Today’s apps gone free: Approach Guides, Stride and Prejudice, ParkIt and more
iPhone:
ParkIt is not only useful, it’s remarkably easy to use. Whenever you step out of the car, simply tap the big green “ParkIt” button to mark your location. You’re able to attach a note and a photo if you like to make it easier to spot your vehicle. If you have an Apple Watch, you don’t even need to take your iPhone out of your pocket to mark your location. Just tap your wrist. When it’s time to head back home, ParkIt will provide you with the fastest route back to your vehicle. The app also includes the ability to record parking meter expiration times.
ParkIt – parking location and expiration reminder is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 67 ratings.
Approach Guides provides you with everything you need to find your next great wine including detailed profiles of regions, appellations, grape varieties, and vintages. Throwing a dinner party? Approach Guides also offers the option to find the best wine to go with your food. All of the data is stored within the app, so you don’t need to worry about your internet connection while browsing through the store.
Approach Guides Wine Guide for iPhone is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 90 ratings.
Universal:
Stride and Prejudice is an endless runner based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Go full steam ahead as a pixel-art version of Lizzy Bennet, and tap to leap onto platforms that are made from the text of the novel. Marathon mode challenges you to see how far you can get, and you will always start from the beginning. Reader mode allows you to pick up where you left off so you can finish the entire novel.
Stride & Prejudice is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 25 ratings.
Most finance apps are all cluttered up with unnecessary options and data, but not Easy Spending Expense Tracker. The app’s home screen only displays your current account balance and two buttons: Add Income and Add Expense. When adding income or an expense, you simply have to define an amount and choose a category. The amount will automatically be added to or subtracted from your total. You’re able to look back through your transaction history, and create reports from all of the data.
Easy Spending Expense Tracker – Save expenses is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 330 ratings.
iPad:
Approach Guides provides you with everything you need to find your next great wine including detailed profiles of regions, appellations, grape varieties, and vintages. Throwing a dinner party? Approach Guides also offers the option to find the best wine to go with your food. All of the data is stored within the app, so you don’t need to worry about your internet connection while browsing through the store.
Approach Guides Wine for iPad (Wine Guide) is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 120 ratings.
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.
