Today's Apps Gone Free: Home Budget, Backgammon, Toddler Learning Games and More

Plan for the future, play some Backgammon, and teach your child about shapes and colors with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Tape ($0.99 → Free, 23.0 MB): Give your music an 80s look with Tape. Those feeling nostalgic.

Tape will liven up any party. It’s a cassette player emulator that features 16 cassette styles to choose from along with four fonts. The controls are entirely gesture-driven, allowing you to pause, go to the next song, go to the previous song, and change cassettes with swipes.

Tape is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 169 ratings.

Home Budget Plan Pro ($1.99 → Free, 7.8 MB): Plan for the future with Home Budget Plan. Anyone who struggles with their finances.

Home Budget Plan helps ensure that you live within your means. Start off by customizing the groups and categories to match your lifestyle within the “Set Up” menu. Then add your monthly income and expenditures to each line, and you’ll be able to see if you’re staying within your budget or overspending. The app also provides in-depth analysis to identify areas where you need to cut back.

Home Budget Plan Pro is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 9 ratings.

Universal:

Big Farm: Mobile Harvest ($1.99 → Free, 161.1 MB): Do you have what it takes to turn a rundown farm around? Find out in Big Farm: Mobile Harvest. Those who enjoy simulation and resource management games.

You’ve inherited an old farm from Uncle George, but it’s overgrown and in need of restoration. To turn it into a flourishing enterprise, you’ll not only have to put in some hard work but also use your business skills. Plant the best yielding crops, harvest the fields, and tend to the animals in order to fill your bank account. Then use all of your profits to upgrade and expand your farm far and wide. You’ll also be able to meet other farmers, and enjoy seasonal events.

Big Farm: Mobile Harvest is available for free today only (12/11). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 2518 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.

Backgammon HD ($3.99 → Free, 82.3 MB): A digital version of Backgammon from the same team that brought Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Spite and Malice, and Hearts to the App Store. Anyone looking to play a game of Backgammon while on the go.

This is our favorite version of Backgammon in the App Store due to its massive online community. It’s always more fun to play with others, right? You’re able to play turn-based or live games of Backgammon via Game Center. You can choose to play with a friend or see how your skills match up against other players all over the world. The cool part is, you don’t have to sit around and wait to be matched up. You can actually hone your skills against intelligent AI opponents in single player games while you wait for a match to be found.

Backgammon HD is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 3314 ratings.

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