Wedding Countdown Planner vs Christmas Countdown & Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wedding Countdown Planner
This app helps you organize your wedding with a countdown to your big day. It includes tools for budgeting, guest lists, and planning, with customizable themes and the ability to share your countdown.
- Wedding Countdown
- Budget Planner
- Wedding Planning Guide
- Guest List Management
- Customizable Themes
- Shareable Countdown
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Wedding Countdown is a clean and well designed app that will count down to your special day and help you with all the wedding preparations. FEATURES - Wedding Countdown - Budget Planner - Wedding Planning Guide - Guest List - Wedding Organizer - Love Quote of the Day - Share your LIVE countdown Add your names and choose from more than 20 different themes or add your own picture to make the app look just like you want it. You can also share the countdown or daily love quotes with your future husband or wife. THEMES - Hearts - Wave - Sunset - Wedding Cake - Couple - Flowers - Female Couple - Male Couple - Wedding Pavilion - Bouquet - Rose Petals - Shoes & Champagne - Wedding Rings - Cutting the cake - Love story - Champagne - Rings on hands - Hearts at the beach - Swan Heart - Pregnant Couple - Roses & Pearls - or create your own theme with your own picture
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Track the exact days, hours, and sleeps until Christmas Eve with a live home screen widget. Customize with festive themes and enjoy snowfall animations to bring the holiday spirit to life.
- Live home screen widget
- Real-time countdown (days, hours, sleeps)
- Customizable themes (red, green, blue)
- Snowfall animations
- Compact size (under 1MB)
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How many sleeps until Christmas? Christmas Countdown puts the countdown right on your home screen and lock screen, so the whole family can see how close Christmas is, every time they pick up the iPhone. Rated 4.8 stars by more than 2,400 people. Free, no ads, no account. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Add the widget once and the days (or sleeps) left are always in sight. No need to open the app: the widget updates by itself every day, all season long. LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS See the countdown without even unlocking your phone. Pick the round widget with its progress ring, which fills up as Christmas gets closer, or the one-line widget above the clock. SLEEPS, NOT JUST DAYS Kids don't count days, they count sleeps. Switch to sleeps mode and the app answers the question you hear every evening in December: "How many more nights until Santa comes?" LIVE COUNTDOWN IN THE APP Open the app for the full countdown: days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down in real time, under gently falling snow. Prefer a calm screen? Turn the snow off in one tap. DEC 24 OR DEC 25 Celebrate on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day? Choose the date you count down to, and every widget follows. In Sweden, the app counts to December 24 by default. FESTIVE THEMES Classic red, pine green or ice blue. Your colour applies to the app and to the widgets, so your home screen matches your mood. ALL YEAR LONG Christmas is over? The countdown starts again for next year, and we say Merry Christmas on the way. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Available in 16 languages, from French and German to Japanese and Korean. PREMIUM: SNOWY SCENE WIDGETS A one-time purchase unlocks exclusive widgets: a snowy landscape with a cabin, a snowman and fir trees, in small and medium sizes, painted in your theme colour. Premium also removes the FREE badge from the classic widget and supports an independent developer. No subscription, ever. Already bought it? Restore your purchase in one tap from Settings. HOW TO ADD THE WIDGET 1. Download Christmas Countdown, it's free 2. Long-press an empty area of your home screen and tap Edit 3. Tap Add Widget and search for Christmas Countdown 4. Choose a size and tap Add Widget For the lock screen, long-press the lock screen, tap Customize, then add the widget under the clock. MADE BY ONE PERSON Christmas Countdown is built by an independent developer who loves Christmas as much as you do. Ideas, bugs or just a hello? Write from the Settings screen: every message gets read. Christmas only comes once a year. Start counting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Christmas Countdown & Widget at none against Wedding Countdown Planner's shown. Christmas Countdown & Widget also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Wedding Countdown Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Wedding Countdown Planner sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Christmas Countdown & Widget sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Wedding Countdown Planner against 4.8 for Christmas Countdown & Widget. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas Countdown & Widget has 2.4K ratings behind it against 179, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Wedding Countdown Planner's written reviews are positive against 93% of Christmas Countdown & Widget's.
Wedding Countdown Planner ships an update every 4 months, Christmas Countdown & Widget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wedding Countdown Planner | Christmas Countdown & Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (179 ratings) | 4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Green Gecko LLC | Benoit Deguine |
Customer experience
Wedding Countdown Planner
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Bugs and requests
Wedding Countdown Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Christmas Countdown & Widget
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not always accurate
- Widget not working on some devices
- App freezing or crashing
Requested features
5 requests- Add Apple Watch support
- Include more countdown details in widget
- Implement Christmas mini-games
- Provide notification options
- Add more customization options
In-app purchases
Wedding Countdown Planner
- Theme Couple$0.99
- Theme Bouquet$0.99
- Theme Wedding Rings$0.99
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- Theme Love story$0.99
- Theme Rings on hands$0.99
- Theme Hearts at the beach$0.99
- Theme Swan Heart$0.99
- Theme Roses & Pearls$0.99
- Theme Champagne$0.99
- Theme Wedding Pavilion$0.99
- function to add your own picture$1.99
- Removal of advertisements$2.99
- Premium Lifetime$9.99
Christmas Countdown & Widget
- 1 Gift$1.99
- Premium$2.99
- 3 Gifts (or 1 big!)$4.99
Questions
Is Wedding Countdown Planner free?
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Which has better reviews, Wedding Countdown Planner or Christmas Countdown & Widget?
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