Comparison

Maisonette vs Holiday HQ

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

Head to head
About

Maisonette

Shop for baby and kids' clothing and accessories with early access to new collections and exclusive offers. Enjoy a streamlined shopping experience with quick browsing and secure checkout.

Highlights
  • Early access to collection launches
  • Exclusive special offers
  • Seamless shopping experience
  • Easy browsing of new arrivals
  • Secure and fast checkout
  • Push notifications for updates
Features
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Download the Maisonette app to get early access to collection launches, special offers, and a seamless shopping experience. Everything you love, right at your fingertips. EASY BROWSING Shop the freshest new arrivals across our entire catalog. EXCLUSIVE ACCESS Be first to know about special offers and launches through push notifications. SECURE CHECKOUT IN A FLASH Tap, swipe, shop and secure your new products in an instant with our super easy checkout.

About

Holiday HQ

Organize all your gift-giving occasions, from holidays to birthdays. Track contacts, manage gift wishes, coordinate with others via chat, and create checklists. Monitor spending with receipt scanning and enjoy private, local data storage.

Highlights
  • Contact and gift wish management
  • Built-in chat for coordination
  • To-do checklists with assignments
  • Holiday and birthday calendars
  • Receipt scanning and spending reports
  • Local data storage and privacy controls
Features
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Holiday HQ is your all‑in‑one companion for holidays, birthdays, and every gift-giving occasion in between. People: Keep details for everyone you shop and plan for — family, friends, and colleagues. Track their birthday, hobbies, likes, and gift wishes, and attach a photo. Import a contact's name and number in one tap, or add them by hand. Free accounts can add up to 3 people. Gift Wishes, made easy: Tap WISH to send someone what you're hoping for — with an optional photo — right through the app's built-in chat. It lands automatically in your Gift Wishes on their end, so no one has to remember or copy anything down. Chat with the people you're planning with: Start a 1:1 conversation or a group chat to coordinate gifts, share links, photos, and notes, and keep everyone on the same page. Invite someone with a shareable code — text it, share it, or send it any way you like. Checklists: Create to‑do items for Holiday or Birthday planning, assign them to anyone in your People list, and set due dates, reminders, and locations. Every person also gets their own private Gift Checklist. **Calendars** A Holiday Calendar for the days that matter, a Birthday Calendar pulled straight from your People list, and a fully custom calendar for anything else. Add holidays from a library of religious and cultural traditions in one tap, and pin a live countdown to your home screen for the big day. Receipts: Scan a receipt with your camera or add one by hand, tag it to a person, and see spending broken down by person or by month. Generate a shareable PDF report any time. **Holiday HQ Unlimited** Holiday HQ is free with up to 3 people in your list. Holiday HQ Unlimited is a one‑time purchase — not a subscription — that removes that limit for good, so you can track your whole family and friend group without counting. Your data, your control: Holiday HQ keeps your people, gift ideas, notes, and receipts stored locally on your device — never on our servers. Chat messages and photos sync through Apple's iCloud, and only with people you've invited or who join with your code — there's no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking anywhere in the app. Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID, and use Delete My Data in Settings at any time for a complete, permanent, and irreversible deletion of everything you've saved — on this device and in iCloud alike. Holiday HQ is free to download, with an optional one‑time in‑app purchase to unlock unlimited people.

Screenshots

Maisonette4 screens
Holiday HQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Maisonette at none against Holiday HQ's 1. Maisonette also leads on ratings volume (2.8K vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.5). Holiday HQ's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, update cadence and monetization model 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. Holiday HQ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Maisonette asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Maisonette against 5.0 for Holiday HQ. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maisonette has 2.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maisonette ships an update every 11 days, Holiday HQ every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Maisonette versus Holiday HQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaisonetteHoliday HQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (2.8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaisonette Inc.Formatics, LLC

Customer experience

Maisonette

All ratings2,809 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.6%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

Holiday HQ

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Maisonette

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Discount codes not working as promised

Requested features

2 requests
  • Improve app functionality and reliability
  • Honor advertised discounts and promotions

Holiday HQ

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Maisonette

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Holiday HQ

One-time1
  • Holiday HQ Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Maisonette free?
Maisonette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Holiday HQ free?
Holiday HQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Maisonette or Holiday HQ?
Holiday HQ is rated higher. Maisonette averages 4.9 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Holiday HQ averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Maisonette or Holiday HQ have ads?
Maisonette shows ads; Holiday HQ does not.
Which is updated more often, Maisonette or Holiday HQ?
Maisonette ships an update every 11 days, and Holiday HQ every 8 days. Most recently, Maisonette was updated on November 7, 2026 and Holiday HQ on November 6, 2026.

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