MerryNest: Christmas Planner

New: Santa Tracker. Follow the sleigh around the world on Christmas Eve and see when Santa reaches your home. Also gift lists, budgets and Advent, all on your iPhone.

Christmas is more than a gift list. MerryNest keeps the whole of it — the presents, the plans, the dinner, the traditions and the memories — in one private place on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no ads, no tracking. And when December ends, nothing is thrown away: every Christmas you keep here stays saved, and you can open it again next year.

A planner empties in January. MerryNest gets fuller.

NEW THIS CHRISTMAS

• Christmas Budget: set a total, add spending by category, keep a receipt photo. Free.
• Card Studio: your photograph, your words, a design you choose. Save it as an image or print a 5x7.
• Family Games: four pass-the-phone games and the Family Cup, played on one device. Free.
• Countdown wallpapers, including The Holy Night, free for everyone.
• MerryNest on iPad, in landscape and Split View.

PLAN A Today screen with one thing to do next: tonight's plan, a gift to wrap, or a small family moment. A December timeline, with reminders only on the plans you choose. Guides for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A countdown on your Home Screen and Lock Screen.

GIVE Gift lists by person, with a budget for each and a journey for every gift, from Idea to Given. Save a gift from any shop with the Share button. Hide prices while you brainstorm, and lock your gifts with Face ID so children can't peek. A family wish list, safe to read aloud, kept apart from the gifts you plan in secret.

SECRET SANTA AND LETTERS TO SANTA Draw names offline, with exclusions, then pass the phone round. Children write to Santa, and on Christmas Eve Santa writes back, with a reply you approve first.

GATHER The Christmas table: the menu, who is bringing what, a shopping list, and the moments that are not food. Traditions to keep, and a kindness list.

AFTER THE DAY Note the presents you received, tick off the thank-yous, and track returns with a reminder before each deadline.

REMEMBER Photographs, notes and the thing your four-year-old said, grouped by Christmas. In December, "On this Christmas…" brings back earlier years.

FAMILY BOARD The one thing that leaves your device, and only if you ask: share the plans and jobs of Christmas through your own iCloud. Gifts, hiding places, budgets and memories stay with you.

THE CHRISTMAS STORY, IF YOU WANT IT Readings from the Christmas story, Advent reflections and Luke 2 (KJV), offline — only if you switch on Christian content at setup. Never behind a purchase.

MERRYNEST PLUS The free app runs a whole Christmas, with some limits. MerryNest Plus is a one-time purchase that removes them and adds Christmas Through the Years, the Recap and Time Capsule, premium card designs and animated video cards, bigger Secret Santa draws, and a printable shopping list. Choose One Christmas for this season or Every Christmas; One Christmas can be upgraded later. Nothing renews.

PRIVACY, CONCRETELY

• No account, no sign-in, no email address
• Your records are stored on this device; there is no MerryNest server to upload them to
• Photos you add are cleaned of location data
• Erase all MerryNest data in one step, from Settings
• Family Board is the opt-in exception, in your own iCloud, shared only with people you invite
• No analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking

Back up every Christmas to Files or iCloud Drive and restore it on a new device. Requires iOS 17 or later. Your records do not sync between your own devices yet.

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