Today’s Apps Gone Free: Backgammon, Clutter Cam, SmartApp and More

Play a game of Backgammon against your friends, take care of the clutter in your Camera Roll, and avoid nasty overages with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Guitar Suite – Metronome, Tuner, and Chords Library for Guitar, Bass, Ukulele ($2.99 → Free, 60.5 MB): Take your guitar playing to the next level with Guitar Suite. It’s for any guitar player.

Guitar Suite can be used with all of your stringed instruments, from electric and acoustic guitars to banjos and ukuleles. It allows you to tune your instruments by ear or with a chromatic tuner, both of which automatically adapt to whatever you’re playing. Guitar Suite provides access to over two million chords, 40 scales, and a metronome, helping you practice and perform.

Guitar Suite – Metronome, Tuner, and Chords Library for Guitar, Bass, Ukulele is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 228 ratings.

Atomus ($0.99 → Free, 18.0 MB): Take control of thousands of particles with this relaxing entertainment app. You can use it as a way to relax, a way to inspire creativity, or anything else you can come up with.

Put your fingers to the screen and watch as the particles react. You’re able to utilize up to five fingers at once, sending the 9,000 particles flying around the screen in different patterns. The app includes five music options, three color modes, and the ability to customize the particle length, number, and size.

Atomus is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 92 ratings.

Clutter Cam ($0.99 → Free, 3.4 MB): Take care of the clutter in your Camera Roll with Clutter Cam. It’s a simple yet effective tool.

Clutter Cam is a place to capture and store photos that you only intend to keep temporarily, completely skipping the Camera Roll. It also acts as a filter, hunting down screenshots in your Camera Roll and allowing you to delete them. You’re able to send photos to Clutter Cam from other apps using an extension, and you can send photos out of it via the share button.

Clutter Cam is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 9 ratings.

Advanced Data Usage Tracker – smartapp ($0.99 → Free, 28.4 MB): Avoid nasty overages with SmartApp. It’s perfect for iDevice users with limited data plans.

SmartApp has it all. Start off by entering your data plan limit and billing period. Then let SmartApp start monitoring your usage. It will provide you with a predictive forecast and timely alerts to ensure that you never go over your limit. You’re also able to monitor your data usage via a Today widget or Apple Watch. The app includes Wi-Fi tracking, a usage map, the ability to share your usage, and the ability to test your network’s speed.

Advanced Data Usage Tracker – smartapp is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 7 ratings.

Universal:

Backgammon Premium ($1.99 → Free, 59.2 MB): A digital version of Backgammon from the same team that brought Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Spite and Malice, and Hearts to the App Store. It’s perfect for anyone looking to play a game of Backgammon while on the go.

This is our favorite version of Backgammon in the App Store due to its massive online community. It’s always more fun to play with others, right? You’re able to play turn-based or live games of Backgammon via Game Center. You can choose to play with a friend or see how your skills match up against other players all over the world. The cool part is, you don’t have to sit around and wait to be matched up. You can actually hone your skills against intelligent AI opponents in single player games while you wait for a match to be found.

Backgammon Premium is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 7842 ratings.

iPad:

Guitar Suite HD – Metronome, Tuner, and Chords Library for Guitar, Bass, Ukulele ($2.99 → Free, 121.5 MB): Take your guitar playing to the next level with Guitar Suite HD. It’s for any guitar player.

Guitar Suite HD can be used with all of your stringed instruments, from electric and acoustic guitars to banjos and ukuleles. It allows you to tune your instruments by ear or with a chromatic tuner, both of which automatically adapt to whatever you’re playing. Guitar Suite HD provides access to over two million chords, 40 scales, and a metronome, helping you practice and perform.

Guitar Suite HD – Metronome, Tuner, and Chords Library for Guitar, Bass, Ukulele is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 31 ratings.

Atomus HD ($1.99 → Free, 18.1 MB): Take control of thousands of particles with this relaxing entertainment app. You can use it as a way to relax, a way to inspire creativity, or anything else you can come up with.

Put your fingers to the screen and watch as the particles react. You’re able to utilize up to five fingers at once, sending the 9,000 particles flying around the screen in different patterns. The app includes five music options, three color modes, and the ability to customize the particle length, number, and size.

Atomus HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 91 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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