Christmas Countdown! vs Smartlights 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.
Smartlights countdown
Control Christmas projectors with Bluetooth, set custom countdown dates and titles, and read time. Get technical support directly from the developer.
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Projector password function
- Read time in phone
- Calculate Christmas distance
- Set custom countdown dates
- Type custom titles for countdowns
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This is a two in one App which can control “Countdown to Christmas projector” and “Countdown to Christmas and More projector”. Includes Bluetooth connectivity, projector password function, read time in phone and calculate the distance of Christmas function. For “Countdown to Christmas and More projector” you can not only countdown to Christmas but also set the date which you want and typing a title for it. If you need technical guidance, the App has contact information with Gemmy company in the page which can enter from the button in the lower right corner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Smartlights countdown's 25%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (71K vs 20). Smartlights countdown's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Christmas Countdown! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Christmas Countdown!'s written reviews are positive against 25% of Smartlights countdown's.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Smartlights countdown every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Smartlights countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 2.5 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Gemmy Industries Corporation |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Smartlights 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
Smartlights countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Smartlights countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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