Comparison

Halloween Countdown ‎ vs Halloween

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Halloween countdown timer
  • Spooky music and wallpapers
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets
  • Daily countdown reminders
  • Offline functionality
  • Social media sharing
Features
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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

About

Halloween

Track the exact days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Halloween 2026 with a live countdown. Customize your experience with spooky themes and display the remaining time on your home screen with a convenient widget. Perfect for Halloween enthusiasts of all kinds.

Highlights
  • Live countdown timer
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable themes
  • Spooky Halloween graphics
  • Real-time updates
Features
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The countdown to Halloween 2027 has begun. Meet your new favorite ghost. Halloween Countdown shows exactly how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left until October 31, in a moonlit graveyard made for spooky season lovers. A LIVE COUNTDOWN Watch every second tick away in real time, and always know how long you have left to plan your costume, decorate the house and stock up on candy. A WIDGET FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN Keep Halloween in sight all year. Add the widget and see the days remaining at a glance, without opening the app. You can even choose whether today counts. MADE TO MATCH YOUR STYLE • Classic pumpkin orange or mysterious purple • Light mode, dark mode or your system setting • Custom ghost, moon and graveyard illustrations • Available in 10 languages GO PREMIUM One purchase, no subscription: • Live hours and minutes on the widget • No Free badge on the widget • Support an independent developer Whether you count down from January or start decorating on October 1, this one's for you. Download Halloween Countdown, wake up the ghost and start counting. Trick or treat!

Screenshots

Halloween Countdown ‎4 screens
Halloween4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Halloween at none against Halloween Countdown ‎'s shown. Halloween also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Halloween Countdown ‎ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Halloween sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Halloween Countdown ‎ against 4.8 for Halloween. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 203 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halloween Countdown ‎ ships an update monthly, Halloween every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Halloween Countdown ‎ versus Halloween: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalloween Countdown ‎Halloween
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (92 ratings) — better4.8 (203 ratings)
Positive reviews—96.0% of reviews
Number of ratings92203 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB6 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperZafflesBenoit Deguine

Customer experience

Halloween Countdown ‎

All ratings89 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%

Halloween

All ratings203 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Halloween Countdown ‎

One-time1
  • Halloween Supporter$4.99
1 purchases

Halloween

One-time1
  • lifetime$2.99

Questions

Is Halloween Countdown ‎ free?
Halloween Countdown ‎ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Halloween free?
Halloween is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Halloween Countdown ‎ or Halloween?
Halloween Countdown ‎ is rated higher. Halloween Countdown ‎ averages 4.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Halloween averages 4.8 from 203 ratings.
Do Halloween Countdown ‎ or Halloween have ads?
Halloween Countdown ‎ shows ads; Halloween does not.
Which is updated more often, Halloween Countdown ‎ or Halloween?
Halloween Countdown ‎ ships an update monthly, and Halloween every 2 weeks. Most recently, Halloween Countdown ‎ was updated on November 5, 2026 and Halloween on November 9, 2026.

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