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

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:11PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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We survived CES 2016! To celebrate, we’ve put together a list of 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time. These sales could be over in 2 days or 2 minutes, so the only way to be sure you get them while they’re free is to download them right now. There are also a couple of good freebies left in yesterday’s post if 10 apps aren’t enough for you.

MUST SEE: The 12 most innovative things we saw at CES 2016

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.

Living Planet

Normally $1.99.

FEATURED USERS

– Screenshot 2: Wormhole by Living Planet user Ann Hecht – IG @alice1280
– Screenshot 3: Tiny Planet by Living Planet user Vivi Franco – IG @vivifranco8

For more inspirational photos, follow us on Instagram at @livingplanetapp

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INTRODUCING LIVING PLANET!

For the first time ever, on any platform, you can now create jaw-dropping tiny planet videos!

– Transform your videos into living, breathing tiny planets
– Photos are also supported
– Choose the wormhole option for an inverted effect
– 6 manipulation tools (Rotation / Alignment / Size / Blend Angle / Blend Direction / Bulge)
– 40 expertly crafted filters
– Pre- and post-transform cropping tools
– Add music tracks to your videos
– Pause video processing at any time and as often as necessary to make adjustments
– Monitor video processing frame-by-frame
– Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
– From the creators of ProCam, Stackables and Formulas

Visit our Instagram feed @livingplanetapp for demo videos and photos.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Maximum output resolution is 3000×3000 (9MP) for photos and 1080×1080 for videos (on iPhone 5 and later, iPad 2 and later, and iPod 5G and later) and 640×640 on older devices.

Living Planet uses advanced algorithms to convert frames on the pixel level into stereographic projections. This, combined with our state-of-the-art blending technique achieves in seconds what would take hours to produce manually in Photoshop for a photo, while videos are transformed in minutes. All devices running iOS 7 are supported, but processing times vary.

Download Living Planet

Smart Cleaner

Normally $1.99.

# Smart analysis contacts, charts showing.
# Smart merge duplicate contacts.
# Remove contacts without name or phone number.
# Backup & export to spreadsheet (CSV) or web page (htm) file.
# Backup file can been edit in Excel and simple import.

Your contacts are the most important data in your phone which easily becomes messy if not consistently updated.
Smart Cleaner easily helps you detect and merge duplicate contacts.

1, Contacts Smart analysis, charts show.
Smart Cleaner will smart analysis your contacts, including the contact’s name, phone, eMail, etc., and the results have been showing of chart.

2, Smart merge duplicate contacts.
For the contact’s name, phone, eMail duplicate contacts can be easily merge a new contact, and can choose whether to delete old contacts.

3, Missing important information contact smart cleanup
For missing name, phone, eMail and other important information of contacts , you can easy delete or fix them.

4, Backup & export to table (CSV) or web page (htm) file
Your contacts can been easy backup to CSV or htm file. CSV files can be viewed and edited in Excel or Notepad, htm file can be viewed by IE, Safari, chrome and other web browser. The file can be send by mail.
If you use Excel to open CSV files garbled, please open a blank Excel, select Data> From Text> select * .csv file, then select English Comma Separated Values​​, select UTF8 encoding format, you can eliminate the distortion, normally open.

5, backup file import simple
If you change the phone, You can also be in the mail (or any other program to save the backup file) to open the backup file, select “Open other programs” – After the “Select” Cleaner “, associated with the program, Smart Cleaner will automatic analysis of records, and imported into the address book.

Download Smart Cleaner

MobileMonet

Normally $1.99.

MobileMonet turns a photo into a painted masterpiece. Pixels are replaced with brush strokes and the results are wonderful.

You are in complete control of the process. Pick from preset settings or adjust specific controls for brush size, grain, line intensity, etc. You can even brush on areas of paint.

Your creations are saved in a recent edit list for continued editing.

The final export size is full resolution. Perfect for printing.

• Apple Staff Pick •

Download MobileMonet

Starseed: Origin

Normally $1.99.

9/10 – TouchArcade
9/10 – AppAdvice
Bronze Award – PocketGamer

Pilot the Starseed and perform bombing runs on massive dreadnoughts in the depths of space. Each vanquished dreadnought brings a new Starseed form and new weapon types.

– 9 Playable Starseeds!
– 9 Huge dreadnoughts to defeat!
– Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements!
– Old-skool arcade presentation and effects!
– 9 amazing chip tunes from @FracturesAudio!
– Risk reward bullet grazing combo system to master!

Download Starseed: Origin

iFile

Normally $1.99.

FEATURES
– Integrated PDF Reader
– Supports Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint
– Supports Apple iWorks documents
– Multiple clouds (Dropbox, OneDrive and more)
– Integrated music player
– Copy, move and zip multiple files
– Passcode protect files
– Supports iTunes USB File Sharing
– Transfer files from your PC/Mac using Wi-Fi
– Built-in search feature
– Sort files by “Name”,”Date”,”Size” or “Kind”
– Share files by email, bluetooth and Facebook.
– “Open in” feature allows you to open files in other apps
– Create and extract ZIP files

Download iFile

StarTube

Normally $1.99.

Browse, search and listen unlimited free music from YouTube.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

▸ Listen unlimited free music from YouTube

▸ Link with your YouTube account

▸ Explore hottest music of different genres in many countries worldwide

▸ Seamless music streaming for best user experience

▸ Create, customize and manage your streaming playlists

▸ Protect your videos by Passcode

▸ Advanced music & video player with many useful features built-in

▸ Support MP3, 480p, 720p and 1080p

▸ Play music in iPod Library

▸ Built-in equalizer and visualizer music

▸ Desgined to fully supports all iPhone and iPad screen sizes

▸ Background playback and lock screen controls

▸ Car Mode & Sleep Timer

Download StarTube

1 Second Everyday

Normally $2.99.

Make the Film of your Life!

1SE is an app that stitches the moments of your life into a single continuous chronological movie.

FEATURED by Apple, Fast Company, TED, CNN, BBC, & countless more!

For over 4 years, I’ve been recording 1 second every day, so I’ll never forget another day ever again. This project has had such a profoundly positive impact on my life, that I’ve passionately developed an App that will make it extraordinarily easy for anyone to do this too.

Being able to quickly relive every single day of my life has provided me with a treasured perspective on life. It holds me accountable for making each day notable.

When I turn 40, I’ll have a 1 hour compilation that encapsulates my 30s. If I live to see 80 years of age, I’ll have a 5-hour video that summarizes 50 years of my life.

1SE is a minimalist video diary.

Features:

+ The App accesses any videos currently in your camera roll & sorts them by date.

+ Setup friendly creative reminders so you never forget a day!

+ Keep multiple timelines! You could have one for yourself… for each of your kids… your dinner… what you wear every day… etc!

+ NEW! Turn your Seconds into Animated Gifs to instantly share!

+ 1SE Crowds! Submit a second from your life to videos made up from hundreds of us… Let’s view everyday life from countless of perspectives!

+ Super Seconds! It gives you an extra 50% more time when you need it!

+ Chosen seconds back up with the app in iCloud (if you back up your phone with iCloud)

+ Compile any given amount of time desired—the last month, year, or just select a start and end date.

+ Your seconds are privately held on your phone. You never have to share this with anyone if you don’t want to. The primary purpose of this App is to help you remember your own life. Sharing is optional.

Download 1 Second Everyday

VoxBeat

Normally $4.99.

Sing a beat and have it automatically and instantly converted to a drum machine beat! The revolutionary VoxBeat analyzes the kick, snare and hat sounds that you sing, and assigns high-impact stereo drum samples to your beatboxed kick, snare, and hat sounds. It’s amazing and intuitive. It is the easiest and fastest way to program beats: just sing them. You can also just touch the screen to enter or correct drum hits, in real time.

PLUS you can add AUDIO TRACKS to capture your ideas. Make a beat, sing a bass line, sing a melody, mix, add effects if you like. Then you can export to WAV or AudioCopy, or link to another app via Inter-App Audio. Email your ideas or import via iTunes.

VoxBeat is the ultimate musical sketch pad looper and features:
-Five drum kits with 9 sounds each
-Additional drum kit groups for only .99 cents
-6 tracks total (3 for drums, and 3 for either drums or audio)
-Training capability to better recognize your own voice’s kick, snare and hat sounds
-Preset saving and total recall
-Quantize and swing settings
-Crazy beat subdivisions if desired
-Delay, LowPass, HighPass and Band Pass effects for each track.

Download VoxBeat

Dailycharge

Normally $1.99.

Suppose you bought a car and want to know what’s its cost in the last thee years. If you paid $ 20,000, and 365 days have passed, what did it cost per day? Not only Dailycharge does the calculation for you, but it keeps it automatically updated, so that you’ll never have to calculate it again! And… it’s easy: $ 54.79!

Do you want to know how much it costs you daily that new computer that you just bought?

With Dailycharge you can know it in a heartbeat! Simply enter the name of the product, date of purchase and the price! The daily calculation is done by the app!

Download Dailycharge

Voices

Normally $2.99.

Voices can help you learning and mastering the pronunciation of English and the sounds of speech.

Key features as follows:
1. Include 44 standard phonetic symbols of British English and 40 ones of American English.
2. Provide a comprehensive understanding of how every voice is pronounced with two kinds of high quality audios including male voice and female voice.
3. Test comprehensively your pronunciation skills by reading, writing, listening and speaking with over 500 words and give you the scores.
4. Help you find the essential features of pronunciation by comparing yours with standard one with VOICEPRINTS.
5. Learn and play the application anywhere without network.

Download Voices

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.