Free Apps Dec. 19, 2014

Post date: Dec 19, 2014 2:22:47 PM

The following educational iOS apps are free today. Apps that are newly free today are listed in italics at the beginning of each category. Apps of exceptional value or use are in bold. Download the apps as soon as possible as they can go to paid status at any time.

Art/Creativity

• Coosi Box: Creative Drawing and Share Imagination ($1.99)
• Art ($0.99)
• Art Cloud: 60,000+ Works in Art History ($9.99)
• Drawing with Carl ($2.99)
• Gocco Doodle ($2.99)
• goPaintPro for iPad ($17.99)
• Inventioneers (first 14 levels included free; others available w/ IAP)
• Night Zookeeper Story Pairs ($0.99)
• Night Zookeeper Teleporting Torch ($2.99)
• Pocket Art Lab (create notes and post cards; new app)
• Van Gogh ($0.99)

Cross-Curricular

• Animate Me: School Edition ($2.99)

CTE

• Career Paths - Construction I - Buildings (new app)
• Career Paths - Fossil Fuels: Petroleum II (new app)
• Career Paths - Medical (new app)

Digital Literacy

• Discovering Telecommunications with Mobi and Fono (new fun app)
• Keyboarding without Tears (new app)

ELA

• ABC Writing Full ($0.99)
• AGO Phonics Sound Pad (new app)
• Canterville Ghost (new app)
• English Grammar for Beginners (new app)
• Moby Dick Reader (new app)
• Pepe Loves Books (bilingual stories; new app)
• Print 2 Script (new app)
• Smarty Writer (new story writing app)
• Snow Queen Reader (new app)

Entertainment/Games

• Blox 3D Junior ($1.99)
• Easy Toppling Dominoes (set 'em up and knock 'em down; new app)
• Frosby Funfair (new app)
• Fruit Ninja ($0.99)
• The Hobbit: Official Visual Companion ($4.99)
• Jenga ($2.99)
• Let's Make a Snowman (new app)
• Talking Carl & Gugl ($2.99)

ESL

• 500 English Words (new app)

Foreign Language

• Learn Spanish in Luna's Dress Up World (new app)
• My Dictionary - Notebook Dictionary ($0.99)

Holiday

• Christmas ABC Puzzles ($0.99)
• 12 Days of Christmas Games (new app)
• Advent 2014 (new app)
• Animate Me - Christmas Dance Video Maker (new app)
• Animate Yourself 3D - Christmas Dance Video Maker (new app)
• Bits and Pieces of Christmas (new app)
• Care Bears Advent Calendar 2014 ($0.99)
• Christmas Day HD ($0.99)
• Christmas Fun Puzzle Woozle (new app)
• Christmas Match Game (new app)
• Fun Snowman Adventure Kindergarten Games (new app)
• Kidomatic Christmas Camera ($2.99)
• Kwest Christmas (new app)
• Light My Fire: A Hanukkah App (new app)
• Magikid Christmas ($2.99)
• My Menorah 4 Chanukah (new app)
• Santa School of Kindergarten Games (new app)
• Tap and Sing: Christmas by Storybots (new app)
• Timbuktu Christmas Cookies (fun; new app)

Interactive Books

• The Drip Drops - Let's Color the World ($1.99)
• Kids Stories: In the Morning (new app)
• Nick Has a Funny Day ($2.99)
• Suee and the Shadow Pt. 1 ($4.99)
• Three Little Pigs - A Play HD ($4.99)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (new app)
• Alice in Wonderland - ELI ($3.99)
• Animal Jokes for Kids ($4.99)
• Beauty and the Beast ($6.99)
• El Camion del Abuelo - Grandpa's Lorry (new app)
• Chipmunk Wants to Be a Bear ($0.99)
• Christmas Eve - Santa's Storybook for Kids ($0.99)
• Dr. Seuss Treasury (50 books included free for seven days only; after that, a subscription is required)
• Duck Takes a Ride: An Art Story (new app)
• The Elves and the Shoemaker (new app)
• Finn and the Magic Chest 3 (new app)
• The Frog Prince (new app)
• Gary's Worms ($0.99)
• The Gingerbread Man (new app)
• Hansel and Gretel: Lost ($3.99)
• I Am An Artist ($1.99)
• If I Were a Wizard (new app)
• Klas Christmas Tale ($0.99)
• Ladybug Zee($3.99)
• The Legend of the Tulip HD (new app)
• Letterland Stories: Zig Zag Zebra (new app; will be $4.99 soon)
• The Little Red Riding Hood (new app)
• Lily & the Christmas Tale ($0.99)
• Lily and the Dragon Fairy Tale HD ($0.99)
• Little Pirate - Saving the Mirandella ($2.99)
• Magic Shapes Storybook (new app)
• Max and Zoe ($2.99)
• Moon and Monkeys ($0.99)
• My Annoying Little Brother ($0.99)
• My Hanukkah(new app)
• My Little Pony: Best Pet ($2.99)
• PadTales Animated Books for Kids - The Best Day of Summer ($1.99)
• Play Book: Three Little Pigs ($6.99)
• Ray's Fire Station 2 ($1.99)
• Say Goodnight Winter ($1.99)
• Sheldon's Adventure ($1.99)
• Sheldon's Adventure: Cornered! ($1.99)
• Slibby the Snail Adventures HD($3.99)
• The Snow Man (new app)
• So Many Stars - Andy Warhol ($0.99)
• Walter's Flying Bus ($6.99)
• Weed to Wonder (new app)
• Where's My Whisper? ($2.99)

Math

• Equate Formula Solver ($3.99)
• Math Word Problems - Addition and Subtraction for Second and Third Grade ($2.99)
• Money Game (new app)
• 3D Shapes and Nets ($0.99)
• AP Test Prep: Calculus Practice Kit (new app)
• Clock Time Quiz ($0.99)
• Coin Quiz ($0.99)
• Coins in a Flash ($0.99)
• Fractions Quiz Pro (new app)
• GeoGebra (new app to go along with the great website; perfect for algebra and geometry)
• Geometry Quiz Pro (new app)
• The Math Cheat Sheet ($0.99)
• Math Party (two-player game; $0.99)
• Mathseeds Grade 1 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Grade 2 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Kindergarten ($7.99)
• Maths Tree VS (multi-player game; $4.99)
• My Multiplication - Times Tables ($2.99)
• Number Line 2 ($0.99)
• RE@L Raceway Math: Multiplication Facts ($1.99)
• SAS Math Stretch (good new app)

Music

• Fiddlewax Blue ($2.99)
• InstruNOTE Ear and Interval Training (new app)
• Moozart ($1.99)
• My First 10monkeys Math App ($2.99)
• PlayAlong Acoustic Guitar (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Alto Sax (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Bass Guitar (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Cello (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Clarinet (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Classical Guitar (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Electric Guitar (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Flute (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong French Horn (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Recorder (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Tenor Sax (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Trombone (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Trumpet (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Tuba (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Viola (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)
• PlayAlong Violin (new app w/ IAPs for additional songs)

Photography/Video

• Brushstroke (new app)
• Fixel Cinemagraph Pro ($19.99)
• Lapse HD/R ($2.99)

Productivity

• To Do List for Nozbe HD ($14.99)

Science

• Season of Tree: Forest Animals Friends Story ($1.99)
• 9 Months! Multimedia Documentary ($2.99)
• AB Volume 1 ($0.99)
• AB Volume 2 ($0.99)
• AB Volume 3 ($0.99)
• AP Test Prep: Chemistry Practice Kit (new app)
• Comets - Snow Balls from Outer Space ($0.99)
• The Particle Adventure (new app)
• ReDiLab Reaction Diffusion Laboratory (new app)
• Sunflower for Science (a sample of a variety of science curricula)

Social Studies

• Amazing Countries ($2.99)
• Empire Run - A Planet H Game from HISTORY ($1.99)
• Geography Drive Arcade ($2.99)
• The Greeks (new app)
• iStoryBooks American History Edition ($2.99)
• Kids Planet Discovery ($4.99)
• Topo Quiz ($0.99)
• Travel the Silk Road (new app)
• World Map Puzzle for Kids (new app)

Special Needs

• ASD Tools ($2.99)
• Flip Writer AAC ($29.99; w/ IAP for additional features)
• Frog Game 1 ($9.99)
• Frog Game 2 ($9.99)
• Frog Game 3 ($9.99)
• Frog Game School ($29.99)
• Kids Sound Lab Pro ($19.99)
• Question Words - Video Flashcard Player ($6.99)

Teacher

• Easy Planner - Mobile Lesson Planning Tool for Teachers (new app)
• Pronto for iPad - Timer App ($2.99)
• Teaching with ICT (how to use the iPad in class; $2.99)

Toddler/Preschool/Primary

• Cutie Mini Monsters ($2.99)
• Duckie Deck Trash Toys ($2.99)
• Monki Hide & Seek ($2.99)
• Pepi Ride ($2.99)
• Sequences Pro ($0.99)
• Wee Kids Puzzle ($1.99)
• Alphabet Writing for Kids (new app)
• A to Z Monsters - Alphabet Learning for Kids ($1.99)
• Bamba Ice Cream ($1.99)
• Cleaning Fun by BabyBus ($1.99)
• Cutie Monsters Jigsaw Puzzles ($3.99)
• E Is for Elephant - Alphabet Silhouettes ($3.99)
• Fishland Adventures ($3.99)
• Joy Sprouts - Kids Preschool Education ($0.99)
• Kids Sound Lab Pro ($19.99)
• Let's Learn the Alphabet ($1.99)
• LumiKids Park by Lumosity, Early Learning Play for Kids ($1.99)
• Pocket Charts! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Match Game ($0.99)
• Question Words - Video Flashcard Player ($6.99)
• Riddles for Kids - Learning Game (new app)
• Sago Mini Ocean Swimmer ($2.99)
• Splat! - A Creative Expression Game for Toddlers ($1.99)
• Underwater Learning Adventure ($1.99)
• Video Zoo ($2.99)

Miscellaneous

• Discovr Apps ($3.99)
• 99 - The Talk (guide for parents; $4.99)

Free and Sale Kindle Books for December 19

The free iOS Kindle app allows you to load wonderful books on to your iDevice. Remember that you don't need an Amazon Kindle to take advantage of this. You can download Kindle books to iPhones, Androids, iPads, Macs, and PCs.

Here are a few of the children, teen, and adult bargains available today. Amazon prices can change hourly, so grab these quickly before they go back to full price! Titles in bold signify exceptional value. Titles in italics are newly free today.

Free Children's Books

• Cool Kids Cook: Gourmet Everyday ($2.99)
• Little Panda Saves Christmas ($0.99)
• My Dad Is a Superhero ($0.99)
• The North Pole Challenge ($0.99)
• Red-Tailed Rescue ($3.49)
• 101 Facts... Dinosaurs ($2.99)
• Abraham Lincoln for Kids ($2.99)
• All About Elephants ($2.99)
• Andy McBean and the War of the Worlds ($0.99)
• Bed-Bugged ($0.99)
• The Boy Who Became Father Christmas ($0.99)
• Burgling the Dragon ($2.99)
• Butterfly Hollow ($2.99)
• The Christmas Santa Slept ($1.00)
• Don't Judge an Alligator by Its Teeth! ($2.99)
• Four More Fantastic Bedtime Stories for Children 3-6 ($3.99)
• Frostbite (cute book; $2.99)
• Getting Along with Each Other ($3.99)
• Go to Camp ($2.99)
• HERO Academy 1: Superheroes in Training ($7.99)
• Jane and Her Friends Celebrate Christmas ($2.99)
• Janie and the Magic Box Christmas ($2.99)
• Kojo the Sea Dragon Gets Lost ($2.99)
• Laugh Out Loud: Hanukkah for Kids ($0.99)
• LEGO City: Cops, Crocs, and Crooks! (new book that's always free)
• The Librarian (Book One: Little Boy Lost) ($2.99)
• The Librarian (Book Two: Unhappily Ever After) ($2.99)
• The Lucky Little Labrador: Lucky's Christmas Miracle ($2.99)
• The Merman and the Moon Forgotten ($1.99)
• Pixie Courage ($2.99)
• The Prickly Porcupine ($0.99)
• Santa's Helper ($0.99)

Free Teen Books

• Deep Blue Secret ($2.99)
• Soulene: A Healer's Tale ($2.99)
• Making Waves ($2.99)
• Undermountain ($4.99)

Sale Children's Books

• Ungifted ($7.99 to $1.99)
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants ($5.99 to $1.99)
• The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving ($3.99 to $0.99)
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ($5.99 to $3.30)
• Betsy-Tacy Treasury (four books; $15.99 to $1.99)
• Big Nate: Pray for a Fire Drill ($7.99 to $1.99)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($6.99 to $1.99)
• Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After ($13.99 to $2.50)
• The Extra-Ordinary Princess ($5.99 to $1.99)
• The Giver ($8.99 to $2.99)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($15.00 to $3.99)
• The Jesus Storybook Bible ($16.99 to $1.99)
• The Lightning Thief ($7.99 to $2.00)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ($6.99 to $1.99)
• Maisy Goes to the Library ($6.99 to $0.99)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Night Before Christmas ($9.99 to $1.00)
• The Outsiders ($9.99 to $2.50)
• Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! ($16.99 to $2.99)
• Yellow Star ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Whatever After #2: If the Shoe Fits ($5.99 to $1.99)
• The Year without a Santa Claus ($3.99 to $1.00)
• Yukon: Sled Dog ($3.99 to $1.00)

Sale Teen Books

• Defy ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Divergent ($9.99 to $2.99)
• Ender's Game ($7.99 to $2.00)
• The Fault in Our Stars ($12.99 to $2.99)
• The Fellowship of the Ring ($13.95 to $2.79)
• The Hobbit ($13.95 to $2.79)
• The Hunger Games ($12.99 to $3.99)
• If I Stay ($10.99 to $2.99)
• Prisoners in the Palace: How Princess Victoria Became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a Scoundrel ($7.99 to $1.99)
• The Return of the King ($13.95 to $2.79)
• Robin: Lady of Legend ($12.95 to $2.99)
• The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner Book 2) ($9.99 to $2.50)
• Speaker for the Dead ($7.99 to $2.00)
• The Two Towers ($13.95 to $2.79)
• The Wide-Awake Princess ($7.99 to $1.99)

Free and Sale Books for Adults

• Cat Coming Home: A Joe Grey Mystery ($7.99 to $1.99)
• The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind ($10.50 to $1.99)
• Enchanted, Inc. ($15.00 to $0.99)
• The Farm ($26.00 to $1.99)
• Inferno (by Dan Brown; $9.99 to $2.50)
• Man's Search for Meaning ($14.00 to $1.99)
• Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns ($15.99 to $0.99)
• The Sacred Search Couple's Conversation Guide ($12.99 to free)
• The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer ($17.99 to $1.99)
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ($7.99 to $1.99)
• American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U. S. Military History ($9.99 to $2.50)
• Baking Basics and Beyond ($13.99 to free)
• Beauty and the Beast (Faerie Tale Collection Book 1) ($6.99 to free)
• Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book ($10.95 to $2.51)
• Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Broken Music (by Sting; $16.00 to $1.99)
• The Christmas Basket (by Debbie Macomber; $4.99 to $1.99)
• The Cry of the Owl ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Dark Places (by Gillian Flynn; $9.99 to $2.99)
• Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America ($9.99 to $1.99)
• The Drunken Botanist ($19.95 to $1.99)
• Finding Inner Courage (by Mark Nepo; $17.95 to $0.99)
• The Gift of the Magic ($3.99 to free)
• The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic ($14.99 to $0.99)
• HCSB Study Bible ($10.99 to $2.99)
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas ($12.99 to $1.99)
• The Heretic Queen ($15.00 to $1.99)
• Hot Sauce Cookbook: The Book of Fiery Salsa and Hot Sauce Recipes ($10.99 to $0.99)
• The Longest Ride (by Nicholas Sparks; $15.00 to $2.00)
• Merry Humbug Christmas ($14.99 to $0.99)
• Mistborn Trilogy ($24.97 to $5.95)
• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (by Alan Alda; $16.00 to $1.99)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life ($13.99 to $2.99)
• The Quiet Earth ($14.95 to $0.99)
• Red Rising ($14.00 to $1.99)
• Singing Like Callas and Caruso. Belcanto Voice & Body Training ($27.99 to free)
• Smoking Meat ($14.95 to $2.99)
• The Song of Achilles ($14.99 to $1.99)
• Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest ($15.00 to $1.99)
• Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness ($9.99 to $2.99)
• Stress Proof Your Life (52 Brilliant Ideas) ($23.95 to free)
• There Was an Old Woman: A Novel of Suspense ($14.99 to $0.99)
• This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (by Carol Burnett; $14.00 to $1.99)
• The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You ($24.95 to $1.99)
• Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills that Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations ($5.99 to $1.99)
• Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union($9.99 to $1.99)
• Visions of Heaven: 4 Stories of People Who Have Seen the After-Life ($15.99 to $0.99)
• The Walnut Tree: A Holiday Tale (Bess Crawford Mysteries) ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Zero Day (by David Baldacci; $10.00 to $1.99)