Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Wedding Countdown
  • Budget Planner
  • Wedding Planning Guide
  • Guest List Management
  • Customizable Themes
  • Shareable Countdown
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Live home screen widget
  • Real-time countdown (days, hours, sleeps)
  • Customizable themes (red, green, blue)
  • Snowfall animations
  • Compact size (under 1MB)
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Wedding Countdown Planner4 screens
Christmas Countdown & Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wedding Countdown Planner versus Christmas Countdown & Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWedding Countdown PlannerChristmas Countdown & Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (179 ratings)4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1792.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreen Gecko LLCBenoit Deguine

Customer experience

Wedding Countdown Planner

All ratings179 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative27.3%

Christmas Countdown & Widget

All ratings2,437 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews163 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%

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

13 purchases

Wedding Countdown Planner

One-time13
  • 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
3 purchases

Christmas Countdown & Widget

One-time3
  • 1 Gift$1.99
  • Premium$2.99
  • 3 Gifts (or 1 big!)$4.99

Questions

Is Wedding Countdown Planner free?
Wedding Countdown Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Christmas Countdown & Widget free?
Christmas Countdown & Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wedding Countdown Planner or Christmas Countdown & Widget?
Christmas Countdown & Widget is rated higher. Wedding Countdown Planner averages 4.7 out of 5 from 179 ratings, while Christmas Countdown & Widget averages 4.8 from 2.4K ratings.
Do Wedding Countdown Planner or Christmas Countdown & Widget have ads?
Wedding Countdown Planner shows ads; Christmas Countdown & Widget does not.
Which is updated more often, Wedding Countdown Planner or Christmas Countdown & Widget?
Wedding Countdown Planner ships an update every 4 months, and Christmas Countdown & Widget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Wedding Countdown Planner was updated on October 16, 2026 and Christmas Countdown & Widget on October 18, 2026.

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