Noel vs Christmas Time Countdown!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noel
This app helps you embrace the holiday spirit with a countdown to Christmas, festive recipes, gift ideas, and activity planning. Enjoy carols with built-in music sheets and track your holiday preparations.
- Christmas countdown clock
- Advent widget
- AI gift ideas
- Recipe list
- Activity list
- Christmas music sheets
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Your cozy companion for the holiday season. Get into the Christmas spirit with Noel, the ultimate app for festive fun, creativity, and countdown excitement! Whether you’re planning activities, discovering new recipes, or looking for the perfect gift ideas — Noel keeps the magic of Christmas at your fingertips. Features: - Christmas Countdown Clock: Watch the days, hours, and minutes tick away until Christmas Day! - Advent Widget: Add a joyful countdown widget to your Home or Lock Screen. - AI Gift Ideas: Need inspiration? Get smart, personalized gift ideas for everyone on your list. - Recipe List: Save your favorite Christmas recipes or add your own festive creations. - Activity List: Create and track your favorite holiday activities — from decorating to baking and beyond. - Christmas Music Sheets: Play your favorite carols with easy-to-read music sheets right inside the app. Noel brings together everything you love about Christmas — creativity, music, giving, and celebration — all in one beautifully designed experience. Start counting down, creating, and celebrating today with Noel!
Christmas Time Countdown!
Celebrate the holiday season with a festive countdown featuring customizable styles, background colors, and optional falling snow. Enjoy a selection of instrumental holiday songs and utilize home screen widgets for at-a-glance updates.
- 7 countdown styles
- Customizable background colors
- Optional falling snow effect
- 20 instrumental holiday songs
- Multiple home screen widgets
- Feature request option
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Christmas Time Countdown is the Christmas Countdown app! This app offers tons of features: 7 countdown styles, 5 different background colors, each with 3 styles, optional falling snow and 20 instrumental holiday songs, just to name a few! Widgets! Don't want to open the app to see how much time there is to Christmas? Use one of our many home screen widgets! We offer widgets in all sizes to suit any desire! Try our traditional analog clock widget, or count down with a digital days and hours display! Want something a bit more abstract? Try our Christmas tree widget that grows more and more colorful the closer we get to Christmas! Want a feature? Click on my email link in the app to send me a request, or let me know of a bug I need to patch!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Christmas Time Countdown! at none against Noel's 2. Christmas Time Countdown! also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Noel's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (84 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Noel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Christmas Time Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Christmas Time Countdown! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Noel has 84 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Noel's written reviews are positive against 100% of Christmas Time Countdown!'s.
| Parameter | Noel | Christmas Time Countdown! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Roden II | Gus Flusser |
Customer experience
Noel
Christmas Time Countdown!
In-app purchases
Noel
- Noel Premium$3.991 Month
- Noel Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
Christmas Time Countdown!
No in-app purchases
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