Imagine the smile when a text arrives from Santa Claus.

Your child texts Santa; Santa texts back — you decide what he says, from the Elf Workshop or from your own phone. The story of how Santa started texting, a wish list that becomes a letter to Santa, North Pole games, and an Advent Calendar with a door a day. New for 2026, and on iPhone and iPad for the first time.

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The story

One year, not long ago, Santa was kidnapped by the Evil Penguin King just before Christmas. Trapped deep in the lair, Santa found some wires and, with the magic of Christmas, built a tablet with texting — and texting with boys and girls became the only way to collect Christmas wishes. Read it in the app in two voices: a rhyme for little ones, the full tale for readers.

The cast

**Santa Claus**
The master of all toy makers!

**Evil Penguin King**
The leader of the South Pole penguins.

**Pickles**
The creative one of the bunch.

**Jack**
The one who won't be told it's not possible.

Games at the North Pole

Sleigh Ride, Sleigh Drop and Santa's Sleigh — fly Santa's sleigh over the rooftops: catch the presents, deliver them down the chimneys.
Merge — slide and merge the presents, the penguins, Santa himself.
Match — the Christmas memory game: turn the cards, find the pairs.
Puzzles — the story's pictures as real jigsaw pieces, four to twenty-four.
Elf Says — watch the elf, copy the elf.
Find It — hidden things in the story's scenes.
And more — Letters, Words, Shapes, Santa's Shapes, Coloring, Dot to Dot, Tree Trim, What's Next?, Santa's Sack and Santa's Maze. Some arrive through a door of the Advent Calendar.
Dec 25 — a present in the gallery that opens on Christmas Day.

Easy mode for the youngest (no reading needed) and Hard mode for readers; the first three levels of every game are free, and the top ones come with Santa's Workshop Pass.

The Advent Calendar

The calendar comes out the day after Thanksgiving — November 27 this year. From December 1st a door a day: a chapter of the story, a game, a note or a joke from Santa — and the present on the 25th. Every door is free. Make it your child's home screen, or keep the North Pole.

Download

App Store — iPhone and iPad Google Play — Android Amazon Appstore — Fire tablets

Texting With Santa is free to download. The Paid edition includes Santa's Workshop Pass for the season it is first opened in.

Store links go live with the season release; until then they may not resolve.