This Week's Best iPhone App Deals: Kina, Military Money, and Sun Tracker AR Go Free

This week's discount list skews useful over flashy: an AI beauty-advice app, a budgeting tool built for service members, an AR sun tracker, a professional music tag editor, and a sci-fi puzzle game. Two of the five are usually paid apps that flipped to free in the last several days, one is a deep discount on a niche pro tool, and one is a 60%-off indie game with a small but glowing review base. All five prices below are confirmed live via the App Store as of August 2026 — not copied from a stale search snippet.

#The picks, compared

#Kina: AI Glow-Up Friend — normally locked behind a $24.99/year subscription

Kina pitches itself as an AI beauty companion: live video chat with an AI stylist that walks through color analysis, makeup routines, and general "does this work for me" feedback, then tracks progress over time. It's not a photo filter app — the whole point is a back-and-forth conversation, which is why it normally sits behind a subscription (either $5.99/month or $24.99/year with a 3-day free trial) rather than a one-time purchase.

Right now the entire app is free, no trial gate. Worth knowing before you commit any personal photos or video to it: this listing has swung between $24.99 and free at least twice in the past two weeks according to AppsHunter's price history, so treat "free" as a today-only status rather than a permanent change.

#Military Money: Pay & Pension — the most-reviewed app in this batch

At 5,737 ratings and a 4.8 average, Military Money has more social proof behind it than anything else on this list. It's a straightforward budgeting and expense-tracking app built specifically around military pay schedules and pension planning rather than a generic finance template with military branding slapped on. If you're active duty, reserve, or planning around a pension, that specificity is the actual selling point over a general budgeting app.

Like Kina, this one has been flipping between paid and free — it was $2.99, jumped to $3.99 in mid-July, then dropped to free on July 29. The free window doesn't appear to be scheduled or announced anywhere, so if budgeting is on your list, today is a reasonable day to grab it rather than wait and hope it's still free next week.

#Sun Tracker AR — for photographers who plan around golden hour

This is a professional tool wearing a simple name: AR solar-path projection through your camera, map-based sun position for a given date and location, data tables, and a 3D shadow simulator. Landscape and architecture photographers use apps like this to plan a shoot around exactly where the sun will be at a given hour — not something you'd casually download at full price, but a fair grab for free.

The premium unlock (normally $11.99, one-time rather than a subscription) is what's free right now — the same on/off pattern as the other two apps above. It jumped from free to $11.99 on July 26, then back to free three days later, so this is clearly a deliberate promotional cycle rather than a permanent price change.

#Waketag Pro — a real discount, not a free-then-paid flip

Unlike the three apps above, Waketag Pro's discount looks like an ordinary sale: $39.99 → $24.99, a 38% cut that's held steady since July 20 rather than bouncing. It's a music metadata editor — batch-editing embedded tags, cover art, and lyrics across most audio formats, with AI-assisted tagging and cloud drive integration. That's a narrow audience (DJs, archivists, anyone managing a large local music library), and the review count reflects it: only 12 ratings, though all trending toward a 4.8 average.

Small review counts are worth a second thought before you spend $24.99 — there just isn't much of a track record here yet. If you already know you need batch tag editing on iOS, the discount is real and worth taking; if you're unsure, this is one to read a few of those dozen reviews on before buying.

#Hyperforma Premium — 60% off, and the best-reviewed game here

Hyperforma is a premium (no ads, no IAP) sci-fi puzzle game — you're working through "the Ancient Network," piecing together the story of a vanished civilization as you solve dynamic levels. At 920 ratings and a 4.8 average, it's the most trusted pick in this batch outside of Military Money, and the $1.99 price (down from $4.99) is the lowest it's been since late July.

Because it's a flat premium purchase with no in-app purchases, $1.99 is genuinely the whole cost — no ads to sit through and no upsell screen after level three.

#FAQ

Are these prices confirmed live, not just from a search result? Yes — every price above was checked directly against the App Store on August 3, 2026, not copied from a search snippet or press release.

Why do some of these apps keep flipping between free and paid? It's a common promotional pattern, especially for subscription apps like Kina and Sun Tracker AR — a free window (sometimes just days) to spike downloads and reviews, then a return to the normal price. There's no public schedule for when that happens, so a deal you see today may not be there next week.

Is Kina actually free, or is it free-to-download-then-paywalled? Right now the core app itself carries no subscription gate — you can use the video chat and style features without hitting a paywall. That could change if the app reverts to its normal pricing.

Which of these is the safest buy if I only pick one? Military Money, on review count alone — 5,737 ratings at a 4.8 average is a real track record, and budgeting tools don't lose value if the free window closes before you download.

For more picks like these, check AppsHunter's daily deals feed or browse apps that recently went free — both track price drops as they happen rather than on a weekly cycle. If you want a different angle on this week's App Store deals, our non-game app deals roundup covers a separate set of picks worth a look too.