Free Apps Jan. 30, 2015

Post date: Jan 30, 2015 2:53:18 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.

Thank you Lori Gracey and TCEA!

Art/Creativity

• Coosi Box: Creative Drawing and Share Imagination ($1.99)
• Drawing Brush Free ($1.99)
• The J. Paul Getty Museum Highlights of the Collections HD for iPad ($2.99)
• MoMA Art Lab ($2.99)
• Play School Art Maker ($2.99)
• Tux Paint Free (the favorite web art program now has an app)

Cross-Curricular

• Smart Kids: Outer Space Robots (thinking games; $2.99)
• Story2Go Editor (create your own books; $1.99)

Digital Literacy

• Privacy Camp (new app about online safety)

ELA

• Grammar 4 Writers - Secondary Better Predicates ($1.99)
• Grammar 4 Writers - Secondary Better Subjects ($1.99)
• Little ABC Writer ($1.99)
• Tag Journal ($2.99)
• WordRunner (new app)
• AGO Phonics Sound Pad ($4.99)
• Best of Texas 3rd-4th Grade Spelling (good app to help students prepare for the UIL Spelling Contest)
• Best of Texas 5th-6th Grade Spelling (new app)
• Best of Texas 7th-8th Grade Spelling (new app)
• Best of Texas Spelling: Pronounced (new app)
• Compound Word Match ($0.99)
• Grammar 4 Writers - Elementary Adjectives ($1.99)
• Grammar 4 Writers - Elementary Subjects and Predicates ($0.99)
• Grammar 4 Writers - Secondary Subjects and Predicates ($0.99)
• K-3 Sight Words ($0.99)
• Light Bulb Readers ($0.99)
• Lit Circles ($2.99)
• Martha Speaks Story Maker ($0.99)
• Reading Conferences ($9.99)
• StudyMode (new app)
• Ticwow 2 - Learn English Grammar ($2.99)
• TVOKids Spelling Fleas (6-11) (new app)
• Word Walk: Short A Preschool Phonics ($0.99)
• Word Walk: Short E Preschool Phonics ($0.99)
• Word Walk: Short I Preschool Phonics ($0.99)
• Word Walk: Short O Preschool Phonics ($0.99)
• Word Walk: Short U Preschool Phonics ($0.99)

Entertainment/Games

• Cyberchase 3D Builder ($0.99)
• Talking Larry the Bird for iPad ($2.99)
• Dominoes Kids ($1.99)
• GiggleBug ($2.99)
• Strawberry Shortcake ($0.99)
• Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Rush ($0.99)
• Topo's Piano ($2.99)
• Umoove Experience: The 3D Face & Eye Tracking Flying Game (new app)

ESL

• EnglishBot Teacher ($2.99)
• English Pronunciation ($2.99)
• Polly Verbs - English Phrasal Verb Pronunciation (new app)
• Role Planet ($6.99)

Foreign Language

• Learn Spanish with Speech Recognition ($2.99)
• Spanish Words with Gato (new app)
• Study Langs Player ($14.99)
• VocaBattle (new app)

Health/PE/Sports

• Stopwatch+ ($2.99)
• Baseball Pocket Schedules - MLB Edition ($0.99)
• Count Your Peas (healthy eating; $2.99)
• iAnalyze ($4.99)

Holiday

• Sweet Baby Girl Christmas Fun ($4.99)
• Audio Christmas Stories ($4.99)

Interactive Books

• Children's Book: Mommy Helps ($1.99)
• Finn and the Magic Chest ($0.99)
• Sheldon's Adventure: Cornered! ($1.99)
• What Would Happen If the Easter Bunny Got Sick? ($1.99)
• 8 Stories of the Genesis ($7.99)
• The Agile and Nimble Cat ($3.99)
• Aladdin and the Magical Lamp for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Alice in Wonderland for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Big Thoughts for Little People (new app)
• Biscuit ($1.99)
• The Boy and the Bears Read Out Loud ($1.99)
• The Clever Little Hare HD (new app)
• Dexter the Dino for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• The Goose with the Golden Eggs for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Go Wild - The Ballerina Monsters ($1.99)
• In Space - The Ballerina Monsters ($1.99)
• The Legend of Momotaro ($5.99)
• Luna Loves Whipped Cream ($1.99)
• My Best Friend Is A Statue ($0.99)
• Oobie's Space Adventure ($0.99)
• A Parcel of Courage ($2.99)
• Peter Pan - Doll Play Books ($2.99)
• The Pinchpenny Mouse ($0.99)
• The Pinchpenny Mouse 2 (new app)
• Pied Piper for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• The Pirate's Code - Interactive Story Book & Game for Young Adults (new app)
• Pixel and Parker ($2.99)
• Red Riding Hood for Children by Story Time for Kids (great new app)
• Renewable Energy Sources ($4.99)
• Robin Hood for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Rufus the Dog: A Snowy Tail ($1.99)
• Running Veggies ($1.99)
• Siena's Edible Adventure ($2.99)
• Thumbelina for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• The Three Pigs for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• The Treehouse at Number Nine (new app)
• The Tree I See ($0.99)
• Valentine Zoo ($0.99)
• The Wizard of Oz for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Zalairos Adventures by Skoolbo (more than 12 hours of reading adventures; $8.99)

iOS 8 Keyboards

• Translate Keyboard Pro ($1.99)

Math

• 11 Plus Net Cube ($0.99)
• Algebra 1 ($1.99)
• Circle Geometry ($0.99)
• Cyberchase 3D Builder ($0.99)
• Exponents ($0.99)
• Feed a Frog (new app)
• Fraction Lore (new app)
• Fraction Operations ($0.99)
• Geometry ($1.99)
• Integer Operations ($0.99)
• Jr High Algebra ($0.99)
• Line Plots 4 ($1.99)
• Math Fraction Bingo ($2.99)
• Math Is Easy - Prime Factorization and Equation Solver ($0.99)
• Mathlon ($0.99)
• MathMPK ($2.99)
• Mathseeds Grade 1 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Grade 2 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Kindergarten ($7.99)
• Number Shapes Line (new app)
• Pengu Math (new subtraction app)
• Polynomials ($0.99)
• Place Value Fish (new app)
• SAT Math Practice Questions (new app)
• Snow Day Math (new app)
• Trigonometry ($1.99)

Music

• Chord Ear Trainer ($0.99)
• Keyboard Arp & Drum Pad - US ($3.99)
• Paperless Music ($4.99)
• Synth Arp & Drum Pad - US ($7.99)
• Write Interval ($0.99)
• Write Key Signature ($0.99)

Productivity

• Doodle 2 Go HD ($2.99)
• Expense-Tracker+ ($19.99)
• Form Expert ($3.99)
• Hit Recorder for iPad ($6.99)
• Minutes App ($4.99)
• Touch2Face - Widget, Home Screen Icon, Quick Call, Fast Dial ($1.99)

Robotics

• Learn Robo Kids (make robots with the LEGO WeDo kit; new app)

Science

• Alimentary Avengers (good new app)
• Anatomy 4D (new app)
• Astronomy ($1.99)
• BugSim ($0.99)
• Chemical Engineering ($1.99)
• Chemistry Lab ($2.99)
• Civil Engineering ($1.99)
• Daily Physics ($0.99)
• Decibel Meter Pro ($0.99)
• DIY Human Body (good new app)
• Earth - Now (new app)
• Elements Trainer ($0.99)
• Galaxies by KIDS Discover (always free; updated)
• Global Shark Tracker (updated free app)
• Language Central for Science Earth Science Edition ($1.99)
• Language Central for Science Life Science Edition ($1.99)
• Language Central for Science Physical Science Edition ($1.99)
• Leo and the T-Rex (good new AR app)
• Life Cycle of a Frog (good new app)
• Life of a Monarch Butterfly (good new app)
• Lizard Evolution Virtual Lab (good new app)
• Mr. Eus - Story of the Future ($0.99)
• NB-Electrical Lab ($2.99)
• Physiology & Body Anatomy ($1.99)
• The Solar System VL2 Storybook (good new app that includes American Sign Language)
• Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab (good new app)
• Survive Global Climate Change (new app)
• Texas Nature Trackers (new app from Texas Parks and Wildlife)
• Tundra Biome (good new app)
• The Virtual Bacterial ID Lab (good new app)
• Weather Barometer (new app)
• World of Dinosaurs ($2.99)

Social Studies

• I Am Learning: KS3 Geography ($1.99)
• Time Maps World War 2 - Interactive History Maps, Battles and Key Characters ($2.99)
• World History Atlas HD with 3D ($9.99)

Special Needs

• iDo Getting Dressed (new app)
• iDo Hygiene (new app w/ IAP)
• RTS Hangman ($1.99)
• SnapType for Occupational Therapy (new app)
• Speedy Speech - L (new app)
• Speedy Speech - R (new app)
• Speedy Speech - S (new app)
• Word Vault Essential (excellent new app)

Teacher

• ClassFlow Teacher ($7.99)
• Student Talk ($0.99)

Toddler/Preschool/Primary

• Monki Animal Builder ($2.99)
• Wee Kids Word Games ($1.99)
• ABC Island 3D ($9.99)
• Amazing Ocean Animals (new app)
• Item Flashcards ($2.99)
• Monki Hide & Seek ($2.99)
• Pixei Alphabet Cards ($3.99)
• Puzzles: Let's Move! ($0.99)
• We Know Shapes! ($0.99)

Miscellaneous

• Emergency Alerts + Invisible Alert ($1.99)
• Driver's Ed Videos - Volume Two for iPad ($2.99)
• Nino's Mourning Toolbox ($3.99)
• uHealth - Eye Tracking Brain Training - Attention and Focus (new app)

Free and Sale Kindle Books for January 30

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

• 6th Grade Spy ($2.99)
• Anne of Green Gables ($3.00)
• Chinese New Year Picture Book ($3.99)
• How Andrew Got His Spots ($2.99)
• Jolly Monster ($0.99)
• Julie and Her Seven Calves ($1.99)
• Maps - Mapas (bilingual book; $2.99)
• Sports ABCs ($2.99)
• Violet Black & the Curse of Camp Coldwater ($2.99)
• All About Elephants ($2.99)
• Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer ($2.99)
• Daddy Is Not ($0.99)
• The Dragon's Mountain ($2.99)
• Everything Has A Heart ($3.99)
• The Ghanaian Goldilocks ($2.99)
• Giggleswick: The Amadan Map ($0.99)
• Great Battles for Boys: Bunker Hill to World War I ($2.99)
• HERO Academy 1: Superheroes in Training ($7.99)
• The Jungle Animal's Conflict ($2.99)
• Magical Charms for Breakfast ($2.99)
• The Mosque Hill Fortune ($0.99)
• My Crazy Pet Frog ($1.99)
• My Dad Is Going Away But He Will Be Back One Day! A Deployment Story ($2.99)
• One Cat, Two Cat, New Cat! ($0.99)
• Prairie Academy ($4.99)
• The Secret Garden ($7.99 with professional audio narration for $2.99)
• The Secret in the Hidden Cave ($0.99)
• Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader ($4.99)
• The Warble ($2.99)
• A Way Through the Sea ($3.29)
• Whatta Weird World 1: A Ducky Cure for the Hiccups ($2.99)

Free Teen Books

• SWAB ($5.99)
• Fledgling (The Shapeshifter Chronicles Book 1) ($2.99)
• Making Waves ($2.99)
• Small Town Witch ($0.99)
• The Stone Gate ($0.99)
• Treasure (Seed Savers Book 1) ($3.99)

Sale Children's Books

• The Mysterious Benedict Society ($8.00 to $0.99)
• The Boxcar Children ($5.99 to $1.99)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($6.99 to $1.99)
• A Dog Called Homeless ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Eye of the Fry Cook (Sponge Bob book; $3.99 to $1.99)
• Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale of How Fire Came to the People ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Missing Pieces of Me ($17.99 to $3.99)
• Silly Tilly ($3.99 to $1.00)

Sale Teen Books

• The Book of a Thousand Days ($7.99 to $2.99)
• Croak ($8.99 to $1.99)
• Divergent ($12.99 to $2.99)
• Enchanted (The Woodcutter Sisters Book 1) ($8.99 to $1.99)
• The Maze Runner ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Silver Shadows: A Bloodlines Novel ($18.99 to $2.99)

Free and Sale Books for Adults

• 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf ($10.99 to $1.99)
• Getting Past What You'll Never Get Over: Help for Dealing with Life's Hurts ($13.99 to $0.99)
• The God Who Sees You: Look to Him When You Feel Discouraged, Forgotten, or Invisible ($14.99 to free)
• Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors ($25.99 to $1.99)
• The True History of the Elephant Man ($8.99 to $1.99)
• The 3-Day Reset: Restore Your Cravings for Healthy Foods in Three Easy, Empowering Days ($14.99 to $2.99)
• Act of Terror ($8.99 to $1.99)
• Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma ($6.99 to $2.99)
• Analyzing the Analyzers: An Introspective Survey of Data Scientists and Their Work ($9.99 to free)
• The Art Forger ($14.95 to $1.99)
• Beautiful Lies ($7.99 to $1.99)
• Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World ($13.95 to $1.99)
• Big Data Now: Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar ($9.99 to free)
• City of the Sun ($15.95 to $0.99)
• Clapton: The Autobiography (by Eric Clapton; $15.99 to $1.99)
• The Culture of Big Data ($9.99 to free)
• The Descent Series, Books 1-3 ($12.99 to free)
• Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything ($12.99 to free)
• Dracula (by Bram Stoker; $4.95 to free; add the professional audio version for only $0.99, normally $29.95)
• Effortless Savings: A Money Management Guide to Saving without Sacrifice ($14.95 to $2.99)
• Falling Together (.) ($14.99 to $1.99)
• The Firm (by John Grisham; $9.99 to $2.99)
• Garden of Lies ($7.99 to $1.99)
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman ($14.99 to $1.99)
• Girl. Interrupted ($14.95 to $2.99)
• Grimm's Fairy Tales ($18.99 to free)
• The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend ($17.00 to $1.99)
• The Homecoming of Samuel Lake ($15.00 to $1.99)
• The Hobbit ($13.95 to $2.79)
• How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels ($25.99 to $2.99)
• I Gave My Heart to Know This ($26.99 to $1.99)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ($16.00 to $1.99)
• The Invention of Wings: With Notes (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 3) ($27.95 to $3.99)
• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender ($18.99 to $1.99)
• A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon ($14.99 to free)
• Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons ($14.99 to $1.99)
• Long Summer Day (A Horseman Riding By Book 1) ($14.99 to $1.99)
• Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable ($39.99 to free)
• The Mediterranean Diet for Beginners ($9.99 to $0.99)
• A Morbid Taste for Bones (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 1) ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Must Love Dogs ($12.99 to $0.99)
• North and South (The North and South Trilogy) ($14.99 to $1.99)
• Oath of the Brotherhood ($14.99 to free)
• On Being a Data Skeptic ($9.99 to free)
• Oprah: A Biography ($7.99 to $1.99)
• Parenting with Purpose: Winning the Heart of Your Child ($15.99 to free)
• Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc ($14.99 to $1.99)
• The Quinoa Cookbook ($9.99 to $0.99)
• The Scarlet Letter ($3.95 to free)
• Shattered Secrets ($7.99 to $1.99)
• The Shining (by Stephen King; $7.99 to $1.99)
• The Shoemaker's Wife ($15.99 to $1.99)
• Star Triology ($17.99 to $0.99)
• Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Hannah Swenson series Book 2) ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Time Machine ($5.99 to free; add on the professional audio version for free, too)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin ($5.95 to free)
• Unequal Affections: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling ($16.99 to $1.99)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ($15.00 to $1.99)
• Unsinkable: A Memoir (by Debbie Reynolds; $15.99 to $1.99)
• The Water Is Wide (about a teacher; $14.99 to $1.99)
• What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios that Keep Scientists Up at Night ($15.99 to $1.99)
• Wuthering Heights ($9.99 to free)