Christmas Countdown & List

A Christmas countdown that does more than count. Sleeps till Christmas on your home screen widget, an advent calendar with a door a day through December, a Christmas gift list with a budget that adds up as you shop, your Christmas dinner timings worked out backwards from when you sit down, a Christmas food shopping list, Secret Santa, Christmas films, Christmas days out, an idea for the elf every night, and a cracker joke a day through Advent.

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. 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. Put it on your home screen as a widget.

THE ADVENT CALENDAR

Twenty-five doors, one a day through December. A cracker joke, a Christmas film to put on, something to make or something to do behind every door - and next December they all quietly shut and the advent calendar 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 what that works out at per day between now and Christmas.

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 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 when they tap it.

THE ELF

Out of ideas for the elf at eleven at night? Twenty-four nights of elf ideas, one for every night from the first of December to Christmas Eve - the arrival, the mischief, the goodbye.

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 early.

COOKING

Eight things people actually make in December - 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.

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.

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.

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.