MerryNest 2.0: a brighter Christmas together. • A new illustrated Home with a live countdown, and five simple tabs: Home, Gifts, Advent, Traditions and More. • Pin up to six family favorites to Home, search everything you've saved, and add a gift, memory, plan or packing item from Quick Add. • Santa's Gift Workshop: clearer shopping and wrapping progress, gift hints, and a receipt vault with return reminders. • Twenty-four Advent doors with your own activities and gentle reminders. • Budget tools: see what's left at a glance, split a receipt across categories, keep a shopping basket, move budget between categories, and settle shared costs fairly. • Christmas Day mode: one timeline for cooking, dinner, gatherings and gift opening. • Your family's Christmas: a decoration inventory with printable box labels, voice keepsakes, dietary notes for guests, holiday travel with packing lists, and photo challenges. • Year in review, played back as a story from what your family saved. • Three Christmas themes, with controls for snowfall, animation and sound. • A fuller family backup that carries more of your Christmas with you. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

MerryNest 1.8 • Christmas Budget: set a total, add spending by category, keep a receipt photo. Free. • Card Studio: design your Christmas card with your own photo and words, then save it as an image. Plus adds premium designs and animated video cards with music. • Family Games: four pass-the-phone games and the Family Cup, all on one device. Free. • Countdown wallpapers, including The Holy Night, free for everyone. • MerryNest now runs on iPad, in landscape and split view. • A new welcome for first-time families. • Gift Lock now covers exports and Santa's replies. • Erase all MerryNest data in one step, from Settings > Privacy & data. • Photos you add are cleaned of location data. • Lifetime is now called Every Christmas. Nothing changes if you already own it. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

MerryNest 1.7 • Made for iPhone Duo. Open it, and MerryNest spreads across both halves: the countdown and what to do next on one side, your Christmas so far on the other. Gifts, Christmas and Memories open up the same way, and nothing ever sits on the fold. • Closed, the tabs move to the side, giving the screen back to your Christmas. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

MerryNest 1.6 • A budget for each person: set how much for each, and see what's spent and what's left on their page. • Christmas Day timeline: choose when you'll eat, and MerryNest counts back so you know when the turkey, the potatoes and everything else goes in. Optional reminders on the day. • An Advent calendar for every family: a little door each day of December, with something small to do together. • Christmas card list: who to send to, addresses, who you've sent to and who sent one back. Next year starts from this year's list. • The widget now shows how many gifts are left to buy. • On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, keep the countdown on your Lock Screen, with the next dish to start on the day. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

MerryNest 1.5 • Save a gift from any shop: tap Share in Safari or a shop's app, and MerryNest keeps the name, picture, price and store as a private gift idea. • Secret Santa: draw names offline, with exclusions, then pass the phone round. • Letters to Santa, and Santa writes back on Christmas Eve once you approve the reply. Turn on "Santa in our home" in Settings. • Lock your gifts with Face ID. • Wish Cards: share a child's wish list as a card. Wishes already answered are left off. • Group gifts by person, status or store, and hide prices while you brainstorm. • After Christmas: thank-yous and return reminders. • Bought One Christmas? You can now upgrade to Lifetime. • Shared cards carry a small "Made with MerryNest" mark. • Fixes: a gift typed at the free limit is kept. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

MerryNest has a clearer name on the App Store, so more families can find it before December. Nothing about your Christmas changes. Everything you have kept stays exactly where it is.

A calmer Christmas, one thing at a time. - Today now shows one thing to do next, with everything else quieter underneath. During Advent, with Christian content on, that can be lighting this week's candle. - Your Christmas so far: the plans, traditions and memories you have kept, on one line. - A family wish list, separate from gifts. Wishes are safe to read aloud, and nobody sees who is buying what. - Gift ideas, a wrapped-gifts page, and photos on gifts. - Memories as a photo grid, with "On this Christmas…" bringing back earlier years. - Preparing Our Hearts: Advent weeks, prayers and small daily practices. - Optional reminders, all off until you turn them on, and quiet Christmas music you start yourself.

Your Christmas card, and one board you can share. - Christmas cards, made in MerryNest. Eight designs, your palette, your type, your photograph. Add lines from your own year if you want them - traditions kept, a kindness, something someone said. Send it as an image or print a 5x7. - Every card is kept. Christmas Cards Through the Years shows every card your family has sent. - Family Board. Share the plans and jobs of Christmas with the people doing it with you, through your own iCloud. Gifts, hiding places and private notes never go on a board. - The countdown on your Lock Screen and in StandBy. - A Christmas Book preview, so you can see the keepsake before you buy anything. Making, sending and printing this year's card is free.

MerryNest Plus is now available to buy — once, and forever. KEEP EVERY CHRISTMAS SAFE Save a copy of every Christmas you have kept here to iCloud Drive or Files, and restore it on a new iPhone. Restoring only ever adds; it never deletes what is already there. YOUR CHRISTMAS BOOK Turn your Christmases into a real book — to keep, to send, or to print and put on a shelf. THE SAME QUESTIONS, EVERY YEAR Four short questions, answered each Christmas by everyone in the family, with what they said in earlier years underneath. Ask a six-year-old. Read it back when they are sixteen. THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH, EVERY YEAR Take this year's family photograph with last year's showing faintly through the camera, so the framing matches and you can watch your family grow up in it. WHAT YOU GAVE BEFORE Open anyone on your gift list and see what you gave them at past Christmases — so nobody gets the same thing twice. WHERE IT IS HIDDEN Write down where you put a present in September. Find it again on Christmas Eve. ONE NOTIFICATION A YEAR Seal a Time Capsule and MerryNest can tell you, next December, that it is time to open it. It is the only thing MerryNest will ever send you on its own, and you choose it.