--- description: Looking to download a few great iPhone apps while saving some money this week? Check out these five, all on sale or free right now. title: 5 Awesome iPhone App Deals This Weekend image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19ff56aa4f216966/698777460b72e3944b6dcd72/455677284.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 5 Awesome iPhone App Deals This Weekend by [Alexander Aciman](/author/alexander-aciman/) ## Alexander Aciman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 26, 2014 5:03 PM CUT  A customer looks at the new iPhone 6 Plus. A customer looks at the new iPhone 6 Plus.Chris McGrath—Getty Images by [Alexander Aciman](/author/alexander-aciman/) ## Alexander Aciman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 26, 2014 5:03 PM CUT Looking to download a few great iPhone apps while saving some money this weekend? Check out these five, all on sale or free right now. **Rayman Fiesta Run** For those who reminisce about old, original PlayStation games, _Rayman Fiesta Run_ is a perfect arcade time machine. From the character’s floating head and limbs, to the endless running and stunts, _Rayman_ is a throwback now, but back then, it felt far ahead of its time. In this app, the game is brilliantly rendered on the iPhone’s smaller screen and fits in perfectly with so many of today’s iOS games. [Rayman Fiesta Run](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rayman-fiesta-run/id657811530?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 "undefined") is on sale for $0.99 in the App Store. **READ MORE** [The Best iPhone Apps You Should Download This Week](http://www.time.com/3645886/iphone-apps-duet/ "undefined") **Calendars 5** Calendars is one of the few truly universal apps. Which is to say, it’s just as useful for productivity maniacs and workaholics as it is for haphazard people who need help managing their lives. It comes with task lists to track obligations and chores, it logs regular or repeating events into your calendar, and even gives you the option to view your schedule as a color-coded timeline that can help streamline even the most flustered and panicked schedules. It can even sync with your Google calendar or iCal apps. [Calendars 5](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calendars-5-smart-calendar/id697927927?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 "undefined") is on sale for $2.99 in the App Store. **Day One** It’s a rare kind of person who still keeps a regular journal with pen and paper. Even still, it’s easy to fall behind and lose track of it all. But Day One uses all of your phone’s technology to help you keep memories as effortlessly and precisely as possible. It can pin your location, attach photographs, track events, and allows you to write an entry as easily as you might compose an email on your phone. [Day One](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/day-one-journal-notes-diary/id421706526?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 "undefined") is on sale for $0.99 in the App Store. ### See The 15 Best Video Game Graphics of 2014  Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision  Far Cry 4\. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design Far Cry 3. Ubisoft  The Last of Us: Remastered. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure Uncharted series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game. Ashley Gilbertson for TIME  Alien: Isolation Built from scratch, the Alien: Isolation engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of Alien film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly  Assassin's Creed Unity. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft  Child of Light Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, Child of Light's hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft  Destiny Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, Destiny's game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie  Mario Kart 8 Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo  Infamous Second Son Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions  Monument Valley Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's The Fall. Ustwo  Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar  Titanfall Respawn Entertainment  Forza Horizon 2 Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios  80 Days Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl 80 Days' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle  Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered Tomb Raider: Legend in 2006. Square Enix **Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD** For those who don’t own a video game console or simply cannot get enough _GTA_ at home, _Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars_ is one of the better console-to-mobile adaptations out there. Although gameplay is nowhere near as extensive on iOS as in the original versions, you can still move around in third person, steal vehicles, and go on car chases through the city. This version is a lot closer in appearance and gameplay to _GTA III_ or _Vice City_ than it is to the immersive world of the latest in the series, _GTA V_. [Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id386183589?mt=8 "undefined") is on sale for $2.99 in the App Store. **Scribe** Scribe is one of those apps that, once you download it, it’s hard to imagine never having used it to begin with. Scribe allows users to copy and paste items from their Mac desktop to a mobile device without using Wi-Fi. Simply press three keys, and images or pieces of text will be transferred to your phone, which means no more emailing yourself screenshots of your Maps app in order keep track of directions or mistyping phone numbers into your Notes app. It’s a middleman app that eliminates the middleman. One of the most simple but most useful apps around. [Scribe](https://itunes.apple.com/app/id789738555?mt=8 "undefined") is temporarily free in the App Store. **READ NEXT** [16 Productivity Tools Nobody Can Live Without](http://www.time.com/3646294/productivity-tool/ "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://www.time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3647505/iphone-app-deals/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3647505/iphone-app-deals/"},"headline":"5 Awesome iPhone App Deals This Weekend","datePublished":"2014-12-26T17:03:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:45:25.506Z","description":"Try Scribe, which lets you copy and paste items from your Mac desktop to your iPhone","url":"https://time.com/3647505/iphone-app-deals/","keywords":["Tech","apps","iPhone"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19ff56aa4f216966/698777460b72e3944b6dcd72/455677284.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexander Aciman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexander-aciman/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19ff56aa4f216966/698777460b72e3944b6dcd72/455677284.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"iPhone 6 Plus","caption":"iPhone 6 Plus","creditText":"Chris McGrath—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3647505/iphone-app-deals/","name":"5 Awesome iPhone App Deals This Weekend"}}]}] ```