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 exact time remaining until Christmas with this festive application. Enjoy daily free gifts and engaging mini-games to celebrate the holiday spirit with loved ones.
- Countdown to Christmas
- Sleeps until Christmas
- Daily free gifts
- Christmas themed mini games
- Festive backgrounds
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Count down to Christmas with this fun new xmas themed app! Would you like to know how many days, hours, minutes and even seconds there are until Christmas 2018? Loads of festive backgrounds, free gifts and mini games to share with friends and family and get into the Christmas spirit! Features - Count down to Christmas - Find out how many sleeps until the big day - Daily free gifts - Christmas themed mini games - Fun for all of the family Download now for FREE!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Christmas Countdown's 42%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on ratings volume (71K vs 295) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Christmas Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 295, 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 42% of Christmas Countdown's.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Christmas Countdown every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Christmas Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 4.6 (295 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 42.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 295 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | HayGrazer |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Christmas Countdown
User reviews
Christmas Countdown!
From 71K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐️ Excellent Christmas countdown app
- 🎄 Helps get excited for Christmas
- 🕰 Provides multiple countdown metrics (days, hours, minutes, seconds, weeks, sleeps, heartbeats, breaths)
- 🎅 Cute Christmas-themed characters and backgrounds
- 🎶 Festive Christmas music
Room to improve
- 🔔 Annoying notifications/reminders
- 💰 Premium features like music selection should be free
- 🤖 Heartbeat and breath counters are not personalized
- 🙄 Occasional countdown inaccuracies reported
Christmas Countdown
From 295 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⏰ Accurate Christmas countdown timer
- 🎨 Customizable background themes
- 🎮 Fun quiz/test feature
- 👨👩👧👦 Kid-friendly interface
- 💰 Free app
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 🎯 Inconsistent quiz scoring system
- 🎮 Misleading game descriptions
- 😔 Harsh/judgmental quiz feedback
- 🔄 Repetitive quiz content
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
Reported bugs
6 issues- Quiz always returns same score regardless of answers
- Quiz results appear random and inconsistent
- Word-matching game has more options than required
- Ads appear between quiz score display
- Countdown feature missing in November
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- Ads show violent/inappropriate content
Requested features
6 requests- Tutorial or 'how to play' guide
- Reduce advertisement frequency significantly
- Fix quiz randomness and consistency
- Add actual mini-games as advertised
- Improve quiz result fairness
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- Better game instructions and clarity
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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