Christmas Planner Digital

A Christmas planner that runs the whole season — the dinner, the guests, the menus, the gifts and the budget — in one calm place. No spreadsheet, no subscription, no account: just open it and start.

Hosting Christmas is really about ten jobs at once. This keeps every one of them together, and does the hard maths for you.

No spreadsheet stress

• No formulas to break — nothing recalculates wrong at midnight
• No cells, no tabs, no "which sheet was that on?"
• Nothing to set up. It opens and it already works
• No monthly fee, no free trial that expires, no account to create
• It looks and behaves like real software, because it is

All the benefits of proper software, without spreadsheet stress or subscription fees.

The part nobody else has: the Cook Plan

Tell it what time you want to serve. It works backwards and tells you exactly when to start every single dish, so everything lands on the table together.

• "Start cooking 11:00" — the one number that actually matters
• Warns you when two dishes need different oven temperatures at the same time
• Rest times built in, so the turkey comes out when it should
• Tick dishes off as you cook — big buttons, greasy fingers, no lost place

What's inside

• Dashboard — countdown, this week's jobs, spending at a glance
• Events — Christmas dinner, drinks night, cookie swap, each with its own countdown
• Guests — one address book, with allergies and dietary needs that follow them everywhere
• Menus — course by course, per event
• Potluck maths — mark what a guest is bringing and it leaves your shopping list by itself
• Cook Plan — the reverse-timed run sheet
• Season planner — a full Christmas countdown built from your own dates, in one tap
• Shopping — grocery list built from your menus, grouped by aisle, with in-store phone mode
• Gifts — idea → bought → wrapped → given, with a budget per person
• Secret screen — one tap blurs a person's gifts when they walk past
• Secret Santa — draws names, never gives anyone themselves
• Cards — sent, received, thank-yous owed, year after year
• Budget — envelopes that fill themselves from your gifts, postage and trips
• Travel — dates, packing list, costs
• Memories — journal, traditions, film list and photos
• Also inside: seating plan, drinks calculator, recipe box, baking planner, cookie-exchange maths, wrapping station and a next-year ideas vault

Works where you actually are

Phone, tablet, laptop. Built mobile-first, because hosting happens in the kitchen and in the supermarket, not at a desk. In-store mode gives you big tick boxes and a running total that follows you down the screen.

Three languages, three looks

English, Spanish and French — switch any time, nothing you typed is affected. Three themes: Hearthlight (warm cream), Midnight Eve (dark) and Sugarfrost (soft rose).

Your data stays yours

Works offline. Save it on your device with no account at all, or turn on optional cloud sync to use it on your phone and laptop together. Export a backup file any time. Photos never leave the device you added them on.

What you get

• One file that opens in any normal browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox)
• Sample data you can load with one tap to explore, then clear
• A short quick-start guide (PDF)

Instant download. Yours forever.

How it works

• Download and open the file — it works straight away
• Add your events and your people
• Everything else builds itself from there

Every Christmas, not just this one

No year is baked in. When it's over, "Start next Christmas" archives the season and hands you a clean one — while keeping your people, their addresses, your recipes, your traditions and the record of who got what.

The small print

Digital download — nothing is posted to you. Needs a modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Not a printable PDF planner and not a spreadsheet.