There are smartphoneapps for everything these days. This
Christmas season take advantage of holiday apps to help you get and stay
organized and maybe have a little fun while you’re doing it.
For fun and games kind of apps check out:
Santa Tracker—This
app has an Advent Calendar, Countdown feature, Where is Santa? locator,
Sightings (kind of like a newsfeed), Santa’s Blog, News, and Send A Letter (email
rather) all for $.99. This is a really
cute app for you and your kids to play with during the weeks leading up to the
big day.
Grinchmas!—This
is another great app to get if you want to get into the Christmas spirit with
your kids. It’s a game where the user
plays the role of The Grinch from Dr. Suess’ Who-Ville. Choose to be the ‘Mean Grinch’ and silence
the Whos that are making too much noise by throwing snowballs at the village or
choose to be the ‘Merry Grinch’ and throw presents into Who-Ville to make the
Grinch’s heart grow bigger.
To help you with your Christmas shopping take a look at:
Shopkick—Turn on
this app before you physically enter one of the stores affiliated with the app
(Best Buy, Old Navy, Crate & Barrel, American Eagle, Target, West Elm,
Sports Authority and more) and you will be rewarded in just a few seconds. They’ll send you exclusive deals for those
stores and you can collect rewards by scanning certain featured barcodes at
different stores in the US.
The Christmas List—For
help organizing your Christmas list this year spend the $.99 and take advantage
of this app. You can organize by store
and person, it tracks your budget and the shopping days left. You can view gifts by store and keep details
on gifts like notes, priority, price, store and status.
Gift Ideas—Is the
perfect app for people who struggle to find the right gifts for people. Through the use of age, relation, personality
and search filters, Gift Ideas produces a list of suggestions that is likely to
be very suitable.
Holiday
travel apps:
FlightAware—Never
go to the airport early or unnecessarily again.
This app has up-to-date airport and flight information. Check for delayed and cancelled flights
before you brave traffic to the airport.
Let the apps do the work for you so you can relax and enjoy
the snow this holiday season. With so
many things to take care of during the busy holidays why not get a little help
from an app or 6.
Author bio:
Margot is a writer who loves taking advantage of holiday
deals with HP coupons when
she’s not using android apps.
