Christmas Countdown vs MyAdvent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
MyAdvent
Create and share personalized digital advent calendars with friends and family. Add photos, GIFs, text, and voice messages to your custom-designed calendars.
- Create personalized calendars
- Add photos and GIFs
- Include text messages
- Record voice messages
- Customizable backgrounds and colors
- Share with friends and family
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With MyAdvent you can create your own personalised calendar in just minutes and share it with as many friends as you want! Things you can put into your calendar: - Photos / GIFs - Text messages - Voice messages - Stylise your calendar with a custom background and colors And when you are done, you can share your calendar with family and loved ones! Questions, feedback? we want to hear from you! Write us at info@myadvent.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Christmas Countdown at 4.6 against MyAdvent's 3.8. Christmas Countdown also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). MyAdvent's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Christmas Countdown sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and MyAdvent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Christmas Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown has 868 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Christmas Countdown's written reviews are positive against 50% of MyAdvent's.
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 3 weeks, MyAdvent every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown | MyAdvent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (868 ratings) — better | 3.8 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 868 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicole Hankinson | EichGnomies GmbH & Co. KG |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown
MyAdvent
Bugs and 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
MyAdvent
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Christmas Countdown Premium$3.991 Year
MyAdvent
- MyAdvent Pro$4.99
Questions
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