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4th of July App Sales and an AppShopper App Update

Friday July 1, 2011 1:00 PM PDT by Arnold Kim

Heading into the 4th of July weekend, many developers are using the holiday as an excuse to cut prices on their Apps. Prominent developers such as EA and Gameloft are amongst the participants. A running list of all App Store price drops can be seen here.

Meanwhile, sister site AppShopper.com, which tracks all App Store sales and updates, has updated their iOS App with a number of new features, including App Store ratings, and links to 3rd party reviews.

- Top 200 rankings
- App Ratings
- Links to 3rd party app reviews
- Automatically loads apps when scrolling to the bottom of a list
- New filters for search
- Email notification settings
- Disable push notifications during certain times of the day
- In-app AppShopper account registration
- Share an app’s info via Twitter, Facebook, email and more
- Various bug fixes

The AppShopper app is available for free in the App Store [Link].

Top Rated Comments

John.B

191 months ago

Not really sure when the screenshot was from, but I just checked on my iPhone and Capo is still $19.99 (not $1.99).

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Toe

191 months ago

Garden Pro is shown as 99¢, slashed to free.
In the App Store (US), I see it selling for $2.99.

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

burnout8488

191 months ago

Yeah, in beta. It hasn't even been officially released yet and doesn't work properly on iPad 2.

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

John.B

191 months ago

http://appshopper.com/music/capo

April 11th-14th

Thanks, arn! Looks like I missed out!

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

arn

191 months ago

Not really sure when the screenshot was from, but I just checked on my iPhone and Capo is still $19.99 (not $1.99).

http://appshopper.com/music/capo

April 11th-14th

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Mr. Gates

191 months ago

There is a Jailbreak for the iPad 2 and MacRumors doesn't seem to want to cover the story.

Even on the iOS Page

Very strange,...

Its been out for 2 days now

Score: -3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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