Comparison

Christmas vs FrankenJazz

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Christmas carols by real musicians
  • Countdown to Christmas
  • Sleep timer
  • Wake up alarm
  • Background audio
  • Fading imagery
  • Rearrange song order
Features
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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.

About

FrankenJazz

Features
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Write a jazz progression, hear it immediately, and study what makes the changes connect. FrankenJazz is a private lead-sheet and harmony workshop for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Enter chord symbols in a compact chart, choose a key and tempo, then play the form with a responsive chord-tone piano. The app reads Roman-numeral context, traces guide-tone movement, and lets you compare five practical voicing families. Use the bundled progression library as a starting point or build your own. Change the key, tempo, groove, instrument, and voicing while the chart remains editable. Playback includes seeking and looping for close listening and practice. When the chart is ready, export a FrankenJazz document, plain text, or a standard MIDI file. Local recovery protects the current session if the app closes unexpectedly. FrankenJazz works without an account or network connection. It includes no telemetry, advertising, sample downloads, or cloud processing.

Screenshots

Christmas2 screens
FrankenJazz1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Christmas at 5 against FrankenJazz's 3. Christmas also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Christmas versus FrankenJazz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmasFrankenJazz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXME Inc.Jeffrey Emanuel

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

FrankenJazz

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Christmas

No in-app purchases

None

FrankenJazz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Christmas free?
Christmas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FrankenJazz free?
FrankenJazz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Christmas or FrankenJazz have ads?
Neither Christmas nor FrankenJazz shows ads.

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