iPhone And iPad Apps Gone Free: Activity Monitor Touch, PingPing Original, Crazy Rock, And More

Today's list includes an activity monitor for all of your iDevices, a rocking puzzle game, two rhythm games, and much more. Disclaimer: All prices are subject to change at any time and without notice regardless of stated free duration. iPhone: Tilteroids ($.99 -> Free): An Asteroids-like game, except asteroids only approach from the front of the screen, similar to a top-down vertical shooter.  You control your ship's movements entirely via tilt controls, and fire your blasters via a single on-screen button.  The game features two levels of difficulty, and OpenFeint integration. Tilteroids is available for free today only (9/20).  It has a three-star rating, and a total of 13 ratings. Crazy Rock ($.99 -> Free): A puzzle game where you are required to slide colored stones around the screen in order to get five of the same ones in a row.  Your star ranking is based on the amount of time it takes you to complete a level.  The game features a total of 60 levels, and OpenFeint integration. Crazy Rock is available for free until the end of September. It has a four-star rating, and a total of 16 ratings. Fingerzilla ($.99 -> Free): A game of pure destruction.  You are Fingerzilla and you must destroy anything and everything on your iPhone’s screen by tapping like a maniac.  Certain items and people are worth more points, and you only have a limited amount of time to wreak havoc.  The game features a handful of levels to destroy, retro B-movie sounds and visual effects, and OpenFeint integration. Fingerzilla is available for free today only (9/20). It has a three-star rating, and a total of 707 ratings. MadMaks ($1.99 -> Free): A 3D arcade game that requires you to jump behind the controls of a powerful tank-like vehicle and blast everything in your way.  The game features 10 stages with three difficulty levels, tons of different battle vehicles to choose from, and five challenge levels. MadMaks is available for free for a limited time. It has a three-star rating, and a total of 33 ratings. PingPing Original ($.99 -> Free): A unique arcade game where you must slide your pucks at your foes' pucks in order to knock them off of the level before they do the same to you.  You each start with a total of four pucks.  The game features a variety of levels each with different physics, and a same-device multiplayer mode. PingPing Original is available for free for the next 30,000 downloads. It has a five-star rating, and a total of five ratings. SwingSwing Motion ($2.99 -> Free): A rhythm game that requires you to tilt your device in four directions in order to hit the notes.  As notes stream from the middle of the screen to the outside, you must tilt in that direction the moment the note passes over the outer circles.  The game features a total of 17 songs to play, and OpenFeint integration. SwingSwing Motion is available for free for the next 30,000 downloads. It has a four-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of nine ratings. SwingSwing Touch ($2.99 -> Free): Just like the game above, only instead of using tilt controls, you are required to tap the notes as they pass over the outer circles. SwingSwing Touch is available for free for the next 30,000 downloads. It has a five-star rating, and a total of 14 ratings. Universal: Activity Monitor Touch ($.99 -> Free): An activity monitor for your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.  It displays all of your device information including your UDID, iOS version, total memory, capacity, free space, free memory, battery life, and  IP address, and allows you to share it all via email.  It also has a live CPU activity graph and process tracker. Activity Monitor Touch is available for free for a limited time. It has a four-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of 25 ratings. Developers: If you are a developer who would like to get your app included in our “Apps Gone Free” daily lists, here’s our basic set of rules:

• The app must be free for at least one whole day.
• It must have at least a three-star average rating at the time it goes free.
• The app must not have been free numerous times (3+) over the last six months.

To submit an app, simply send a request to tyler@appadvice.com with the subject “Apps Gone Free.”  Please include the name of the app, a link to it in the App Store, when you intend to offer the app for free and anything else you would like to share.  We will take it from there.

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