Comparison

Easter Countdown vs Christmas Countdown

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

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About

Easter Countdown

Countdown to Easter with animated characters that grow and shrink as the holiday approaches. Customize backgrounds with your own photos and enjoy built-in or personal music soundtracks. Interact with characters and share your countdown status.

Highlights
  • Animated characters grow and shrink based on days left
  • Customizable backgrounds with own photos
  • Built-in and personal music soundtracks
  • Interactive character effects
  • Countdown text color customization
  • Facebook status updates
Features
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While listening to music (built-in or your own), see the number of days countdown until Easter. Watch the animated characters get bigger as Easter gets closer displayed on the included background images or use your own picture. Get ready for Easter! • See the animated characters grow to full size and then shrink back down based on the number of days left until Easter. The closer the date gets to Easter, the bigger the character will grow. The character will then move off the screen in multiple patterns. • Select one of 5 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 colorful egg, a chocolate egg, and a bunny • Shake or tap an animated character to see an effect. • See the number of days until Easter. 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 Easter. • Enable/Disable device sleep. • See the day of the week for Easter each year and for the next 4 years. Additional features will be added. + If you want Push Notifications to update the icon's badge count with the number of days, Apple Watch app with complications, choose to display days or hours/minutes/seconds, and have no ads, check out 'Easter Countdown Pro Push' 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.

About

Christmas Countdown

This app provides a real-time countdown to Christmas, displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. Enjoy festive music, customizable backgrounds, and interactive snowflake effects. Stay updated with daily badge notifications and access the countdown from your watch or home screen.

Highlights
  • Real-time countdown (hours, minutes, seconds)
  • Customizable backgrounds (including own photos)
  • Festive background music selection
  • Interactive snowflake effects
  • Daily badge updates
  • Watch app and home screen widgets
Features
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With Christmas Countdown, you always know exactly how long it is until Christmas. When you open the app, you will receive the exact countdown including Hours, Minutes and Seconds. You can even post to Facebook to annoy or keep your friends informed! Christmas music will play in the background as you see the countdown get closer and closer to Christmas! You can either pick a song from your own music library or choose from the following Christmas inspired songs: - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Jingle Bells - Oh Christmas Tree - Oh Holy Night - What Child is This Also, each morning Christmas Countdown will automatically update its badge, so that the number of days will be displayed letting you always know exactly how far away Christmas is. Multiple choices for Christmas backgrounds including: - Snowman - Santa - Reindeer - And import your own! Either from your photo library or your camera. You can double tap the screen to open the options screen. This will allow you to change the number of snowflakes as well as the speed & size. Christmas Countdown now includes a watch app and widgets, so you can keep track of the countdown right from your wrist and home screen! If you like Snow, Christmas, Santa, Elves, Snowflakes, Reindeer or Presents, then this is the App for you! Some features such as extra snowflake colors, yearly updated app icons and removing advertisements require the Christmas Countdown premium subscription. Privacy Policy: https://ngdevelopment.org/privacypolicy.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Easter Countdown4 screens
Christmas Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easter Countdown at none against Christmas Countdown's 1. Easter Countdown also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Christmas Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (868 vs 193). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Christmas Countdown sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Easter Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Easter Countdown against 4.6 for Christmas Countdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 193 and 868 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Easter Countdown's written reviews are positive against 88% of Christmas Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easter Countdown ships an update every 11 months, Christmas Countdown every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Easter Countdown versus Christmas Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEaster CountdownChristmas Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (193 ratings)4.6 (868 ratings)
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews88.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings193868 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreg MorrisNicole Hankinson

Customer experience

Easter Countdown

All ratings193 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral4.7%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive83.9%
Neutral9.7%
Negative6.5%

Christmas Countdown

All ratings868 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews337 reviews
Positive88.1%
Neutral6.2%
Negative5.6%

Bugs and requests

Easter Countdown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Christmas Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Countdown not updating correctly with time changes
  • Inability to use custom photos as background
  • Music playback issues after app updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow custom font and text customization
  • Add support for other holidays/events
  • Improve social sharing capabilities
  • Introduce more background/theme options

In-app purchases

None

Easter Countdown

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Christmas Countdown

Subscriptions1
  • Christmas Countdown Premium$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Easter Countdown free?
Easter Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Christmas Countdown free?
Christmas Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Easter Countdown or Christmas Countdown?
Easter Countdown and Christmas Countdown are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 193 and 868 ratings respectively.
Do Easter Countdown or Christmas Countdown have ads?
Neither Easter Countdown nor Christmas Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easter Countdown or Christmas Countdown?
Easter Countdown ships an update every 11 months, and Christmas Countdown every 3 weeks. Most recently, Easter Countdown was updated on September 14, 2026 and Christmas Countdown on October 1, 2026.

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