 2015**

**Popular Mechanics 10 Best RPG Games of 2015**

“A premium game with no in-app purchases of any sort, Attack the Light is a must-have for fans of both the show and turn-based role-playing games alike.” – Kotaku

“…a fantastic RPG that anyone can enjoy.” – Touch Arcade [5 out of 5 stars]

“Steven Universe: Attack the Light! shows a small role-playing game can be just as fulfilling as an 80-hour epic.” – Desctructoid 9 out of 10

Team up as Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven to stop a powerful Gem weapon in Attack the Light!

CRYSTAL GEM POWER
Fire off Garnet’s Rocket Gauntlets, summon Holo-Pearl, and put the hurt on your enemies with Purple Puma. All four Gems have unique attacks and upgrades.

MAGICAL ADVENTURES
Explore caves, fight bad guys, collect super secret treasure, and level up! Load up Steven’s backpack with all kinds of magical items to help you on your quest.

EASY TO PLAY RPG
Intuitive tap and swipe controls make it easy to dish out devastating damage. Every new power has a new mechanic to master.

GEM FUSION
Unleash the three-Gem fusion, Alexandrite! She’s a stone-cold Betty with mondo firepower. Don’t just attack the Light, obliterate it with Fusion power!

STORY BY REBECCA SUGAR
Attack the Light has an all-new storyline from “Steven Universe” creator Rebecca Sugar. Plus, the game features original voiceover from Steven Universe cast members!

Four heroes teaming up for a magical adventure. Sounds like the best RPG ever! Time to ATTACK THE LIGHT!

*****

This game is available in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

Download Attack the Light

CastThemAll

Normally $1.99.

With CastThemAll you can browse through the web and stream any video you want on your Chromecast device. Just navigate to your favorite website and send the embedded video with a single tap to your Chromecast device. The discovered video will be shown below the browser. A tap on the video link will send it to your Chromecast device immediately.

Download CastThemAll

CleanUp Pro

Normally $0.99.

Your contacts are the most important data on your phone. But eventually address book easily becomes messy, if not constantly updated. “CleanUp” helps you merge duplicate contacts and keep your contacts in a safe place.

CLEANING THE CONTACTS
• Remove duplicate contacts
• Merge contacts with similar names
• Merge contacts with the duplicate phone or email
• A preview of the result of the merging and manual selection of contacts

BACKUP
• One tap to backup your contacts
• Quickly export your backups by Email or iTunes
• Restore all the contacts at once or manually selected contacts
• 

Offline backup. No need to sync to any server. Just email the backup file to yourself
• Easily transfer contacts between iOS Devices using just an email client
• All contacts can then easily be restored any time by simply opening the .vcf file in your mailbox

This app will make your address book neat and easy to use.

Download CleanUp Pro

Flash

Normally $0.99.

Recently, my wife is ready to travel, she wrote a travel checklist on her cell phone, but when she wants to print this checklist on a piece of A4 paper, she found that there is no App can do this.

So I helped her on the AppStore find whether there is print a list of App, but frustrating, looked in the AppStore is no such a App.

In order not to disappoint my wife, as a professional engineer, I had to do it yourself, so there was this App.

Flash is a small but powerful App, only focus on one thing, make you easy to print out your checklist.

PS: Don’t ask me why this App is called Flash, but I can tell you that I very recently like to watch “The Flash”.

Download Flash

myTranslator.io

Normally $2.99.

Just speak into your phone and it immediately replies in one of our 80 languages.

VOICE INPUT & OUTPUT
Speak instead of type. No training needed. Just start speaking and we recognise your voice, transform it into text and translate it into another language.

EDIT & SHARE
Tap our translation to edit and make changes, without having to speak again. Send translations to your friends via Email, SMS, Facebook or Twitter or simply copy a translation and use it in any App you like.

UNIVERSAL APP
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad.

Translations between the following languages are supported:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Belgian (Dutch), Catalan, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English US, English UK, English AU, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French CA, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese BR, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish MX, Spanish US, Swahili, Swedish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

Languages & Dialects with Speech Recognition:

– Arabic
– English (United States)
– English (United Kingdom)
– English (Australia)
– Spanish (Spain)
– Spanish (United States)
– Spanish (Mexico)
– French (France)
– French (Canada)
– Croatian
– Catalan
– Hebrew
– Romanian
– Ukrainian
– Czech
– German
– Italian
– Japanese
– Finnish
– Greek
– Mandarin (China)
– Mandarin (Taiwan)
– Korean
– Dutch
– Norwegian
– Swedish
– Danish
– Portuguese (Portugal)
– Portuguese (Brazil)
– Polish
– Russian
– Indonesian
– Malay
– Romanian
– Slovak
– Vietnamese

This app requires an Internet connection.

Download myTranslator.io

StarMusic Pro

Normally $1.99.

StarMusic is the unique music & video player for YouTube. It is beautiful, easy to use and fast.

* Video Player:
– Listen to million music video, no limits from YouTube
– Built-in Professional Equalizer and Visualizer Music for YouTube
– Manage videos & playlists
– Repeat one, repeat all, shuffle
– Continuous playback, background playback.
– Support Audio, 480p, 720p and 1080p
– Share videos via social networks (Facebook & Twitter)
– Supports AirPlay
– Manually re-order videos in a playlist.
– Sleep timer

* Music Player
– Built-in Professional Equalizer and Visualizer Music
– 3 Visualizer Modes: Spectrum, Firefly and Starfall
– Play music directly from iPod Library
– Background playback
– Sleep timer

If you like our app, don’t hesitate to rate it and leave us a comment. We are always interested in knowing what you think :)

Download StarMusic Pro

Devices

Normally $2.99.

Devices is the Apple HomeKit application that lets you manage and control smart home devices quickly, intuitively and intelligently. Each device is represented by a specific icon. There is no complicated menu structure – all devices are shown in an overview and can be sorted by categories or locations. In addition, the app boasts smart features such as device grouping, staging and timing.

Features
• Clarity – All devices at a glance
• Usability – Intuitive control via icons
• Independence – Cross-vendor support for all HomeKit devices
• Groups – Operate multiple devices of the same category simultaneously
• Scenes – Combine various devices into a scene to trigger them
• Triggers – Trigger scenes at predefined time points and time intervals
• Search – Find devices fast the smart way
• Synchronization – Automatic adjustment via your Apple iCloud account
• Authorization – Grant trusted persons access via Apple iCloud
• Remote access – Control devices from anywhere in the world
• Security – Protection against access by unauthorized third parties
• Settings – Separate settings prevent accidental modification during everyday use
• Apple Watch – Compatible

System requirements
• Requires a device with iOS 8.0 or later
• Requires at least one smart home device that is compatible with Apple HomeKit
• For remote access, an Apple TV with software version 7.0 (or above) is required

Download Devices

Vidblend Video Blender

Normally $1.99.

“You can make some really artsy video clips with this app.” – Tina L Rice, Combo Apps.

“This is an easy to use, one of a kind app for iOS. It will really take your videos to the next level.” – Robyn Oglesby, Mac Sources.

First of its kind, Vidblend is an easy to use video blending app with a powerful editor to help make your own personal video library.

Customize your own movie and share them with your friends.

Inspired by the concept of Fusion, we present to you multiple ways to mix and blend video clips right on your smartphones. Edit your video footage, add sound, voice and title over it. Enhance them further by choosing from unique filter fx.
▶Blend : Blend videos real fast.
▶Edit : Powerful tools to make you the best movie maker.
▶Post Blend Editing : Handy editing tools to help edit after blending.
▶Share : Display your creations to the entire world.
Features

BLEND VIDEOS
All-in-one iPhoneography video app to mix movie clips –
▶Record your own movies or choose from gallery
▶Explore 20 unique blend styles to mix your videos
▶Use opacity slider controls to tweak the movie.
▶Save and share your movie with the world
20 UNIQUE BLEND STYLES
▶ Normal: Default video blend.
▶ Darken: Displays darker tone.
▶ Multiply: It darkens the background video based on the dark values of the foreground video.
▶ Color Burn: Burnt out effect of the foreground video.
▶ Linear Burn: Extra darkens the blended video.
▶ Lighten: Lightens up the final video blended.
▶ Screen: Lightens foreground video based on light values of background video.
▶ Color Dodge: Color dodges lower video layer with the upper.
▶ Add: Gives overall brightened effect.
▶ Subtract: Displays a darkened mid toned video.
▶ Divide: Enhances bright areas of the video.
▶ Overlay: Multiplies the lighter color tones and darkens the darker ones.
▶ Soft Light: Displays soft tones.
▶ Hard Light: Multiplies dark video tones.
▶ Difference: Modifies the differences in color values of both the videos.
▶ Exclusion: It masks out the differences between the top and bottom videos.
▶ Hue: Changes hue of lower video based on the top video.
▶ Saturation: Changes saturation level of lower video based on the top video.
▶ Color: Changes the hue and saturation of the lower video.
▶ Luminosity: Changes the light value of the lower video.

EDIT VIDEOS
Explore the following video editing features in the app –
▶Copy : Copy video.
▶Trim : Scoop out unwanted portions.
▶Display : Enhance video quality from here.
▶Reverse: Play your clip reversed.
▶Rotate : Rotate videos.
▶SlowMo : Slow down the video to create slowmotion effect.
▶Text : Add titles.
▶ Audio : Record your own audio to personalize your movie.
▶Sound : Add sound in the background from itunes.
▶Filters : Amazing filters to add a new look to your videos.

POST BLEND EDITING
Now, edit videos even after blending –
▶Swap : Swap between background and foreground videos.
▶Trim : Cut out unwanted frames.
▶Display : Enhance blended videos.
▶Filter : Add finesse to the final blended video.
▶Extract : Extract and share images from the blended video.
▶Delete : Delete video
SHARE VIDEOS
A great videomaker app to be shared with all –
▶Save your clip in your phone gallery.
▶Share them in different Social media platforms.
▶Mail personalized videos to your favorite people directly.

Download Vidblend Video Blender

Office Story

Normally $3.99.

Try to turn a small garage start-up into a large company. Take strategic decisions, buy tables and table plants, hire and train people. Fulfill their wishes! Create mobile applications!

“…this is a game that every iOS user should experience.” – 148Apps

From the very beginning of the game you dive into the world of mobile development, where during the game you will get access to the analogues of modern mobile platforms. As in life, the market state is dynamic and constantly changing. New platforms come and old ones go. They just can’t withstand the competition.

GAME FEATURES:

▶ 13 cities of the world
▶ The international labor market,
▶ The rich set of goals and objectives
▶ MyOS, Roboid, eyeOS, Doors and more
▶ The global result table
▶ The ability to share a screenshot of the game.

▶ Develop the best application:

To create a real hit isn’t an easy task! You must take into account trends and popularity of platforms. You need to assemble a team of motivated professionals, to create a comfortable environment for its employees, and to earn an impeccable reputation.

▶ Conquer the World:

As the game progresses you can move to a new city and country. Each location has its own labor market with its ethnic composition, professional level, and the cost of the employees. In some cities you can meet industry stars. However, as a rule, they are expensive and want a huge salary.

▶ Compete with people around the world:

The game has a global table of results where you can compete with the world in three ways – by the quality of the project, by the team power and by revenues. The results are available for the day, week, and all time. Also, to date, the game has 20 achievements. Try to open them all!

▶ Share your achievements with your friends:

Everyone decides for themselves as to whether his or her company is to be public or private. However, it seems to us that the country must know its heroes! For this purpose, the game developers have made it possible to show your friends your great offices and to share your success stories on Facebook.

Build a business of your dreams!

Download Office Story

Repostgram for Instagram

Normally $1.99.

The best way to repost photos & videos on Instagram!

With Repostgram you can also delete multiple Instagram photos & videos at once.

Main Features:
– Repost photos and videos on Instagram.
– Delete or unlike multiple photos & videos at once.
– Track users that don’t follow you back.
– Track Instagram followers you don’t follow back.
– See who likes your posts the most.

Download Repostgram for Instagram

Cloud Hub

Normally $0.99.

Cloud Hub is a simple documents reader and manager for iOS platform.

It allows to download or upload files from clouds services like Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, Drive, iCloud. Built-in FTP client. Import media files from Photo Albums. Manage all local files stored in the app; change name, move, copy, delete, create directories, view the content of the most common file types like PDF, PNG, JPG, MP4, iWork, MS Office files. Share files using social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter etc.

• Cloud Hub reads files:
– PDF
– MS Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx)
– iWork: Keynote, Pages, Numbers
– text (txt, rtf)
– images (jpg, png, gif, tiff)
– MP3, WAV
– MP4, H.264
– html, css

• Access Services (download/upload):
– Dropbox
– Box
– OneDrive
– Google Drive
– iCloud
– FTP

• Local file operations:
– Copy
– Move
– Delete
– Change name
– File details
– Send via e-mail
– Share using social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.)
– Upload to server (Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, FTP)
– View the content of the most common file types
– Image viewer
– Video player (MP4, H.264)
– Music player (MP3)

• Local directory operations:
– Create directory
– Delete directory
– List chosen directory

Download Cloud Hub

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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.