Group Christmas Lists vs Christmas & Holiday 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 & Holiday Countdown
Track the exact time remaining until Christmas 2025 with real-time updates in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Personalize your experience with festive themes and enjoy classic holiday music and visual effects like falling snow.
- Real-time countdown (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
- Multiple festive themes
- Classic Christmas music
- Falling snow animation
- Widget support
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=== MERRY CHRISTMAS 2025 ==== The app keeps you updated on how many days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats there are until Christmas 2025. ■ Choose from a bunch of beautiful themes, featuring Santa and his reindeer, many Christmas trees, and even a snowman! ■ Enjoy classic Christmas music including Deck the Halls and We Wish You a Merry Christmas ■ Watch the falling snow on the countdown screen I have a lot of fun developing Christmas Countdown, and love hearing from you! Talk to me about the app at cheeapps@gmail.com :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Christmas & Holiday Countdown at 5.0 against Group Christmas Lists's 2.3. Christmas & Holiday Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 54 months). Group Christmas Lists's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Christmas & Holiday Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Group Christmas Lists ships an update every 54 months, Christmas & Holiday Countdown every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Group Christmas Lists | Christmas & Holiday Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Kalski | Duong Bac |
Customer experience
Group Christmas Lists
Christmas & Holiday Countdown
In-app purchases
Group Christmas Lists
No in-app purchases
Christmas & Holiday Countdown
No in-app purchases
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