Naughty or Nice? Christmas Detective

The naughty and nice list is a cunning Christmas device that can be used all year long to keep kids’ behaviour in check.

This app digitises the list, and runs advanced algorithms to calculate whether a person has been naughty or nice, or a Santa or Scrooge, by analysing photos of them.

More of a party trick than a practical application, this is always good for a festive laugh.

Christmas Sweater-izer

Amongst other things, Christmas is about looking a bit daft. Whether it’s out of an obligation to wear a knitted abomination made by a family member, or whether you embrace the delight of stupid seasonal hats.

The Christmas Sweater-izer app is the perfect way to shanghai anyone into appalling advent attire, overlaying gaudy comedy Christmas jumpers and hats onto your family photos.

Ghostbusters: Holiday Special

Any visitation by three ghosts during the night, and we’d know who to call even if Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t: The Ghostbusters!

This first class digital graphic novel explores that very premise, with the world’s most famous paranormal investigators going up against the time-travelling Victorian spirits.

The perfect way to discover the delights of comic reading on an iDevice this winter.

Moonpig

The snow has caused no shortage of problems since the beginning of December, so if you don’t fancy trailing out of the house to buy cards, write them, then trail back out to post them, Moonpig is for you.

With this app, you can design your own greetings cards and have them sent directly to your kinfolk.

Featuring some superb designs and loads of personalisation options, this is the best way to post out your seasonal goodwill direct from an iPhone.

Waitrose Christmas

Admittedly, this feels a lot like product placement, but the Waitrose Christmas app actually has a lot to offer besides punting its own produce.

If you’re looking for some great seasonal recipes and gift ideas, this app makes it a surprisingly pleasant experience thanks to a great design and simple, interactive layout.

And it sure beats the hell out of actually going to the supermarket.

BigOven

This community-compiled recipe database features over 170,000 foodie concoctions wrapped up in a feature-rich and easy-to-use app.

Whether you’re looking for Christmas dinner ideas, how to cook a goose, or something more imaginative than turkey sandwiches to do with all those leftovers, get this app.

The recipe finder will prove very useful over Christmas, building dishes from the random bits of Christmas grub in the Boxing Day fridge.

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