Today’s apps gone free: Ticket to Ride Pocket, Guardian Sword, Speedometer and more

Claim the busiest rail routes in the U.S. and Europe, match tiles to fight your enemies, and check your speed with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Ticket to Ride Europe Pocket ($1.99 → Free, 26.6 MB): Claim the busiest routes across the Europe in this strategic board game. It’s a dream come true for fans of board games.

This digital adaptation of the best-selling Ticket to Ride Europe board game has you taking turns with your opponent playing railway cards in order to claim routes on a map. You’ll also encounter ferries, tunnels, and stations for the first time. The game includes a tutorial video, a single player mode with five AI personalities, local and online multiplayer modes, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Ticket to Ride Europe Pocket is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 3303 ratings.

Ticket to Ride Pocket ($1.99 → Free, 28.2 MB): Claim the busiest routes across the United States in Ticket to Ride Pocket. It’s a dream come true for fans of board games.

This digital adaptation of the best-selling Ticket to Ride board game has you taking turns with your opponent playing railway cards in order to claim routes on a map. The game includes a tutorial video, a single player mode with four AI personalities, local and online multiplayer modes, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Ticket to Ride Pocket is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 25852 ratings.

MailTime Pro – Email Messenger for Gmail, Outlook, Aol and Yahoo Mail ($2.99 → Free, 21.7 MB): Get control over your inbox with MailTime. It’s for anyone interested in improving the way they manage and respond to emails.

MailTime reimagines the way you deal with email. It grabs your email threads and turns them into bubble chats, allowing you to cut through the clutter and communicate more efficiently. If you want to view the original email, just tap the bubble. MailTime’s smart inbox system also learns from your email behavior, automatically sorting email from accounts you’ve already interacted with into a separate tab, helping you quickly find the threads that matter. The app also includes a bunch of other handy features like the ability to quickly create and assign to-dos using the @ symbol, warnings for messages that ramble on, and quick access buttons to cloud services.

MailTime Pro – Email Messenger for Gmail, Outlook, Aol and Yahoo Mail is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 55 ratings.

Universal:

Speedometer+ ($1.99 → Free, 4.3 MB): Measure your speed with Speedometer+. It’s great for those who want to share their speed records.

Speedometer+ accurately measures your speed in mph, km/h, and knots. Just swipe left and right to toggle between the modes. Speedometer+ is able to record your maximum speed for each session, and you can lock it in to ensure it’s not overwritten by a new one. The app also allows you to share your maximum speed, and record your trip distance. Flip your iDevice into landscape orientation to get a full screen view.

Speedometer+ is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 190 ratings.

Guardian Sword ($2.99 → Free, 119.0 MB): Go on an epic journey to retrieve a legendary weapon in Guardian Sword. It’s for fans of strategic matching games like Puzzle Quest.

You get to play as Guts, a fearless swordsmen on a journey to retrieve the Guardian Sword. But you’re not the only one after it, so you’ll have to fight for it by matching tiles. Tiles don’t have to be adjacent to be matched. You simply must connect three or more to utilize their powers. The game includes more than 120 different enemies and bosses to fight, the ability to upgrade your character’s skills, and more than 90 maps to travel across.

Guardian Sword is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 87 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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