Roundup of developers and apps to help Japan

The developer community is stepping up its offers of help to disaster-struck Japan with increasing ways to send money to those in need. This is a roundup of offers we've heard about -- let us know in comments of any others.
- Simplest of all is the offer from Japanese startup Lunascape: download the free iPhone or iPad version of its tabbed web browser app, and the company will donate ¥50 (about US$0.63) up to a total of ¥5 million (about US$65,000 -- in addition to the ¥1 million it's already given) for the Japanese Red Cross and other similar relief organisations.
- Marketcircle is going to give 100% of all proceeds made from its professional time billing programs Billings 3 and Billings Touch to the Red Cross starting on Monday, March 21, until the end of Wednesday, March 23.
- Capcom has reduced the price of Street fighter IV to US$0.99 and is giving 100% of iPhone sales to relief efforts until Monday, March 21.
- Real Software of Austin, Texas, is giving 5% of all sales of its web development tools next week to the American Red Cross's Japan fund.
- The Square Enix Group -- maker of Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider and Space Invaders -- is donating ¥100 million (about US$1.25 million) to recovery efforts.
- Ohanaware, maker of Mac photo software, such as HDRtist Pro and Funtastic Photos, is selling all of its software at half-price until Friday, March 25, with all profits going to the Red Cross for Japan relief.
- Users of SmartRoam's VoIP app for iPhone ChatTime can make free calls to Japan until the end of March, which usually costs $15 a month. Users who have already called Japan since the earthquake began will have charges for those calls waived.
- Devon Technologies, makers of data-management Mac software Devon Think and Devon Agent, will donate 20% of its March proceeds to Japanese relief efforts, such as Doctors Without Borders.
- Interval Studios, producers of the Thicket and Snowdrift apps for iOS, is donating 100% of its proceeds from March 11 to March 31 to the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund.
- Tesla Software is also donating proceeds from the weekend to the Japan Relief fund and will post results on the company's site.
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We are donating 10% of our community software license sales through the end of March. More details here: http://www.socialengine.net/blog/article?id=136&article=Support-the-Japanese-Relief-Effort-with-SocialEngine
March 24 2011 at 12:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOrganic just introduced a new social newspaper iPad application called BroadFeed. We are donating the proceeds to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Tsunami relief efforts. www.organic.com/broadfeed
SocialEngine.net will be donating 10% of all license sales from now through the end of March to the Red Cross disaster relief fund for Japan http://www.socialengine.net/blog/article?id=136&article=Support-the-Japanese-Relief-Effort-with-SocialEngine and at SE4.me we will donate $20 from each of our Arvixe hosting affiliate sales, see http://se4.me/pages/help-japan or use https://affiliates.arvixe.com/track.php?id=1779&tid1=help-japan. It all helps. Good to see so many people getting behind this
March 22 2011 at 1:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHalf of all sales for List Master - Lists Your Way are currently going to Japan rescue relief!
March 20 2011 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyScreencastonline donated 100% of my renewal to the Red Cross for the relief effort. The offer motivated me to match my renewal fee with a contribution of my own. I doubt that I'm the only one who was motivated to make my own contribution after taking advantage of one of these offers, so its not just the monetary assistance these developers are contributing but the message they are sending their customers.
March 20 2011 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere's also a RapidWeaver developer, NimbleHost, that's donating 20% of all sales for a week (3/16/2011 to 3/23/2011) to Red Cross relief efforts.
March 20 2011 at 1:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDon't forget PopCap Games. They're giving 100% of their iOS app's proceeds for this weekend to Japan.
March 19 2011 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyÃcoute (http://www.pixiapps.com/ecoute/) is on sale for 50% off (only $5), with 100% of proceeds to the International Red Cross.
March 19 2011 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMac Game Store has got 15 Games for $19.99, a saving of $184.29 With all proceeds going to American Red Cross. www.macgamestore.com
March 19 2011 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAll proceeds of One Big Game's WINtA are also going to Japanese children: http://www.onebiggame.com/2011/03/winta-profits-to-benefit-children-affected-by-japan%E2%80%99s-earthquake-and-tsunami/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/winta/id405080041?mt=8
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