Comparison

Days Until Xmas vs Christmas Countdown #2025

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 #2025

This app helps you track the time remaining until Christmas 2025. It offers beautiful Christmas backgrounds, quotes, snowfall animations, and sound effects. Customize themes and enjoy a festive countdown experience.

Highlights
  • Countdown timer to Christmas 2025
  • Christmas backgrounds
  • Christmas quotes
  • Snowfall animation
  • Christmas sound library
  • Customizable themes
Features
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This Christmas Eve Special, Christmas Countdown App for you. Download the Christmas countdown and celebrate Christmas with us! The Christmas Countdown app reminds you how many months, weeks, days, sleep, hours, minutes and seconds until Christmas 2025. Countdown and track Christmas celebrations on 25 December. Features of Christmas Countdown App: + Discover Christmas Background + Tons of beautiful Christmas quotes and thoughts! + Amazing Snowfall animation effect + High quality Christmas sounds Library. + Countdown timer in different format + Customize the Christmas theme to your liking Download now! Enjoy your Christmas eve 2025 Merry Christmas to you and your family! Have a problem? Please write to us so we can solve it ASAP! Please feel free to share your review OR drop an email – Appinference.software@gmail.com

Screenshots

Days Until Xmas4 screens
Christmas Countdown #20254 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Days Until Xmas at none against Christmas Countdown #2025's 1. Days Until Xmas also leads on ratings volume (37 vs 6). Christmas Countdown #2025's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. Christmas Countdown #2025 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Days Until Xmas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Days Until Xmas against 4.8 for Christmas Countdown #2025. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Days Until Xmas has 37 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Days Until Xmas ships an update every 4 months, Christmas Countdown #2025 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Days Until Xmas versus Christmas Countdown #2025: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays Until XmasChristmas Countdown #2025
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (37 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher HardyMilan Unjiya

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 #2025

All ratings6 ratings
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 #2025

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Days Until Xmas

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Christmas Countdown #2025

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99

Questions

Is Days Until Xmas free?
Days Until Xmas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Christmas Countdown #2025 free?
Christmas Countdown #2025 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown #2025?
Christmas Countdown #2025 is rated higher. Days Until Xmas averages 4.7 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Christmas Countdown #2025 averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown #2025 have ads?
Neither Days Until Xmas nor Christmas Countdown #2025 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Days Until Xmas or Christmas Countdown #2025?
Days Until Xmas ships an update every 4 months, and Christmas Countdown #2025 every 6 weeks. Most recently, Days Until Xmas was updated on November 10, 2026 and Christmas Countdown #2025 on November 3, 2026.

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