Today’s Apps Gone Free: Amplifind, Gunpowder, LightWeaver and More

Visualize your music, steal your money back, and hit your photos with particles 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:

Stackables – Layered Textures, Effects, and Masks ($2.99 → Free, 153.7 MB): Transform your photos by stacking layers upon layers of effects, textures, and filters with Stackables. It’s really ideal for iPhoneographers of all levels thanks to its flexibility.

Choose any photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. You’ll then see a scrollable list of more than 200 unique effects, filters, and textures appear down the right-hand side of the screen. Stackables allows you to apply as many or as few of these as you like by creating separate layers for each. The layers can be customized in a variety of ways, and you’re able to rearrange them after the fact by dragging and dropping them into place. The app also includes 20 professional adjustment tools, the ability to create your own formulas and share them via email, and three resolutions to choose from.

Stackables – Layered Textures, Effects, and Masks is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 338 ratings.

Universal:

Animal Math Games for Kids in Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade Learning Numbers, Counting, Addition and Subtraction Premium ($3.99 → Free, 34.1 MB): Your little ones can join Emma, the great math explorer, on a journey to guide her animal friends home in this educational game. It’s for parents with children in preschool and first grade.

To help each animal make their way home, your child will need to successfully complete a variety of math activities. Math activities range from adding and subtracting to counting and identifying geometric shapes. The app includes a total of 13 adorable animals to help home, and more than 100 activities. It also includes professional narration and instructions, and loads of positive encouragement.

Animal Math Games for Kids in Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade Learning Numbers, Counting, Addition and Subtraction Premium is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 53 ratings.

Skiplayer – the simplest ‘safety first’ car player for your everyday commute. ($3.99 → Free, 5.7 MB): This gesture-driven music player helps clean up your library. It’s the ideal music player for your daily commute.

Pressing teeny, tiny little buttons while driving is not only difficult but also dangerous. Skiplayer helps you stay safe by doing away with albums and playlists and instead shuffling your entire library. It also turns your iDevice’s screen into one big controller, allowing you to tap to pause, swipe to skip, and tap and hold to never hear a song again.

Skiplayer – the simplest ‘safety first’ car player for your everyday commute. is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 53 ratings.

DayCost Pro – Personal Finance, Money Manager, Income, Expense & Budget ($2.99 → Free, 34.7 MB): Track your expenses throughout the day with this easy to use finance app. It’s ideal for anyone who wants a simple and elegant way to keep tabs on their finances.

It takes mere seconds to record a transaction in DayCost. Just swipe down on the screen, pick a category, enter an amount, and swipe up to record. You’re also able to attach a payment type, photo, and note to your transactions. DayCost allows you to create a budget and view graphical reports to keep your finances in check. It also includes passcode protection, iCloud support, and the ability to create custom categories.

DayCost Pro – Personal Finance, Money Manager, Income, Expense & Budget is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 103 ratings.

Amplifind Music Player and Visualizer ($2.99 → Free, 13.7 MB): Practical and easy on the eyes, this music player should have no problem at all replacing your iDevice’s Music app. Amplifind is great for anyone looking to visualize their tunes.

For us, Amplifind is all about the visuals. Those crazy, trippy visuals! You’re able to sort and play all of the music from your library, or pull music from cloud services like SoundCloud and Spotify. Songs can be favorited for quick access later on, searched for, and added to playlists. Then hit play and watch them come to life through the 10 built-in visualizers. Album artwork can take the place of the visualizers if you desire, and you’re able to choose from seven color themes.

Amplifind Music Player and Visualizer is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 115 ratings.

Gunpowder ($3.99 → Free, 394.8 MB): Draw lines in the sand and liberate the town’s gold from the greedy Grimshaw in Gunpowder. It’s for fans of puzzle games.

Boss Grimshaw has stolen all of the town’s gold and locked it up in piggy banks and safes. It’s up to you to save the day by leading trails of fire to the explosives. You’re able to utilize everything from flaming wagons to cannons, but be prepared for anything, because Grimshaw is one tricky bandit. The game includes a total of 150 levels to play through.

Gunpowder is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 12 ratings.

LightWeaver – Cool photo effects ($2.99 → Free, 23.2 MB): Hit your photos with particles and turn them into art with LightWeaver. LightWeaver is from the same developer as Trimaginator, so you can rest assured you’re getting a purely creative photography.

LightWeaver hunts down the edges and contours of your photos and bleeds out pixels in every direction. You’re able to choose from dozens upon dozens of effects and tweak them in a variety of ways. You’re also able to add color overlays. The whole idea is to tinker and see what you can come up with.

LightWeaver – Cool photo effects is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 13 ratings.

iPad:

Stackables for iPad – Layered Textures, Effects, and Masks ($2.99 → Free, 146.4 MB): Transform your photos by stacking layers upon layers of effects, textures, and filters with Stackables. It’s really ideal for iPadographers of all levels thanks to its flexibility.

Choose any photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. You’ll then see a scrollable list of more than 200 unique effects, filters, and textures appear down the right-hand side of the screen. Stackables allows you to apply as many or as few of these as you like by creating separate layers for each. The layers can be customized in a variety of ways, and you’re able to rearrange them after the fact by dragging and dropping them into place. The app also includes 20 professional adjustment tools, the ability to create your own formulas and share them via email, and three resolutions to choose from.

Stackables for iPad – Layered Textures, Effects, and Masks is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 214 ratings.

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