Today’s Apps Gone Free: Taijitu, Runtastic Mountain Bike, Hacker Pack and More
Keep everything in balance, track your bike rides, and communicate with your coder friends with today’s collection of apps and games.
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iPhone:Trigger Points – Guide & Reference ($1.99 → Free, 141.5 MB): Find and relieve sources of chronic pain using myofascial trigger points with this health app. Your pain areas don’t stand a chance.
We really like this app because it makes it easy to discover and relieve pain using trigger points even if you know nothing about skeletal muscles. You’re able to hunt down specific muscles or simply point to areas of pain to discover what’s causing it and how to fix it. The app includes over 80 muscles with more than 150 trigger points, so you will be able to relieve everything from tennis elbow to abdominal pain.
Trigger Points – Guide & Reference is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 53 ratings.
Runtastic Mountain Bike Ride & Route Tracker PRO ($4.99 → Free, 55.4 MB): Keep track of your mountain bike rides with this health and fitness app. Runtastic Mountain Bike Pro is great for AppsGoneFree users that enjoy hitting the trails.
Runtastic Mountain Bike Pro’s real-time data is second to none. You won’t find a more accurate ride tracking app in the App Store. It’s able to record your trip, duration, distance, altitude, and calories burned. If you’re going for a ride in an area with poor cellular coverage, you can choose to download map data ahead of time for offline viewing. The app even includes weather data, Pebble support, voice detection, and automatic pause detection.
Runtastic Mountain Bike Ride & Route Tracker PRO is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 1462 ratings.
Universal:Hacker Pack – Coding & Nerd Stickers ($0.99 → Free, 7.2 MB): Communicate with your coder friends with Hacker Pack. It’s for anyone with iOS 10 who wants to add to their sticker collection.
Hacker Pack is for the nerd in you. It provides you with access to 24 coding-themed animated stickers like a bug, programming language logos, and a spinning color wheel. So what are you waiting for? Start slapping messages with some Hacker Pack stickers today.
Hacker Pack – Coding & Nerd Stickers is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 9 ratings.
checkTrakt ($1.99 → Free, 29.5 MB): Keep track of all of your shows with checkTrakt. It’s for those who follow multiple TV series.
You’ll need a trakt.tv account to fully utilize checkTrakt, so make sure to sign up for a free one using the link within the app. You’re then able to add shows to your already watched collection or those you want to see. checkTrakt provides you with the tools to discover new content based on personal recommendations and what is trending, or you can just search for something specific. The app also provides detailed episode information, allows you to share what you’re watching via your favorite social networks, and alerts you when a new episode of your favorite show is about to air.
checkTrakt is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 84 ratings.
Data Widget ($1.99 → Free, 25.1 MB): Check your data usage from the Today view or your wrist with Data Widget. It’s for those who are always worried about going over their data cap.
Data Widget is so simple yet so effective. Launch the app, set your data cap, set your start and end date, and record any usage you may already have. Then swipe down to bring up Notification Center and add the widget by tapping the “Edit” button found all the way at the bottom. After that, any time you want to check your current data usage in real-time, just swipe down. You can also now check your usage via Apple Watch.
Data Widget is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 230 ratings.
Taijitu: A Game About Balance ($1.99 → Free, 29.1 MB): Keep everything in balance in Taijitu. It’s for casual puzzle game fans.
Taijitu is inspired by the mythology of yin and yang. The screen is divided into two sections by a white line with shapes on each side. The shapes that are pulsing are the ones that can be swapped with a tap. The idea is to balance the two sides by ensuring the colors are equally distributed. The game includes more than 100 levels that become progressively more complicated.
Taijitu: A Game About Balance is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 51 ratings.
Week Cal Widget for iOS calendar ($1.99 → Free, 5.6 MB): View all of your calendar events from the Today view with Week Widget. It’s for those who are always looking for new ways to save some time.
Week Widget isn’t a standard calendar app in any way, shape, or form. It taps into your iDevice’s native calendar app in order to populate a Today view widget with everything that’s coming up on your schedule. When you launch the app itself, you’re greeted with ways to customize the look and content of the widget. Week Widget includes a day timeline, a week timeline, and the ability to scroll through days and weeks.
Week Cal Widget for iOS calendar is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 43 ratings.
Princess Games Activity Puzzle and Fairy Tale Puzzles for Kids, Girls, and Little Fairies Free ($2.99 → Free, 23.8 MB): Help the princess build a magical fantasy world in this children’s puzzle game. It’s ideal for children ages two through five.
Today only: Unlock everything free of charge! Simply tap the “Unlock” button on the main screen, and enter the provided passcode to confirm your action. All current and future puzzles will be available to you and your child free of charge. Each scene features cork board cutouts. Your child must drag and drop the pieces from the top right corner of the screen into the scene to fill them in. As your child works their way through each scene, new cutouts and pieces will appear. The app includes adorable characters and sounds, and nine scenes.
Princess Games Activity Puzzle and Fairy Tale Puzzles for Kids, Girls, and Little Fairies Free is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 66 ratings.
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