Here are the best apps to celebrate Hanukkah

The Festival of Lights is upon us.

Revelers are frying latkes and lighting candles at sundown for eight nights to celebrate Hanukkah through Monday evening. 

They're also playing dreidel — a four-sided top spun as a holiday game — in AR and texting Hanukkah-themed stickers thanks to a boatload of apps themed for the Jewish holiday.

Here are a few of our favorite Hanukkah apps to download this week:

Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I spun you with AR

iGevalt is a free App for iOS and gives you the bare bones dreidel experience. You can't keep score or have multiple players since there's no built-in profile settings. Even so, it's still a fun and entertaining experience. While some AR apps are limited as to where they work, in my testing, iGevalt worked on both a physical table and my closed laptop lid on the train. Read more...