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Today's Apps Gone Free: MenuWeather, SilverDial Metronome, Guest'd And More

Today's Apps Gone Free: MenuWeather, SilverDial Metronome, Guest'd And More

July 3, 2012

Check and share your local weather with ease with Evan Coleman's MenuWeather. We also have a metronome app that will help you maintain a constant tempo, and a customizable digital guestbook app.

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iPhone:

World Recipes - Cook World Gourmet ($1.99 → Free, 20.8 MB): Discover new recipes from all over the world with this lifestyle app. It includes recipes from a wide variety of countries and cultures including Chinese, Caribbean, French, Greek, Italian, and Japanese. Each recipe details where it's from, the ingredients needed, and directions and tips on how to prepare it. The app also includes search, the ability to save your favorite dishes, and a built-in shopping list.

World Recipes - Cook World Gourmet is available for free today only (07/03). It has a 5-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.

Pic Caption ($0.99 → Free, 9.0 MB): Add custom captions to your favorite photos with this photography app. You're able to pick any photo from your library or snap a new one within the app. Then add your own custom text and shape, and drag and drop them into place. The app includes a wide variety of font size, color, and shadow options, more than 60 shapes to choose from, built-in photo filters, and zoom.

Pic Caption is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 6 ratings.

MenuWeather ($1.99 → Free, 4.7 MB): This handy weather app makes it a breeze to check and share your local weather. The app provides you with accurate hourly weather forecasts up to seven days out. You're able to view the high and low temp, wind speed, humidity level, dew point, pressure, visibility, and radar all on one screen. You can pull down to refresh the data, or pull up to share it via Twitter or Facebook. The app also includes the ability to add as many locations as you want, iCloud support, astronomy information, severe weather warnings, moon phases, and so much more.

MenuWeather is available for free today only (07/03). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 21 ratings.

SilverDial Metronome ($0.99 → Free, 716.5 KB): Maintain a constant tempo with this easy to use metronome app. It features a large tempo dial that allows you to adjust the range from 10 to 300 beats per minute. You can also create your own tempo just by tapping on the screen. You're able to fine-tune things further with up to eight subdivisions per beat, a meter range from zero to 12 beats per minute, three sound themes, and configurable beat and sub-beat accents.

SilverDial Metronome is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 13 ratings.

Universal:

Wind Up Robots ($0.99 → Free, 64.3 MB): Defend Zach from the creatures that are haunting his dreams in this 3D defense game. Fill your toy chest with the perfect combination of wind up robots, and then deploy and command them to take out the creatures looking to disturb Zach's slumber. The game includes seven upgradable robots, 12 creepy enemies, 28 levels, pass-and-play and online multiplayer, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Wind Up Robots is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 98 ratings.

Food Ninja ($0.99 → Free, 56.0 MB): Fling knives and other really sharp objects through the air in order to prepare meals for customers in this arcade-style time management game. Ingredients stream across the screen at a blistering pace, and you must hit the proper ones with your utensils to prepare orders. You must be quick and nimble, however, as customers don't like waiting and they certainly don't like being hit with sharp objects! The game includes multiple modes, loads of utensils, recipes, costumes and power-ups, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Food Ninja is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 218 ratings.

IceBurgers ($1.99 → Free, 18.0 MB): Help a little penguin clean up a mess of burgers and letters in this word game. You have two minutes to form as many words as possible. You're able to drag your finger over letter tiles to form words, but keep in mind that each word must be spelled from the last. Create combos and longer words to add time to the clock. The game includes stat tracking, and leaderboards via Game Center.

IceBurgers is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 7 ratings.

Guest'd ($9.99 → Free, 47.7 MB): A customizable digital guestbook app. You're able to choose up to 10 different fields for your guests to fill out, and the app will automatically collect and sync the data with your favorite contact management system. You can also customize the look of your guestbook by choosing from a variety of background images, or just add your own from your library. The app also includes the ability to protect your guestbook with a passcode, stat tracking, and a slideshow option.

Guest'd is available for free today only (07/03). It has a 3-star rating with a total of 1 ratings.

Save Your Bacon ($0.99 → Free, 12.8 MB): Help Philip the pig escape Bruce the butcher in this platform game. Philip runs all on his own down the meat conveyor belt, but it's up to you to tap the screen at just the right time to avoid obstacles and jump over gaps. You can also latch onto chickens to help you coast over large gaps in the belt. Collect corn to earn the highest possible rating. The game includes more than 70 levels to play through.

Save Your Bacon is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 27 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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Mentioned apps

Free
MenuWeather
MenuWeather
Evan Coleman
Free
Pic Caption
Pic Caption
Ro Entertainment
Free
Food Ninja
Food Ninja
Foursaken Media
Free
SilverDial Metronome
SilverDial Metronome
Foxhill Software
Free
Wind Up Robots
Wind Up Robots
Soma Games
Free
World Recipes - Cook World Gourmet
World Recipes - Cook World Gourmet
Green Lake Studios
Free
IceBurgers
IceBurgers
Radial Games Corp.
Free
Guest'd
Guest'd
Twosixheave, Inc.
Free
Save Your Bacon
Save Your Bacon
Barcode Studios

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