Free or discounted apps – World Autism Awareness Day (2012)
Today (April 2) we celebrate World Autism Awareness Day. Some app developers celebrate it by offering discounts and in some cases even by giving their apps for free. Last year we already published a list of discounted or free apps. This year we have gone further and have contacted and encouraged all developers to lower the price of their apps. Many had already planned to do it, and others have joined the initiative. The result is a total of 68 apps that are discounted or free today. You will find all of them in the following tables. And, of course, you can always check the list of apps for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch (over 500 different apps) or the similar list devoted to Android apps (with nearly 100 apps).
The list included in this post includes only apps for the iPad/ iPhone/iPod touch. In the case of Android, the only developer that offers a special price for their apps is Good Karma Applications, which has apps for both the iPad/iPhone and Android. Also, some developers are offering some promo codes of their apps today or in April (this is the case of Picture AAC, for example).
How to Read the List
The list is divided into categories. For each one, there is an application table with the following columns:
- App logo.
- iPad version data: app name (by clicking it you can see the corresponding iTunes® web page); other applications that are variants of the main one; year of the latest version; and prices in dollars and euros.
- iPhone / iPod touch version data (same fields). In case this app also supports the iPad, this cell and the previous one will be combined. If the iPad or the iPhone are not supported, a red “x” is shown (but keep in mind that iPhone apps can be used in an iPad using the “2x” display mode).
- Website with more information on the app provided by the developer or its distributor.
- List of languages supported by the app.
- A link to the review of the application published in this blog, if it is already written (represented with the “TEST” logo).
- A short description of the app. This is NOT meant to be a well-thought summary but only an indication of its functionality.
- App Store button, which opens the iTunes web page and the iTunes Store page for that app.
Regarding the iTunes links, they are always like this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aacspeechbuddy/id398117401
Just change ‘/us/’ by ‘/gb/’, ‘/au/’ … to see the corresponding webpage to any other country supported by iTunes.
Note: Apple, the Apple logo, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iTunes is for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don’t steal music.
COMMUNICATION WITH IMAGES / AAC
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | AAC - Scroll and Speak 2011 $49.99 / €39.99  PRICE REDUCED TO $34.99/€26.99!!! | ✘ | Speech Concepts, LLC |  | AAC that combines pictures, words, phrases, text-to-speech, male and female voices, most frequent words/phrases, folders, ... |  |
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 | Ablah HD 2011 $18.99 / €14.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Ablah 2011 $18.99 / €14.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Juan Carlos González Montesino |   | AAC based on images; 44 preloaded | Ablah HD Ablah |
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 | Alexicom Elements Child Home (Female) / Child Home (Male) / Core 280 (Male) / Core 280 (Female) / Teen Home (Female) / Teen Home (Male) / Story Maker 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 Core 280, Story Maker: $9.99 / €7.99 ALL PRICES REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | ✘ | Alexicom Tech LLC | | Collections of linked augmentative communication pages with images and text for a child/teenager in the home environment. Core 280 includes 280 frequent words (text only), and Story Maker has 3 story templates for entering your own stories for retell. | Child Female Child Male Core Female Core Male Teen Female Teen Male Story Maker |
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 | Augie AAC 2011 $159.99 / €119.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | ✘ | Intervention Development LLC | | AAC plus schedules and other functions | |
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 | AutoVerbal Pro Talking Soundboard / AutoVerbal GuyTalk / AutoVerbal GirlTalk / AutoVerbal Español / AutoVerbal Français 2011 $9.99-19.99 / €7.99-15.99 PRICE OF 'PRO' REDUCED TO $14.99/€11.99!!! | No Tie, LLC |  | AAC based on 100's of built-in phrases with text to speech and icons | |
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 | Functional Communication System 2012 $49.99 / €39.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $19.99/€15.99!!! | ✘ | The Conover Company | | Customizable, video-based communication tool that combines real images, audio and video rather than symbol. 500 core vocabulary words. | Lite |
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 | ✘ | My Choice Board 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | | Image-based choice system | |
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 | ✘ | My Words 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Jafferson Software | | AAC based on images and texts | |
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 | Picture AAC 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Hearty SPIN Pte Ltd |  | AAC based on images and native speaker voice. Options to add own images & voice. Training levels for those new to picture communication systems. | |
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 | ✘ | Picture Card Communication 2011 $3.99 / €2.99  | Noriya Kobayashi |  | AAC based on images and sound | |
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 | Scene Speak 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | ✘ | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | | AAC based on images-scenes including "sound areas" | |
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 | So Much 2 Say - Picture Communication 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $7.99/€5.99!!! | ✘ | Close 2 Home Apps, LLC | | AAC based on images with fast card creation, real pictures and recorded voice, and flexible layout options. | |
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 | Speak for Yourself 2011 $299.99 / €239.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $99.99/€79.99!!! | ✘ | Speak for Yourself LLC | | AAC based on images with almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols. Natural voice powered by CereProc's speech system to give voices character, emotion, and personality | |
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PICTURE SCHEDULING / SOCIAL STORIES / AAC
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | Choiceworks 2012 $14.99 / €11.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $9.99/€7.99!!! | Bee Visual LLC | | Tool for helping children complete daily routines (morning, day, and night), understand and control their feelings and improve their waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting). Based on the Choiceworks Visual Support System. It includes 3 boards (Schedule, Waiting, and Feelings), 3 companion books and 165 preloaded images. | |
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 | ✘ | First Then Visual Schedule 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | | Picture schedules | |
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 | Functional Planning System 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $9.99/€7.99!!! | The Conover Company | | Video-based prompting tool and visual scheduler with step-by-step videos. Over 4,000 images and videos downloadable. | |
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 | ✘ | My Video Schedule 2011 $18.99 / €14.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $4.99/€3.99!!! | Acceptional Possibilities, LLC. | | Combines video modeling within a structured schedule while providing positive reinforcement | |
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 | PictureAssistive 2012 $34.99 / €27.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $29.99/€23.99!!! | Benster Tan | | Visual schedules with 1000+ picture symbols, recordable voice, text-to-speech, choice boards, story boards, timer, text to image and image editing capabilities. | |
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 | Speech with Milo: Interactive Storybook 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Interactive story book that allows children to record their own story. | |
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 | Time This 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | Speech Concepts, LLC | | Visual scheduler with clock, hourglass and digital timers | |
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 | Visual Routine 2012 $5.99 / €4.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $4.99/€3.99!!! | ✘ | Proteon Software | | Visual schedules based on images plus text. | |
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 | Visual Schedule Planner 2012 $14.99 / €11.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | ✘ | Good Karma Applications, Inc | | Visual schedule app to give an audio/visual representation of the “events in their day". Events that require more support can be linked to an “activity schedule” or “video clip”. Daily, weekly or via a monthly calendar, timer, checklist, reminders, notes that can be emailed as a PDF, filesharing. | |
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EMOTIONS
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | ✘ | Smurks 2011 $3.99 / €2.99 | Iconicast LLC | | Allows you to show intensity and nuance of emotion by using your finger to morph a face. | |
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | i See-quence... My Schedules at School Social Stories 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | I Get It, LLC | | Sequences of images and instructions about school. | |
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 | ✘ | iModeling 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Mighty Kingdom | | To record video, add notes and an image to them, assign them to a specific child account and see them. | |
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 | iModeling Boundaries 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | ✘ | Mighty Kingdom | | Teaches a child the boundaries of touch/relationships using photos of people involved in the child’s life that have to be sorted by the type of relationship. | |
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 | ✘ | My Healthy Smile 2010 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | Fraser | |  | 12 slideshows for typical dentist situations and oral health | |
 | QuickCues 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | Fraser | | Textual social scripts for communication, life skills, socializing and mental health | |
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 | ✘ | Social Navigator 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 25% DISCOUNT!!! | Seven Minds, LLC | | To assist children with social and behavioral challenges in adapting their behavior and developing life-long social skills, addressing social situations at home, at school and in the community. Tracks behaviors and development. | |
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 | Speech with Milo: Sequencing 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Doonan Speech Therapy | | | Flashcards-animations to order sequences of actions | |
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 | The Social Express / Free 2011 $44.99 / €35.99 "Lite" is free PRICE REDUCED TO $19.99/€15.99!!! | ✘ | The Language Express, Inc | | | Teaches children how to think about and manage social situations through video modeling, thus enabling them to build social-emotional skills and develop meaningful relationships. It includes hidden rules, Social Thinking® concepts, self-regulation, and problem solving to help the user and adult put it all together. | Lite |
ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | Abilipad 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 50% DISCOUNT!!! | ✘ | Cheryl Bregman |   | Combines the functionality of a notepad with word prediction, text-to-speech and a customizable keyboard | |
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 | Aeir Talk 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | ✘ | Aeir Bio Logic, LLC | | Flashcard-based exercises to learn words and numbers but also to construct complete sentences using pictures and audio in a very graphical way. | |
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 | Sentence Builder for iPad / Sentence Builder Teen 2012 $5.99 / €4.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $4.99/€3.99!!! | Sentence Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | Mobile Education Store | | Exercises for building grammatically correct sentences | iPad iPad - Teen |
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 | Speech With Milo - Adjectives 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to learn 55 adjectives | |
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 | Speech with Milo: Prepositions / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Prepositions 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 verbs | |
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 | Speech with Milo: Verbs / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Verbs 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to learn 23 prepositions | |
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 | Touch Talking 2012 $2.99 / €1.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | ✘ | Proteon Software | | 9 categories of pictures with their associated audio clip | |
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 | VAST Autism 1 - Core / Spanish 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $2.99/€2.39!!! | SpeakinMotion, LLC | | Video modeling, written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire words and phrases | Spanish |
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LANGUAGE THERAPY / ARTICULATION / SLP
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | Comprehension TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $19.99/€15.99!!! | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | | Auditory and reading comprehension of single words (700 included). | |
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 | Naming TherAppy 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $19.99/€15.99!!! | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Naming exercises with about 500 words. | |
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 | Reading TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $11.99/€8.99!!! | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | 4 reading practice modes with over 450 exercises at phrase -and sentence- level each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items . | |
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 | Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 - English 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | Pyxwise Software Inc. | | Combination of phonics lessons, spelling/word patterns and contextually relevant spelling rules to improve English spelling and reading skills. Over 450 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English) divided into 42 lists that are organized by spelling patterns and difficulty levels. | |
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 | Simplex Spelling Phonics HD - English Reverse Phonics / Simplex Spelling Free Lite - With Reverse Phonics 2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 'Free Lite' is free PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | Pyxwise Software Inc. | | Spelling and reading exercises based on combining a unique “reverse phonics” approach with contextually relevant spelling rules that explain why words are spelled in a particular manner. Over 260 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English). | HD Free Lite |
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 | Speech Journal 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | ✘ | Mobile Education Store | | Voice recorder that lets you pair recorded messages with your own imported images and image sequences | |
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 | VAST Songs 1 - Intro 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $2.99/€2.39!!! | SpeakinMotion, LLC | | Song videos to practice sound articulation. Key Works Therapy Samples are focused on apraxia and aphasia. | |
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 | Writing TherAppy 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $15.99/€11.99!!! | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Spelling practice with more than 400 words. | |
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THERAPIES SUPPORT / DTT / ABA
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | ✘ | ABABasic 2011 $2.99 / €1.99 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | KV Adaptive LLC | | Discrete trails training | |
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 | ✘ | ABAPecs 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!! | KV Adaptive LLC | | Step by step instructions to learn PECS. | |
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 | ✘ | ABAPref 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | KV Adaptive LLC | | Preference assessments | |
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 | ✘ | Adam's Game - Toddler Voice Flash Cards / Adam's Spiel - German Voice Flash Cards 2009 $1.99 / €1.59 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Sol Robots, L.L.C. | | Receptive language practice using three images each time | |
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 | Autism Colors / Letters / Numbers / Shapes / Words 2012 $2.99-13.99 / €3.99-10.99 WORDS FREE!!! | ZBobbApps.com | | | Discrete trails training to learn the colors (or letters, numbers, shapes or words) | Words |
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 | See.Touch.Learn. / See-Touch.Learn. Pro 2012 Free (image packs are $0.99-$6.99 / €0.79-€5.49) Pro: $24.99 / €19.99 PRICE REDUCED BY $19.99/€15.99 AND ALL LIBRARIES REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | ✘ | Brain Parade LLC | | | Create and execute cards-based exercises (for ABA programs). | Free Pro |
 | SpeakColors / SpeakColors HD 2012 Free SpeakColorsHD: $1.99 / €1.59 50% DISCOUNT!!! | ✘ | RWH Technology | | Practice two word phrases with color words and common objects | Free HD |
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MOTOR SKILLS / EYE CONTACT
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | App Store |
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 | ✘ | ASD Timer 2010 PRICE REDUCED TO $1.99/€1.59!!!$2.99 / €2.39 | The Round Studios | | Visual timer | |
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 | ✘ | Take Turns 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | Kringelbach IT |  | | Automatic egg timer | |
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | ||
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 | ✘ | ABC Behavior Assessment 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | Reticent Arts | | ABC (Antecedents, Behaviors, Consequences) basic data collection tool. | |
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 | Autism Tracker Pro (Track Analyze Share ASD Daily) / Lite 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 "Lite" is free 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Track & Share Apps, LLC | | Tracks data, view and discuss patters using the multi-item graphs and the visual calendar, and share data using email or Twitter. | Lite |
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 | ✘ | AutismTrack 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | | Journaling tool to track interventions, behaviors and symptoms | |
LEISURE AND LEARNING
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description | ||
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 | Look Again Jr 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 PRICE REDUCED TO $0.99/€0.79!!! | Smappsoft | | | 120 exercises for learning logic reasoning, the association of concepts, spatial abstraction, mental arithmetic and, in general, the attention. | |
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 | Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori HD 2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 | Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori / HD 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 (not the HD version) | Les Trois Elles Interactive | | | Exercises to learn numbers 0 to 9. | HD |
 | PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books HD 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) PRICE OF MANY BOOKS REDUCED!!! | PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) PRICE OF MANY BOOKS REDUCED!!! | Genera Interactive |  | | Multimedia books for kids | HD |
 | Wood Puzzle HD / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free 50% DISCOUNT!!! | Wood Puzzle / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Tropisounds Corporation | | | Wood puzzles | HD |
-Francesc Sistach
Comments
AWESOME list, thanks for putting it together!
great list, unfortunately some apps weren’t free after all
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