Christmas Countdown vs New Year's Countdown 2025
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/
New Year's Countdown 2025
This app provides a real-time countdown to the arrival of the new year 2026. Easily share your excitement with friends and loved ones through iMessage stickers and social sharing features. Perfect for staying updated on the remaining time until the celebration, no matter where you are.
- Real-time countdown to 2026
- Share countdown with friends
- iMessage sticker sharing
- Celebration companion
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Soon it will be time again! The new year 2026 is coming and we can't wait to finally welcome it. This little app always shows you exactly how long it will be until 2026. Also, you can just share the countdown with your friends and you can rejoice together. Share great stickers with your loved ones via iMessage. Whether you're dining with family, celebrating with friends or sitting in front of the TV while Dinner for One is running, our countdown app is always with you and tells you how long you have to wait! We wish you a happy new year and all the best for the year 2026!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Christmas Countdown at none against New Year's Countdown 2025's shown. Christmas Countdown also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 62%). New Year's Countdown 2025's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 New Year's Countdown 2025 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Christmas Countdown against 4.7 for New Year's Countdown 2025. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 880 and 748 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Christmas Countdown's written reviews are positive against 62% of New Year's Countdown 2025's.
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 3 weeks, New Year's Countdown 2025 every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown | New Year's Countdown 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (880 ratings) | 4.7 (748 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better | 61.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 880 — better | 748 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicole Hankinson | Simon Kirchner |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown
New Year's Countdown 2025
User reviews
Christmas Countdown
From 880 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for Christmas countdown
- 🎄 Customizable features (music, snowflakes, background)
- ⏱️ Detailed countdown (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
- 🕰️ Accurate and reliable countdown
- 🎅 Fun and festive design
Room to improve
- 🔒 Premium features locked behind paywall (e.g., widgets)
- 🐛 Bugs with badge/notification functionality
- 🔧 Lack of updates to keep up with OS changes
- 📱 Compatibility issues with newer devices
New Year's Countdown 2025
From 748 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⏱️ Accurate countdown to midnight
- 🌍 Multi-timezone support with country selection
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- ⚡ Works reliably when needed
- 🎯 Does exactly what it promises
Room to improve
- 📢 Excessive advertisements
- 👀 Poor text contrast and readability
- 💰 Cheap appearance and basic design
- 🐛 Timezone detection inconsistencies
- ⏰ Timing accuracy issues for some users
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
New Year's Countdown 2025
Reported bugs
4 issues- Incorrect time display for certain timezones
- Timezone detection fails for non-US locations
- Potential security/virus concerns reported
- Text contrast issues affecting visibility
Requested features
4 requests- Custom background images or GIFs
- Countdown audio/sound effects for speakers
- Improved visual design and aesthetics
- Better ad implementation or ad-free version
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Christmas Countdown Premium$3.991 Year
New Year's Countdown 2025
- Buy me a lucky charm$0.99
- Pro Version$2.99
- Buy me a firework$3.99
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- Buy me a champagne$11.99
Questions
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