ZEN Studios is well known for its iOS pinball games. And now one of its most popular titles has gone free. Just in time for May the 4th be with you celebrations, Star Wars Pinball 4 for iOS can now be download at no cost. Regularly listed at $2, it has been almost a year since the last time this Pinball app went free, so be sure to jump on it while you can.
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It’s almost May and Microsoft has released the details on next month’s Games with Gold lineup. Xbox Live members can grab four games for free as a part of this promotion, head below for a look at the full lot.
Chipotle is now offering a free burrito when you purchase a $25 (or more) gift card. Just go to your nearest Chipotle to buy the gift card and the free burrito voucher will show up on your receipt. Also, coming up May 3rd for Teacher Appreciation Day: teachers, faculty and staff (just bring in your school ID) will get BOGO burritos, tacos, bowls or salads.
Full terms and conditions for both offers:
Update (4/21 3:10pm): Apple has now officially selected Calendars 5 as the new App Store Free App of the Week
Readdle’s Calendars 5 for iOS is now available for free. It usually sells for $3 to $7 and hasn’t gone free directly on the App Store since May of 2014. Calendars 5 is a smart event and task manager with a 4+ star rating from over 8,000 users. You can take a look at full details on 9to5Mac.
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Amazon is offering a free $5 Kindle eBook credit to first time users of its Underground App Store for Android devices. The $5 credit will be applied to your account within 48 hours and must be used within 10 days. Note: this promotion is only available for first time Amazon Underground customers, full terms and condition below. Eligible titles for this promotion include: Flow Free, Simple Mahjong, Dr. Panda’s Restaurant 2, Goat Simulator, Cut the Rope: Time Travel HD, Flow Free and Heads Up.
Apple has now handpicked Space Marshals as the App Store’s new Free App of the Week. Regularly listed at $4.99, this is the very first time we have seen this app go free on the App Store since release. It has a 4+ star rating from over 1,500 gamers.
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Also, Amazon offers Prime members a three month trial membership for free. That’s a savings of $45 and tied with our previous mention for the lowest we’ve seen for a 3-month Audible membership.
At the end of free trial, your Audible subscription will be automatically renewed at the full price (currently $14.95 per month). But of course you can cancel at anytime.
Already a member? Audible is currently having a “Spring Cleaning Sale” where just about every title is 50% off. The Spring Cleaning Sale is open to Audible members only and ends April 18.
Minimalistic iOS puzzler HOOK is available for free today on the App Store. Regularly listed at $1, this game tends to only go free for very brief periods (usually one day) and not very often at that. It appears as though today’s deal will follow suit and likely jump back up in price sometime tomorrow. HOOK has a 5 star rating from over 650 gamers.
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We have spotted a bunch of freebie Kindle eBooks on Amazon today. There is quite a nice selection here from multi-book sets and comics to brainteasers and more. There is a helpful preview available for each book available by clicking the main image on each listing. You’ll find the complete list below:
Amazon offers the GOgroove BlueSYNC Bluetooth speaker for $24.99. However Coupon Code BLUESYNC drops the price to $19.99 Prime shipped. That’s tied for an all time low on this attractive square speaker that features a sleek, gunmetal cube styling and back-lit LED glow on the front panel, gets 4.5 ratings from Amazon reviewers and features NFC pairing, AUX and USB inputs and charging and great sound from 2 3W speakers. It also includes a 1 year manufacturer warranty.
Mojang has finally released its full line of skin packs for Minecraft Story Mode. In celebration of the first season’s conclusion, you’ll be able to grab all 27 skins for free on iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation and Windows. Each DLC will be free for the next week and then some will require a $2.99 fee to add permanently, as usual. You can redeem each console-specific skin kit within their respective online stores. Here are some easy links to get you started: iOS, Amazon Android Store, Xbox Marketplace, PlayStation Store.
Today reddit has released a brand new official mobile app for iOS and Android. Users who download and login to the app during the next week will be automatically upgraded to a 3-month reddit gold premium membership for free.
Update (4/7 3:38pm): Apple has now officially selected Cut the Rope Time Travel as the App Store’s new Free App of the Week.
Cut the Rope: Time Travel and its HD counterpart for iPad have now gone free on the App Store. Regularly listed at $1 each, this is the very first time we have seen them go free on the App Store since releasing back in 2013. The popular Cut the Rope series had garnered 4+ star reviews from well over 100,000 gamers, and Time Travel is no exception carrying its own 4+ star rating from thousands.
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Amazon is currently offering Mansfield Park by Jane Austen as a Kindle eBook with Audible narration for free. Note: be sure to check ‘add Audible narration’ in the buy now box. For a price comparison, this classic novel typically sells for $16+ as a hardcover or $8 in paperback format. Google Play offers the eBook version for between $1 and $10. Rated 4.2/5 stars by 667 Amazon customers.
There’s a new way to catch live baseball this year. Yahoo has announced that it will stream a select game every day for free throughout the duration of the Major League Baseball 2016 season . You can view the April stream schedule at this Yahoo Sports blog post.
Amazon has kicked off another exclusive promotion for its Prime members. This week eligible Amazon shoppers can receive a free 4-month subscription for up to 3 print magazines, including Wired, GQ, Popular Science, Popular Photography, Reader’s Digest, Golf Digest and others. Each subscription will automatically renew at an annual rate of $10 per year. If you don’t want to be charged for future deliveries, just cancel your subscriptions before the initial offer period ends. Continue on for more details:
BJ’s is currently offering a free 90-day membership to its warehouse club. For a price comparison, a full-year typically retails for $50 but is periodically available for around $25. To redeem this promotion, simply head over to this page and click on ‘Print Offer’. Bring the coupon into your local BJ’s location (store locator) and you’ll be able to shop for three months. Note: this offer is available for new customers only.
While you may have had a chance to play Final Fantasy XV with the Duscae demo as part of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Square has now released another quick taste of what to expect. In fact, this time around we are getting a completely standalone experience as opposed to a vertical slice directly from the upcoming game.
AT&T has a new promo starting today that will let you get a free 48” Samsung Smart TV with the purchase of the Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge. The only catch is that you need to have both AT&T Next service for the phone and DirecT or U-Verse service and at least one of those accounts must be new.
The free TV is the LED J5200 Series Smart TV 48″ Class TV, which lists at $999 but currently sells for around $500 on Amazon, Samsung’s website, and elsewhere.
Apple has now hand picked CHOMP by Christoph Niemann – funny video stories for kids as the App Store’s new Free App of the Week. This unique interactive storybook app is regularly listed at $2 and can now be downloaded to all your iOS devices free of charge.
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Google Play is back at it again with a couple of free MP3 albums this morning. First up, you can snatch a download of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid for free. This album regularly goes for $9 as a digital download at Amazon. Released in 1970, Paranoid has gone Platinum four times over and peaked at the top of the Billboard 200.
Sony has announced its selection of PlayStation Plus titles for April. All together, PS Plus members will be able to grab six free games. Head below for a full look at what’s coming down the pipeline.
Update: April 1st? That’s today!! Don’t forget to pick up your free glazed doughnut TODAY!!
Krispy Kreme is offering a free glazed doughnut to celebrate the “bountiful” doughnut harvest this year. Just stop in on April 1st to a participating Krispy Kreme to claim your free classic glazed doughnut. If your local Krispy Kreme is NOT a participating location it will be on this list.
BTW, This is not an April Fools prank by the company (we checked). This is a legit promotion being offered on April 1st, 2016.
Apple has now selected Motorsport Manager as the App Store’s new Free App of the Week. Regularly listed at $2, this is the very first time the game has gone free on the App Store since its release back in August of 2014. This mobile racing team management sim has a 4+ star rating from over 800 gamers and is compatible with all your iOS devices.
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The Google Play Store is currently offering a free MP3 download of Duran Duran’s latest album Paper Gods. You would typically have to pay $12 or more to snag this recording at online stores like Amazon.
Update (3/24 1:05pm): After some slight issues, it looks as though the Day One 2 freebie appears to be up and working now!
Update (3/24 12:15pm): Some users are reporting issues with the free download. We suggest trying again later as it appears to be working intermittently.
Apple is now giving away free downloads of Day One 2 for iOS. It currently sells for $4.99 , but will be jumping back up to $9.99 after its initial release sale is over. Developer Bloom Built recently launched the latest edition of its popular organization/journal app with a series of new updates and features. You can get the complete break down of the new app over on 9to5Mac. Between the new one and the previous version, Day One has amassed a 4+ star rating from over 19,000 reviewers.
You’ll need to go through the Apple Store app (not the App Store!) to take advantage of this special promotion. Complete download instructions are as follows:
April is right around the corner and Microsoft has announced its latest lineup of Games with Gold titles. Xbox Live members can grab four games for free as a part of this promotion. Head below for a full breakdown on what to expect…
Samsung is offering a free $30 gift card when you use Samsung Pay with qualifying purchases from now though March 31st. Simply make a Samsung Pay purchase using a Galaxy S7/edge, and you will see a pop-up notification where you can choose which card you want from these choices: eBay, Best Buy, Whole Foods, Nike or Regal Cinema. It appears as though only “qualifying” purchases are eligible, and you can find our more details below:
Amazon offers Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Special Edition #1 from DC Comics as a free Kindle eBook download. Also available at iTunes, Google Play and ComiXology. For a price comparison, you’ll typically find similar versions of this comic for around $5.
Mercury Magazines is offering a Maxim Magazine 1-Year Digital Subscription (10 issues) for free when you provide a work email. That’s a $10+ value. Maxim “caters to the modern man with content that promises to seduce, entertain and continuously surprise readers.”
Also, Mercury Magazines offers a Good Housekeeping 2-Year Print Subscription (24 issues) for free when you fill out a short form. That’s a $13+ value. Good Housekeeping features articles about women’s interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles.
The arena-based action platformer Muffin Knight is now available for free on iOS. Not to be confused with the always free version, which has a very limited number of levels, characters and more, Muffin Night regularly sells for $1. This is the first time we have seen the full paid version go free since November of 2014. It has a 4+ star rating from over 9,200 reviewers.
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Chipotle will give you a free order of chips and guacamole for playing its Guac Hunter online game. The point of the game is to try and spot the differences between a few photos before time runs out. It’s actually not as easy as you’d think, but no worries because you’ll be eligible for this freebie even if you lose the game. It should only take a few minutes. Have fun.
Apple has now officially selected Sputnik Eyes as the App Store’s new Free App of the Week. This adventure-based puzzler is regularly listed at $2 and can now be downloaded on all your iOS devices for nothing until this time next week. This is the very first time it has gone free since it released back in the summer of 2015.
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T-Mobile has added yet another valuable perk for some of its subscribers. During the week of April 3rd, Simple Choice customers on select plans can sign-up to receive free MLB.TV Premium ($109.99 value) and At Bat Premium ($19.99 value) access for the entire 2016 baseball. With MLB.TV you can stream every out-of-market MLB game live or on-demand and take in highlights from around the league. What’s more, any data consumed while watching baseball games won’t count against your monthly allowance thanks to T-Mobile’s Bing-On promotion.
The only catch here is that you must register for this offer during the initial sign-up period. Full details are as follows:
Update (3/16 3:10pm): DiscountMags is offering a 4 year subscription to Motor Trend magazine for just $12 shipped right now using code Electronicsforward at checkout. This is the lowest we see this mag go for outside of the once a year holiday deals.
Mercury Magazines is now offering a Car and Driver 2-Year Subscription (24 issues) for free when you fill out a short form (full name and work email). That’s the best deal we’ve seen on this magazine. You would have to pay $25 at Car and Driver’s website for the same subscription.
For the first time in the nearly 6 years it’s been on the App Store, Train Conductor 2: USA for iPhone and iPad is now available as a free download. As a price comparison, it most recently sold for $2.99 and has been priced as low as $0.99. It’s amassed a lifetime 4+ star rating from more than 4,300 reviewers.
Starting today, Parallels is offering a new bundle for a limited time that will let you get 81% off 7 great Mac apps with the purchase or upgrade of Parallels Desktop for Mac ($50-$79).
That means if you either purchase Parallels Desktop for $79.99, or upgrade to the latest version for $49.99, you’ll get the following 7 apps free: 1Password, CleanMyMac, Kaspersky for Mac, PDF Expert, PDF Office for iPad & Parallels Access.
Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop for iPhone & iPod has gone free for the first time since October. This popular utility typically sells for $3. It has collected a 4.5/5 star rating from over 2,300 App Store customers all-time.
If you’re not familiar, Splashtop 2 allows iOS users to remotely access their Mac or Windows PC from an iPhone or iPod. You’ll be able to replicate your computer’s desktop on your device with full access to all functionality. All you have to do is install the desktop utility alongside the iOS app and you’re all set. The app includes free access to any computer on the same network or you can opt for an in-app purchase that allows you to connect from anywhere.
TomTom used to have a handful of paid apps, each specific to a region. The app covering just the U.S., for example, was $45. But today it’s making its premium navigation services free for iPhone users everywhere for the first 50 miles or 75km of use. The new freemium model comes as the company consolidates its TomTom apps for each region under a new, redesigned app simply called TomTom Go Mobile.
Paul McCartney has made a few of his deep tracks available to download for free. Just head to this page and provide a few pieces of information (email, zip code, etc) and you’ll have instant access to every freebie. The following songs are currently available as part of this promotion:
Update (3/10 3:20pm): Apple has now officially named oneSafe the new Free App of the Week.
The oneSafe Premium Password Manager app for iOS has gone free for the first time. This utility typically retails for $5-$9 and has been as low as $1 a few times since it was released back in 2013. It has collected a 4.5/5 star rating from over 3,200 App Store customers all-time.
Amazon offers a free download of The Blue Book Fairy by Andrew Lang as a Kindle eBook with Audible narration. Note: you must check the “Add Audible Narration” box beneath the buy now button. This book typically goes for $9 as a paperback. Rated 4.1/5 stars.
Note: Complete and verifiable information is required in order to receive this offer.
Apple has now officially selected Toca Kitchen 2 as the App Store’s Free App of the Week. It is regularly listed at $3 and can now be downloaded to all your iOS devices for free. While we have seen it dip down to $1 from time to time, this is the first time it has gone free directly on the App Store. It has a 4+ star rating from over 1,200 reviewers.
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Google Play offers a free MP3 download of Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory album. This album typically goes for $11+ as a digital download or $7 as a CD at Amazon.
Originally released back in 2000, Hybrid Theory includes hit tracks like One Step Closer, In the End, and Crawling. It has sold over 10,000,000 albums in the United States and hit #2 on the Billboard 200 at its peak. Rated 4.3/5 stars by nearly 2,000 Amazon reviewers.
Google Play has some of the biggest performances from the 2016 Brit Awards for free. There are a total of 7 songs available from major artists including The Weeknd, Coldplay, Justin Bieber and even a special tribute to David Bowie featuring Lorde with David Bowie’s backing band. All of the freebies can be streamed or downloaded exclusively from Google Play:
We reviewed LD West’s gun holster-style iPhone case and wallet combo back in 2014 when it first launched. Today we have an exclusive $20 off all currently available models on the company’s website. That means deal prices start at $109, down from the usual $129 regular price.
