Today’s apps gone free: Stickyboard 2, Mati and Dada, aTimeLogger and more

Turn your iPad into a giant whiteboard, teach your children about famous artists, and find out where all of your time is being spent with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Freeze It ($1.99 → Free, 24.2 MB): Go head to head with friends and random strangers in word battles in Freeze It. The game is great for anyone who enjoys competing in real-time.

Freeze It will test your vocabulary and your friendships. The object of the game is to come up with one word for each category presented using the letters provided to you. You must try to move as quickly as possible to get through more categories than your opponents and avoid being frozen. The longer the words you create, the more points you’ll earn. You also want to try to use the special letter tiles to earn bonuses. The player with the highest score at the end of all of the rounds wins. Hopefully that’s you.

Freeze It is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 40 ratings.

Universal:

Mati & Dada – Art History for Kids ($3.99 → Free, 33.7 MB): Children get to explore the wonderful world of art with Mati and Dada with this educational app. It’s for parents and teachers who want to teach their children art history.

Today only: Unlock all of Mati & Dada’s content free of charge! Just tap on any piece of locked content and confirm your action with a two-finger swipe. You and your child will then be able to enjoy all of the coloring activities, puzzles and memory games, photo galleries, stories, and animated episodes with Mati and Dada.

Mati & Dada – Art History for Kids is available for free today only (03/31). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 14 ratings.

aTimeLogger 2 – Personal Time Tracker & Time Sheet ($2.99 → Free, 18.1 MB): Find out where all of your time is being spent with aTimeLogger. This productivity app is perfect for logging any and every activity you perform throughout the day.

Thanks to its intuitive interface, aTimeLogger ensures you won’t waste a lot of time tracking your time. The main menu provides you with a large grid of activity icons, but if you can’t find one that suits your activity, go ahead and create your own. To track an activity, just tap on an icon to start the timer. At the end of the day you can view all of your stats and generate custom reports.

aTimeLogger 2 – Personal Time Tracker & Time Sheet is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 54 ratings.

iPad:

Help Volty ($1.99 → Free, 165.5 MB): Help Volty escape from magical boxes in this atmospheric puzzle game. It’s for gamers who like to explore on their own.

The game is totally void of menus, pop-ups, tutorials, and even text, so you must utilize visual clues and find your way through each puzzle completely on your own. The series of magical boxes include all kinds of gears to spin, knobs to turn, wires to connect, and other objects that will test your brain and dexterity. Good luck! The game also includes achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Help Volty is available for free today only (03/31). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 272 ratings.

Stickyboard 2 ($4.99 → Free, 1.8 MB): Stickyboard turns your iPad into a giant whiteboard with a never-ending stack of sticky notes. It’s ideal for pretty much anyone who needs to track thoughts or map ideas.

Sticky notes of different sizes and colors can be created by double-tapping on the whiteboard. They can also be moved and resized with a tap and drag of your finger. You’re able to select and organize multiple sticky notes by first dragging your finger over them, and then using three-finger swipe gestures to choose a layout. The app also includes the ability to write on the whiteboard with different colored markers, undo and redo, a gallery view, and the ability to share your stickies as a PDF or text.

Stickyboard 2 is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 6 ratings.

Cubic Block ($1.99 → Free, 26.6 MB): Cut away collections of cubes to match the blueprint in this puzzle game. It’s the ideal game for those who want to improve their spatial reasoning.

Cubic Block is loaded with colorful cubed creatures to create. Your blueprint will appear in the top left corner of the screen. You have a limited amount of time to cut away at the collection of cubes by tapping on each one in order to recreate the blueprint. Move quickly in order to unlock all 80 levels.

Cubic Block is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 39 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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