Reduce the stress at Christmas by getting organised with useful gifting apps. While some may prefer handwritten lists, there are some great apps to help you budget your money and keep track of what presents to buy family members. You could even compile your own wish list to easily share with family and friends.
These easy-to-use apps are great for even the most time-strapped. Take a look at a selection below...
1. Christmas Gift List
Looking for a way to manage the presents you need to buy in one handy place? Well, the Christmas Gift List app enables you to do just that, plus much more. Other features include useful money statistics, a budget helper, gift wrap tracker, and archive folder for you to organise gifts once the New Year arrives. It has rave reviews all round, so why not give it a go?
2. My Gift List
This clever app allows you to suggest gifts for friends, view friends' lists and hint at items you're interested in yourself. It's perfect to consider if you're struggling to find the perfect present for a family member.
3. Giftster
Giftster is the gift registry app where you can create wish lists, arrange a Secret Santa and mark gifts with family members so you don't end up buying the same thing. If you're juggling too much around the festive season, then this app is just for you.
4. Xmas Organiser
This easy-to-use app lets users easily organise gifts, a spending budget and count down the days to Christmas, too. You can jot down gift ideas and then easily assign them to the person you want to buy for in seconds. It's great if you have a large family and find it hard to keep track of what you're buying.
5. Santa's Bag
Available for iPhone and iPad, Santa's Bag is an easy-to-use app which makes it simpler than ever to set a festive budget and plan your shopping.
The free app is a firm favourite, with one user saying: 'I have used this app for years and have always loved it. It makes Christmas shopping a breeze. You can store ideas, set and track budgets and so so much more. I love it’s ease of use and especially love that you can lock it with a passcode, safe from prying eyes!'
6. Manage Christmas
Manage the festive season in your household like a pro with this free-to-use app. Available on the app store, it enables users to track budgets, wrapping and food shopping lists, as well as ensuring they don't overspend.
The app explains: 'Want to stick to a budget this Christmas? Want to manage what gifts you have bought for your family and friends? Have ideas during the year and want to keep track of them? Well then this is the app for you.'
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The best Christmas flowers (letterbox and hand-tied) to buy this festive season
Giving us all the autumnal feels alongside the first whisperings of winter, these gorgeous Christmas flowers combine warm oranges and rich purples for an elegant arrangement. It includes roses, tulips, carnations, sweet williams, alstroemeria, waxflowers, pine and eucalyptus.
An evergreen delight, this beautiful Christmas bouquet is filled with nobilis fir, robusta eucalyptus, eucalyptus cinerea, ornithogalum arabicum, white waxflower and kiefer pine, finished with dusted pine cones. Perfect for all interiors, this is a firm favourite.
Guaranteed to put a smile on your face, these beautiful Christmas flowers include a wonderful arrangement of cream roses, white cotton, noble fir, eucalyptus, ozomanthus, senecio and white-topped pine cones.
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Wow a special someone with this seasonal bunch of red roses and orange lilies, interspersed with rustic pinecones and pistache. Guaranteed to be a show-stopper in any home.
This bountiful berry bouquet is a stylish way to see in Christmas. Ditch the sparkle and glitter in favour of these rich red stems, which will make for a wonderful display.
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Christmas bouquets don't come much more festive than this stunning option from Bloom & Wild. With traditional yuletide colours of green, red and white, it includes long stems of eucalyptus, red roses, blue eryngium and white freesias.
How beautiful is this Christmas bouquet? The Red Carpet Bouvardia boasts beautiful, small trumpet-shaped flowers framed by bright green leaves. It's a luxury touch perfect for any home this festive season.
We're big fans of this Christmas flower bouquet that gets delivered straight through your letterbox. It's filled with deep and vibrant orange roses, red roses, red hypericum and red alstroemeria, complete with pistache foliage and a cinnamon stick.
We love the elegant arrangement of this festive bouquet featuring fragrant oriental lilies, roses, silver foliage and seasonal berries. Pop these in a vase of water and enjoy as they bloom.
If you love soft blush pinks and greens during the festive season, look no further than this pretty bunch of flowers from Interflora. With pops of red and brown too, there's a definitely Christmas feel to these blooms that are sure to bring a smile to the recipient's face.
Christmas flowers don't come much more show-stopping than this. With crimson lillies, red winter berries, natural pine cones and fir branches, you'll feel like you're taking a December walk in an enchanted forest with these striking blooms in your home.
Pre-order this stunning rust and orange-coloured bouquet for a lucky friend or family member (or yourself) this December. They'll receive five orange roses, four bronze baylo madiba button chrysanthemum, four orange alstroemeria, two red hypericum, two hemlock, one keifer pine, and one cinnamon stick, for a delicious smelling group of florals.
You can't go wrong with a red and gold combination. Gold ruscus is nestled amongst red carnations here for a rich and bold display.
We're all dreaming of a white Christmas, so take the opportunity to make it happen for yourself or a loved one with this letterbox bouquet, complete with white carnations, spray carnations, delicate gypsophila and silver ruscus leaves.
Serenata Flowers' Christmas bouquets aren't available until 18th December, but if you want to send a bouquet off to a loved one ASAP, this autumnal posy is appropriately festive, and oh-so-pretty. It's subtle and simple, and the winter berries and robusta leaves make it perfect for displaying this December.
This stunning bouquet instantly evokes feelings of a chilly Christmas evening, with its gorgeous inky blue flowers, made up of blue delphinium and blue thistle. There's also some eucalyptus and white roses tucked in there too, for the perfect combination for the eyes and the nose.
Embrace the pink trend this Christmas with this bright bouquet containing pink hydrangeas, pink roses, red hypericum berries, and copper cinerea eucalyptus.
Lisa Joyner
Senior Digital Writer, House Beautiful and Country Living
Lisa Joyner is the Senior Digital Writer at House Beautiful UK and , where she's busy writing about home and interiors, , , pets, health and wellbeing, countryside news, small space inspiration, and the hottest properties on the market. Previously, she has written for , and magazine. Lisa studied at University For The Creative Arts, where she completed a BA in Fashion Journalism.
