Today’s apps gone free: The Earth, Pic Sync, Poetics and more

Explore the planet, quickly share photos and videos, and get poetic with today’s collection of apps and games.

All app prices are subject to change at any time and without notice regardless of stated free duration. Price changes are solely under the control of the developers.

iPhone:

Poetics – create, write and share visual poetry ($1.99 → Free, 40.5 MB): Get poetic with your photography with Poetics. It’s perfect for those who want to create some visual poetry.

You’re able to import any photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. You can scale, apply filters, and adjust the parameters of your photo. Then write anything you want on it, whether that’s a poem or a caption. You’re able to add as few or as many words as you want and manipulate them with common gesture controls. Your unique creations can be shared via email, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, or Twitter.

Poetics – create, write and share visual poetry is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 93 ratings.

Universal:

My Fonts – Custom font styles with cool text stickers and emoji ($0.99 → Free, 65.4 MB): Spice up your messages with My Fonts. It’s for anyone who wants to get noticed.

My Fonts is best used as a third-party keyboard, which can quickly be installed by following the provided instructions. Once activated, you’ll be able to use My Fonts’ large collection of unicode fonts and font stickers anywhere you like.

My Fonts – Custom font styles with cool text stickers and emoji is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 8 ratings.

Pic Sync for WiFi ($1.99 → Free, 3.0 MB): Quickly share multiple photos with another iDevice or your home computer over Wi-Fi with this utility app. It’s the easiest way to move media files without a cable.

The app is able to handle sending hundreds of photos at once, or you can just send one at a time. When sending photos you can choose to adjust their resolution in order to save time and space. You don’t have to wait around for your upload to finish either, as the app is able to work in the background as long as you stay on the same Wi-Fi connection.

Pic Sync for WiFi is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 94 ratings.

Heavy Blade ($0.99 → Free, 163.5 MB): Go dungeon crawling through 3-D environments in Heavy Blade. It’s for fans of hack and slash gameplay.

Heavy Blade allows you to go dungeon crawling from a first-person perspective. Armed with only your trusty sword and magic abilities, you must hack and slash every ghastly creature that stands in your way. The loot that drops from your enemies can be used to upgrade your character and weapons. The game includes a total of 30 dungeons to explore.

Heavy Blade is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.

The Earth by Tinybop ($2.99 → Free, 213.6 MB): Explore the entire planet and the forces that shape it with The Earth. Curious children above the age of four will love digging around.

The Earth is all about observing and studying. It’s an interactive model that children can wander through and learn from. They’re able to explore a wide variety of landscapes up close and trigger events like earthquakes, volcano eruptions, erosion, and more. Labels can be laid over the top of each scene in order to provide even more educational information.

The Earth by Tinybop is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 70 ratings.

That concludes today’s issue of Apps Gone Free. If you like staying on top of these daily deals, don’t forget to check out our free AppsGoneFree app. It provides all the deals each day, and even an archive of past deals that are still active.

Developers:

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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.
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