Apps That
Went Free on
2017-08-28

Herotime was designed to be used without looking at the screen. You’ll first want to set up your athletes and put them in whatever order you deem fit. Then select the participating athletes and start the timer. Herotime allows you to record times and splits for all of your athletes with a tap. The information can be sorted in various ways, stored locally, and exported to your favorite cloud service or as a CSV.

Funnel provides an overview of what’s happening all around the world. You’re able to choose from seven news sources including BBC, NPR, VOA, and CBC. Funnel will then provide you with hourly audio news summaries that can be played in the background. The app is also able to send notifications when new content is available.

River Data is the ultimate river monitoring app. It includes updated river data from 14,000 USGS water monitoring sites. Sites can be browsed and searched through by state, name, or location on a map. You’re able to view yearly historical peak steam flow for sites, receive driving directions, share gauge data, store sites as favorites for quick access, and receive alerts.

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.

Addition and Subtraction Flashcard Match Games creates a fun environment for your child to practice addition and subtraction in with its eye-popping visuals and positive encouragement. Your child can work on matching problems to their answers or matching problems to other problems. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the number range and by showing the cards or keeping them face down. The game also includes a bubble popping reward after each round.