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 days until Christmas with a beautifully designed app featuring customizable widgets for your home, lock, and standby screens. Receive daily reminders and share your countdown with friends and family. Enjoy offline functionality and a variety of festive background images.
- Home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets
- Standby screen widgets
- Daily countdown notifications
- Share countdown with friends
- Offline functionality
- Beautiful background images
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Simple, elegant design shows you how long until Christmas with beautiful background images. There are also multiple widgets to track your Christmas countdown on your home screen, lock screen, and standby screen! Daily notifications remind you how long until the big day. • Easily share your Christmas countdown with friends and family • Post your Christmas countdown to Facebook with one click • Christmas Countdown works offline • Countless beautiful background images for you countdown • Great to use as Christmas countdown wallpaper Please email us or leave review feedback for feature requests or any other improvement suggestions you have for Christmas Countdown! We love to hear from you and are always looking to improve our Christmas Countdown app! Please share Christmas Countdown app with your friends and family! End User License Agreement: https://zaffles.bitbucket.io/christmas/terms_of_use.html Thanks and Merry Christmas! Team Zaffles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Christmas Countdown! at none against Christmas Countdown 's 1. Christmas Countdown! also leads on ratings volume (71K vs 305) and review sentiment (90% vs 67%). Christmas Countdown 's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating and ads 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. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Christmas Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Christmas Countdown! against 4.8 for Christmas Countdown . That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 305, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Christmas Countdown!'s written reviews are positive against 67% of Christmas Countdown 's.
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Christmas Countdown every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Christmas Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) | 4.8 (305 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 305 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Zaffles |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Christmas 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
Christmas Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Christmas Countdown Supporter$2.99
Questions
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