It’s officially the holiday season. It means people decorate, celebrate and give to others. It’s a wonderful time of year and, by far, one of the most colorful and exciting. There’s no other holiday season where people do anything like this. There are many holiday seasons. You get music, movies, and TV shows along with family time, gift purchases, and snow, hopefully. There are many parts of Christmas that you can organize right on your smartphone! Here are the best Christmas apps for Android.
The best Christmas app for Android
1 Weather
Price: Free / $1.99
Christmas means a lot of traveling, shopping and other outdoor activities. Knowing the weather is basically important around this time of year. 1The weather is great. It shows current conditions, a ten day forecast, and a 12 week forecast. The app also includes a radar, sunrise and sunset times and much more. It also includes multiple locations. That should cover pretty much any use case we can think of. It’s also relatively inexpensive. The free version comes with all features along with ads. This isn’t a bad way as long as you don’t mind the ads in the free version.
Christmas Countdown
Price: Free / $1.99
Christmas Countdown is an app with a Christmas countdown timer. It is configurable with many small options along with multiple home screen backgrounds. You can make it look the way you want. It counts down the time until Christmas and that is its main function. Its secondary function is as an advent calendar as a second way to count down holidays. However, it also plays Christmas music, provides ideas for Christmas gifts, and even provides you with holiday wallpapers that you can save. The premium version includes two countdown widgets for your home screen, more customization options and more Christmas music. There are no ads in any version of this app and the developers usually update it yearly.
Google Santa Claus tracker
Price: Free
Google’s Santa Claus Tracker app is easily one of the best Christmas apps around. It is at least better than any other Santa Tracker app on the Play Store. However, NORAD’s Santa Tracker app (Google Play link) gets better every year. This app includes several fun little games and activities for kids. That includes Google Cardboard VR support, Android Wear support, and a countdown timer. It then follows Santa’s walk around the world on December 24th. This app is completely free with no ads or anything like that. This is also one of the best Christmas apps for kids. The 2020 version isn’t out yet, but we’ll update the article as it becomes available. Until then, we have linked to the official website instead. This website is fully operational for 2020.
iHeartRadio
Price: Free / $9.99 per month
iHeartRadio is definitely one of the best Christmas apps for music. It features a variety of holiday-themed radio stations covering new hits, old classics, and mixes of both. The app is also completely free as long as you don’t mind ads. Other music streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Pandora, etc all have Christmas playlists as well. However, iHeartRadio is the easiest to turn on and forget. It’s also the easiest for people who generally haven’t used music streaming services. Just open the app, search for Christmas and find the station you like. Done.
Christmas can be a tough time for your finances. So something like Mint can help. This is a budget app to help keep track of your money. You enter your income and then add up all your monthly payments and other expenses. This app tells you how much is left for things like Christmas shopping or even extras like Christmas dinner. It may be a good habit to have something like this all year round, but it’s especially helpful during financially difficult times like Christmas. Mint is completely free as far as we know.
Anywhere Movies
Price: Free / Movie prices vary
Movies Anywhere is a great place for movie buffs. This gives you access to movies from a variety of services, including Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Apple’s movie store, and more. You can buy movies from any of these services, log in to these apps and get them all in one place. You can usually find tons of Christmas movies for sale this time of year, but rarely are they all in one place. This lets you start your Christmas movie collection without too much hassle. Of course, you can always go with Netflix, Hulu and other monthly streaming services as most of them also have Christmas content.
Safe Notes is an excellent app for shopping for Christmas gifts. This is a notepad app that is similar to popular names like Google Keep Notes. However, this one lets you hide your notes behind a lock and key. You can set a PIN lock or password so no one can log in and see what you buy. The app UI looks a bit old, but the premise is solid. You can store different colors per note and each note can be up to 250,000 characters long. It’s a super simple notepad app and we only recommend it for its key features so the snoopy kids and significant other can’t find your shopping list. Otherwise, something like Google Drive or Google Keep is absolutely the way to go.
TikTik
Price: Free / $27.99 per year
TickTick is a to-do list app. Christmas is a busy time of year. Apps like TickTick can make tracking things easier. This app lets you add tasks, organize tasks into various lists, and even share tasks with others with TickTick. It’s great for a Christmas gift list, remembering to buy the right foods, and remembering to pack for a trip to the in-laws. The free version includes all relevant features. The pro version is optional and really only needed for business class use. We doubt you need the pro version.
Zedge
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Zedge is probably the best notification and ringtones app on Google Play. It has a lot of tones, sounds, ringtones and other things. Of course, that includes things for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other holidays. Ringtones and notification tones are usually of fairly high quality. You can find all kinds of stuff here. The app also displays wallpapers if you so desire. Most of the apps are free with ads. There is some premium content that may require in-app purchases to obtain. Of course, if you don’t like the selection of wallpapers, we have a list too!
Whatever live TV app you like
Price: Free / Varies
Live TV apps are quite popular these days and you have several options. PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, Hulu, Sling TV, and DirecTV Now are the biggest options. This service gives you access to cable television in an app instead of a cable box. This way, you can catch all the annual specials of the shows you watch, and all the Christmas-themed content that comes out every year around this time. Prices vary, but most are good enough to replace your actual cable TV if you don’t mind picking up something like a Chromecast.
Your favorite shopping app
Price: Free
Some of the busiest Christmas apps are shopping apps. Literally, everything will have various sales, special events, special offers and various other offers. Those who shop for others or for themselves can find all kinds of great deals on items they may have seen throughout the year. Many brick-and-mortar stores offer same-day pickup for online purchases if you still want the traditional Christmas shopping experience. Online shopping is stable as before. Now is the perfect time to start your Christmas shopping.
Bonus: Google Duo (or Zoom)
Price: Free
The 2020 Christmas season is unlike any other Christmas season. The COVID-19 pandemic has kept many places closed and the government has strongly warned against large gatherings for holidays. Because of this, some families may need to visit their loved ones virtually instead of in person. Something like Google Duo should work fine. Google Duo supports video chat with up to 32 people on Android and iOS. There’s a family mode with some fun filters and all that. It’s a great way to see everyone on Christmas without making anyone sick. Many people already have Zoom too, so Zoom is an alternative if you don’t want to use Duo. Skype is the last good option in this space that everyone is familiar with.
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