Christmas vs FrankenJazz
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.
FrankenJazz
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Christmas | FrankenJazz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XME 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
Christmas
No in-app purchases
FrankenJazz
No in-app purchases









