Free Apps Friday: Fluttr, Pet First Aid, Skiersapp

Are you looking to make your smartphone or tablet more useful? Each week, we collect the latest productivity apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone; all of which are 100 per cent free! Here are this week’s highlights.

This is a hand-picked list of free apps we’ve noticed this week while assembling our regular App Deals roundup of new and discounted apps. We haven’t reviewed them and we don’t endorse them. As with the main App Deals column, apps can stop being free at a moment’s notice if they’re discounted, so grab them quickly if you’re interested.

Android

YouTube Gaming: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “YouTube Gaming keeps you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to you. Featuring videos and live streams with chat — including let’s plays, reviews, speedruns, trailers, and more from your favourite gamers and publishers — you can explore the games you care about more deeply than ever before.”

Dreamify: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Dreamify transforms your photos into otherworldly masterpieces. Using Google’s Deep Dream, Dreamify puts you in control: select from a dozen presets, or toggle the algorithm parameters to innovate on your own. Share your faves with other users and friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks or via text or email.”

Pet First Aid: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Take care of your furry family member. The American Red Cross Pet First Aid app puts veterinary advice for everyday emergencies in the palm of your hand. Get the app and be prepared to act when called upon. With videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice it’s never been easier to know Pet First Aid.”

Transparent Launcher: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Do you want to give your phone an amazing look? Then download our Transparent Screen Launcher and transparent your phone.”

Music Tagger: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Music Tagger is a material design music tag editor that introduces features like lyrics editing & album art editing to make the process of tagging your song files quick and easy.”

iOS

ParkFit: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “ParkFit helps you discover crowdsourced publicly available workout structures in your surrounding built and natural environments, making it easy to workout outdoors for free. Find a park bench, a set of stairs, or a chin up bar in a local park and get a workout done anytime, anywhere!”

Looped CVR: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “This is Looped, a premiere voice recording app with a unique file saving ability. By creating
a audio loop track inside your phone we have limited the recording time and memory needed for the storage of your recording file. With a real time and date stamp to the second plus multiple sharing options and auto file delete to save the hassle of deleting old recordings.”

Threads: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Wonder how your favorite Instagram creators like thefatjewish make those hilarious chat screenshots?Threads lets you create chats that are on fleek–on the fly. Share Threads to iMessage, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and more.”

ReadQuick: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “The world’s best speed reading app. ReadQuick helps you read faster than ever before. Designed for iOS 7, this app helps you speed read your way through your Pocket, Instapaper and Readability reading lists. Watch your comprehension sky rocket in just one day. “

YouCompose: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “YouCompose is a compositional tool that all iPad and iPhone musicians should have. With it you can accomplish complex compositional tasks with ease. It’s also great fun to just play with this App.”

Medimate: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Medimate is a practical medical prescription organizer for you and your family, so you’ll never again forget to take your meds.”

Fluttr: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Fluttr is a mobile app created for sharing travel photos and to inspire wanderlust. We believe that people are inspired to travel by the real stories and experiences of trips shared by friends, family and fellow travelers. So we have created an app that shares photos not just of spectacular sceneries but of people and their experiences.”

SQRD: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “SQRD lets you easily create stunning square photos and videos from your library without cropping anything from the original.”

Film Note: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Film Note is an app to help you annotate movie files with your own short videos called ‘notes’.”

Windows Phone

SkiersApp: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “SkiersApp is your downhill skiing companion. It displays skiing statistics for you while skiing. Data such as max speed, height difference, distance and max G-force is displayed. Bring SkiersApp to the hills and start checking your ski data.”

Catchme Sports Tracker: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Track your training and sporting activities, measure speed, pace, distance, calories burned and much more! Catchme is the simplest aid to improve your fitness, whether you’re starting off on your first 5k, biking every day, or deep into marathon training.”

Mirror Photo Grid: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “RMirror Grid Collage is wonderful tool with mirror style to make amazing photo. You just select your photo which you want to make photo grid mirror photo.”

5 Minute Home Workouts: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Easy to follow 5 minute home exercise routines divided into 6 categories: Abs, Fat Loss, Chest and Arms, Butt and Legs, yoga and Pilates.”

Real Guitar: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Real Guitar is one of the most realistic guitar simulator apps featuring a user-friendly interface and an awesome sound quality. All the notes have been recorded from the live acoustic guitar.”

Realarm: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Bored of waking up by the same ringtone every day? Simply assign more sounds to alarm and sounds will alternate randomly! Realarm is the most powerful alarm app on the market.”


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