Today’s apps gone free: Gif Me, Note’d, My Town: Police and more

Create and share animated GIFs, jot down thoughts, and explore an entire police station 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.

iPhone:

Tadaa SLR ($3.99 → Free, 21.4 MB): Take fantastic SLR-quality photos with Tadaa SLR. It’s designed for those who want to put their subject in focus.

Tadaa SLR does most of the heavy lifting for you, but it includes a handful of powerful editing features that will please even the most seasoned iPhoneographers. After taking your photo you’re able to apply a mask to your subject manually or have Tadaa SLR detect the edges automatically. The aperture, highlight and gloss levels, and range of your blur effect can be adjusted via sliders. Circular, linear, and complete blur options are available as well. With your subject fully in focus and background blurred out, go ahead and add some filters before sharing it.

Tadaa SLR is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 450 ratings.

Gif Me! Camera – Animated Gif & Moving Pictures ($1.99 → Free, 14.3 MB): Create and share animated GIFs with Gif Me. It’s for those who love sharing on social media.

Gif Me allows you to capture video three different ways: normal, multi-record, and stop motion. You’re also able to import photos or videos from your library. During the editing process you’re able to add and cut out frames, add filters, adjust the lighting, apply text and stickers, change the playback speed, and add a frame.

Gif Me! Camera – Animated Gif & Moving Pictures is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 29 ratings.

NOTE’d ($1.99 → Free, 12.5 MB): This digital notebook is not only easy to use, but also easy on the eyes. It’s the ideal app for those who need to categorize notes or thoughts.

Choose any one of the 35 fantastic notebook styles, and then add text notes, audio memos, location data, and images. Notebooks can be renamed, passcode locked, rearranged, and backed up and restored via Dropbox. The app also includes the ability to bookmark notes, view all of the notes from all of your notebooks at once, and share notes via Twitter, SMS, or email.

NOTE’d is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 736 ratings.

Universal:

Toca Hair Salon ($2.99 → Free, 36.8 MB): This highly interactive and rather amusing entertainment app allows your child to run their own Toca Hair Salon. It’s the perfect app to unleash your child’s creative side.

Look at that hair! Tock Hair Salon allows you and your child to create some of the wackiest hairstyles ever seen. Your child can choose from six adorable characters and give them brand new hairdos. As your child shampoos, combs, cuts, and colors hair, the character will react with funny faces and sounds. The app includes a wide variety of trimming and styling tools, 12 hair colors, loads of accessories to add, and the ability to take snapshots of their unique creations.

Toca Hair Salon is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 9484 ratings.

My Town : Police ($2.99 → Free, 77.1 MB): Enter the police station and allow your imagination to run wild in My Town: Police. It’s for children ages two through five.

The police station is filled with five rooms and all kinds of exciting activities for your child to enjoy. Everything is fair game. Just tap and swipe to see what happens. My Town: Police includes 10 characters to interact with, over 200 sounds and objects, and no time limits or stress points.

My Town : Police is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 66 ratings.

iPad:

iColorama – Image Editor and Brushes Painter ($2.99 → Free, 356.9 MB): Edit and enhance your photos with all kinds of filters and effects with this photography app. It’s perfect for AppsGoneFree users who prefer to do their photo editing on their iPads.

This photography is absolutely loaded with content. You’re able to apply filters and effects to specific areas of your photo by adding masks, or you can choose from the more than 100 presets to make quick work of it. iColoroma also includes more than 400 brushes to utilize, and a detailed how-to guide that will allow you to take advantage of its many features.

iColorama – Image Editor and Brushes Painter is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 679 ratings.

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