Free birthday presents from the iOS App Store

The iOS App Store is now five years old and to celebrate Apple is giving away some great apps free of charge. If you have an iPhone or an iPad you should head on over to the App Store straight away on your device and grab these superb goodies because they probably won't be available for very long. Well not for free anyway.

There is a link on the home page to the birthday gifts and there are two categories, Apps and Games.

There is just one thing to watch out for and that is the size. Some of them are huge and Infinity Blade II for example, is 1.1GB. You generally need enough space to download an app and install it, so you will need around 2.2GB of free space on your iPhone or iPad to grab this freebie.

Barefoot World Atlas is another 1.1GB so after installing Infinity Blade II you'll need at least another 2.2GB of free space to download and install this atlas too.

If you are short of space I would recommend avoiding those two heavyweight apps and go for Tiny Wings and Where's My Water on the games side, and Over and Traktor DJ for iPhone on the serious side.

Even if you don't want to use these apps right now, you should download and install them while they are free.