Christmas Countdown! vs 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.
Countdown
This app calculates your predicted lifespan for entertainment purposes. It also tracks your time alive with second-level accuracy. The goal is to encourage healthier habits and a greater appreciation for time.
- Predict lifespan (for entertainment)
- Calculate time alive (accurate to seconds)
- Encourages health awareness
- Promotes efficient time use
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How long have I been alive in this world? The purpose of this program is to make people pay attention to health, drink less alcohol, smoke less, and exercise more. Features: • Base on big data to calculate When Will You Die (For entertainment only). • Calculate How long have I been alive in this world? (Accurate to seconds) • Learn how to cherish time and use it efficiently. For entertainment only, please don't take it seriously, pay attention to life, maintain exercise, and be in a good mood to live longer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Countdown's 40%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (71K vs 150). Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 150, 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 40% of Countdown's.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Countdown every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 3.7 (150 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 40.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 150 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | 长金 胡 |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
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
Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Christmas Countdown! free?
Is Countdown free?
Which has better reviews, Christmas Countdown! or Countdown?
Do Christmas Countdown! or Countdown have ads?
Which is updated more often, Christmas Countdown! or Countdown?
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