Paskong Pinoy

Christmas in the Philippines is the longest in the world. It begins on the first of September and does not let go until the Three Kings arrive in January.

Paskong Pinoy is built for all four months of it.

SING
33 songs, and every one of them plays.

Eighteen traditional carols now have music and synced lyrics that follow along line by line as the melody plays — tap any line to jump to it. Silent Night, O Holy Night, Joy to the World, The First Noel, O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and more. Alongside them sits a collection of much-loved Filipino Christmas sing-alongs with words on screen.

Every song carries its own story — who wrote it, when, and the part you probably did not know. Silent Night was first sung to a guitar in an Austrian village in 1818. Jingle Bells was the first song ever broadcast from space. And the comma in God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen goes somewhere most people do not put it.

COUNT DOWN
The days to Christmas, from wherever you are in the season — the Ber months, the nine dawn masses, Noche Buena, Pasko itself.

SIMBANG GABI
Tick off each of the nine dawn masses as you attend them, from the sixteenth to the twenty-fourth. Folk belief says a novena completed without missing one earns a wish.

ADVENT
Twenty-four doors, one for each day of December. Behind them: a carol to sing, a tradition explained, something to cook, or something to do that day.

KWENTO
Ten short pieces on where the season's traditions come from. The parol and why a star hangs in every window. Why Simbang Gabi happens before sunrise. What belongs on the Noche Buena table, and how bibingka is baked between two layers of coals. Pagmamano and aguinaldo. Panunuluyan. The Ber months themselves.

LARO
102 trivia questions across five categories, weighted towards Pinoy Pasko, with a daily challenge and a streak to keep.

For children:
• Hanap-Salita — a word search that quietly teaches Filipino Christmas vocabulary. Find PANUNULUYAN and the app tells you what it means.
• Memory — match the parols, six or eight pairs.
• Gumawa ng Parol — design your own lantern, choose its points, colours and tassels, then save or share it.

WIDGETS
Put the countdown on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. During the novena it shows which night of Simbang Gabi it is; in December it shows today's Advent door. Tap it and the app opens straight to whatever it was telling you about.

NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT.
Paid once, and that is the whole arrangement. The app collects nothing, sends nothing anywhere, and works with no connection at all. Your favourites and scores stay on your device.

Maligayang Pasko.