Free apps are great, but apps that usually cost money (and are worth every penny) but go free for a limited time are awesome. We'd have to put Readdle's Calendars 5 app in that category after the company announced that its hugely popular calendaring and task management app will be free for 48 hours. Usually priced at $6.99, the saving is not to be sniffed at.
Apple may have brought some animated wallpapers to the iPhone thanks to last year's iOS 7 update, but that doesn't mean that owners of the popular smartphone can just go setting things as their home or lock screen wallpapers willy-nilly. Apple still tightly controls what people can make their iPhones and iPads look like, and while the unannounced iOS 8 may signal a relaxing of such restrictions, the best way to untether your iOS device from Jonny Ive is still to jailbreak it.
We love it when apps go free, and we especially appreciate the fact when they're awesome apps that were bargainous even at their original price. If there's one thing the App Store's race to the bottom has done, it is to make it possible to get some truly awesome apps for next to nothing, if not nothing at all.
Often, developers seek to supplement the experience of a major game release on PC / console by also offering a mobile-adapted version, but given the limited nature of the smartphone and tablet despite recent improvements, these accompanying efforts (think COD: Zombies) always feel a tad half-baked. The best way any developer can utilize a mobile device, in most cases, is to release a companion app that plays to the strengths and general versatility of our beloved gadgets, and the recently-released Titanfall has just gotten its very own second-screen app on both iOS and Android courtesy of famed publisher EA.
Earlier this month, Foursquare announced that it would be venturing away from its very check-in-centric format by offering a new, alternative social app in the form of Swarm. The idea, it seems, is to help users locate nearby friends and subsequently find interesting things to do, and today, the Swarm app has been released for those on iOS and Android.
Facebook is at it again. The latest version 10 update, that we told you about earlier, has managed to cause quite a bit of confusion amongst users attempting to view their Most Recent news feed.
Facebook is always looking for ways to tailor the social experience to the everyday user, and has just begun trickling out a new card-based system that offers content and information based on your check-ins and status updates. The idea is to help you find things / people you might be interested in or close to, without you having to go looking yourself, and appears to be something of a response to Foursquare's recently-announced Swarm app.
Given the sheer volume of camera and photography-centric apps available throughout the App Store, finding those proverbial diamonds in the rough can be a tricky task. But the app we're featuring here today is not only one of the better offerings currently knocking about for those on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but also - for a very limited time - has shaken off its usual price tag and can be snapped up free of charge.
The Google Search app for iOS has just been bumped to v.4.0.0, and even though it's not quite the major update that the version number perhaps implies, the Big G has still packed quite a few significant tweaks into this latest release. Google's Now service operates in a much smarter fashion, offering the ability to link passages of speech without continual prompting through the "OK Google" command, and overall, the Search app is just more enjoyable to use.
We know how much you guys like a freebie, and so today, we've yet another round-up of some of the best iOS apps to have shaken off their usual price tags. If you want to take full advantage of these great apps whilst they're absolutely free of charge, then be sure to check out the list below.
