Free Apps Jan. 9, 2015

Post date: Jan 9, 2015 8:17:11 PM

There are some good apps gone free today!

There's a great free iBook available this week in the US iTunes Store. It's The Animal Book and it's normally $8.99.

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

• Drawing Brush Free ($1.99)
• Labo Drawing Lessons ($2.99)
• Labo Halloween Drawing Lessons ($0.99)
• ToyBrush 3D ($2.99)
• Tux Paint Free (the favorite web art program now has an app)
• Van Gogh: Painted with Words ($0.99)

ELA

• Compound Word Match ($0.99)
• English Grammar Pro ($0.99)
• 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)
• 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

• Strawberry Shortcake ($0.99)
• Kid's Puzzle Teach Me Ponies for Girls ($4.99)

ESL

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

Foreign Language

• Spanish Words with Gato (new app)

Health/PE/Sports

• Count Your Peas (healthy eating; $2.99)

Interactive Books

• Alice in Wonderland - ELI ($3.99; good app)
• Big Thoughts for Little People (new app)
• Lobster Tale (cute; $1.99)
• Oobie's Space Adventure ($0.99)
• Siena's Edible Adventure ($2.99)
• Three Little Pigs - A Play HD ($4.99)
• The Tree I See ($0.99)
• Where Are You Little Star? ($4.99)
• 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 Bee Goes Shopping ($0.99)
• Booger Town (solve a mystery; $2.99)
• The Boy and the Bears Read Out Loud ($1.99)
• 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)
• Italian Tales: Nino and the 3 Magic Gifts (new app)
• Meet the Ballerina Monsters (new app)
• The Pinchpenny Mouse ($0.99)
• Pied Piper for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Red Riding Hood for Children by Story Time for Kids (great new app)
• Robin Hood for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)
• Rufus the Dog: A Snowy Tail ($1.99)
• Starlinos - Kid's Book HD ($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 Wizard of Oz for Children by Story Time for Kids (new app)

iOS 8 Keyboards

• Translate Keyboard Pro ($1.99)
• Slated - Translation Keyboard ($4.99)

Math

• Ask MathStudio - Natural Language Calculator and Unit Converter ($2.99)
• Feed a Frog (new app)
• Matching Money Using Pictures ($1.99)
• Pengu Math (new subtraction app)
• Math Is Easy - Prime Factorization and Equation Solver ($0.99)
• Math Practice with Blocks (new app)
• Mathseeds Grade 1 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Grade 2 ($7.99)
• Mathseeds Kindergarten ($7.99)

Music

• Chord Ear Trainer ($0.99)
• Paperless Music ($4.99)
• Write Interval ($0.99)
• Write Key Signature ($0.99)

Photography/Video

• SuperSlo - Slow Motion Video Editor and Camera ($1.99)

Productivity

• Capture Board Pro ($0.99)
• Expense-Tracker+ ($19.99)
• Dream X (mind mapping; $4.99)
• Form Expert ($3.99)
• Hit Recorder for iPad ($6.99)

Robotics

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

Science

• DIY Human Body (good new app)
• Global Shark Tracker (updated free app)
• Weather Barometer (new app)
• Alimentary Avengers (good new app)
• Anatomy 4D (new app)
• Daily Physics ($0.99)
• Earth - Now (new app)
• The Solar System VL2 Storybook (good new app that includes American Sign Language)
• Survive Global Climate Change (new app)
• Texas Nature Trackers (new app from Texas Parks and Wildlife)
• Tundra Biome (good new app)

Social Studies

• Time Maps World War 2 - Interactive History Maps, Battles and Key Characters ($2.99)

Special Needs

• Speedy Speech - R (new app)
• Speedy Speech - S (new app)
• Word Vault Essential (excellent new app)

Teacher

• ClassFlow Teacher ($7.99)
• Stage Pro: Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera ($4.99)
• Student Talk ($0.99)

Toddler/Preschool/Primary

• Jelly 8: Learning Shape Number Color Game for Kids ($1.99)
• ABC for Kids - Tracing Alphabets ($0.99)

Free and Sale Kindle Books for January 9

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

• Amazing Facts About Astronauts ($2.99)
• In Search of Herobrine: A Famous Novel about Minecraft ($2.99)
• A Monster Stole My Shoe ($2.99)
• Baffin's Desire for Fire: Dragonasaurus Tales ($2.99)
• Claire Goes Foraging ($3.00)
• A Conglomeration of Curious Creatures ($2.99)
• Dinosaurs ($2.99)
• The Dragon's Mountain ($2.99)
• Electricity! ($2.99)
• Giggleswick: The Amadan Map ($0.99)
• Guitar for Kids ($2.99)
• Helen the Transartist ($2.99)
• How the Gold Got in the Golden Rule ($3.99)
• The Newbie ($2.99)
• One Cat, Two Cat, New Cat! ($0.99)
• Redy and Bluey: Nursery Rhymes ($0.99)
• Rock You Tonight ($2.99)
• Sharks! ($2.99)
• Tigers ($2.99)

Free Teen Books

• Fledgling (The Shapeshifter Chronicles Book 1) ($2.99)
• Simple History: A Simple Guide to World War I ($3.99)
• The Stone Gate ($0.99)

Sale Children's Books

• The Boxcar Children ($5.99 to $1.99)
• Katie and the Cupcake Cure ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Giver ($8.99 to $1.99)
• Hatchet ($7.99 to $3.99)
• The Missing Pieces of Me ($17.99 to $3.99)
• Silly Tilly ($3.99 to $1.00)
• Time for Bunny (3 books; $6.99 to $0.99)

Sale Teen Books

• Beautiful Creatures ($7.99 to $1.99)
• Divergent ($12.99 to $2.99)
• The Hunger Games ($12.99 to $1.99)
• Legend ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Matched ($9.99 to $1.99)
• The Maze Runner ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Silver Shadows: A Bloodlines Novel ($18.99 to $2.99)
• Vampire Academy ($9.99 to $1.99)

Free and Sale Books for Adults

• 20 Compelling Evidences that God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense ($14.99 to free)
• The Bourne Identity ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (by Charlaine Harris; $7.99 to $1.99)
• Illustrated Life of Jesus ($24.99 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)
• Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking Differently ($26.99 to $0.99)
• The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training ($11.99 to $1.99)
• North and South (The North and South Trilogy) ($14.99 to $1.99)
• A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight Against Cancer ($12.99 to free)
• 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything ($9.99 to free)
• The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People ($12.99 to $1.99)
• The Art Forger ($14.95 to $1.99)
• Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World ($13.95 to $1.99)
• The Big Picture: 11 Laws that Will Change Your Life ($15.99 to $1.99)
• Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It ($15.99 to $1.99)
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff ($12.99 to $1.99)
• First: What It Takes to Win ($15.99 to free)
• Get Back Jack (The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Book 4) ($14.99 to $0.99)
• Having My Baby ($11.99 to $0.99)
• The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend ($17.00 to $1.99)
• He Restores My Soul ($12.99 to $0.99)
• Hopscotch Challenges: Learn to Code on an iPad (with free app Hopscotch; $0.99 to free)
• Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard ($9.99 to $1.99)
• The Illusion of Separateness ($14.99 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)
• The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Loving the Marquess (Landing a Lord Book 1) ($11.99 to $0.99)
• Maybe Someday ($7.99 to $1.99)
• A Morbid Taste for Bones (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 1) ($9.99 to $1.99)
• Moriarty: Anna Kronberg Trilogy ($22.00 to $0.99)
• Must Love Dogs ($12.99 to $0.99)
• The Remaining (film to be released in September; $14.99 to free)
• Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Hannah Swenson series Book 2) ($6.99 to $1.99)
• The Sweetness ($16.95 to $0.99)
• What Women Fear: Walking in Faith that Transforms ($9.99 to $0.99)