Today in the App Store -- the best free apps, new apps and app updates

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Updated Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 3:00 PM·3 min read

Here are some of the best free apps, app updates and new apps that have landed in the App Store recently. All app prices are USD and subject to change. Some deals may expire quickly, so grab them while you can.

Apps Now Free

TinyPDF - Fill Forms, Annotate PDF with Professional Reader [iOS Universal; Now free, down from $4.99] TinyPDF is a professional app to annotate, read, manage and share your PDFs.

Dark Lands [iOS Universal; Now free, down from $2.99] Run through enemies and dangerous traps! Dark Lands is an epic battle runner action game.

Cradle of Rome 2 HD [iPad; Now free, down from $4.99] Welcome to the legendary Cradle Of Rome2 – a mix of never ending match-3 pleasure, engaging puzzles, and city-builder in one game! Build your own Roman Empire and become the greatest Emperor ever!

Calculator Magic - All in 1 [iOS Universal; Now free, down from $2.99] Solving complex mathematical equations has never been so easy on iOS.

CalCube - Quick, Slick & Easy Calendar [iOS Universal; Now free, down from $1.99] Calcube is the quickest calendar around.

Sudoku Epic [OS X; Now free, down from $9.99] Sudoku Epic is a free sudoku game with five different sudoku games in one.

Music Recorder [OS X; Now free, down from $19.99] Music Recorder is an easy-to-use and beautiful audio recorder which empowers you the ability to record computer audio, microphone and other audio.

New and Notable Apps

SBK14 Official Mobile Game [iOS Universal; Free] Race as the world's elite riders in the official game of the 2014 eni FIM Superbike World Championship, and get ready for adrenaline-fueled racing action!

Somewhere [iPhone; Free] Somewhere is the new place to share your work, explore companies around the world, and find cool & inspiring new people.

THE RHYTHM OF FIGHTERS [iPhone; $0.99] A game packed with legendary SNK tracks! A ground breaking ""Fighting x Music"" game for everyone to enjoy!

Air Stylus [iPad; $19.99] With Air Stylus and a pressure-sensitive pen, your iPad becomes the perfect canvas for your favorite computer-based image editing software.

Updates you don't want to miss

Wordpress [iOS Universal; Free] Manage your WordPress blog or website on the go, from your iOS device. Version 4.1.3 brings the following changes:

We've improved our in-app help system to provide better support to users.
To help us make WordPress for iOS even better, we track the usage of several app features. While the data we collect is completely anonymous, in this release, you may opt out of tracking at any time.

JotNot Pro | scan multipage [iOS Universal; $2.99] JotNot is the original and premier multi-page document scanner for the iPhone. Version 4.2 brings the following changes:

New Box authentication
New Google Drive integration
Improved stability when renaming files
PDF Rendering in OneNote

MarkMyWords [OS X; $24.99] MarkMyWords is a comprehensive markup-writing tool for everyone who writes markup-formatted articles. Version 1.7.1 brings the following changes:

CSS-Styles within the preferences can be opened with the standard-app for CSS-files or with MarkMyWords itself for editing
option to choose a preview-app to preview the current file. Also an option to send the plain text instead of the formatted html-file is available
Critics-Markup updated to recent version
several issues when previewing Critics Markup under certain circumstances solved for all Markup-languages
listings of Recent Documents within the file-browser and start-window now refreshes more concurrently
adding the very first attachment using drag'n drop to a file, which doesn't have a attachment-folder yet, improved
150+ smaller internal improvements

MacFamilyTree 7 [OS X; $24.99] MacFamilyTree 7 gives genealogy a facelift. Version 7.2 brings the following changes:

New Reports
New Interactive Tree
Improved FamilySearch

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Today in the App Store -- the best free apps, new apps and app updates

Apps Now Free

New and Notable Apps

Updates you don't want to miss

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