Today’s Apps Gone Free: Pic Scanner, Follow Me Dragon, Resume Builder and More
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Just take photos of everything you want to capture. Pic Scanner will detect the edges and allow you to enhance the scans with 19 different tools. You’re also able to manually adjust the selections if need be. Scans can be grouped into albums, captioned, shared, and backed up to the cloud.
Pic Scanner Gold: Scan Photos is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 20 ratings.
The fate of the world is in your hands! Guide a ballistic rocket around obstacles for as long as possible with only taps. Tapping and holding your finger on the screen will guide the rocket upwards and releasing will allow it to drop. Obstacles will move and spin as will the screen. Whatever you do, don’t get disorientated and allow the rocket to crash. The coins you collect along the way can be used to purchase different rockets and effects.
Apollo. Extreme Space Flight is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 20 ratings.
Resume Maker does most of the work for you. All you need to do is fill in the categories. The built-in categories include personal info, cover letter, objectives, work experience, education, and skills, but you can also add to them by creating your own. Once everything has been filled out, choose from one of the 10 templates and get a preview of how your resume turned out. You can print your resume using AirPrint, send it off via email, or upload it to your favorite cloud storage service.
Resume Builder – Resume Maker is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 326 ratings.
Uncle Henry is back at it again. This time he needs you and your newly acquired archeology skills to help him track down a mysterious artifact known to be hidden in the Castle Blackthorn in England. To find the long lost treasure you must pick the correct paths, solve puzzles, and search through old structures with just a tap. A built-in hint system will assist you when you’re stuck, and a dynamic map will ensure you won’t simply go running around in circles.
The Mystery of Blackthorn Castle is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 564 ratings.
Follow Me Dragon leverages Apple’s ARKit to generate a dragon a friend who resides in your 3-D world. Point your camera at any surface and the dragon will appear. Use a pinch gesture to adjust his size and watch as he does as he please. You can interact with him directly with taps to draw different reactions, play fetch, pick him up, perform tricks, and pose for the camera.
Follow Me Dragon is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3.5-star rating with a total of 63 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.
