Apps That
Went Free on
2013-11-27

It includes 250 beautiful and useful special characters to choose from. Just tap on the one you want to copy to your clipboard. Then open an app that's capable of basic text editing and paste it in there. The app includes letters from the Greek alphabet, letter-like symbols, math symbols, and much more.

Capti Narrator features a built-in web browser that allows you to find new content and listen to it right away. You can also save pages for later within your personal playlist by tapping and holding a finger on their links. You’re able to quickly delete, queue up, and mark links as read as well. The app includes a single voice with a customizable speech rate. Additional voices are available via in-app purchase.

Perform more than 175 yoga poses by following along with the audio and visual guides. Pocket Yoga will suggest poses based on your history, or you can break down the list by category, subcategory, or difficulty level. You’re also able to search for poses by name. Each pose can feature a different breath or time duration along with an audio cue. The app includes the ability to play music from your own library, AirPlay support, 12 environments to choose from, and the ability to share or print your entire practice sessions.

You’re able to choose up to 20 different photos, which can be pulled from Instagram, your photo library, and your camera roll. You can then edit each photo separately with different filters and captions. Photos can be rearranged as well by tapping and dragging them into place. Finish your slideshow off by adding cool animated transitions and some background music. You’re able to share your final creations via Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. There’s also a convenient Instagram optimization button, which automatically cuts your slideshow down to the 15 second limit.

Each scale features fingering and note names in all positions on the fretboard, making it remarkably easy to master a specific pattern. Since each scale and all its patterns are taught one at a time, you won't become overwhelmed. The app includes all blues, rock, and jazz guitar scales, zoom, a random scale pattern generator, and the ability to share scales via email or social networks.

You're able to quickly record an event to track just by entering a title at the bottom of the screen and tapping the add button. Your event can be customized with a background image along with one of many different icons. As days go by, the ticker will begin to count up. If you participate in the event again, just mark it as complete to reset the counter. The app includes the ability to add notes to events and share them, history, and three filtering options.

It allows you to record your voice as you draw, and then share your presentation as a video. The app includes multiple brush and pointer styles, the ability to import your own images or choose from one of the many built-in backgrounds, undo and redo, and support for multiple pages.

This fantastic educational app from the team at Toca Boca allows your child to utilize six different builders to create their own unique worlds. Each builder offers a different way to drop, paint, lift, and smash blocks. The intuitive gesture controls and on-screen buttons are easy enough to handle for children ages five and up. After seeing Toca Builders in action, you're most likely going to want to join in on the fun yourself! The app also includes a huge collection of colors to choose from, autosave, and the ability to take snapshots of your child's creations.

Tilt your iDevice from side to side in order to steer around all of the obstacles and achieve the greatest possible distance. Fly over boost arrows to scurry down the tunnel even faster, but watch out for the colored squares, as they indicate an upcoming barrier. The game includes an ever-changing landscape, four modes, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.