Today’s apps gone free: Inspire Pro, Swing Tale, Save the Pencil 2 and more

Draw out your creative side, make the world bloom again, and help HB the pencil save his friends with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

ScrollIt: display scrolling messages with emoticons ($1.99 → Free, 989.6 KB): Get your message across without speaking a word with ScrollIt. It’s great for those who want to say something when no one can hear you.

ScrollIt can be practical, but it can also be a lot of fun thanks to Emoji support. You’re able to pepper every kind of Emoji into your message text and have it displayed on your big, beautiful iPhone 6 screen. The speed of the scroll and the color of the text can be adjusted via sliders. The app also includes message history, and three message shapes to choose from.

ScrollIt: display scrolling messages with emoticons is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 3906 ratings.

Inspire — Paint, Draw & Sketch ($4.99 → Free, 226.9 MB): This art creation app makes you feel as if you’re drawing, sketching, and painting on a real canvas. It’s for artists who need a canvas with them wherever they go.

You’re able to utilize 70 high quality brushes and tools, which are divided into seven sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Basic Shapes, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Chalk, and Markers. Each can be used as a wet or dry brush, and each can be customized with different pressure, size, opacity, space, and scatter settings. Canvases can consist of three different sizes. You’re even able to record your every brush stroke and have them all played back to you or your audience. The list of features goes on and on.

Inspire — Paint, Draw & Sketch is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 61 ratings.

Swing Tale ($0.99 → Free, 40.6 MB): Make the world bloom again in Swing Tale. It’s for those who enjoy physics puzzlers like Cut the Rope.

Escape to the wondrous world of Swing Tale. The trees and plants are all watching and waiting for you to help them bloom again. To do so, tap on the targets to latch onto them with your tentacles, and swing through the air to collect the stars and land on the hidden flowers. Your tentacles can latch onto multiple targets at once, and you can detach with a swipe. The game includes 100 levels, customizable characters, and iCloud support.

Swing Tale is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 13 ratings.

Universal:

Save The Pencil 2 ($2.99 → Free, 36.4 MB): Help HB and his friends take on the evil stationery in Save the Pencil 2. It’s for fans of logic puzzles.

You get to play as HB the pencil once again, and your job is to connect all of the dots in each level while avoiding your enemies. To move from dot to dot, just tap on the one you want to go to. Keep in mind that you must touch all of the blue dots before you can finish on the red. Collect all of the stars in each level while completing them as fast as possible to earn big points. The game includes 75 levels, unlockable characters and power-ups, iCloud integration, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Save The Pencil 2 is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 45 ratings.

iPad:

iColorama – Image Editor and Brushes Painter ($2.99 → Free, 334.5 MB): Edit and enhance your photos with all kinds of filters and effects with this photography app. It’s perfect for AppsGoneFree users that prefer to do their photo editing on their iPads.

This photography is absolutely loaded with content. You’re able to apply filters and effects to specific areas of your photo by adding masks, or you can choose from the more than 100 presets to make quick work of it. iColoroma also includes more than 400 brushes to utilize, and a detailed how-to guide that will allow you to take advantage of its many features.

iColorama – Image Editor and Brushes Painter is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 645 ratings.

Inspire Pro — Paint, Draw & Sketch ($9.99 → Free, 199.3 MB): This art creation app makes you feel as if you’re drawing, sketching, and painting on a real canvas. It’s for artists who need a canvas with them wherever they go.

You’re able to utilize 70 high quality brushes and tools, which are divided into seven sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Basic Shapes, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Chalk, and Markers. Each can be used as a wet or dry brush, and each can be customized with different pressure, size, opacity, space, and scatter settings. Canvases can consist of three different sizes. You’re even able to record your every brush stroke and have them all played back to you or your audience. The list of features goes on and on.

Inspire Pro — Paint, Draw & Sketch is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 80 ratings.

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