The 10 Best Christmas iPhone apps

The Gadget Show  Tuesday 22 December 2009

If your family gathering is about as entertaining as a cracker joke, then remember that the Gadget Show’s Gadget of the Decade, the Apple iPhone, has over 90,000 apps, with more than a few that’ll help you get the best out of your Christmas holidays:

RedLaser £1.19
If you’ve still got some last-minute shopping to get, but don’t want to get fleeced, this ace little app will transform your iPhone’s camera into a barcode scanner and seek out the best UK deal for you.

Dishy £3
If you need a little help in the kitchen, this great little app for foodies will create a shopping list for all the dishes you choose to cook from its built in recipe collection as well as giving you simple step-by-step cooking instructions. £3

National Rail Enquiries £4.95
Check to see if that snow was of the wrong type and left you marooned at Auntie’s with this rail info app. This will give you live information, let you save favourite journeys and let you plan your escape easily.

Christmas Cards 59p
If you’ve been too cheap/lazy/forgetful to post your Christmas cards, don’t panic. This app does eactly what it says on the tin. And in a cool, Urban Spoon style shaker that lets you randomise font, colour and suitable festive image.

Carols 59p
Shred what’s left of your family’s sanity with this compendium of Christmas croon-fests. There’s over 10 carols to choose from. Including Silent Night.

Mistletoe £free
Spotted someone smoochable but forgotten to scythe down some mistletoe? Keep this app to hand and you’ll have their attention before you can say “restraining order”

Rudolph 59p
Use your accelorometer to slide around and collect gifts before you gallop over snowy platforms as Santa’s favourite ruddy-nosed pal. Good, honest, Christmas-flavoured fun.

eBay £free
So that jumper with the owl on it that your Mum knitted for you isn’t really your style, but someone somewhere in the world might just pay you cash money for it. Get it snapped, get it listed, get it out of your eyeline.

Lonely Planet Travel Guides 59p
Start planning your summer escape with LP’s iPhone optimised travel guides. Choose from over 75 dream destinations, complete with interactive maps and easy-to-use reviews from the Lonely Planet experts.

iFitness 59p
OK, so another mince pie probably wasn’t a good idea. Neither was all that brandy butter. Or the third helping of turkey. Get back to your ripped pre-Christmas state with this app that shows you exercises by body type and will let you choose routines such as Ab Defining Programme (ahem).