Valentine's Countdown vs Santa Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Valentine's Countdown
Track the days until Valentine's Day with animated characters and customizable backgrounds. Enjoy built-in or personal music playlists, and share your countdown status on social media.
- Days until Valentine's Day countdown
- Animated characters that grow and shrink
- Customizable backgrounds from photo album
- Built-in and personal music integration
- Facebook status updates
- View Valentine's Day for future years
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While listening to music (built-in or your own), see the number of days countdown until Valentine's Day. Watch the animated characters get bigger as Valentine's Day gets closer displayed on the included background images or use your own picture. Get ready for Valentine's Day 2017! • See the animated characters grow to full size and then shrink back down based on the number of days left until Valentine's Day. The closer the date gets to Valentine's Day, the bigger the character will grow. The character will then move off the screen in multiple patterns. • Select one of 4 background musical soundtracks. Select one or automatically play all the songs in a repeating sequence. Select Airplay to play the music to your Apple TV. • Pick music from your own music library. The title and album art of the playing song are displayed. • Animated characters include a heart and a rose. • Shake or tap an animated character to see an effect. • See the number of days until Valentine's Day. Tap the countdown text to cycle between 9 different colors. • Select any background image from your device's photo album or use one of the 3 included pictures. • Enable/Disable/Hide the character animation. • Update your Facebook status with the days to Valentine's Day. • Enable/Disable device sleep. • See the day of the week for Valentine's Day each year and for the next 4 years. • Supports all iPhone screen sizes and iOS 9. Additional features will be added. This is a free holiday program and is ad supported. Visit our Web site at www.EnergizeSoftware.com to see the other programs that we offer or to leave comments and suggestions.
Santa Tracker
Discover how many days, minutes, hours, and seconds remain until Christmas. This app allows you to track Santa's current location around the world and provides a countdown to the festive holiday.
- Christmas countdown
- Track Santa's location
- Count days, minutes, hours, seconds
- Real-time Santa tracking
- Festive holiday app
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Reviewed by Slotter..... – Nov 29, 2020 How do you can tell how many days minutes hours and seconds till Christmas it is amazing!!! ***** Where Is Santa Right Now in 2023? Track Santa Tack When is Santa coming. Where in the world is Santa Claus right now? Here's everything you need to know about finding his exact location by using a Santa tracker. This is best Santa Tracker.... Countdown Days when Santa is coming, Count Days, seconds, Sleep And hours as well Download Now it is free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Valentine's Countdown at none against Santa Tracker's 1. Valentine's Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). Santa Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 10) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Santa Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Valentine's Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Valentine's Countdown against 4.0 for Santa Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Santa Tracker has 81 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Valentine's Countdown's written reviews are positive against 65% of Santa Tracker's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Valentine's Countdown | Santa Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 65.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 81 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Greg Morris | Aamir Elahi |
Customer experience
Valentine's Countdown
Santa Tracker
In-app purchases
Valentine's Countdown
No in-app purchases
Santa Tracker
- Remove ADS$2.99
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