Christmas Countdown vs Christmas Countdown & Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Multiple countdown formats (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
- Shareable Christmas cards
- Customizable Santa and tree images
- Optional Jingle Bells background music
- Disableable snowflake animation
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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!
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Track the exact days, hours, and sleeps until Christmas Eve with a live home screen widget. Customize with festive themes and enjoy snowfall animations to bring the holiday spirit to life.
- Live home screen widget
- Real-time countdown (days, hours, sleeps)
- Customizable themes (red, green, blue)
- Snowfall animations
- Compact size (under 1MB)
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How many sleeps until Christmas? Christmas Countdown puts the countdown right on your home screen and lock screen, so the whole family can see how close Christmas is, every time they pick up the iPhone. Rated 4.8 stars by more than 2,400 people. Free, no ads, no account. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Add the widget once and the days (or sleeps) left are always in sight. No need to open the app: the widget updates by itself every day, all season long. LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS See the countdown without even unlocking your phone. Pick the round widget with its progress ring, which fills up as Christmas gets closer, or the one-line widget above the clock. SLEEPS, NOT JUST DAYS Kids don't count days, they count sleeps. Switch to sleeps mode and the app answers the question you hear every evening in December: "How many more nights until Santa comes?" LIVE COUNTDOWN IN THE APP Open the app for the full countdown: days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down in real time, under gently falling snow. Prefer a calm screen? Turn the snow off in one tap. DEC 24 OR DEC 25 Celebrate on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day? Choose the date you count down to, and every widget follows. In Sweden, the app counts to December 24 by default. FESTIVE THEMES Classic red, pine green or ice blue. Your colour applies to the app and to the widgets, so your home screen matches your mood. ALL YEAR LONG Christmas is over? The countdown starts again for next year, and we say Merry Christmas on the way. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Available in 16 languages, from French and German to Japanese and Korean. PREMIUM: SNOWY SCENE WIDGETS A one-time purchase unlocks exclusive widgets: a snowy landscape with a cabin, a snowman and fir trees, in small and medium sizes, painted in your theme colour. Premium also removes the FREE badge from the classic widget and supports an independent developer. No subscription, ever. Already bought it? Restore your purchase in one tap from Settings. HOW TO ADD THE WIDGET 1. Download Christmas Countdown, it's free 2. Long-press an empty area of your home screen and tap Edit 3. Tap Add Widget and search for Christmas Countdown 4. Choose a size and tap Add Widget For the lock screen, long-press the lock screen, tap Customize, then add the widget under the clock. MADE BY ONE PERSON Christmas Countdown is built by an independent developer who loves Christmas as much as you do. Ideas, bugs or just a hello? Write from the Settings screen: every message gets read. Christmas only comes once a year. Start counting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Christmas Countdown & Widget at 4.8 against Christmas Countdown's 4.0. Christmas Countdown & Widget also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 49 months) and ratings volume (2.5K vs 1). Christmas Countdown's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Christmas Countdown & Widget sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Christmas Countdown & Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown & Widget has 2.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Christmas Countdown's written reviews are positive against 93% of Christmas Countdown & Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 49 months, Christmas Countdown & Widget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown | Christmas Countdown & Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (2.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 49 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDA | Benoit Deguine |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Bugs and requests
Christmas Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not always accurate
- Widget not working on some devices
- App freezing or crashing
Requested features
5 requests- Add Apple Watch support
- Include more countdown details in widget
- Implement Christmas mini-games
- Provide notification options
- Add more customization options
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Remove advertising$0.99
Christmas Countdown & Widget
- 1 Gift$1.99
- Premium$2.99
- 3 Gifts (or 1 big!)$4.99
Questions
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