Christmas Countdown! vs Christmas Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Christmas Countdown!
Track the exact time remaining until Christmas 2025, down to the second or even heartbeats. Choose from fun characters to accompany your countdown and share your excitement with friends and family. Enjoy festive music while you wait for the holiday.
- Precise countdown (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
- Multiple time modes (weeks, nights, seconds, heartbeats)
- Six festive companion characters
- Social media sharing
- Christmas music playback
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The app that keeps you updated to how many days, hours, minutes, seconds and even heartbeats there are until Christmas 2025. There are multiple 'time-modes' including counting down the number of total weeks, nights, hours, minutes, total seconds or heartbeats until Christmas. Choose between 6 characters to keep you company while watching the countdown! Characters include: • Santa Claus • Snowman • Christmas tree • Reindeer • Skater Share the countdown with your family and friends to all of your favourite social networks! Including Instagram! Listen to Christmas songs whilst watching the time tick closer to Christmas.
Christmas Countdown
Track the remaining time until Christmas with various countdown formats, including days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats. Share festive cards with friends and customize the appearance with different Santa and tree images. Enjoy optional background music and snowflake animations.
- Multiple countdown formats (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
- Shareable Christmas cards
- Customizable Santa and tree images
- Optional Jingle Bells background music
- Disableable snowflake animation
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This application shows how much time is left for Christmas in several ways: • Days, hours and minutes • Days, hours, minutes and seconds • Weeks and days • Nights • Hours • Minutes • Seconds • Heartbeats Share a Christmas card with your friends through social networks or email. You can even choose which image of Santa Claus will appear at the top of the card and the tree that will appear in the footer simply by swiping these images. The chosen background music was the Jingle Bells, which can be enabled or disabled from the menu that comes up when you touch the screen. The snowflakes animation can also be disabled in the menu. I hope you enjoy the time till Christmas with this application. Merry Christmas!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Christmas Countdown! at 4.8 against Christmas Countdown's 4.0. Christmas Countdown! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 49 months). Christmas Countdown's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price and device support 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. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Christmas Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Christmas Countdown! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Christmas Countdown!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Christmas Countdown's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Christmas Countdown every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Christmas Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 49 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | GUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDA |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Christmas Countdown
Bugs and requests
Christmas Countdown!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Countdown sometimes off by a day
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Add more Christmas song options
- Include countdown for other holidays
- Allow users to customize their own countdown metrics
Christmas Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Remove advertising$0.99
Questions
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