Free Apps Friday: Vampire Camera, Deviant Art, Bass Booster

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

SOMA Messenger: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: ” ­he world’s fastest messenger with free unlimited messaging, phone calls and HD video calls. ”

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.”

Vampire Camera: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Dreaming about vampire face? Using this vampire photo editor you can apply virtual vamp teeth in seconds!”

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

GrooveMaker 2: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “GrooveMaker 2 is the latest version of the revolutionary iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app designed for creating non-stop electronic, dance and hip-hop tracks in real-time. Now anyone can get results that sound like they were made by a professional DJ every time!”

Status Board: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Status Board lets you easily create a beautiful status display for your company (or yourself!) by just dragging and dropping powerful, customizable panels.”

FX Photo Studio: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “FX Photo Studio is the biggest collection of photo filter effects available on iPhone, with stickers, borders, fonts, textures and frame effects to help you snap the perfect photo.”

AppBox Pro: Anatomy: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “This powerful, sleek new version of AppBox Pro helps you easily create, browse, organize and edit your private information including new categories such as video and software licenses, events, shopping list, cycle calendar for women and more in minutes with just a few taps.”

Matter: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Add stunning 3D effects to your photos with real-time shadows and reflections. Export your creations as photos or video loops.”

Start Running Pro : FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “A 4-week training program that will turn you from a Michelin Man into an untiring running machine in a month’s time. Well, all right, you won’t be ready for a marathon, but you’ll really be able to run AND you’ll be enjoying it! ”

Windows Phone

Piano Tunes: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Listen to beautiful piano tunes, and learn how to play them.”

1Shot Camera: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Take control of your phone camera. 1Shot gives you a choice of simple or advanced settings. App includes a high resolution photo viewer and an option to apply various filters.”

Deviant Art: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “This is a client app for DeviantArt.com resource which brings together artists from all over the world allowing you to watch, follow and be impressed by fantastic works of art in different fields, starting from digital art and ending with sculptures and literature.”

Yivosoft Recorder: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Yivosoft Recorder is a fully featured audio recorder. It has a very clean and friendly interface that is easy to use. With one click playback you can record then listen to any recording without effort.”

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.”

Receipt Tracker: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Receipt Tracker, a Microsoft Garage project, is an expense tracking app that uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to automatically extract information from receipt photos.”