Keeping yourself organized and prepared during the holidays can be a challenge. Fortunately, there are mobile and tablet holiday apps that can help you relax, keep things in order, and bring back a little fun to the holiday season.
Listed below are some holiday apps that you may want to consider:
- Cooking. A home cooked meal is essential to any festive celebration. You can find inspiration, recipes and cooking tips through apps like Good Food Festive Recipes, and Epicurious. For delicious desserts consider apps like Country Living’s Holiday Cookies app.
- Gifts. With the right app, you can keep all the gifts you’re planning to buy in order and keep track of how much money you’ll be spending. Consider Gifts Wrap Plus if you have an iPad. If you have an iPhone or Android, consider Gift Plan or Gift List Manager.
- Reading. Enjoying classic holiday books is made easier with e-books on tablets and cell phones. Consider classics like A Christmas Carol, T’was the Night Before Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Many of these classic holiday books can be downloaded free during the holiday season.
Quirky Holiday Fun Apps
- A cozy fire. No festive evening with friends would be complete without a lovely fire. Fortunately, with an app like FirePlace you can have a virtual roaring fire with background music.
- Decorations. Decorate a virtual tree with apps like Christmas Tree Decoration and Christmas Ornaments and Tree Designer.
- Snow globes. You can create your own virtual snow globes with apps like Snow Globe Maker. You can use your own custom pictures, labels or music. Then, just shake your phone and watch it snow, as well as add music and shake your phone to make it snow.
Holiday Tradition Apps
- Christmas Traditions. To celebrate Christmas consider the Bethlehem Nativity app that allows you to assemble the scene or the Nativity app to listen to the story.
- Hanukkah. For Hanukkah consider a virtual portable menorah with the Menorah-Chanukah app. If you’re looking for virtual games consider the Dreidel app.
- Kwanzaa. With the Kwanzaa app, you can learn more about the holiday including the seven principles, the Swahili terms and a lighting guide for the candles.