MerryNest: Christmas Planner

Christmas scatters across group chats, notes, screenshots and memory. MerryNest gathers it into one quiet place — and keeps it, so next December you can open the Christmas you had this year. A planner empties in January. MerryNest gets fuller. PLAN A Today screen that shows one thing to do next: tonight's plan, a gift to wrap, or a small family moment. A December timeline, with a reminder only on the plans you choose. GIVE A family wish list, safe to read aloud, kept apart from the gifts you plan in secret. Gift lists by the person they are for, each with its own journey — Idea, Planned, Ordered, Bought, Delivered, Wrapped, Given — with prices, dates and why you chose it. Mark a gift private and it stays concealed, and out of the widget count, until you reveal it. GATHER The Christmas table: the menu, who is bringing what, a shopping list for the store, and the moments that are not food — the grace, the toast, a question worth asking while everyone is still sitting down. BELIEVE Eight readings from the Christmas story with prompts, a reflection that rotates through December, and Luke 2:1-20 (KJV), offline. You choose at setup whether to include any of it. Switched off, MerryNest is a complete family Christmas without it. Never behind a purchase. REMEMBER Photographs, notes, prayers, and the thing your four-year-old said, grouped by Christmas. Mark one as the favourite. In December, "On this Christmas…" brings back earlier years. No streaks, no badges, and no notifications unless you turn them on: MerryNest does not want you looking at a phone on Christmas morning. RETURN This is what MerryNest is for. Christmas Through the Years opens every Christmas kept here. Our Christmas Recap tells one back as a story from your own records. The Time Capsule lets you write something this Christmas and open it the next. And a tradition carries every year you kept it, with what you wrote at the time. OUR CHRISTMAS JOURNEY Twelve moments of December that light up from what you already did. No scores, nothing to lose. YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD, FROM YOUR OWN YEAR Eight designs, your palette and type, your photograph placed where you want it. Add a line or two from what your family actually did — traditions kept, a kindness, something one of them said — chosen by you, never inserted for you. Send it as an image or print a 5x7. Every card is kept, so next December you can see the one you sent this year. Gifts never appear on a card: the person reading it might be on that list. FAMILY BOARD The one thing that leaves your iPhone, and only if you ask. Share the plans and jobs of Christmas with the people doing it with you, through your own iCloud. Gifts, hiding places, budgets, private notes and memories stay on your device. MERRYNEST PLUS The free app runs your whole Christmas — Today, the countdown, all the Christian content, Christmas Eve and Day, traditions, kindness, plans, the table, the Journey, and this year's card. Plus removes the limits and unlocks the returning: Through the Years, the Recap, the Time Capsule, Tradition History, Table Moments and every card you have sent. Nothing renews. Buy once and keep it for every Christmas, or unlock a single Christmas instead. PRIVACY, CONCRETELY - No account, no sign-in, no email address, ever - Your gifts, plans and memories are stored on this device; there is no MerryNest server to upload them to - Family Board is the opt-in exception: what you put on a board is stored in your own iCloud and shared with the people you invite - No analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking - Closing a Christmas keeps it. Nothing is deleted unless you delete it Save a copy of every Christmas to iCloud Drive or Files and restore it on a new iPhone. Requires iOS 17 or later. Family Board shares a board through iCloud; your own records stay on this device and do not sync between your devices yet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/