1. Awesome Free
Apps for Your
iDevice
Amy Hopkins
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Caddo Mills ISD
ahopkins@caddomillsisd.org

2. For Teacher
and/or Student
Use

3. Find great apps
without spending a
dime!
Get high quality paid
apps for free each day.
These are expert-
picked top-ranked
apps, for FREE!
Apps Gone Free

4. Dropbox lets users bring
all photos, docs, and
videos anywhere and
share easily.
Access any file saved to
Dropbox from all
computers, iPhone, iPad
and even the Dropbox
website!
Dropbox

5. The world’s information at your
fingertips. Features include:
 Google Search box
 Voice Search - Use your
microphone to ask Google
anything and see the answer
instantly.
 Image Search - Watch images
load into a beautiful full-screen
grid.
 Google Apps page - Access all
your favorite Google products
from within the app with just
the tap of an icon.
Google Search

6.  Flipboard is a personal
news magazine filled with
everything being shared
across the Web, from
breaking news to stories
on world events, sports,
travel and more.
 Add Facebook, Twitter to
browse articles and photos
friends are sharing.
Instagram and Flickr
photos are beautiful to see
in this personal magazine.
Flipboard

7. TeacherKit is a personal
organizer for the
teacher.
 It enables the teacher to
organize classes, and
students. Its simple and
intuitive interface
enables teachers to track
the attendance, grades
and behavior of
students.
TeacherKit

8.  A “Qwiki” is a short,
interactive story.
 These interactive, narrated
Qwikis describing all the
topics on Wikipedia -
complete with relevant
images, video, and structured
data imported from linked
sources.
 These Qwikis are
embeddable anywhere on
the web and compatible with
all iOS devices.
Qwiki

9.  Remind101 provides a safe
way for teachers to text
message students and stay in
touch with parents. It is 100%
free and is used by over
200,000 teachers, students
and parents to send millions
of messages every month.
 FAST, SAFE & EASY
*Message your entire class of
students or parents in
seconds.
*Teachers never see students'
phone numbers. Students
never see theirs.
Remind 101 *Students and parents join by
sending a text message. No
computer needed.

10.  With Photoshop Express,
it's easy to improve your
photos.
 Choose from a variety of
one-touch effects, or
simply drag your finger
across the screen to crop,
rotate, or adjust color.
 Add artistic filters like Soft
Focus or Sketch.
Adobe
Photoshop
Express

11.  Dragon Dictation is an easy-
to-use voice recognition
application.
 Insert into a text or email
messages.
 You can also dictate status
updates directly to your
Social Networking
applications or send notes
and reminders to
yourself….all using your
voice.
Dragon Dictation

12.  Pic Jointer satisfies your
greed to share multiple
photos with your friends at
one time, via Facebook,
Twitter or Tumblr.
 With the handsome layouts,
you can easily combine
multiple photos into a
uniquely jointed one.
 Plenty of adjustable patterns
with various sizes and effects
will help you quickly choose a
perfect frame for your
beautiful photos.
Pic Jointer

13.  Evernote is an easy-to-use,
free app that helps you
remember everything across
all of the devices you use.
 Stay organized, save your ideas
and improve productivity.
 Evernote lets you take notes,
capture photos, create to-do
lists, record voice reminders--
and makes these notes
completely searchable,
whether you are at home, at
work, or on the go.
Evernote

14.  Skitch lets you:
- Annotate: Add arrows, shapes
and text to existing images
- Create: Draw something new
- Edit: Reposition, recolor and
remove your annotations at
will
- Share: Send your sketches
and annotations over Twitter
and email
- Present: Show your work in
real time via AirPlay on Apple
TV
- Remember: Save everything
to Evernote for later Skitch

15. SlideShark is the #1
app for viewing and
sharing PowerPoint
presentations on the
iPad and iPhone the
way they were meant
to be seen – with
animations, fonts,
colors and graphics
intact.
Slideshark

16.  Capture your ideas as
sketches, diagrams,
illustrations, notes or
drawings and share them
across the web.
 Productivity meets beauty.
No settings. Always beautiful
—like great tools should be.
 Just pick up a tool and
instantly begin to Sketch,
Write, Draw, Outline and
Color. Draw comes free with
Paper.
Paper

17.  View, create, edit and share
Microsoft Office documents on
your iPhone or iPad.
 Smart Office makes creating,
editing and sharing Microsoft
Office and other documents on
the move even easier through a
contextual interface, drag and
drop editing and sharing to
email in original or PDF format
and sharing to Drop box or
Google Docs.
SmartOffice 2

18.  Packed with tons of fun real-time
effects, Video Star makes you and
your friends the stars of awesome
music videos. There's no other app
like it!
It's easy:
• Select a song from your music
library
• Start shooting
 Select from hundreds of effects
before or during recording. Pause at
any time to set up a new scene. No
matter how many scenes you shoot,
the music stays in perfect sync. Add
Power Packs to crank up the fun,
including advanced real-time "green
screen" effects -- a Video Star
exclusive!
VideoStar

19.  The official TED app for
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
presents talks from some of
the world's most fascinating
people: education radicals,
tech geniuses, medical
mavericks, business gurus
and music legends.
 Find more than 1,400
TEDTalk videos (with more
added each week) on the
official TED app -- now for
both iPad and iPhone.
TED Talks

20.  Three Ring allows you to
take pictures of student
work and keep track of
them online.
 It's a fast, flexible, and
simple way to organize and
present your students' real
world work, from
handwritten assignments
to classroom
presentations.
Three Ring

21.  Knowmia Teach is a new free
lesson planning and
recording tool for teachers. It
helps you create short video
lessons on any subject and
publish them on
Knowmia.com so your
students and the public can
find them.
 Knowmia Teach makes it easy
to bring in visual aids from
multiple sources, organize
them in steps (like slides in a
presentation) and use your
Knowmia own voice and fingers to
bring your lesson to life

22. For
Personal
Use

23.  Spring Cleaning is the best
way to organize your
address book on your
iPhone, iPod Touch, or
iPad.
 It's also the perfect hiding
place for a secret stash of
contacts.
 Using Spring Cleaning, you
can quickly and easily
select multiple contacts,
delete them, and then
restore them at any time.
Spring Cleaning

24.  Errands is a task manager
with a pleasing design and
is easy to learn and use.
 Crafted with a blend of
basic and advanced
features: Folders,
Checklists, Task Images,
Scheduling & Repeating,
Alerts (alarms), Automatic
Badge Updating, Calendar
View, Mail Tasks, Multiple
View Modes, Search and
more!
Errands

25.  Never carry plastic or
paper loyalty,
membership, library cards
or coupons again!
 Scan and save all of your
loyalty cards in your phone
 Join new loyalty programs
in seconds
 Receive exclusive coupons
from top retailers
 Digitally save grocery
coupons to your loyalty
card
Key Ring

26.  Unlimited, lightning-fast
tagging.
 Identify songs in as little as
1 second, preview or buy
the track, get streaming
lyrics, YouTube videos and
more.
Shazam

27.  Never forget a coupon at home
again!
 Toss out the scissors and let
your iPhone camera do the
clipping.
 Simply snap a picture of any
printed offer, and SnipSnap
magically converts all the text,
images and barcodes into a
mobile-optimized offer, which
you can redeem off your screen.
 Don't have any coupons handy
to scan? Use the Discover screen
of the app to see what coupons
your friends and family have
snipped.
Snip Snap

28.  iLoader 2 takes the tedious
uploading process and
makes it easier than ever!
Some features:
◦ Super fast multi-photo selection
◦ Add captions and tag friends in
photos
◦ Rotate, crop, red-eye, teeth
whitening, blemish, add stickers,
draw and plus many filters and
effects to photos
◦ Upload photos to personal
albums or Fan Pages or Groups
 Plus much more!
iLoader2
Free for now…usually a paid app.

29. Not Free…
but worth the $!

30.  This is the ONLY remote desktop
app that streams smooth, high-
res video and audio from your
PC or Mac, allowing you to
interact with your PowerPoint,
Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken,
and other applications.
 Access your PC or MAC
programs, games, multimedia
content, and files over Wi-Fi and
3G/4G networks. Go
everywhere with just your
iPhone without having to carry
your computer! Splashtop
iPhone - $2.99
iPad - $4.99

31.  Photon Browser is a
powerful new browser
with Flash capability
designed to enhance your
browsing experience on
the iPad.
 Photon Browser allows you
to play Flash games such
as free Facebook games,
use Flash apps, listen to
music streamed via Flash
Photon player and watch Flash
video.
$4.99

32.  Calengoo gives you a fast
and easy way to access and
modify your Google
Calendar with your iPhone,
iPod Touch or iPad.
 It can also be used when
you have no internet
connection, using the
cached data.
 Changes are saved and
uploaded the next time
you are connected.
Calengoo
$6.99

33.  Best Album is an application
that allows you to manage
your web albums on Picasa
from your iPhone/iPad much
more easily and comfortably
than ever before.
 With this application, you can
view and manage all your
albums (photos/videos)
uploaded onto Picasa any
time.
Best Album – Picasa Web Albums
$.99

34.  Easily create meal plans,
import recipes from
popular recipe web sites,
store your own recipes,
keep track of what you
have in your pantry (and
how many), and integrate
it all into your shopping list
in one application!
Meal Planner
$2.99

35.  Explain Everything is an
easy-to-use design tool
that lets you annotate,
animate, and narrate
explanations and
presentations.
 You can create dynamic
interactive lessons,
activities, assessments,
and tutorials using Explain
Everything's flexible and
integrated design.
 Use Explain Everything as
Explain Everything an interactive whiteboard
$2.99 using the iPad video
display.

36.  My Medical is a
comprehensive record-
keeping app for your
personal medical
information.
 It's the perfect
replacement for unreliable
paper records or various
electronic systems that
hold bits and pieces of
your medical history.
 With My Medical, any and
all information that is
important to you is kept
My Medical
together in one place. $3.99