June 21st Edition

Today’s Great Free Apps: Living Planet, Alien Buddies, TapDot And More

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iPhone & iPad:

ElephantBites – Conquering, the Overwhelming ($0.99 → Free, 13.2 MB): Conquer overwhelming projects one step at a time with this unique productivity app.

Elephants are giant, overwhelming projects that are difficult to get a handle on. ElephantBites helps you complete them by breaking them down into bites. Bites are all of the small, actionable steps that are needed to complete your larger project. You’re able to create as many as necessary. To mark a bite as complete, just swipe from left to right. You’re able to reorganize bites and delete them as well. For every elephant you complete, you will earn a trophy to remind you that nothing is impossible. These impressive trophies can be shared and boasted about on Twitter or Facebook. You’re also able to reuse elephants instead of starting over from scratch.

ElephantBites – Conquering, the Overwhelming is available for free today only (06/20). It has a 5-star rating with a total of 9 ratings.

Classic Note ($0.99 → Free, 638.7 KB): Head back to 1985 with this retro note taking app.

It has the look of one of those original Macintosh 128k computers. When you launch the app, you’ll hear a classic startup tone. You can then take notes just as you would with any other app. Additional tools are available via a drop-down menu including a calculator, fortune teller, and a Dogcow wrangling game. Yes, you read that right. Clarus the Dogcow even makes an appearance!

Classic Note is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 37 ratings.

Living Planet – Tiny Planet Videos and Photos ($0.99 → Free, 7.4 MB): Create tiny planets from your photos or videos with this entertaining photography app.

You’re able to import any photo or video from your library or capture something new from within the app. Living Planet will then transform your chosen content into a tiny, circular planet. An inverted wormhole option is also available. You’re able to apply one of the 40 expertly crafted filters before saving your unique creation and sharing it. The app also allows you to monitor video processing frame-by-frame.

Living Planet – Tiny Planet Videos and Photos is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 36 ratings.

TapDot ($0.99 → Free, 8.5 MB): Give your fingers a workout with this hectic tapping game.

All you have to do is tap the blue dots as they appear as quickly and accurately as possible. Over time other blue shapes will be introduced, and you’ll have to go against your every desire to tap them. Orange shapes will also be introduced as you progress, and you’ll actually have to tap all shapes but the dots to turn them all blue again. The game includes three skills levels, funky music, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

TapDot is available for free today only (06/20). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 155 ratings.

Alien Buddies – Preschool Learning Activities ($1.99 → Free, 40.1 MB): An educational game that’s so fun and colorful your children won’t even know they’re learning.

Alien Buddies allows your child to participate in four educational games and play modes: matching, dot to dot, puzzle, and stickers. Each one offers a variety of activities to participate in, and reinforces fundamental skills. Alien Buddies includes a total of 40 activities, an adorable cast of characters, all kinds of stickers to earn, and instructional audio with constant positive feedback.

Alien Buddies – Preschool Learning Activities is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 255 ratings.

PlunderNauts ($1.99 → Free, 92.6 MB): Battle space pirates to claim Ironbeard’s long lost treasure for yourself in PlunderNauts, the just-launched combat game from Backflip Studios.

You get to command your very own starship and crew. Lead them into battle and take on other greedy space pirates in a race to claim Ironbeard’s treasure. Your starship is equipped with various weapons, and it’s your job to align and get them within range of your opponents so you can strike when the moment is right. All of the combat takes place in real-time, so you must steer your ship with finesse and fire your weapons at will. You’re able to use the loot you collect from your fallen foes to forge new weapons, purchase upgrades, and build a vast fleet of starships. The game includes a huge amount of planets to plunder, pirate bosses to battle, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center. If you join the battle for galactic supremacy today, you will receive 200 anti-matter and 3,000 gold for free!

PlunderNauts is available for free today only (06/20). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 12 ratings.

MarcoPolo Ocean ($2.99 → Free, 196.9 MB): This new and highly interactive educational app allows your child to explore and play in the ocean.

They’re able to explore the ocean all on their own from the shoreline all of the way down to the sea floor. They’re also able to populate the ocean waters with more than 30 different species and interact with them in a wide variety of ways. When they’re done exploring, your child is able to learn about ocean creations through five build-and-play activities.

MarcoPolo Ocean is available for free today only (06/20). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 118 ratings.