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Holiday Discounts in App Store, List of Now Free Apps

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Repeating the trend from Black Friday, a number of App Store developers are discounting their apps for the holidays. AppShopper tracks the apps in the App Store and provides a running list of sales. A few notable discounts include:

- Kineo ($4.99 -> $0.99) - draw flipbook animations
- ComiXology ($4.99 -> $1.99) - browse comic book listings
- Equivalence ($4.99 - $0.99) - conversion tool designed for engineers

There is also a separate list for apps that have gone from Paid to Free.

Meanwhile, a notable list of discounted iPhone games has been compiled at TouchArcade.

Update: Other holiday sales include:

- Giving Tree/MacHeist - free Mac apps

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