Better Call Santa

Better Call Santa is an iPhone app from Plasma LLC that lets children talk with an AI Santa on a phone call during the holiday season. Inside the app the calls are called SantaCalls. A child shares holiday wishes with Santa on a personalized call, and parents can then view the details of the child's wish list. Better Call Santa is meant for families with children at Christmas time.

The child starts a festive phone call with Santa from the app and talks about what they would like for the holidays. Santa can speak more than 30 languages, and a list of every supported language is available in the app. The wishes the child shares are collected in a secret list in the Parents zone, where parents can see and review them.

Calling Santa is a limited, premium feature that requires a valid subscription. Better Call Santa is free to download and sells SantaCalls in-app purchases at $4.99 and $2.99. The app requires iOS 17.6 or later on iPhone, macOS 14.6 on a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later, or visionOS 1.3, and its interface is available in English and 17 more languages. The developer states that no data is collected.

Use cases

• Giving a child a personalized Christmas phone call from Santa
• Finding out what a child wants for Christmas through the Parents zone
• Santa calls for families who speak a language other than English
• Letting children say their holiday wishes out loud to Santa