Best Free Apps of the Day on 12/31. Etchings, Nozoku, NeoMech, & More!
Turn your photos into realistic hand drawn illustrations. Play a fun number-based puzzle game to challenge your brainpower. Ride a retro-looking mech that packs a powerful punch. There are more! Don’t miss today’s Best Free Apps of the Day!
Please Note: All apps listed here are free in the U.S. App Store when this post was published. But since most apps listed here are only FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME, price changes by the developers can happen at anytime. Please double check the price in the App Store before your download.
Best Free Apps of the Day:
Etchings
Etchings 1.5 – A work of art from any photo from MindSea on Vimeo.
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Etchings Universal (Optimized for both the iPad and iPhone) (4.5 stars with 397 Ratings)
$0.99 → FREE
Free Offer Ended
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Etchings is a photo editing app that gives you the ability to turn your photos into a realistic looking work of hand drawn art and illustration. This app has twelve different styles of effects you can apply to your photo, giving you plenty of choices in finding just the right look. It’s simple to do, and applying effects is similar to how Instagram works. When you’re done, share your new photo with everyone on Facebook, Twitter, and more right from within the app.
Best Free Games of the Day:
nozoku
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nozoku Universal (Optimized for both the iPad and iPhone) (4 stars with 37 Ratings)
$1.99
Free Offer Ended. This app was free on December 31, 2012, but the offer has expired. Follow us on Twitter or Subscribe by email or RSS feed to get daily App Gone Free notifications so you won’t miss it next time. The following impression was made during the promotional period.
Nozoku plays like this: your objective is to combine tiles to subtract smaller numbers from the larger ones. You’ll have to continue combining until all numbered tiles are gone. When you’ve solved the puzzles down to a single tile, you’ll earn stars. Once you’ve gotten the hang of that, puzzles get more and more challenging with added obstacles. It’s an excellent way to stretch and challenge your brain while enjoying a few moments to yourself. The app comes packaged in a neat, crisp design with an intuitive interface that allows you to jump right into the game with little learning curve.
NeoMech
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NeoMech Universal (Optimized for both the iPad and iPhone) (4 stars with 162 Ratings)
$0.99 →Free
In NeoMech, you control a giant humanoid warrior robot to take on an army that is out to annihilate you. You’ll work your way through this retro looking platformer as you utilize your powerful artillery to fight and set fire to the forces against you. Find yourself collecting power ups for some intense boosters as you take on troops, helicopters, tanks, and a lot more. This game has those lovable retro graphics most of us have come to love. With intense gameplay, multiple scenarios, and a whole lot more, NeoMech is worth your time.
Free Again:
Editor’s Pick: Smile Alarm ~ 10 Games to Wake You Up!
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Smile Alarm ~ 10 Games to Wake You Up! iPhone OS (4.5 stars with 426 Ratings)
$2.99
Free Offer Ended. This app was free on December 31, 2012, but the offer has expired. Follow us on Twitter or Subscribe by email or RSS feed to get daily App Gone Free notifications so you won’t miss it next time. The following impression was made during the promotional period.
Smile Alarm forces you to get up, whether you like it or not, by giving you a game or puzzle to play before it even turns off. The alarm will allow you to set a song from your iPod app as the actual wake up notification, but until you complete one of several games to choose from, it’s going to keep playing. Some of the games include having to calculate a math problem, counting a number of bricks, ordering objects from memory, remembering a specific pattern, and so much more. It’s so easy for me to just turn my alarm off as it is, so this little app could is quite worth it for me.
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