To encourage more people to use the Google Play Store and maybe stop them from going to their default app stores like Samsung, Amazon, etc, Google has now started offering a free “app of the week”. These apps may range from anything from a game to a launcher to a productivity app, all of which were previously paid but will be offered for free for a week. While it still doesn’t top Amazon’s free app of the day, anything offered for free is very much welcome for mobile users.
However, the free app isn’t that easy to find because they don’t have a banner that screams “free app”. For their first offering, you’ll see a banner saying “New Family Fun” and clicking it will lead you to the family section. It then shows a banner add with a free app of the week promo from PBS Kids but it doesn’t tell you exactly what that app is. So of course, you’re curious, so you click it and it will give you a pop-up of the free app.
This week, it’s Daniel Tiger Grr-ific Feelings, which is, obviously, an app for kids. But you won’t know anything about it since there is no game description, just a pop-up telling you that from $2.99, it is now free. If you want to find out more about it, you’d need to search for it on the Google Play Store, but if you go to the app’s page, it won’t give it to you for free and will show the old price. But at least now you know that the app you’re about to download has four different types of games: Trolley Game, Sing-Along, Drawing Easel, and a Feelings Photo Booth.
We hope that these “mechanics” for getting the free app are just temporary, as it is a bit difficult to follow. Maybe they’re just working out the kinks first, but we do hope it’s something that will be easier the next time around. Even though it’s free and we can’t demand from them, the point is to get more users to Google Play right?
VIA: Android Police
