Christmas vs Tromme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Christmas
Experience the holiday spirit with festive music and a countdown to Christmas. Enjoy beautiful carols performed by real musicians, set a sleep timer, and wake up to holiday cheer. Keep the Christmas spirit alive all year round with this immersive experience.
- Christmas carols by real musicians
- Countdown to Christmas
- Sleep timer
- Wake up alarm
- Background audio
- Fading imagery
- Rearrange song order
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Bring the Christmas spirit to your day with soothing holiday music, festive scenery, and a live countdown to Christmas. Enjoy 22 Christmas tracks, including vocal and instrumental performances, plus a separate Snow Storm sound with its own volume control. FEATURES • Live Christmas countdown in days, hours, minutes, and seconds • A special MERRY CHRISTMAS! greeting on Christmas Day • Festive video backdrops and 25 beautiful photos • Offline music and photo slideshow • Sleep timer with a gentle fade-out • Wake timer • Independent music and sound volumes • Background audio and repeat playback • Gentle snow flurries throughout the control panel Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Video provided by Videezy.com.
Tromme
Stream your Plex music library with a feature-rich player. Enjoy lossless audio, customizable playlists, synced lyrics, and offline playback. Organize your music and discover new concerts.
- Lossless streaming (FLAC to ALAC)
- Gapless playback and crossfading
- Synced, word-by-word lyrics
- Magic Mix and Infinite Mode playlists
- Offline downloads and music cache
- Metadata editing and artwork customization
- CarPlay and Mac support
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Tromme is a beautiful music player for your Plex library on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Point it at your Plex server and start listening in seconds. No Plex Pass required. PLAYBACK THAT SOUNDS RIGHT - Lossless streaming: FLAC files are converted to Apple Lossless (ALAC) for accurate, drift-free playback - Gapless playback, or crossfade with a length you choose - Sound Check keeps volume consistent using track or album gain - Optional cellular transcoding to save mobile data - An optional codec and bitrate badge shows exactly what you are hearing - A full queue with shuffle, repeat and Playing Next controls - Ask Siri to play any artist, album or song in Tromme MUSIC THAT KEEPS GOING - Magic Mix builds an endless playlist from the style and genre of the song you are playing - Infinite Mode automatically extends your queue so the music never stops, blending similar artists with matching styles and moods LYRICS YOU CAN FOLLOW - Lyrics light up word by word in time with the song, with synced line-by-line lyrics as a fallback. Choose left-aligned or centered text. - Lyrics are saved with your downloads, so they work offline too A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS GREAT - Artist, album and playlist pages take their color from the artwork - Album details show format, bit depth and genre - Popular track indicators help you find the hits - A customizable Home screen: choose which Plex hubs appear and reorder them in Settings - Upcoming concerts on artist pages - Fast search across your whole collection TAKE IT OFFLINE - Download songs, albums and playlists in their original quality - Download Library saves everything, including new additions - Music Cache keeps the playing song and the next songs in your queue on your device, so you save space - Offline mode keeps your downloaded Artists, Albums and Songs at your fingertips YOURS TO ORGANIZE - Create, rearrange and edit playlists - Edit song and album metadata, genre, style and mood tags, and change artwork right from the app - Your preferences sync through iCloud, so a new device feels like home CARPLAY AND MAC - Browse Home, Artists, Albums and Playlists in the car, with alphabet jump navigation. Tromme also runs natively on your Mac. TROMME PLUS Tromme is free to use. Tromme Plus is an optional subscription that adds: - AutoMix: smart crossfades timed from the last lyric of one song to the first lyric of the next - Premium app icons - Animated album artwork on album pages, Now Playing and the Lock Screen - Advanced playback options, including track trim to skip intros and outros - Higher bitrate downloads Tromme is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Plex, Inc. Plex is a trademark of Plex, Inc. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Christmas and Tromme both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Tromme's written reviews are positive against 44% of Christmas's. Tromme also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Christmas's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (51 vs 8). On price, rating and ads 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. Tromme sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Christmas asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Christmas against 4.6 for Tromme. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas has 51 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 44% of Christmas's written reviews are positive against 83% of Tromme's.
Christmas ships an update monthly, Tromme every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas | Tromme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better | 4.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XME Inc. | Kyle McClain |
Customer experience
Christmas
Tromme
Bugs and requests
Christmas
Reported bugs
13 issues- No "beautiful fading imagery", just white screen
- No video on Apple TV
- Background missing on Apple TV version
- Cannot change wallpapers on Apple TV
- App only plays the first song and no more
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- Music keeps playing when app is closed
- App goes blank/black
- App won't load/crashes after update
- App won't startup
- App won't open
- Crashing reported months ago
- Application never appears after download
- Update broke the music functionality
Requested features
13 requests- Changeable wallpapers
- Video on Apple TV
- Fix Apple TV background
- Add "Greensleeves" song
- Add new music for New Year
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- Make it louder
- Add a timer
- Ability to erase recorded files
- More Christmas carols
- Next song starts automatically
- Pause button
- Scroll through song list while listening
- Update for iOS 4
Tromme
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas
No in-app purchases
Tromme
- Tromme Plus7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Tromme Plus - Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Icon Pack$0.99









