Top 10 Free iOS Apps

Google Maps
The best app for navigation and Google never stops improving the features. When I'm writing this post, the app provides the following and more.
  • Voice guided navigation
  • Live traffic conditions
  • Street view
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/A8S3I.i

Spark
I have used so many email clients but this app stands out from the rest. 
  • Add/save attachments from/to google drive, dropbox, onedrive and other cloud services
  • Enable notifications only for the emails addressed directly to you
  • Save your email as pdf
  • Smart Inbox: Auto-customised inbox which separates your newsletters, notifications and priority (other emails addressed directly to you) inbox. I love Spark especially for this feature.
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/MkPB7.i

Google Photos
All in one photo and video app. 
  • Unlimited backup with normal clarity or limited backup (the space remaining in your Google storage) with high quality.
  • Auto generates animation, collage, memories and videos from your photos/videos. This feature is pretty cool.
  • You can create your own animation, collage, video; add music to the video and many other customisations.
  • Identifies vehicles, food, person in your pics. The algorithm is so awesome that it groups the pics and you can search with the string "cars" and it will show you all the pics with cars in them. Yes, it's almost perfect. Try it for yourself.
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/WYEw5.i

Flipboard
A neat app to read news. 
  • You can decide what genre of news you want to read; when you see an article that you like, just select the drop-down button and click "more like this".
  • It presents different news articles in the form of a collage or a 1-page preview.
  • Navigation between articles is really smooth and easy. Click on the article preview to read it, once done scroll from left to right to go back. Scroll from bottom to up to go the next page.
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/e-Tyv.i

CamScanner
Arguably the best scanner app.
  • Convert your hard-copy to a digital-copy in seconds.
  • Point your camera towards the hard-copy, align the phone so that the full copy is captured, shoot it, adjust the borders, select the tone, save it and email it to yourself.
  • The digital copy can be saved in image or pdf format.
  • You can add multiple hard-copies and create a single digital document.
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/h1Fkx.i

Adblock Plus
Apple introduced the ad-blocking feature for iOS devices from iOS 9. Just install Adblock Plus and activate it from settings. Enjoy web browsing in Safari without ads.

Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/8A1u9.i

SwiftKey
Once I started using it, I've never looked back. 
  • Auto completion
  • Meaningful Suggestions based on your usage history. 
  • The prediction only becomes better with more usage. It remembers even the order you type a set of words.
  • Emoji keyboard, also with prediction based on your usage history.
  • A ton of themes to choose, though you have to buy them. The free themes are more than enough; more so, if you are not interested in the looks.
Apple did free us from its ageing in-built keyboard.

Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/qWsw2.i

Google Translate
The Google Translate app has come a long way from its inception. This is a saviour if you are travelling to a new place and you do not know the local language.
  • Translate to and from 90 languages.
  • Speech translation in 40 languages. You can speak to it and it will speak back the translated sentence.
  • Use your camera to translate the text instantly in over 20 languages. 
  • For some languages though, you have to take the picture and let it process the letters for translation. The live translation is coming soon to many other languages.
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/kT-Ty.i

Betternet
Free VPN without ads. Too good to be true already.
  • Anonymous surfing.
  • Free forever and it doesn't ask for your credit card details.
  • No registration or login required.
  • Simple one tap to connect
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/q-nB4.i

Apps Gone Free
Get great paid apps and games for free.
  • Updated every day.
  • The developer claims they select the offers manually. Hence the authenticity.
  • You can nominate apps that you want to go free
Download Link
https://appsto.re/sg/CEJdC.i

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