MerryNest: Christmas Planner

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. 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 - Save a gift from any shop: tap Share in Safari or a shop's app and choose MerryNest. The name, picture, price and store are saved as a private gift idea for the person you pick. Your iPhone loads only that page; nothing is sent to us. - Secret Santa: draw names offline, with exclusions for couples or last year's pairs, then pass the phone round so each person sees only their own match. Free for up to 6 people. - Letters to Santa: children write to Santa, and on Christmas Eve Santa writes back, with a reply you read and approve first. Off unless you switch on "Santa in our home". Free. - Lock your gifts with Face ID, so children can't peek. Free. - Wish Cards: send a child's wish list to grandparents as an image. Wishes already answered by a gift are left off, so nobody buys twice. 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. Group by person, status or store, and hide prices while you brainstorm. A family wish list, safe to read aloud, kept apart from the gifts you plan in secret. Mark a gift private and it stays hidden until you reveal it. GATHER The Christmas table: the menu, who is bringing what, a shopping list, and the moments that are not food — the grace, the toast, a question worth asking. 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. YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD Eight designs, your photograph, and a line or two from what your family actually did — chosen by you. Send it as an image or print a 5x7. Gifts never appear on a card. FAMILY BOARD The one thing that leaves your iPhone, and only if you ask: share the plans and jobs of Christmas through your own iCloud. Gifts, hiding places, budgets and memories stay on your device. 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, bigger Secret Santa draws with past draws kept, and a printable shopping list grouped by store. Choose One Christmas for this season or Lifetime for 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 - Saving from a shop loads that one page on your iPhone; nothing about it reaches us - 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 iPhone. Requires iOS 17 or later. Your records do not sync between your own devices yet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kaspar.works/merrynest/privacy