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Today’s apps gone free: Swordigo, Guitar Elite, Carmen and more

Today’s apps gone free: Swordigo, Guitar Elite, Carmen and more

App Bargain Bin
April 30, 2015

Stop evil forces from taking over your peaceful land, play tunes on digital guitars, and watch your favorite tunes come to life 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.

Universal:

Flick Kick Field Goal ($1.99 → Free, 57.0 MB): Just flick to kick in this sports arcade game. It’s ideal for gamers who enjoy competing for high scores.

There are so many ways to play Flick Kick Field Goal. It offers five single player modes, including precision and time attack modes, and local and online multiplayer modes. All seven included modes simply require you to kick the ball through the uprights as accurately as possible. You’re able to do so with just a flick. Keep in mind that the direction of your flick will control the angle of the ball, which will come in handy when the wind starts to pick up.

Flick Kick Field Goal is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 37000 ratings.

Calendoodle – The Pen and Ink Whiteboard Calendar ($1.99 → Free, 7.8 MB): A personalized calendar that allows you to record notes and events with handwritten text. It’s for people who prefer scrawling all over paper calendars.

Sometimes the simplest things in life are the best, and Calendoodle takes that idea and runs with it. The idea is to use Calendoodle like you would those paper calendars that are always attached to your fridge. Just tap on any date to bring it into full view and start scribbling all over. You’re able to choose from three colors and three pencil sizes, but that’s about your only options. Simplicity is key here. Your scribbles appear on the monthly calendar just as you made them, allowing you to simply glance at dates to see what’s next.

Calendoodle – The Pen and Ink Whiteboard Calendar is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 116 ratings.

Carmen – Amazing Music Visualizer! ($2.99 → Free, 1.9 MB): This music player allows you to visualize your favorite tunes. Carmen is the perfect music player for those who leave their iDevices on display while listening to their favorite albums. It’s also a lot of fun for Apple Watch users since you can now view the visuals on your wrist.

Pick any song from your library and watch as it comes to life through one of six funky visualizers. You’re able to control your music using on-screen buttons or common gestures, and you can switch between each visualizer on the fly by swiping with two fingers. The app also includes portrait and landscape orientation support, the ability to customize the colors of the visualizers, shuffle, AirPlay support, and the ability to choose music by song, artist, album, or playlist.

Carmen – Amazing Music Visualizer! is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 52 ratings.

Guitar Elite Pro – play songs and chords on premier steel acoustic, vintage rock electric, and nylon strings classical virtual guitars ($2.99 → Free, 60.2 MB): Play a variety of guitars no matter where you are with Guitar Elite. It’s ideal for both beginner and expert guitar players.

This is as close as you’ll come to playing a real guitar without actually owning one. Guitar Elite offers eight different guitars to choose from. You’re able to play chord buttons or put your fingers to the screen and have Guitar Elite find matching chords based on their positions. Once you get the hang of things, go ahead and record your creations and share them via email or SoundCloud. The app also includes a built-in metronome.

Guitar Elite Pro – play songs and chords on premier steel acoustic, vintage rock electric, and nylon strings classical virtual guitars is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 23 ratings.

Swordigo ($2.99 → Free, 73.7 MB): Stop the evil forces from taking over your peaceful land in this epic adventure game. It’s ideal for fans of 3-D platformers.

Swordigo features a perfect mix of adventure, platform, and role-playing game mechanics to keep things feeling fresh and fun. You’re able to guide your character around the 3-D environments via customizable controls. Discover powerful weapons, unleash spells, and level up your character to restore order and become the hero you always expected to be. Swordigo includes hours of gameplay, iCloud integration, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Swordigo is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 21185 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:

If you are a developer who would like to get your app included in our “Apps Gone Free” daily lists, here’s our basic set of rules:

  • 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.

To submit an app, simply send a request to tyler@appadvice.com with the subject “Apps Gone Free.” Please include the name of the app, a link to it in the App Store, when and for how long you intend to offer the app for free, and anything else you would like to share. We will take it from there.

Mentioned apps

Free
Flick Kick Field Goal
Flick Kick Field Goal
Prodigy Design Limited T/A Sidhe Interactive
Free
Calendoodle - The Pen and Ink Whiteboard Calendar
Calendoodle - The Pen and Ink Whiteboard Calendar
Fishington Studios
Free
Carmen - Amazing Music Visualizer!
Carmen - Amazing Music Visualizer!
Manytoed Creations LLC
Free
Guitar Elite Pro - play songs and chords on premier steel acoustic, vintage rock electric, and nylon strings classical virtual guitars
Guitar Elite Pro - play songs and chords on premier steel acoustic, vintage rock electric, and nylon strings classical virtual guitars
Keynote Star Inc
Free
Swordigo
Swordigo
Touch Foo

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