Comparison

Christmas Countdown vs Christmas Countdown and Lists

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Christmas Countdown

Track the remaining time until Christmas with various countdown formats, including days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats. Share festive cards with friends and customize the appearance with different Santa and tree images. Enjoy optional background music and snowflake animations.

Highlights
  • Multiple countdown formats (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
  • Shareable Christmas cards
  • Customizable Santa and tree images
  • Optional Jingle Bells background music
  • Disableable snowflake animation
Features
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This application shows how much time is left for Christmas in several ways: • Days, hours and minutes • Days, hours, minutes and seconds • Weeks and days • Nights • Hours • Minutes • Seconds • Heartbeats Share a Christmas card with your friends through social networks or email. You can even choose which image of Santa Claus will appear at the top of the card and the tree that will appear in the footer simply by swiping these images. The chosen background music was the Jingle Bells, which can be enabled or disabled from the menu that comes up when you touch the screen. The snowflakes animation can also be disabled in the menu. I hope you enjoy the time till Christmas with this application. Merry Christmas!

About

Christmas Countdown and Lists

Track the time remaining until Christmas and organize your gift shopping with customizable lists. Monitor your spending against budgets and personalize the app's appearance with various color and snow effects.

Highlights
  • Christmas countdown timer
  • Customizable gift lists
  • Budget and spending tracking
  • Personalized background and text colors
  • Adjustable snow effects
  • Swipe to mark/delete gifts and lists
Features
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A simple but great looking app, with modern design, which shows you the time left until Christmas and helps you organise your gift list.  Create as many lists you want and add some gifts to them, so you don't forget anyone or anything for this Christmas.  You can tick the gifts by swiping on them from left to right or delete a gift or a list by swiping it to the left.  The app keeps track of your lists and shows you the amount of money you have spent so far and how much you still need to spend.  You can also see the total budget for each list and for all lists, as well as the average list budget. You can se how long it is till Christmas at any time and do all the Christmas preparations on time. From the menu in the right you can customise the appearance of the app. You can choose from a list of many colours one for the background and another one for text and decorations, as well as a pattern for background. And you can choose not only if it snows or not, but also if it is light, moderate or heavy snow. At the end of the countdown you will see a Merry Christmas screen.  This app brings color and Christmas-joy on your device screen! The countdown has begun! See exactly how long it is until Christmas and get your Christmas lists ready! Happy Holidays! and merry counting

Screenshots

Christmas Countdown3 screens
Christmas Countdown and Lists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown at 100% against Christmas Countdown and Lists's 22%. Christmas Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). Christmas Countdown and Lists's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 49 months). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Christmas Countdown and Lists asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Christmas Countdown ships an update every 49 months, Christmas Countdown and Lists every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Christmas Countdown versus Christmas Countdown and Lists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmas CountdownChristmas Countdown and Lists
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better22.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 49 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDAMatei Ciurezu

Customer experience

Christmas Countdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Christmas Countdown and Lists

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative77.8%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Christmas Countdown

One-time1
  • Remove advertising$0.99
None

Christmas Countdown and Lists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Christmas Countdown free?
Christmas Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Christmas Countdown and Lists free?
Christmas Countdown and Lists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Christmas Countdown or Christmas Countdown and Lists have ads?
Christmas Countdown and Lists shows ads; Christmas Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Christmas Countdown or Christmas Countdown and Lists?
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 49 months, and Christmas Countdown and Lists every 2 months. Most recently, Christmas Countdown was updated on November 6, 2026 and Christmas Countdown and Lists on November 6, 2026.

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