The holiday frenzy is spreading quickly and people are starting to gear up for the festivities and merriment. Even as shopping for gifts and thoughts of indulging in some fruit cake and wine is on everyone's mind, we take a look at some of the best Christmas apps that will come handy in planning out the perfect party!
Here are 12 of the best Christmas apps for 2015 to liven up the Yule.
1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
This Dr. Seuss classic is now available in an app avatar. However, it is not free and costs $3.99.
The popular Christmas classic tale "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" is turned into an interactive e-book. The app has illustrations from the book and the tale can be narrated out loud. One can even record their voice as they read along.
Download the app for Android and iOS and make Christmas complete for the kids.
2. Christmas Radio
The perfect app to get you into the festive spirit. Listen to Christmas carols and classics on Christmas Radio. The app streams over 29 radio stations and is free and can be downloaded for Android.
3. Elf Yourself
Christmas would seem incomplete without a few elves lurking around the holiday pictures right? Which is why the Elf Yourself app is perfect for some image manipulations to change the avatar of your friends and family into dancing elves!
You can select a maximum of five images from the camera gallery or roll. Next, select any dance theme and Elf Yourself works its magic to create a short video of your loved ones dancing as elves! The video can be shared through email or posted online on social media sites!
Download the Elf Yourself app for Android and iOS.
4. Red Stamp Cards
Planning on sending Christmas greetings digitally? Then look no further as the Red Stamp app enables you to create greeting cards that can be customized with ease from your iOS or Android device. There are several templates to choose from, customizations, ability to add own text and images. You can share the custom card, download it and mail it as well!
Download Red Stamp for Android and iOS.
5. Christmas
Christmas cheer is incomplete without a live snowflake wallpaper (or Christmas trees and flickering candles). The aptly named Christmas app does not go overboard with the animations and has several high resolution wallpapers that can be customized with snowflake speed and density. The app is free and oh-so Christmasy!
Download the Christmas app for Android.
6. NORAD Santa Tracker
This popular app will let you track St. Nick's whereabouts as he traverses his way around the globe from the North Pole. You can track Santa's flight and a countdown to the time left is also displayed. You can also play mini games and indulge in Xmas-themed videos.
Download NORAD's Santa tracker for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
7. Christmas Food
This helpful app is quite handy for novices who need a little help in the kitchen. Christmas Food has easy recipes and gives cooking inspirations from appetizers, mains to desserts! The free app can be downloaded for Android.
8. Elf Adventure Christmas
Counting down to Christmas is quite exciting and more so when you have a fun app to do the job for you! The Elf Adventure app is not only an activity calendar that counts down to Christmas, but every day there is a new mini game that unlocks a part of the story. In each game, the objective is to help the elves awaken the Frost Giant just in time so that there will be a white Christmas.
Elf Adventure is free and can be downloaded for Android and iOS.
9. Gift It
This app is the perfect answer for those who wish to send presents – stocking stuffers – to loved ones who are far away. Gift It lets one seek out unusual gifts and novelties and send them to one's loved ones immediately. The perfect shopping app!
The app is free and is available for Android.
10. My Country 2020
This city-developing game from Game Sight is quite addictive. Gamers have to solve a series of mysteries to figure out where Santa is – he has gone missing. The update to My Country 2020 lets gamers decorate the town and a Christmas Tree, exchange gifts with friends, do quests and other fun things.
Download the free app for iOS, Android, Amazon and Windows Phone.
11. 12 Days of Christmas
Remember the famous Christmas classic song? The 12 Days of Christmas app has animations, illustrations and an original musical arrangement. Users can record both video and audio when singing. Users can count down from 12 and find the gift from their true love. The recorded videos can be shared with friends and family.
Download the app for iOS.
12. Christmas Santa Run
Nothing like a good dose of Christmas Santa Run to get you into the Yuletide spirit. This game's mechanics are simple and on the lines of classics such as Temple Run. You will need to help Santa collect Christmas gifts as he makes his way through a snowy landscape to the Santa village.
The app is free and can be downloaded for Android.
