Comparison

Days Until Xmas vs Christmas Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Days Until Xmas

This app features an interactive snow globe that counts down to Christmas. Tilt, shake, and swipe to experience the festive atmosphere. It offers widgets, CarPlay integration, and Apple Watch support, with optional carols.

Highlights
  • Interactive snow globe physics
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • CarPlay integration for car displays
  • Apple Watch countdown and complications
  • Classic Christmas carols
  • Multi-language support
  • Social sharing of countdown
Features
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Days Until Xmas is a little snow globe that counts down to Christmas Day. Tilt your phone and the snow follows. Shake it and watch everything swirl, then slowly settle. Drag a finger through it. Swipe between the days, hours, minutes and seconds left, or slide a finger along the dots to send them sliding across. - A snow globe that responds to how you hold your phone - Snow that settles into a drift, and on top of the countdown itself - Roll snowballs out of the drift and stack them into a snowman - Feel the snow land, and blow on it to swirl it about - A sky that follows the time of day, with northern lights on some December nights - On Christmas Eve, the last hours count down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island - Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, with December on a calendar - CarPlay: see the countdown and play carols on your car's display - A snow globe on your Apple Watch, with complications for your watch face - Five classic carols, whenever you want them, and All I Want for Christmas Is You in Apple Music with a subscription - Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Swedish - Share how long is left with your friends No accounts, no ads and no tracking. Just the countdown.

About

Christmas Countdown

Track the remaining time until Christmas with various countdown formats, including days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats. Share festive cards with friends and customize the appearance with different Santa and tree images. Enjoy optional background music and snowflake animations.

Highlights
  • Multiple countdown formats (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
  • Shareable Christmas cards
  • Customizable Santa and tree images
  • Optional Jingle Bells background music
  • Disableable snowflake animation
Features
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This application shows how much time is left for Christmas in several ways: • Days, hours and minutes • Days, hours, minutes and seconds • Weeks and days • Nights • Hours • Minutes • Seconds • Heartbeats Share a Christmas card with your friends through social networks or email. You can even choose which image of Santa Claus will appear at the top of the card and the tree that will appear in the footer simply by swiping these images. The chosen background music was the Jingle Bells, which can be enabled or disabled from the menu that comes up when you touch the screen. The snowflakes animation can also be disabled in the menu. I hope you enjoy the time till Christmas with this application. Merry Christmas!

Screenshots

Days Until Xmas4 screens
Christmas Countdown3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Days Until Xmas at 4.7 against Christmas Countdown's 4.0. Days Until Xmas also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 49 months). Christmas Countdown's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Days Until Xmas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Days Until Xmas holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Days Until Xmas has 37 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Days Until Xmas's written reviews are positive against 100% of Christmas Countdown's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Days Until Xmas ships an update every 4 months, Christmas Countdown every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Days Until Xmas versus Christmas Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays Until XmasChristmas Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (37 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 49 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher HardyGUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDA

Customer experience

Days Until Xmas

All ratings37 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral8.1%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral9.1%
Negative3.9%

Christmas Countdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Days Until Xmas

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sounds stopped working on iPhone14 w/ latest system
  • Music doesn't work for some users
  • Countdown is a day off
  • Landscape mode on iPad has UI issues (hours/mins/secs off screen)

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow countdown to any date
  • Add 'Carol of the Bells' song
  • Option to display 'days until Christmas' instead of 'Xmas'
  • Improve landscape mode on iPad
  • View all time units (hours, days, minutes, seconds) at once

Christmas Countdown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Days Until Xmas

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Christmas Countdown

One-time1
  • Remove advertising$0.99

Questions

Is Days Until Xmas free?
Days Until Xmas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Christmas Countdown free?
Christmas Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown?
Days Until Xmas is rated higher. Days Until Xmas averages 4.7 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Christmas Countdown averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown have ads?
Neither Days Until Xmas nor Christmas Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown?
Days Until Xmas ships an update every 4 months, and Christmas Countdown every 49 months. Most recently, Days Until Xmas was updated on November 10, 2026 and Christmas Countdown on November 6, 2026.

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