Comparison

Christmas Countdown! vs Wedding Countdown Planner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Precise countdown (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
  • Multiple time modes (weeks, nights, seconds, heartbeats)
  • Six festive companion characters
  • Social media sharing
  • Christmas music playback
Features
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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.

About

Wedding Countdown Planner

This app helps you organize your wedding with a countdown to your big day. It includes tools for budgeting, guest lists, and planning, with customizable themes and the ability to share your countdown.

Highlights
  • Wedding Countdown
  • Budget Planner
  • Wedding Planning Guide
  • Guest List Management
  • Customizable Themes
  • Shareable Countdown
Features
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Wedding Countdown is a clean and well designed app that will count down to your special day and help you with all the wedding preparations. FEATURES - Wedding Countdown - Budget Planner - Wedding Planning Guide - Guest List - Wedding Organizer - Love Quote of the Day - Share your LIVE countdown Add your names and choose from more than 20 different themes or add your own picture to make the app look just like you want it. You can also share the countdown or daily love quotes with your future husband or wife. THEMES - Hearts - Wave - Sunset - Wedding Cake - Couple - Flowers - Female Couple - Male Couple - Wedding Pavilion - Bouquet - Rose Petals - Shoes & Champagne - Wedding Rings - Cutting the cake - Love story - Champagne - Rings on hands - Hearts at the beach - Swan Heart - Pregnant Couple - Roses & Pearls - or create your own theme with your own picture

Screenshots

Christmas Countdown!4 screens
Wedding Countdown Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Christmas Countdown! at none against Wedding Countdown Planner's 13. Christmas Countdown! also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 59%) and ratings volume (71K vs 179). Wedding Countdown Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wedding Countdown Planner sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Christmas Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Christmas Countdown! against 4.7 for Wedding Countdown Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown! has 71K ratings behind it against 179, 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 59% of Wedding Countdown Planner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, Wedding Countdown Planner every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Christmas Countdown! versus Wedding Countdown Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmas Countdown!Wedding Countdown Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (71K ratings) — better4.7 (179 ratings)
Positive reviews89.9% of reviews — better59.1% of reviews
Number of ratings71K — better179
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJack McLeanGreen Gecko LLC

Customer experience

Christmas Countdown!

All ratings70,705 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews445 reviews
Positive89.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.2%

Wedding Countdown Planner

All ratings179 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative27.3%

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

Wedding Countdown Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Christmas Countdown!

No in-app purchases

13 purchases

Wedding Countdown Planner

One-time13
  • Theme Couple$0.99
  • Theme Bouquet$0.99
  • Theme Wedding Rings$0.99
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  • Theme Love story$0.99
  • Theme Rings on hands$0.99
  • Theme Hearts at the beach$0.99
  • Theme Swan Heart$0.99
  • Theme Roses & Pearls$0.99
  • Theme Champagne$0.99
  • Theme Wedding Pavilion$0.99
  • function to add your own picture$1.99
  • Removal of advertisements$2.99
  • Premium Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Christmas Countdown! free?
Christmas Countdown! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wedding Countdown Planner free?
Wedding Countdown Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Christmas Countdown! or Wedding Countdown Planner?
Christmas Countdown! is rated higher. Christmas Countdown! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 71K ratings, while Wedding Countdown Planner averages 4.7 from 179 ratings.
Do Christmas Countdown! or Wedding Countdown Planner have ads?
Both Christmas Countdown! and Wedding Countdown Planner show ads.
Which is updated more often, Christmas Countdown! or Wedding Countdown Planner?
Christmas Countdown! ships an update every 3 months, and Wedding Countdown Planner every 4 months. Most recently, Christmas Countdown! was updated on September 29, 2026 and Wedding Countdown Planner on September 12, 2026.

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