Christmas Countdown! vs Christmas Ringtones +
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 Ringtones +
Access a variety of Christmas songs, sound effects, and ringtones. Customize alerts for calls, texts, alarms, and notifications with festive holiday sounds to get into the Christmas spirit.
- Christmas songs, sound effects, and ringtones
- Customizable alerts for calls and texts
- Set as alarm or notification sound
- Christmas-themed interface
- Easy to use
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Christmas Ringtones includes christmas songs, sound effects and ringtones at the tap of a button. Choose between pretty Christmas songs for ringtones or holiday sound effects that are perfect for text message sounds, a holiday ringtone, alarm or notification sound. Tap the Christmas ornament buttons to hear the holiday sounds to get in the Christmas spirit. - Updated Christmas ringtones and sounds - Christmas themed buttons - Easy to use With this app you can customize your: Ringtone (default and for each contact) Text tone (default and for each contact) New voice mail alert New mail alert Calendar alert Reminder alert and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Christmas Ringtones +'s 34%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (71K vs 1.1K). Christmas Ringtones +'s advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 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 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 1.1K, 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 34% of Christmas Ringtones +'s.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Christmas Ringtones + every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Christmas Ringtones + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 4.4 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.8% of reviews — better | 34.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 10 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 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Magi Ent |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Christmas Ringtones +
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 Ringtones +
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great variety of ringtones
- 🎄 Festive Christmas songs
- 🔊 Clear and good quality
Room to improve
- 🤔 Confusing instructions
- 🤖 Requires connecting to computer
- 🙅♀️ Difficult to use without a computer
- 📱 Cannot set ringtone directly on phone
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 Ringtones +
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ringtones not showing up in iTunes
- Captcha not working
- App not opening or playing sounds
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to set ringtones directly on phone
- Clearer and more beginner-friendly instructions
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Christmas Ringtones +
No in-app purchases
Questions
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