Group Christmas Lists vs Christmas Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Group Christmas Lists
Easily create and share Christmas wish lists with family and friends. Organize items with links and allow group members to mark gifts as reserved to avoid duplicates.
- Create Christmas lists
- Add item links
- Share lists with groups
- Mark items as reserved
- Collaborative list management
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Group Christmas List allows you to create Christmas Lists with links and share them with your family or friends. You can create groups where anyone in the group can see each other's list. Anyone in the group can mark an item as reserved meaning that they intend to purchase that item for that person.
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.
- Multiple countdown formats (days, hours, minutes, seconds, heartbeats)
- Shareable Christmas cards
- Customizable Santa and tree images
- Optional Jingle Bells background music
- Disableable snowflake animation
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Christmas Countdown at 100% against Group Christmas Lists's 0%. Christmas Countdown also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.3). Group Christmas Lists's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Christmas Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Group Christmas Lists asks for nothing beyond the download.
Christmas Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Group Christmas Lists's written reviews are positive against 100% of Christmas Countdown's.
Group Christmas Lists ships an update every 54 months, Christmas Countdown every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Group Christmas Lists | Christmas Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 49 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Kalski | GUSTAVO ADOLPHO BONESSO LTDA |
Customer experience
Group Christmas Lists
Christmas Countdown
In-app purchases
Group Christmas Lists
No in-app purchases
Christmas Countdown
- Remove advertising$0.99
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