Christmas Countdown vs Christmas Countdown
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/
Christmas Countdown
Track the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Christmas with customizable scenes and home screen widgets. Enjoy festive games, music, and an advent calendar. An optional one-time purchase unlocks all content and removes ads.
- Real-time countdown to Christmas
- Customizable scenes and fonts
- Home screen widgets
- Advent calendar with daily doors
- Four festive mini-games
- Christmas music playback
- Decorate a virtual Christmas tree
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How many days until Christmas? XmasTick answers it at a glance — days, hours, minutes and seconds to Christmas 2026, on a scene you choose, with the count on your home screen so you never have to open anything. THE COUNTDOWN • Days, hours, minutes and seconds to Christmas Day • Or count the sleeps, which is how children ask • Switch the target to Christmas Eve if that is when your family celebrates • Thirteen hand-drawn scenes: a moonlit village, a fireplace, the sleigh crossing the moon, a snowy morning and more • Choose the typeface, the countdown style and the panel it sits in • Falling snow, hanging lights and drifting decorations, all optional HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Four sizes, updating on their own. See the countdown without unlocking your phone. AN ADVENT CALENDAR Twenty-five doors, one for each morning of December. Each opens on its own day, the way an advent calendar should. FOUR GAMES FOR THE WAIT Bauble Drop, Advent Match, Present Stack and Sleigh Ride. CHRISTMAS MUSIC Carols and seasonal tracks you can play while the countdown runs. DECORATE A TREE Place baubles, lights and ornaments on your own Christmas tree and keep it all season. YOUR OWN PHOTO Choose a picture from your library and the countdown stands in front of it — your child by the tree, your own front door in the snow, last Christmas morning. It stays on your device and is never uploaded. PREMIUM, IF YOU WANT IT Everything above is free to use. Premium unlocks every scene, character card, font, widget, song, decoration and game, adds your own photo as a background, and removes the ads. It is a one-time purchase — not a subscription. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Buy a single Christmas season, or buy it once and keep it for every Christmas after. ELEVEN LANGUAGES English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. QUIETLY BUILT No account. No analytics. No tracking between apps. Nothing you set up ever leaves your device. The free app shows a few ads: a banner on the Games and Music screens, and one full-screen advert after you finish a game. Never on the countdown itself. Premium removes every one of them. Built for iPhone and iPad alike: the tablet gets its own layout with navigation always on screen, rather than a phone screen stretched to fit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Christmas Countdown at none against Christmas Countdown's 1. Christmas Countdown also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Christmas Countdown's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, monetization model and device support 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. Christmas Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Christmas Countdown ships an update every 3 weeks, Christmas Countdown every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas Countdown | Christmas Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (886 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 886 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicole Hankinson | Tech Interval |
Customer experience
Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdown
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
Christmas Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Christmas Countdown Premium$3.991 Year
Christmas Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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