Today’s Apps Gone Free: Water Reminder, Nice Shark, SharpScan and More
iPhone:
The human body is made up of around 60 percent of water, making it vital to your health. Water Reminder will ensure you drink enough by helping you track your intake throughout the day. The app asks you to determine what a small glass and a big glass will be along with your daily goal. Then every time you drink water, just choose between the two. The app also includes customizable reminders, Apple Watch support, HealthKit integration, and a lock screen widget.
Water Reminder – Drink Water Tracker & Daily Alert is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 26 ratings.
Universal:
This sticker pack will brighten everyone’s day. It includes more than 30 unique stickers to peel and stick onto your messages. You’ll find a happy kitten, loving penguin, sweet snowman, and, of course, a nice shark.
Nice Shark! Good Kitty Cat and Penguin Too! Emoji is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 6 ratings.
Anything goes in Toca Life: School. Children are able to navigate a house, cafeteria, school building, youth club, and playground with taps. Along the way they’ll be able to play sports, start food fights, play in band, perform science experiments, and so much more. Each location is its own mini adventure with tons of interactions to discover. The app includes a total of 34 characters to play with and different outfits to wear.
Toca Life: School is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 1243 ratings.
With Big Clock, there will be no more squinting. No matter if you place your iDevice in portrait or landscape orientation, you’ll get to see big clock numbers. The app is also able to display the date if you wish. Big Clock features a fully customizable alarm clock, allowing you to set music from your library as your alarm, set a time between snooze button hits, and set a maximum number of snooze button hits. A weather widget is available via in-app purchase, but you can give it a one month test run free of charge.
Big Clock – Alarm and Weather is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 44 ratings.
Scanning is a breeze with SharpScan Pro. You’re able to scan a single page or multiple pages rapidly. The app’s powerful camera engine ensures every pixel counts, getting rid of noise, shadows, distortions, and other artifacts. It’s also able to automatically detect the edges of your documents, but you can manually adjust them if need be. After scanning your documents you’re able to recognize the text in over 50 languages. Documents can be stored in the app, on your iDevice, or in the cloud.
SharpScan Pro + OCR: scan documents to clean PDF is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 267 ratings.
Developers:
If you are a developer who would like to get your app included in our “Apps Gone Free” daily lists, here’s our basic set of rules:
- It must have at least a three-star average rating at the time it goes free.
- The app must not have been free numerous times (3+) over the last six months.
- The free version of your app must not include ads.
To submit an app, simply send a request to tyler@appadvice.com with the subject “Apps Gone Free.” Please include the name of the app, a link to it in the App Store, when and for how long you intend to offer the app for free, and anything else you would like to share. We will take it from there.
