Christmas Countdown & List

How many sleeps until Christmas - and everything else you are trying to keep on top of before it arrives. BUY IT ONCE, NOT EVERY YEAR Every other countdown puts the year in its name and expires with it. This one doesn't. On Boxing Day it quietly starts counting the next Christmas, and there is nothing to buy again. EVERY CHRISTMAS KEPT When Christmas is over the app saves the year - what you bought and for whom, what you spent, who had who in the Secret Santa - and starts the next one with a clean list. Your people and your food shop carry over, so nothing is retyped. Next December you can look up what you got somebody last year instead of guessing. THE COUNTDOWN The big number, with hours and minutes underneath if you want them, and a progress bar through the whole run-up. A different line every morning. THE ADVENT CALENDAR Twenty-five doors, one a day through December. A joke, a film to put on, something to make or something to do behind every one - and next December they all quietly shut and it starts again. YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST Everyone you are buying for, what you are getting them, what it cost. Tick things off as you buy, and again as you wrap. It totals as you go. THE BUDGET Set a limit for the whole thing or one per person. See what you have spent, what is still to go, and roughly what that works out at per day between now and Christmas - usually the number that changes your mind about something. CHRISTMAS DINNER, TIMED BACKWARDS Tell it when you want to sit down and what you are cooking. It works backwards to tell you when the turkey goes in, when the potatoes follow, and what needs the oven at the same time as something else. The one job of the day nobody has a good system for. THE FOOD SHOP A shopping list laid out the way a Christmas shop actually works - the dinner, the buffet, the sweets, the drink, breakfast - split across the big shop and the last-minute run. Add your own lists for the drinks run or the butcher. SECRET SANTA Draw names properly. Nobody gets themselves, you can keep couples apart, and each person sees only their own name. THE ELF Twenty-four nights of ideas for where the elf goes, from the arrival on the first to the goodbye on Christmas Eve. For everyone standing in the kitchen at eleven at night, out of ideas. SHARE A LIST WITH ANYONE Send the food shop to whoever is going to the shop, share your Christmas list with whoever you are running Christmas with, or send each Secret Santa their own name. They put in a short code and it lands in their app. Only the list you shared travels, and nothing else. CHRISTMAS FILMS Twenty-one of them to work through, one suggested each evening, and room for the ones your family always puts on. CHRISTMAS DAYS OUT Ideas for the grotto, the panto, the markets, the lights and the carol service - with a nudge for the ones that sell out while there is still time to book them. COOKING Eight things people actually make in December, written out plainly - mincemeat, mince pies, mulled wine, red cabbage, bread sauce, brandy butter, roast potatoes, and the Boxing Day pie. Add your own family versions alongside them. THE RUN-UP Advent Sunday, Black Friday, three weeks to go, the last week, Christmas Eve. They arrive on their own, worked out properly for whatever year it is. CRACKER JOKES Thirty-eight of them. All bad. A new one every day. SIX LOOKS Santa, Elf Workshop, Reindeer, Gingerbread and Midnight - each with its own painted scene, colours and lines. Or put your own photograph behind the number. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-IN No sign-up, no tracking, no adverts. Nothing leaves your phone unless you tap Share, and the countdown and every list work with no signal at all. TRY EVERYTHING FOR 24 HOURS Every countdown, planner and theme is open for the first 24 hours. After that the app locks until you make one lifetime payment. No subscription, no adverts and nothing to renew next Christmas.