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

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:11PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps January 25 2016

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It’s that time of day again when we give you the lowdown on paid iPhone apps that are on sale for free for a limited time. Today we’ve rounded up eight different apps that would normally cost $23 but are on sale for free right now. Let’s check them out!

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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.

My Water Balance

Normally $0.99

Water is essential for life on our planet. Roughly 70 percent of the body is made of water. We require water for almost every function within our bodies, from flushing out toxins to digestion. Water is essential to good health, yet needs vary by individual. This app can help ensure you drink enough fluids.

Application features:
* Water requirement calculator
* Reminders
* Units (Metric and fl oz)
* Statistics in graphs
* Motivational awards
* Useful tips about water

You may need to modify your total fluid intake depending on how active you are, the climate you live in, your health status, and etc., the calculation is only recommendation.

This is one of the first applications with support Apple Watch! Application integrated with Apple Health to get information about your body measurement to calculate your water intake.

Download My Water Balance

Photo and Video Transfer

Normally $2.99

Photo and Video Transfer over wifi app is the easiest and fastest way to send and receive photos and videos from/to your iPad, iPhone, iPod and computer over Wi-Fi.

What people think of Image Transfer Plus
“Very easy to send from/ to : PC, iPhone, iPad . Simple and nice. Love it”, Alezer PO
“it’s definitely the best app in its category.”, Incineration

– Transfer your photos between iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC
– Very easy to use
– Super fast, safe and reliable
– Unlimited number of photos and videos
– Exchange photos with friends and family effortlessly

Both iOS devices need to have Image Transfer installed to exchange photos. The free version of Image Transfer will allow you to receive photos from other devices.

Forget about e-mailing photos to yourself, Image Transfer will come handy in this situation and will save your time.

Use permanent web address to send and receive photos and videos to your computer if Wi-Fi network have connection to Internet.

Get it now and start sharing the best moments of your life across your devices and with others.

Download Photo and Video Transfer

Air Scanner

Normally $4.99

Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless HD document camera in 3 easy steps:
STEP 1: Launch Air Scanner.
STEP 2: Type in the displayed URL in the web browser.
STEP 3: Whatever you point the camera at appears in the browser.

Easily present hard-copy materials from books, magazines, or physical objects as part of your lectures or meetings. Great for show and tell.

Air Scanner continuously takes photos with your device’s camera and projects them to a web browser running on the same WiFi network, at 720P HD (1080P on iPhone 5 and newer generation devices) – allowing full page text and color photographs to come out crisp and clear.

Just fire up Air Scanner and type in the displayed URL in your web browser. The image will automatically update at up to 3-5 times per second (faster on newer devices). A dedicated or ad-hoc network is recommended for optimal performance. No special hardware or additional client software is required. PC, Mac, and Linux are all supported.

You don’t need an expensive unitasker document camera anymore.

Air Scanner works wonderfully with a DIY camera stand, which you can make in a few minutes, or you can order a handmade one from various 3rd party sites (see our website for details and links).

Download Air Scanner

SketchMee HD

Normally $1.99

– SketchMee for iPhone has been warmly embraced by a large and growing community of creative users (“Hands down this app is the best in the store as far as photo effects”, “One of the best apps in the app store”, …). Nonetheless, it is on the iPad that it really springs to life!

– Just pick an image from your photo library, and watch it being sketched into a beautiful piece of art. Have endless fun playing around with settings, exploring a vast world of art possibilities.

– Extremely easy to use. A handful of simple but powerful controls make you the artist in charge, enabling a wide range of different sketch art styles.

– Completely unparalleled art quality. Not even desktop computer programs come close.

– Save your creations in resolutions from 1024 by 768 for web use up to 4096 by 3072 (12 megapixels) enabling large printouts in high quality.

– Rock solid algorithms generate great results with any type of image content. Try portrait images, landscape scenery, people, abstract stuff, computer graphics or anything else.

– Zoom as deep as you like into the finished sketches to inspect the strokes. Your art will appear perfectly sharp at any zoom level. This is because sketches are built using vector curves, not from blocky pixel data.

– Input images can be of any size. Tiny web images are easily transformed into works of high resolution sketch art.

– A full screen crop feature lets you define exactly what part of the source image to use. Re-crop as many times as you like.

– Send your artwork as emails, save to your image library or save to the shared documents folder.

Download SketchMee

Txt2Binary

Normally $0.99

Text-to-Binary and Binary-to-Text Converter.

Quick and fun way to convert text to binary and back!

Use copy and paste buttons with your iPhone messaging capabilities:
★ Email a friend from within the app in binary!
★ Text a friend in binary!

Automatically make friends aware of Txt2Binary so that you can have a two way binary communication!

Sci-fi style with sound effects.

Convert letters A…Z, numbers 0…9 and some special characters.

Download Txt2Binary

Compass++ PRO

Normally $7.99

This Compass app offers unique HD compass themes for your iPhone and iPad. Your iPad comes with a built-in digital compass component, but there is no app pre-loaded on your device to use this feature, we are here to solve this for you.
Now you will never get lost, and in style!
This compass app gives full retina support for all iPhone and iPad. You can swipe left and right on the screen to change between 15+ great looking themes.

Features:
– 15+ amazing themes to choose from
– Full retina support for all iPhone and iPad
– Easily switch between different themes

⊛ This is the AD-FREE version. No ads = better user experience to enjoy compass!

⊛ Message for iPodTouch user
Sorry, iPod Touch cannot run this app (because iPod Touch does not have built-in compass components).

Download Compass++ PRO

ViewExif

Normally $0.99

ViewExif is an iOS extension which allows you to view metadata of photos and videos. It adds metadata capability not only for Photos app but also for 3rd-party apps.

Being able to read exif tags can be of great importance not only for beginners, but also for other photographers who want to find out what settings and tools were used to create a particular photograph. However, you couldn’t read those important data before. Fortunately, this issue is perfectly solved with app extension since iOS 8. So we create this app for photographers.

For those people who want to protect privacy, this app is useful for you as well. When you send photos via email or share on social network, your personal information (geo location, taken date etc) is shared as well. If you upset to share those information, ViewExif is able to remove it before sharing.

Features:
* Extension for Photos app and 3rd-party apps such as Dropbox, Google Drive and FileExplorer etc.
* Display file name, file size, dimensions for photos and videos.
* Display EXIT tags: Taken date, ISO Speed, F Number, Exposure Time, Focal Length and more.
* Display IPTC tags: Creator, Keywords, Description etc.
* Display geo location on map
* Support image formats (JPG, PNG, TIFF) and Raw formats (CR2, NEF).
* Share photo with exif on Twitter, Facebook, email.
* Share photo without exif on Twitter, Facebook, email.

Download ViewExif

Super Barista

Normally $1.99

It’s coffee time…IN SPACE!
Serve an inter-galactic clientele and earn your way to the top!
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NEW GENRE
Fast-paced gameplay mixing strategy and action. Easy to learn, frantic to master.

+100 LEVELS
Explore and play across 5 crazy planets with different species and venues

POWERFUL BOOSTS
Unlock powerful upgrades and hire special crew with amazing abilities to serve the toughest of clients.

QUIRKY STUFF
Serve & cater to the eclectic, space elite who need the VIP treatment, while overcoming random space events.

PIXEL ART COMMUNITY
200 collectables cards with amazing exclusive art created by epic guest artists such as eBoy, Pixels Huh, Craig Robinson, Henrik Pettersson, Thomas Frick, Dave Grey, Locomalito, Jango Snow, Joo Jae Bum, Spudonkey, Fabvalle, OLAV, Manolo Saviantoni, Adrien Soret, Ryan Hooley, SamCube, and many more! A worldwide pixel art collaboration like never before!

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This game is currently available only in English and Spanish

Download Super Barista

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.