Halloween 3D vs Halloween Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Halloween 3D
Create and customize your own spooky Halloween scenes with a variety of decorations. Save your creations and share them with friends and family. Perfect for holiday fun and creative expression.
- Decorate Halloween scenes
- Add masks, hats, pumpkins, bats, spiders
- Take snapshots of creations
- Save to photo album
- Share with friends and family
- Adjust scene lighting
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Halloween 3D is a playful dress-up scene for iPhone and iPad. A scarecrow stands on a hill under a drifting ring of clouds and a gnarled old tree; you decide what it wears, what surrounds it, and how the night looks. DRESS THE SCARECROW • Six pages of decorations around the edge of the screen: masks and heads, hats, shirts, pants and dozens of props. • Tap an item to put it on the scarecrow, tap again to take it off. Picking a new hat or mask swaps the old one out for you. • Pumpkins, lanterns and other lights glow on their own; pick a moon to hang in the sky. • Three hills to stand on: grass, stone, or snow with real snowflakes instead of leaves. • Clear All puts everything back to the bare scarecrow in one tap. SET THE SCENE • Lights on or off: turn the room lights down and the sky, clouds and tree fade so the glowing props stand out. • Shake the device for a flurry of autumn leaves (or snow on the snow hill) that spiral down around the scene. • Reset brings the camera, lights and decorations back to the start. LOOK AROUND • View mode hides the menu so you can drag to orbit the scarecrow and pinch to zoom; double tap to recenter. • Save a picture of your scene straight to your photo library. • Halloween music and sound effects, with a one-tap mute. Your scarecrow is saved when you leave and is waiting when you come back. No account needed. Halloween 3D is free and supported by a small banner ad that appears only while the decorations menu is showing; a one-time Remove Ads purchase takes it away for good. Happy Holidays! Art and game design by Miguel. Programming by George. Music by Carey James.
Halloween Countdown
This app provides a countdown to Halloween with spooky music and wallpapers. It features daily reminders, home screen widgets, and offline functionality. Share your countdown with friends and set eerie backgrounds to enhance the Halloween spirit.
- Halloween countdown timer
- Spooky music and wallpapers
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Daily countdown reminders
- Offline functionality
- Social media sharing
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Get ready for spook-tacular chills! Halloween Countdown gives you a frightfully fun way to see exactly how long until the most haunted night of the year. Simple, creepy-cute design with eerie background images and Halloween widgets for your home screen, lock screen, and standby screen! Get daily reminders (if you dare!) of how many days until candy, costumes, and creepy things come out to play. • Share your Halloween countdown with your fellow ghouls and goblins • Post your countdown to Facebook with a single tap — no broomstick required • Works offline — even in haunted houses • Tons of eerie-sistible background images to set the spooky mood • Makes a frightfully good Halloween countdown wallpaper Got ideas for new features? Or spotted a ghost in the code? Email us or leave a review — we love hearing from our favorite monsters! Please share Halloween Countdown with your coven of friends and family! End User License Agreement: https://zaffles.bitbucket.io/halloween/terms_of_use.html Thanks and Happy Haunting! Team Zaffles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Halloween Countdown at 4.8 against Halloween 3D's 3.3. Halloween Countdown also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). Halloween 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price 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. Halloween 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Halloween Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Halloween Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halloween 3D has 895 ratings behind it against 92, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Halloween 3D ships an update every 6 months, Halloween Countdown monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halloween 3D | Halloween Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (895 ratings) | 4.8 (92 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 895 — better | 92 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Graphics Software Labs | Zaffles |
Customer experience
Halloween 3D
Halloween Countdown
Bugs and requests
Halloween 3D
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on certain devices
- Compatibility issues with iOS 11
Requested features
3 requests- More costume and decoration options
- Improved image quality and definition
- Scarier/spookier elements
Halloween Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Halloween 3D
- Remove Ads$1.99
Halloween Countdown
- Halloween Supporter$4.99
Questions
Is Halloween 3D free?
Is Halloween Countdown free?
Which has better reviews, Halloween 3D or Halloween Countdown ?
Do Halloween 3D or Halloween Countdown have ads?
Which is updated more often, Halloween 3D or Halloween Countdown ?
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