Getting this list together has never been more challenging–14 hours of travel, a child throwing up, and 10k/second internet—so much apologies about the delay in posting this list. But here it is! After looking through over 2,500 deals, here are the best apps, games, and movies on sale for Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years.

P.S. I do my very best to keep this list current and updated, so please let me know (email, Twitter) if I’ve missed something or if a deal has expired. Thanks!

Update 1/1/2020, about 3am EST: Page has been updated to reflect most recent changes. Updates marked with 🆕 .

Sorry for relatively few updates on this list–I have been fighting internet all week–last night I tried to update the list for an hour and never was able to get it to load. Your best bet to see updates is to follow my site’s main feed which, for whatever reason, I’m able to update even when I can’t get to this page. Odd.

Mark’s favorite deals

Favorite iOS & iPadOS apps & games

Favorite Mac apps & games

Favorite movie deals

Phew, that’s a lot of awesome goodness! If you’ve made it this far, I’d love it if you’d Buy Me a Coffee with the money I’ve saved you — making this list takes a lot of time and coffee and I make no money from App Store affiliate links. Thanks!

iOS & iPadOS apps & game deals

Productivity & utilities

Photography & graphics

Games

Information, Reference, & Education

Health & fitness

Finance

Robinhood – Apple Design Award-winning app that gives you 100% free stock trades. Not unique to Christmas, but they offer a deal that if you sign up with my link, we both get a free share of stock like Apple or Ford; highly recommended & an app I use daily for all my stock investing

Easy Spending Budget – A simple way to budget, keep track of your money, and see where it has gone; avg 4.5/5 stars (630+ ratings); 50% off, was $1.99, now $0.99!

Money Pro: Personal Finance – Keep your finances on track with budgets, bank connectivity, custom reports, and more; avg 4.5/5 stars (2,700+ ratings); 60% off, was $4.99, now $1.99!

Debt Snowball – Payoff Planner – Track all your debts, balances, & interest rates—and then pay them off faster using multiple plans like the debt snowball or avalanche; avg 4.5/5 stars; 50% off, was $1.99, now $0.99!

Capital One QuickSilver – This isn’t a holiday special, but I thought you’d like it since it saves money–1.5% cash back on absolutely everything, plus a free $150 for signing up!

Empower Banking – Get 2.80% interest on your money with this high-yield savings account. FDIC insured and a great mobile-first bank experience. The bank I use for my personal savings

Mac app & game deals

Productivity & utilities

Information, education, & reference

Wifi Signal Strength Explorer – All the details you want to know about your WiFi speed & status, right in your menu bar; recommended; avg 4.5/5 stars (180+ ratings); 60% off, was $4.99, now $1.99!

Network Radar – See current devices, detect intruders, and troubleshoot issues on your network. 72% off, was $17.99, now $4.99!

Parallels Mac Bundle – Probably the best deal of the year on 13 excellent apps bundled, including Parallels, PDF Expert, TextExpander, iMazing, Disk Drill, & more; highly recommended. 95% off, was $1267, now $59.99!

SkySafari 6 Plus – Comprehensive database of the night sky for the aspiring astronomer; recommended; avg 4.5/5 stars; 67% off, was $29.99, now $9.99!

Photography & graphics

AirMagic – A powerful photo editor by Skylum optimized for editing drone photography; now free to download (I suspect IAP to unlock, but can’t confirm—this may truly be free); highly recommended; avg 5/5 stars; was $38.99, now free!

Games

7 Billion Humans – Sequel to the award-winning game using logic & basic programming to solve puzzles and accomplish loose tasks; recommended; avg 4.5/5 stars; 33% off, was $14.99, now $9.99!

Human Resource Machine – The absolutely delightful game of logic as you wrote simple code to solve puzzles and problems; highly recommended; avg 4.5/5 stars; 40% off, was $14.99, now $8.99!

Call of Duty 4 – The popular, adrenaline-filled first person action shooter game. 50% off, was $19.99, now $9.99!

Star Wars Knights of the Republic (💻) – A bundle of both Knights of the Republic Star Wars games; recommended. 75% off, was $19.99, now $4.99!

Civilization VI – Sid Meier’s super popular civilization-building game; highly recommended. 33% off, was $29.99, now $19.99!

Movie deals

And that’s it! If I’ve missed something or if something is no longer on sale, please let me know and I’ll do my best to update the page.

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One last reminder that it takes a ton of time and coffee to make this list but I make no money from App Store affiliate links–Apple ended that program–and so I instead rely on people like you to buy me my next cup of coffee to keep this site up and running. Thanks!