Comparison

Christmas Countdown vs Christmas Countdown & Widget

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 & 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.

Highlights
  • Live home screen widget
  • Real-time countdown (days, hours, sleeps)
  • Customizable themes (red, green, blue)
  • Snowfall animations
  • Compact size (under 1MB)
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Christmas Countdown3 screens
Christmas Countdown & Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Christmas Countdown versus Christmas Countdown & Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmas CountdownChristmas Countdown & Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.8 (2.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better93.3% of reviews
Number of ratings12.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 49 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDABenoit Deguine

Customer experience

Christmas Countdown

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

Christmas Countdown & Widget

All ratings2,437 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%

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

1 purchases

Christmas Countdown

One-time1
  • Remove advertising$0.99
3 purchases

Christmas Countdown & Widget

One-time3
  • 1 Gift$1.99
  • Premium$2.99
  • 3 Gifts (or 1 big!)$4.99

Questions

Is Christmas Countdown free?
Christmas Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Christmas Countdown & Widget free?
Christmas Countdown & Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Christmas Countdown or Christmas Countdown & Widget?
Christmas Countdown & Widget is rated higher. Christmas Countdown averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Christmas Countdown & Widget averages 4.8 from 2.5K ratings.
Do Christmas Countdown or Christmas Countdown & Widget have ads?
Neither Christmas Countdown nor Christmas Countdown & Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Christmas Countdown or Christmas Countdown & Widget?
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 49 months, and Christmas Countdown & Widget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Christmas Countdown was updated on November 6, 2026 and Christmas Countdown & Widget on November 3, 2026.

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