Comparison

Group Christmas Lists vs Days to Christmas

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Create Christmas lists
  • Add item links
  • Share lists with groups
  • Mark items as reserved
  • Collaborative list management
Features
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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.

About

Days to Christmas

This app helps you count down the days until Christmas and plan your gift purchases. Add recipients and gifts, then mark them off as you buy them. Special gift ideas may appear as the holiday approaches.

Highlights
  • Christmas countdown timer
  • Gift planner
  • Add recipients and gifts
  • Mark gifts as purchased
  • Home screen widget
  • Special gift suggestions
Features
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Days to Christmas is the cozy, calm way to count the sleeps, and to make every day of December a little sensory adventure. A SNOW GLOBE YOU CAN SHAKE The countdown lives inside a glass snow globe with a real village in it. Shake your phone and the snow swirls, drag to spin the scene, tap to nudge the flakes, turn the phone over and watch them fall the other way. Hold the glass for the full-screen globe, and keep an eye on the cabin: an elf comes out to wave. A Snow Globe widget puts the number in the glass on your Home Screen, and the Mac gets the same globe with a Shake button. SENSORY ADVENT CALENDAR: FREE Behind each of the 24 doors is a simple activity for one of the senses: crunch fake snow, jingle bells, smell a clove orange, taste a candy cane, blow bubbles by the tree lights. Made with autistic and sensory-seeking children in mind, but every family loves them. Nothing to buy: every door is free, and a gentle daily reminder tells you when tonight's door is ready. SANTA TRACKER & LETTERS TO SANTA See where Santa is on Christmas Eve and, before that, how far the North Pole is from your country and what time he'll reach you (around 10 p.m., so be asleep). The workshop sends a daily report as the sleeps run down, you can replay the whole flight around the world, and children can write a letter to Santa by speaking or typing it. A few hours later, Santa writes back by hand, and the app can read his letter aloud. SANTA'S GLOBE, IN YOUR ROOM Put the world on your table and watch the sleigh fly the route, stop by stop, in augmented reality on iPhone and iPad, or as a globe you can spin with your hands on Apple Vision Pro. SELFIE WITH SANTA Pop a Santa hat, beard, glasses or reindeer antlers on everyone in the picture, stand Santa beside you, and share the photo. Faces are found on your device, and nothing is uploaded: the picture only exists if you save or share it. CHRISTMAS HITS FROM APPLE MUSIC Twenty-four Christmas hits, from Mariah and Wham! to Slade and Bublé, playing the moment the app opens. With an Apple Music subscription they play in full, even when the phone is locked; without one you hear 30-second previews. Reorder the list, add any song from Apple Music, and share it as a link. Friends with the app get it as a list of its own, and their own list is never changed. THE COUNTDOWN, EVERYWHERE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that update at midnight • A Live Activity in the Dynamic Island on Christmas Eve • Apple Watch, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro • Count in sleeps, days, hours, minutes, or heartbeats • Six scenes as a snow globe, painted or photographic: Classic, Midnight, Frost, Forest, Gingerbread and High Contrast, or a photo of your own tree behind the countdown (Premium) • Share a picture of the countdown with friends ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN • Full VoiceOver support and a spoken countdown • Calm mode turns off snow, sparkle, parallax and haptics • Follows Reduce Motion and Dynamic Type • High Contrast theme, free for everyone GIFT LIST Keep a simple list of who you're buying for and tick things off as you go. Each Advent door suggests a matching sensory gift you can find on Amazon. PREMIUM The countdown and every Advent door are free, forever. Premium adds the pretty: all six scenes, painted or photographic, your own photo behind the countdown, extra snow and sparkle in the app and widgets, and unlimited people on the gift list. Choose Lifetime (pay once, every Christmas, on every device signed in to your Apple ID) or This Christmas Only (a season pass that runs until 1 January). No auto-renewing subscriptions. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Privacy: no accounts and no tracking. Your gift list stays on your device.

Screenshots

Group Christmas Lists4 screens
Days to Christmas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Days to Christmas at 100% against Group Christmas Lists's 0%. Days to Christmas also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 54 months). Group Christmas Lists's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Days to Christmas sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Group Christmas Lists asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Days to Christmas holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Days to Christmas has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Group Christmas Lists's written reviews are positive against 100% of Days to Christmas's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Group Christmas Lists ships an update every 54 months, Days to Christmas fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Group Christmas Lists versus Days to Christmas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroup Christmas ListsDays to Christmas
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.9 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings316 — better
Update frequencyEvery 54 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian KalskiAccessible Resources Ltd

Customer experience

Group Christmas Lists

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Days to Christmas

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Group Christmas Lists

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Days to Christmas

One-time2
  • This Christmas only$2.99
  • Lifetime$6.99

Questions

Is Group Christmas Lists free?
Group Christmas Lists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Days to Christmas free?
Days to Christmas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Group Christmas Lists or Days to Christmas?
Days to Christmas is rated higher. Group Christmas Lists averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Days to Christmas averages 4.9 from 16 ratings.
Do Group Christmas Lists or Days to Christmas have ads?
Days to Christmas shows ads; Group Christmas Lists does not.
Which is updated more often, Group Christmas Lists or Days to Christmas?
Group Christmas Lists ships an update every 54 months, and Days to Christmas fortnightly. Most recently, Group Christmas Lists was updated on October 24, 2026 and Days to Christmas on October 29, 2026.

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