Comparison

Halloween Countdown vs Santa Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Halloween Countdown

Count down to Halloween with haunting music and animated characters. Customize backgrounds with your own photos or choose from included spooky images. Get ready for the holiday with fun animations and countdown updates.

Highlights
  • Haunting musical soundtracks
  • Customizable background images
  • Animated characters that grow and shrink
  • Shake or tap characters for effects
  • Countdown text color customization
  • Facebook sharing of countdown
Features
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While listening to haunting music (built-in or your own), see the number of days countdown until Halloween. Watch the animated characters get bigger as Halloween gets closer displayed on the included background images or use your own picture. Get ready for Halloween! • Select one of 12 haunting 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. • Watch the animated characters grow to full size and then shrink back down based on the number of days left until Halloween. The closer the date gets to Halloween, the bigger the character will grow. The character will then move off the screen in multiple patterns. • Animated characters include a skull, pumpkin, ghost, cat, zombie, witch, frankenstein, pirate and a bat. • Shake or tap an animated character to see an effect. • See the number of days until Halloween. 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 haunted images. • Enable/Disable/Hide the character animation. • Update your Facebook with the days to Halloween. • Enable/Disable device sleep. • See the day of the week for October 31 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 'Halloween 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 apps that we offer or to leave comments and suggestions.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Christmas countdown
  • Track Santa's location
  • Count days, minutes, hours, seconds
  • Real-time Santa tracking
  • Festive holiday app
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Halloween Countdown4 screens
Santa Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Halloween Countdown at 4.8 against Santa Tracker's 4.0. Halloween Countdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Santa Tracker's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence and monetization model 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. Santa Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Halloween Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Halloween Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halloween Countdown has 1.2K ratings behind it against 81, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Halloween Countdown's written reviews are positive against 65% of Santa Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halloween Countdown ships an update every 9 months, Santa Tracker every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Halloween Countdown versus Santa Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalloween CountdownSanta Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.0 (81 ratings)
Positive reviews89.0% of reviews — better65.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better81
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreg MorrisAamir Elahi

Customer experience

Halloween Countdown

All ratings1,161 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive89.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative4.4%

Santa Tracker

All ratings81 ratings
Positive75.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative21.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive65.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative26.1%

Bugs and requests

Halloween Countdown

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to access paid version
  • Countdown inaccuracy

Requested features

4 requests
  • More interactive elements
  • Additional character options
  • Notification feature
  • More sound/music options

Santa Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Halloween Countdown

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Santa Tracker

One-time1
  • Remove ADS$2.99

Questions

Is Halloween Countdown free?
Halloween Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Santa Tracker free?
Santa Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Halloween Countdown or Santa Tracker?
Halloween Countdown is rated higher. Halloween Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Santa Tracker averages 4.0 from 81 ratings.
Do Halloween Countdown or Santa Tracker have ads?
Santa Tracker shows ads; Halloween Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Halloween Countdown or Santa Tracker?
Halloween Countdown ships an update every 9 months, and Santa Tracker every 10 months. Most recently, Halloween Countdown was updated on October 9, 2026 and Santa Tracker on September 29, 2026.

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