Best free Christmas apps to get you ready and excited

Apps can be great tools during the holidays. Some of them are perfect for getting you pumped about the season, and others can help keep you on track. There’s something for everyone!

A lot of Christmas list apps can be found out there, but many of them are either hard to use or are missing key features that makes keeping track of everything difficult. With this one, however, you can start separate sections for each person and list all the gifts you plan to get them as well as the budget you have to work with. This creates a total budgeted amount so you can keep everything in check and make sure you aren’t running yourself into debt. Plus, when you finish buying gifts for each person, you can check them off and know you’re one step closer to completing your Christmas shopping!

This app won’t exactly make you more productive over the holidays, but it will keep you entertained! It plops you right in the middle of Santa’s village, where it’s your job to build toys, protect the town from evil Grumpkins and play fun games to earn points. And the more you play, the bigger and better you can make your village. It’s sure to get you in the Christmas mood!

When you need some cooking ideas, it’s nice to be able to pull up an app and have 150 Christmas recipes at your fingertips. Each recipe on Best Christmas Recipes has a photo as well as a complete list of ingredients and detailed directions. And the recipes are organized into helpful categories so you can pick out the right one for your occasion.

Make sure you know just how close Christmas is getting with an app that counts down the number of sleeps until Dec. 25. You can also count down in hours, minutes, seconds or all of the above. And you can pick which Christmas song plays merrily in the background.

When an app has two exclamation marks in its name, you better believe it will help get you excited. Christmas!! has a collection of great features to have you counting down to the big day, including an Advent calendar, jokes, songs, games and even a gift list to keep track of your shopping, so you can stay organized and have fun!

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