Comparison

Decorate Christmas Tree vs Starry Night Interactive

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

Head to head
About

Decorate Christmas Tree

Create and customize virtual Christmas trees with a variety of decorations, colors, and sizes. Share your festive designs with friends and family via social media, email, or by saving them to your photo album. Enjoy a creative and relaxing holiday decorating experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable Christmas trees
  • Variety of decorations
  • Adjustable decoration size and color
  • Save and share creations
  • Festive animations and music
  • High-resolution graphics
Features
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Wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in a special way this year - by sharing your Christmas Tree(s) on Facebook! Highly creative and harmlessly addictive (and free) iPad, iPhone and iPod touch app. It is very simple to use and carefully designed to give users best possible plateau for creative expression. It is meant for all ages but children love this app. Created masterpieces can be also shared on Facebook, sent by E-mail or saved to Photo album. App includes a tree, differently shaped decorations; ball, ring, star, bell, heart, candle and gifts, variety of colors that can be applied to each decoration and arbitrary size for individual decorations from tiny to XXL. User’s taps, drags and pinches are accompanied by nice sound effects. Creative process is enhanced with soothing snowflakes animation and violin Jingle Bells background music. App is here to bring many pleasant hours of decorating, to be able decorate not only one tree this season but many and to impress, surprise, laugh, cry... friends and families - to say you care about them in a special and creative way this year. App includes hi-resolution graphics for retina display on iPhone 4!

About

Starry Night Interactive

Experience Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" like never before. This app brings the iconic painting to life with hypnotic animation and interactive elements. Control the flows with your touch, explore the landscape in immersive 3D, and enjoy responsive ambient music for an enchanting artistic journey.

Highlights
  • Hypnotic animation of "Starry Night"
  • Interactive touch controls for flows
  • Immersive 3D zoom
  • Responsive ambient music
  • Re-discover classic art
Features
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Watch the iconic flows of Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" come to life, in a hypnotic animation! Drive the flows with your hand to create your own variation of the original painting! Dive in the landscape with immersive 3D zoom! Listen to the background ambient music, which is also responsive. Have an enchanting experience and re-discover a classic masterpiece. ::::: REVIEWS ::::: "Very cool! An interactive animation of van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'." MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art of New York (facebook page) "Imagine being Vincent Van Gogh. Imagine giving form to 'Starry Night' with your hands. ... Playing the artist instead of the observer is now possible. ... As the viewer drags his finger across the painting, the dashed oil lines react, creating a river-like effect of blues and golds over the night sky. With each brushstroke movement, a soft note of ambient music rings out as well. The work that went into creating such an elaborate piece of art is impressive. Vrellis took a piece with a seemingly unsurpassable amount of artistic merit, and breathed new life into it." Huffington Post "We find Vrellis' interactive piece enchanting - and even, given Van Gogh's tragic story, emotionally powerful." C|NET "Van Gogh's Starry Night modded into beautiful interactive light and sound show. …This is one of those little projects you wish you could just play with the second you've seen it." Engadget "The effect is so beautiful and mesmerising." Gizmodo "Beauty through simplicity at its finest and most playful." Creative Applications Network "A very fascinating version of ‘Starry Night’... The result is stunning!" Today and tomorrow "This interactive version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night seems to be something wholly different and wonderful.” Colossal art & design "The work finds success in subtlety.” Design.org "Designer Petros Vrellis adds a whole new dimension with his animated and interactive version of the painting." Dutch daily news "The results, which also have a musical soundtrack, are quite stunning." The verge "This app can function as a lovely example of new possibilities. It's so impressive, allowing everyone to feel like Van Gogh for a few moments." O Globo "If Vincent had the tools that we have today, this is the work that he would have created." skyguide.newsvine.com "Utterly beautiful to look at and interact with ... positively delightful, both peaceful and wondrous with a similarly attractive musical score. ... Using a finger to ripple through the artwork is a mesmerising experience. ... It makes art accessible for the masses and brings it to life for children." 148Apps.com "With hypnotic relaxing visuals and audio, 'Starry Night’ is our new favorite thing to play with on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ... It is hard to describe what a wonderfully immersive experience it is getting hands-on with an art piece like this, you just have to have a go." iPadCreative.com ::::: INSTRUCTIONS ::::: - There are three modes: interaction, navigation, screen-saver and dream mode. 1. In interaction mode, just touch to interact with the brushstrokes! 2. In navigation mode, use one finger to rotate around a point, two fingers to zoom and pan. 3. In screen-saver mode, just relax and watch the animation with automated smooth camera movements; you can also touch the brushstrokes! 4. In dream mode, see the original painting melt into a colorful dreamscape. ::::: FEATURES ::::: - Enchanting animation - Immersive 3D zoom and pan - Dynamic interaction - Speed selection - Responsive background music ::::: PREVIEW ::::: This app is an modern interpretation of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHFAsXYHGA ::::: TIP ::::: For best iPad experience, disable "Multitasking Gestures". ::::: SUPPORT ::::: For any problems please email us at: info@artof01.com

Screenshots

Decorate Christmas Tree4 screens
Starry Night Interactive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Starry Night Interactive at 87% against Decorate Christmas Tree's 29%. Starry Night Interactive also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Decorate Christmas Tree's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Decorate Christmas Tree is free to download; Starry Night Interactive costs $1.99 up front. Decorate Christmas Tree sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Starry Night Interactive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Starry Night Interactive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Decorate Christmas Tree's written reviews are positive against 87% of Starry Night Interactive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Decorate Christmas Tree ships an update every 2 months, Starry Night Interactive every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Decorate Christmas Tree versus Starry Night Interactive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecorate Christmas TreeStarry Night Interactive
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating2.9 (44 ratings)4.8 (44 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews87.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4444
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS3.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZEN PLUS LTDartof01

Customer experience

Decorate Christmas Tree

All ratings44 ratings
Positive40.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%

Starry Night Interactive

All ratings44 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive87.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative8.0%

Bugs and requests

Decorate Christmas Tree

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Starry Night Interactive

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Cannot see lines of brushstrokes
  • Cannot long press to enter painting
  • Update removed desired effects
  • App doesn't appear to be maintained
  • Website not secured
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  • No sound on some devices
  • Doesn't work on some older iPads (iOS 6)
  • Blurry graphics/pixelation
  • Auto-orientation doesn't work
  • Music settings not saved
  • Doesn't fit iPhone 5 screen

Requested features

28 requests
  • Bring back old effects (galaxy)
  • Allow long press to enter painting
  • See lines of brushstrokes
  • Support newer iPhones
  • More true full-screen support
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  • Legacy mode option
  • Print or save option
  • More pictures/paintings
  • Ability to change color hues
  • Add more Van Gogh paintings
  • User ability to create/share paintings
  • Add custom music option
  • Snapshot feature
  • More color flow options
  • Tap and drag stars
  • Pinch, flick, twist kinetics
  • Zoom in and out
  • Push blue ridge line
  • Dab color dots
  • More town interaction
  • Video capture/record feature
  • Screen capture feature
  • Save/load custom colors
  • 3D effect for modified paintings
  • Retina quality graphics
  • Auto-rotation for landscape
  • More music options
  • Don McLean song integration

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Decorate Christmas Tree

One-time1
  • Collection of Additional Decorations (Star, Heart, Bell, Candle)$0.99
None

Starry Night Interactive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Decorate Christmas Tree free?
Decorate Christmas Tree is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Starry Night Interactive free?
Starry Night Interactive costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Decorate Christmas Tree or Starry Night Interactive?
Starry Night Interactive is rated higher. Decorate Christmas Tree averages 2.9 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Starry Night Interactive averages 4.8 from 44 ratings.
Do Decorate Christmas Tree or Starry Night Interactive have ads?
Neither Decorate Christmas Tree nor Starry Night Interactive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Decorate Christmas Tree or Starry Night Interactive?
Decorate Christmas Tree ships an update every 2 months, and Starry Night Interactive every 6 months. Most recently, Decorate Christmas Tree was updated on October 27, 2026 and Starry Night Interactive on November 1, 2026.

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