Today’s Apps Gone Free: Motorsport Manager, Tweetroot, Toca Kitchen and More

Manage a racing team, get to the root of Twitter, and play with your food with today’s collection of apps and games.

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Universal:

Candy Blast Madness – Puzzle Game With Various Candy Themes ($1.99 → Free, 22.6 MB): Match candies like you mean it in Candy Blast Madness. Fans of match-three games.

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Candy Blast Madness is pure candy matching insanity. Drag your finger over the top of three or more matching candies to connect and remove them from the board. Candies must be adjacent to each other in order to be connected. Move quickly and create large matches in order to keep the clock from hitting zero. You’re also able to utilize potions in order to free up candies. The game includes five total themes.

Candy Blast Madness – Puzzle Game With Various Candy Themes is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 14 ratings.

New York Travel Guide and Offline City Map ($3.99 → Free, 76.7 MB): Get the most out of what New York has to offer with this travel guide. Locals and tourists.

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Put down the huge book guides and pick up your iDevice. New York Travel Guide is here to help you find the best of what the city has to offer. The app provides zoomable regional maps, augmented reality, photos, interactive points of interest, safety tips, budget-based restaurants, and even daily itineraries. Everything is available offline, but make sure to download the data before heading out.

New York Travel Guide and Offline City Map is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 27 ratings.

Angry Birds POP! – Bubble Shooter ($1.99 → Free, 150.0 MB): Bring those piggies crashing to the ground in Angry Birds Pop! Fans of bubble shooters, or just those who enjoy a good Angry Birds game.

Stella, Red, Chuck, Bomb, and the rest of the Angry Birds crew need your help rescuing the hatchlings. The evil piggies have rounded them up into bubbles, and you must pop like you’ve never popped before to release them. Trick shots and streaks will activate special pops and unique powers, allowing you to burst everything in sight. The game includes more than 1,000 levels, daily challenges, and Facebook integration.

Angry Birds POP! – Bubble Shooter is available for free today only (02/16). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 32626 ratings.

Tweetroot for Twitter – Word Clouds from Tweets! ($0.99 → Free, 5.4 MB): Get to the root of Twitter by creating visual word clouds with Tweetroot. Anyone interested in analyzing Twitter feeds.

You’re able to analyze three types of Twitter feeds with Tweetroot. Enter any username to create a word cloud from their last 1,000 tweets, or you can view recent tweets mentioning that user. Tweetroot also allows you to enter a hashtag and create a word cloud from recent tweets using it. Your clouds can be customized in a wide variety of ways including the amount of words included, how they’re organized, the colors and fonts they can take on, and so much more. Word clouds can be shared via your favorite social networks.

Tweetroot for Twitter – Word Clouds from Tweets! is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 26 ratings.

Toca Kitchen ($2.99 → Free, 59.0 MB): Your little ones can play with their food with this fun entertainment app from Toca Boca. Children who enjoy exploring freely.

They get to cook for four cute characters, each with their own favorite food. They’re able to grab 12 different items from the fridge and slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave, and mix them together. They can then feed morsels of scrumptious food to their guests and watch how they respond. There’s even a vegetarian mode!

Toca Kitchen is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 3681 ratings.

Motorsport Manager ($0.99 → Free, 681.3 MB): Manage an entire racing team in Motorsport Manager. Sports simulation fans.

In Motorsport Manager, strategy is key. Make the wrong move and your entire team will fail. As the boss, your job is to hire drivers, develop your car, invest in technology, and formulate a pitstop plan. Then put your car and driver on the track and watch the race play out in-real time. If you like, you can be even more hands-on during the race by jumping into the strategy screens to react to weather changes, crashes, and safety car periods.

Motorsport Manager is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 2297 ratings.

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