Today’s Apps Gone Free: Tweety, Word Wonderland, Tabata and More
Check Twitter from your lock screen, work on grammar skills, and get a serious workout with today’s collection of apps and games.
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Universal:New Orleans Travel Guide & Offline City Street Map ($3.99 → Free, 58.3 MB): Get the most out of what New Orleans has to offer with this travel guide. Locals and tourists.
Today only: Unlock the New Orleans Travel Guide free of charge!
Put down the huge book guides and pick up your iDevice. New Orleans 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 Orleans Travel Guide & Offline City Street Map is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 11 ratings.
Tweety Pro – Show Twitter Timeline on Lock Screen ($2.99 → Free, 23.7 MB): Check Twitter from your lock screen with Tweety Pro. Those who want quick updates from Twitter.
Before you do anything, you’ll have to link your Twitter accounts with Tweety. You can then customize the widget in order to fit how you use Twitter. Tweety allows you to adjust which accounts are showing tweets, how often they update, how much information is displayed, and whether or not you want quick actions. Tweety is also able to open tweets in Safari, the Twitter app, Tweetbot, or Twitterrific.
Tweety Pro – Show Twitter Timeline on Lock Screen is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.
iPad:Tabata! HD: 4 Minute Workout Challenge. Burn calories faster than ever! ($3.99 → Free, 23.0 MB): All it takes is four minutes a day to stay fit with this fitness app. Those who want to shed a few pounds without committing a lot of time to it.
Tabata! doesn’t take itself too seriously, but you will get a serious workout. You’re provided with a different set of exercises each day. Your chosen exercises are laid out in list form, and you can review them to ensure you know how to properly perform them before staring the workout. Then follow along with the instructor as you perform each exercise for 20 seconds with 10 second breaks. None of the exercises require equipment, so you can perform them anytime, anywhere. The app also includes the ability to adjust the amount of sets for exercises, and all kinds of achievements to earn.
Tabata! HD: 4 Minute Workout Challenge. Burn calories faster than ever! is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 14 ratings.
Word Wonderland (Elementary) Full ($1.99 → Free, 49.9 MB): This educational app from McGraw-Hill allows your child to practice word sorts. Students in grades three through six.
A friendly astronaut crab needs help navigating the space station. Your child is able to help him by hopping, eating, and shaking their way through word sort challenges including roots, vowels, and inflectional endings. The app includes four difficulty levels, the ability to practice skills separately, and support for multiple profiles.
Word Wonderland (Elementary) Full is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 13 ratings.
Word Wonderland (Primary) Full ($1.99 → Free, 98.1 MB): Lead a friendly frog from one end of the pond to the other by sorting words in this educational game. Children in grades kindergarten through second.
Your child can move the frog by tapping on lily pads. Some pads are missing, breaking the frog’s path to freedom, so your child must discover which word belongs in the gap. The game includes three worlds to explore, three skills to practice, three difficulty levels, and support for multiple profiles.
Word Wonderland (Primary) Full is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 41 ratings.
Grammar Wonderland (Primary) ($2.99 → Free, 272.7 MB): Another educational app from McGraw-Hill that will help your child work on their grammar skills through interactive games. Children in grades kindergarten through second.
They’re able to practice using nouns, verbs, and adjectives by swimming, feeding chameleons, and tossing crackers at parrots. The app includes three worlds to explore with multiple challenges in each, the ability to practice all of the skills separately, four difficulty levels, and support for multiple profiles.
Grammar Wonderland (Primary) is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 31 ratings.
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