This update prepares Christmas Countdown for 2026, and reduces the size of the app so it takes up less space on your phone throughout the year!

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.

iMessage sticker pack: Decorate your seasons greetings with reindeers, Santa Claus hats & white beards!

You can customize the countdown with date and name.

iPad2 piano bugfix

- "today screen" widget
- alternative background animations
- Apple Watch app + complication

- "today screen" widget
- alternative background animations
- Apple Watch app + complication

Bugfix: wish list crashed sometimes when deleting items

- new musical instruments: flute, organ, chimes
- lyrics can be printed via AirPrint
- different countdown displays

🎁 now with personal wish list
🎹 New free song: Go Tell It On The Mountain!
🍸Countdown on New Year's Eve added

🎹 new free song: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
🐞 sometimes Game Center did not log on properly

🎹 new Carol: Ring, Little Bell
🎹 you might want to check out the German songs again - the translations are now "singable"
❄ And: it is snowing now! ;-)

👍 thanks to Maddie for pointing out the wrong label!

🎹 New Carols: Silent Night! Holy Night! 🔒, Auld Lang Syne
🎹 The piano just sounds better one octave higher. (but there will also be an option to choose in the next update)

🎹 new Christmas Carol: A La Nanita Nana (spanish)
🐞 Bugfix: sometimes leaderboard points were not incremented in game center

🏆 new: unlock game center achievements by playing the piano
❌ possibility to remove ads
🎶 new songs: every year and again, dancing snowflakes, sweeter the bells never sound, we wish you a merry christmas 🔒

You asked for music - and we got you a decent piano to play and practice Christmas songs on. And the app is still smaller than 1 MB. :-)

maintenance release

maintenance version

- minor change

- bugfix: please launch the app just once to fix the countdown
- minor changes

- facebook integration improvement

even simpler to use!

- did not count down to zero when device was locked

For those who already kicked off the countdown for 2011, please re-init it after this update!

- clear countdown bugfix

- iPhone / iPad universal app
- instead of christmas day (default), you can choose christmas eve as countdown target in the settings