Christmas Countdown! vs Simply Southern Tracker
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.
Simply Southern Tracker
Purchase shirts to support turtle conservation and track your adopted sea turtle's migration. Each shirt purchase contributes directly to wildlife conservation efforts.
- Support wildlife conservation
- Track sea turtle migration
- Purchase conservation shirts
- QR code for tracking
- Mobile app and website tracking
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Save those who can’t save themselves. Buy our shirts to track migrating turtles. With every purchase, you are making a direct contribution to the conservation of wildlife. Visit the product page and pick your favorite shirt. Open our mobile app or our website to track your sea turtle. When you receive your shirt in the mail, there will be a little QR code.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown! at 90% against Simply Southern Tracker's 22%. Christmas Countdown! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (71K vs 46). Simply Southern Tracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, 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 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 46, 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 22% of Simply Southern Tracker's.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown! | Simply Southern Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71K ratings) — better | 2.6 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 21.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71K — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jack McLean | Simply Southern Holdings, LLC |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown!
Simply Southern Tracker
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
Simply Southern Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown!
No in-app purchases
Simply Southern Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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