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Today's Apps Gone Free: Toca Store, The Little Mermaid, Moments, And More

Today's Apps Gone Free: Toca Store, The Little Mermaid, Moments, And More

April 2, 2012

Allow your children to play store without creating a mess with Toca Boca's adorable interactive entertainment app, Toca Store. We also have an interactive storybook that tells the tale of The Little Mermaid, and a journaling app that allows you to capture all of life's important moments.

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:

Ball Blaster 3 ($2.99 → Free, 15.0 MB): A Brick Breaker-style game that will test your reflexes and your patience. Each of the 100 levels requires you to complete an objective without losing your ball or allowing your paddle to get destroyed. You're able to catch all kinds of different power-ups as they fall to aid you in your quest. The game also includes a kids mode, and full versions of the first two Ball Blasters.

Ball Blaster 3 is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 6 ratings.

AutismTrack ($49.99 → Free, 805.6 KB): A medical app that helps parents and caregivers of those with autism track interventions, behaviors, and symptoms. Thanks to the app's easy to understand interface, it only takes a few minutes to record a daily log. You can track behaviors, diet changes, applied therapies, and add personal notes. You can also review your log entries and analyze trends in graph form. Tracked data can be backed up to the developer's servers, shared via email, or printed off.

AutismTrack is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 11 ratings.

Moments! - A Diary Entry to Frame Up Your Precious Moments ($1.99 → Free, 19.8 MB): Capture all of the important moments in your life with this journaling app. When creating a new entry, you're able to add a mood icon, weather, photos from your library, a doodle, a voice memo, and even attach music. Entries can be organized and discovered in a list view or via the built-in calendar. Your diary can also be locked with a passcode and backed up over Wi-Fi.

Moments! - A Diary Entry to Frame Up Your Precious Moments is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 47 ratings.

Universal:

Toca Store ($1.99 → Free, 18.0 MB): An interactive entertainment app that allows your children to play store at home without all of the cleanup afterwards. They can set up their very own store by choosing between the 34 different items, and then open it and invite friends and family to start shopping. Upon checkout, your child can set their own prices, drag and drop the correct amount of coins into the register, and place items in the checkout bag.

Toca Store is available for free today only (04/02). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 293 ratings.

The River Tests ($0.99 → Free, 8.5 MB): A collection of river crossing puzzles which, according to the developer, are only solved by about 10% of the people who take them on. Each puzzle simply requires you to get all of the people across the river as quickly as possible, but each has a different set of rules you must adhere to in order to complete the task. The game includes five puzzles, built-in checks to ensure you follow the rules, and the ability to purchase solutions.

The River Tests is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 27 ratings.

iPad:

Auryn - The Little Mermaid ($0.99 → Free, 140.6 MB): Help celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's birthday by downloading this interactive storybook that tells the tale of The Little Mermaid. The app includes 28 pages that can be interacted with by splashing in the water, controlling underwater creatures, and manipulating clouds. It also includes professional audio narration and immersive sound effects.

Auryn - The Little Mermaid is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 23 ratings.

Colorific - drawing and coloring book ($2.99 → Free, 18.8 MB): This digital coloring book allows your child to color in more than 40 drawings or simply draw their own pictures. It includes templates from five different categories, 20 pencil colors, three pencil sizes, undo and redo, relaxing background music, and the ability to share works of art via email or Facebook.

Colorific - drawing and coloring book is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 6 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.

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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.
  • The free version of your app must not include ads.
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Mentioned apps

Free
Ball Blaster 3
Ball Blaster 3
Daddy Quack! Quack!, LLC
Free
AutismTrack
AutismTrack
Handhold Adaptive, LLC
Free
Moments! - A Diary Entry to Frame Up Your Precious Moments
Moments! - A Diary Entry to Frame Up Your Precious Moments
Vita Stone Ltd.
Free
Toca Store
Toca Store
Toca Boca
Free
The River Tests
The River Tests
SolverLabs
Free
Auryn - The Little Mermaid
Auryn - The Little Mermaid
Auryn Inc.
Free
Colorific - drawing and coloring book
Colorific - drawing and coloring book
Alexey Rashevskiy

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