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10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:09PM EST
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Who doesn’t love a good list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free? We’ve got 10 fresh premium iOS apps for you today, including what is probably the best iOS game that has ever been created. There are also a couple of good freebies left in yesterday’s post, so be sure to check back there for even more apps on sale.

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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.

Monument Valley

Normally $3.99.

** Apple Game of the Year 2014 **
** Winner of Apple Design Award 2014 **

In Monument Valley you will manipulate impossible architecture and guide a silent princess through a stunningly beautiful world.

Monument Valley is a surreal exploration through fantastical architecture and impossible geometry. Guide the silent princess Ida through mysterious monuments, uncovering hidden paths, unfolding optical illusions and outsmarting the enigmatic Crow People.

Ida’s Dream now available.

“Forgotten Shores”: Eight new chapters of adventure and illusion available now as a separate purchase.

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“This might be the most beautiful iPad game of 2014” – Wired

“Brilliant design… stayed with me like a dream I didn’t want to forget” 9/10 – Polygon

“The most sublime hour my iPad has ever given me… and the value of such a thing is incalculable” – Kotaku

“Monument Valley stuns with it’s serenity… each screen is a work of art” – Huffington Post

“Almost impossibly gorgeous… a feast for your senses” 5/5 – Touch Arcade

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BEAUTIFUL

Inspired by minimalist 3D design, optical illusions and palaces and temples from around the world, every monument is a unique, hand-crafted world to explore.

EASY TO USE

Twist and drag to reshape the world and help Ida to explore. Designed to be easy for everyone to pick up, enjoy and complete.

SOUND

Audio reacts to your manipulation of the world to provide a surreal and beautiful soundscape. Best experienced with headphones.

iCloud

Synchronize your game across all your devices.

** Monument Valley is designed for iPhone 4 and above. It is NOT compatible with iPod Touch 4th Generation.

Download Monument Valley

TAD

Normally $1.99.

Cover art for your music. Professional sleeve design in minutes. Create stunning and unique thumbnails for use with your music uploads on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, beatport and more using TAD – for creators not designers.

“TAD allows every musician to have great cover art. Simple and brilliant” Sam Panetta, Producer & Artist Manager (Kylie Minogue, Crowded House)

MAKE YOUR COVER ART STAND OUT AS MUCH AS YOUR MUSIC!

Download TAD to make all your sleeve design needs quick, easy and beautiful.

TAD is the only App that is specifically designed to remove all cover and sleeve art problems for all musicians.

Use TAD to create a unique cover for every piece of music you upload anywhere online – iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, beatport, SoundCloud and many more.

No need to be or to know a designer. Make your Thumbnail Art in minutes on your iPhone or iPad. Export at up to 3000 pixels square.

Use TAD templates based on the greatest album sleeves of all time. Let TAD be your design assistant. Or, start from scratch.

Add your logo, with transparency, for perfect results.

Use the simple but versatile art elements that allow you to create unlimited designs with great flexibility.

Fades, colour selection, frames and filters so that you can create brilliant sleeve art quickly and easily.

PLUS: Use TAD to add text and effects to images for Instagram, Podcast covers, Playlist images on Spotify and Apple Music and for Apple Connect uploads. Make TAD your band’s go to design assistant for all your online images.

“As a musician myself, I know their frustrations. We created TAD to solve a problem that millions of musicians suffer. The need for great cover art for their music. They need to create it quickly, cheaply and at high quality. That’s exactly what TAD gives them” Lee Jones, creator of TAD

“TAD makes creating cover art for your band super easy, and design matters when it comes to features and blogs promoting your music. Give it a go!”
Sarah Hamilton, Ditto Music

“Tad the App is a fantastic little platform for young independent artists to design their own cover artworks. It’s low-cost and easy to use, allowing artists to spend more time and money on what matters most… the music” Beth Deady, MGM Distribution

Download TAD

Top Tank

Normally $0.99.

Experience explosive retro arcade action tailored exclusively for the 21st century touch screen! Jump in to your heavily-armored war machine and face off against an army of foes from both land and air. Navigate rolling terrain and lob projectiles at oncoming threats with nothing more than the simple touch of a finger. Do you have what it takes to be TOP TANK?

Features:

● One-touch control – Hold to aim, release to fire
● Collect and deploy devastating power-ups
● Unlock six unique tanks, each with their own special perk!
● Thirteen achievements to unlock
● Seven locales, each featuring unique graphics and original soundtrack
● Battle your friends for high score supremacy on Game Center
● Track your progress through lifetime stats

Download Top Tank

Ai Search

Normally $0.99.

Are you tired of seeing unwanted ads pop-up in your search engine? Still can’t find what you want after trying multiple variations of different keywords? Enough is enough!

Ai Search is just what you need. Ai Search is a personalized searching solution.
With it, you can narrow down your searching scope, for example: [work out], or using a more natural tag while searching, for example: [buy] [gift]. How much more simple can you get ?! What’s even better is that you can use your own personalized style to search and improve the searching accuracy and efficiency.

Ai Search is your personal search engine to search: answers, a person, a point of view, information, videos, translations, package delivery information, etc…

In the 2.0 version, we introduce a series of new features: Ai Cloud data backup, official recommendation,and adding a webpage has become much easier than before! For users convenience, Ai Search is also compatible with iPhone and iPad.
Talk about efficiency, it supports Today Widgets in notification centre, 3D Touch shortcut, 3D Touch webpage Peek & Pop, SafariViewController, Split View, Slide Over, video PIP mode (need the website itself to support) along with a lot more new features.

Be prepared to take your search experience to a new level using Ai Search.

Download Ai Search

Taskler

Normally $2.99.

Taskler is the new To-Do list for iPhone that has clean, simple interface, that allows you to split all tasks into sub-steps, so you can really achieve your goals step-by-step.

Is Taskler good for your needs, ask yourself these questions:

1. Do you need task manager that’s simple to learn and use?
2. Would you separate complicated tasks to a simple steps?
3. Do you think that folders will help you organize your activities?

If you answered on all this questions “yes”, you’ll find the app useful, we recommend you to buy Taskler. Otherwise, don’t buy the app.

HOW TO USE

· · · CREATE A TASK
It’s easy to be overwhelmed in everyday routine. Taskler will help keep things in order.

1. Create a new task by pull down the screen
2. When it’s done slide to right to mark as done. See? It’s easy

· · · SPLIT THE TASK
Now you have some complex task, that takes some steps to achieve. With Taskler it’s not a problem to do.

1. Tap the task to open it and create some sub-steps
2. Tap on the sub-step to mark it as done
3. When all sub-steps is finished the task will be marked as done automatically

· · · REMINDER
Sometimes it’s important to not miss something. There is why you have to set a reminder.

1. Pull down to create a new task
2. Enter the title
3. Tap on reminder button
4. Tap on the calendar date and select the reminder time

· · · REPEAT THINGS
If you need to do something again and again to be more productive, like learn some new foreign words or do a push-ups, you can add a repeated reminders.

1. Create a new task
2. Tap on repeat button
3. Enter repeat count, date and time when it should be repeated
4. Tasks with repeated reminders will be undone automatically, if you mark it as done
5. If you don’t need it anymore, long-press on such task and select “delete” from popup menu

· · · EDIT TASK
You can edit task, just open it and you’ll see Edit button in the top right corner. Taped it, you can change it whatever you like.

· · · ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES
Long-press task to see more task-related capabilities, like: delete, undone, share, move to another folder and etc.

· · · FOLDERS
What if you want to separate different tasks? Just use folders to separate them. Folders has it’s own different themes. You can see, how much tasks it is in the folder, next to the folder name.

1. Tap on the top left title to open folders
2. Create a new folder or select another one
3. You can move tasks between the folders by long-press on the task and select “move to folder” from popup menu
4. If you want, you can change the folder theme to another one. Every folder can have its own theme

· · · HOW TO SEE ALL TASKS FOR THE WEEK
First item in the folder list named “Today”. It’s a place where you can see all reminders from all folders across the app, if its reminders set on today, tomorrow or next seven days. You can’t change or delete tasks from Today menu, but you can tap on them to open the appropriate folder. When you delete the folder all tasks, all sub-tasks and notes will be deleted either.

· · · HOW TO UNDONE THE TASK
If you need undone the task that was done before, long-press on it and select “undone” from popup menu.

· · · HOW TO SHARE TASKS
If you need share some complex task that have sub-steps, make a long-press on it and select “share”. You can share tasks title and its sub-steps by email, iMessage, Twitter, etc.

· · · I WANT SOMETHING THAT APP CAN’T DO!
Taskler is a young app. If you need some feature that it doesn’t have, just let us know by email: deplovsbrothers@gmail.com In our plans to make iPad and Mac version of the app, iCloud sync, more repeat types, more themes.

Download Taskler

Lumos

Normally $0.99.

Photograph yourself and the world around you using filters amazing and free!
Lay ready photos to social networks or share with friends.

Lumos has such great features as:

– Watermark: You can add watermarks and everyone can see that you use Lumos.

– Timer: There is no need in the photo, it is enough to put a timer and photographed with friends.

– Live Filters: Browse your photos before shooting.

Download Lumos

Double Player

Normally $1.99.

Listen to two different songs on your headphones with your friends or your girlfriend.

On the train, plane or bus???
You’re listening on your headphones and your girlfriend asks to listen too?
This app is the solution to your problems.
Give the other person an earphone, and you can both listen to your favourite tunes independently of one another with two innovative music players and fantastic graphics.
Be a step ahead with your iPhone or iPod Touch!!!

Download Double Player

Delete Duplicates

Normally $0.99.

This app allows you to delete all the duplicate contacts from your address book, delete multiple contacts at once and backup your contacts!

Download Delete Duplicates

Red Camera

Normally $2.99.

Red Camera

Convert normal everyday photos into vintage and grunge style.
We have 50 filters –

Grunge
Vintage
Sepia
Black and White
Retro filters
Bokeh
Hipster Filters
Unicolor

Take your android phone into the past with some of the most beautiful and unique vintage effects. Come see filters fine-tuned to perfection and inspired by old-school analog photography.

Download this app and see how Photolab retro throws back to old-school photography with the best real-time vintage filters on the app store!

Edit photos with this wonderful retro photo editor and share with the world on Facebook,pinterest,instagram and flickr.
Wonderful alternative of hipstamatic, retrica , vintique

A wonderful app with a nice hipster hipstamatic and lomo feel !

Download Red Camera

Moodelicious

Normally $0.99.

So what if you were told that in some ways the foods you eat influences your mood? You may see the connection or else wonder how?

Download Moodelicious

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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.