Today’s Apps Gone Free: Duo, Spite and Malice, Tip Calculator and More

Stimulate your brain, play a card game full of spite and malice, and find out what to tip your server with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

War of Eclipse ($0.99 → Free, 12.3 MB): Captain your very own air battleship and take the fight to the aliens in this role-playing game. Fans of retro-style graphics and gameplay.

War of Eclipse is unabashedly retro. Its pixel art graphics are sharp and its gameplay brutally difficult. You’re able to choose from seven powerful battleships, each of which can be customized in a variety of ways. Blast away all kinds of alien invaders by perfectly timing your shots. The game includes 35 enemy types to take on, random equipment drops, and seven different endings to discover.

War of Eclipse is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 553 ratings.

Universal:

DUO! Pairs & Brain Fitness Game ($0.99 → Free, 38.1 MB): Stimulate your brain with DUO! Those who enjoy memory games.

DUO! is unlike any memory game you’ve ever played. Sure, you’re still required to tap on cards to flip them over, memorize their positions, and match pairs, but that’s where the similarities end. Each level offers a new and exciting challenge, where you must achieve specific goals, utilize wild cards, follow cards as they are shuffled, and much more. You’re awarded bonus points for creating matches consecutively, which will help you achieve a perfect rating and unlock new levels.

DUO! Pairs & Brain Fitness Game is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 62 ratings.

Toddler Learning Games Ask Me Color & Shape Games ($3.99 → Free, 51.2 MB): There’s so much to see in this educational app all about shapes and colors. Children between the ages of three and six.

The app will present your child with a cute and colorful object, and they must find all of the matching ones at the bottom of the screen. Each object is accompanied by hand-clapping music and rhyming narration. The app includes over 100 objects to discover.

Toddler Learning Games Ask Me Color & Shape Games is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 30 ratings.

Tip calculator ‘Tipping made easy’ ($0.99 → Free, 639.0 KB): Know what to tip with Tip Calculator. Anyone who dines out.

With Tip Calculator, there’ll be no more need to perform mental math. Just provide the bill amount and the app will do all of the work for you. Tip Calculator will display the tip total along with the bill total. Tap on the bill total in order to reveal bill splitting options. You’re also able to set your own custom levels of service quality in order to speed things up.

Tip calculator ‘Tipping made easy’ is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 78 ratings.

Spite & Malice HD ($4.99 → Free, 71.0 MB): This game of cards is full of spite and malice. Anyone who enjoys going head-to-head with friends in turn-based card games.

Unleash your inner demon with the fiendishly fun Spite & Malice. Your goal is to be the first person to play all of the cards from your own pile by placing them on the middle piles in numerical order. Don’t worry about the suits of the cards because in Spite & Malice they don’t mean a thing. Just remember that the best way to beat your opponent is to block them from ever playing their cards. The game includes a single player mode, and online real-time and turn-based multiplayer.

Spite & Malice HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 3102 ratings.

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