California based AvocSoft LLC today announced that My Weekly Budget 1.6, their highly-rated real-time budgeting app, will be freely available this October 3rd, 2013 for one day only. MyWB offers the easiest way to keep track of your spending and take control of your personal budget. In celebration, My Weekly Budget will also be featured as the Amazon Free App of the Day on October 3, 2013 in the Amazon App store for Android globally, including the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Purple Falcon today announces Banana Cat Preschool, its new educational and entertainment app for iOS. Designed for infants and toddlers, the app teaches the very young about animals, music and vehicles. With its audience in mind, the app is the picture of simplicity: the child taps anywhere on the screen and an inviting drawing of an animal, musical instrument or vehicle appears (with accompanying sound effect.) Parents and children alike love this simple, educational and entertaining tool.

Los Angeles based 24x7digital LLC has released TeachMe: Kindergarten 4.0, an update to their popular children’s learning series for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational app which teaches age-appropriate topics to kindergartners: sight words, spelling, addition, subtraction, and now writing skills for letters and numbers. The writing module will teach children proper stroke order and develop fine motor skills for young learners.

Vidya Gamer LLC today introduces Crowded Fiction 1.0.2 for iPad. Created by dyslexic video game maker, Joe Booth, Crowded Fiction is an innovative new eBook app that aims to get kids passionate about reading. It uses multiple video game inspired strategies to make fiction interactive, tactile, social and competitive. Jackson’s Choice is the debut interactive eBook on Crowded Fiction. Each chapter of Jackson’s Choice has a dilemma that is determined by the combined choice of the crowd.

Today, evertap releases their latest game BBike Games Free 1.0 through the website Donation Downloads and are pledging one penny to charity for each download they receive; this app will benefit Donors Choose. Bike Games is a new free high paced action bike game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with 60 levels of fun for all ages. Join the fun and cruise through each level, conquer the obstacles and cross the finish line as fast as you can while challenging your friends through Game Center.

ThePowerXChange and XChange UK, the sources for extended technology worldwide are excited to announce a new, limited time promotion that offers users 15% off the entire FontLab product range. Fontlab Ltd. occupies a leading role worldwide in computer typography tools with more typography products on more platforms in more languages than any other company. The FontLab product range promotion is available now through XChange UK and ThePowerXChange worldwide.

Maintain has released Cocktail 6.8.1 (Mountain Lion Edition), the latest maintenance update for users running OS X Mountain Lion. Cocktail is a general purpose utility for OS X that lets users clean, repair and optimize their Mac. This version contains improvements to the Pilot scheduler, addresses an issue in which Cocktail may crash at startup and fixes compatibility issues with QuarkXPress 10. The update is highly recommended to all users of Cocktail (Mountain Lion Edition).

Zvoid ltd is proud to introduce House Photo Locator – By Address for iOS. If you want to buy a house or an apartment or if you are going to a party or for whatever reason you want to see photos of a house or building then this app is for you. Just open the app, type the house address and the photos will pop on your iPhone or iPad. Its very fast and very accurate. This is a very simple and useful tool. All major countries are included in the app.

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases maintenance updates for all editions of DEVONagent, its pro-grade Internet research assistant for OS X. DEVONagent helps you search more efficiently on the web. It searches multiple sources for relevant results, and gives you power tools for your research. Both DEVONagent Pro and Express 3.5.2 come with an updated “Tube” scanner which scans webpages for embedded media. The update also fixes known issues and improves overall performance and reliability.

Jaidev Soin, the Australia-based developer behind life improvement app Balanced, announced today that the app has reached 100,000 downloads in just 10 weeks. Balanced is a motivational tool that helps users focus on doing more of the activities that matter to them. Balanced strives to make sure you always look forward to the activities on your list. The app’s smart prioritization, simplicity, and positive feel have been heavily praised by users, and play a large part in the app’s success.