Christmas Countdown! vs Launch Masters
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.
Launch Masters
Discover and support small businesses worldwide through a digital TV show and podcast. This platform highlights entrepreneurs, sharing their stories and how their businesses have navigated recent challenges. Find and connect with local businesses regardless of your location.
- Digital TV show for small business exposure
- Podcast featuring business owners
- Social media content creation
- Resource to find local businesses globally
- Connect with entrepreneurs
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There is so much more to the story of a small business than just their products and services; there's the people and family behind it. Welcome to Launch Masters! My name is Tiffany Roman and I started this business in 2020 to help small businesses out during those tough times, and it only grew from there! It quickly became the center of a small business movement and the Launch Masters show was born. The goal of each episode to bring awareness to small business as I introduce the business owners as people you can relate to, talk about their business and dive into how their businesses have fared over the last 18 months. Not only is this an INCREDIBLE platform for small businesses to get exposure through our digital TV show, podcast and social media content, but it's a great resource for you to find & support local businesses all over the world - regardless of where you live! So download the Launch Masters app today so you never miss an episode!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Christmas Countdown! at every 3 months against Launch Masters's every 18 months. Christmas Countdown! also leads on ratings volume (71K vs 1). Launch Masters's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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.
Launch Masters holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. 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.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Launch Masters every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Launch Masters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Small Biz Highlight, LLC |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Launch Masters
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
Launch Masters
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Launch Masters
No in-app purchases
Questions
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