Countdown to Christmas is an Android app developed by Onteca (37-45 Windsor Street, Liverpool, L8 1XE). Others apps created by Onteca are: Cannon Shooter : US Civil War, Gettysburg Cannon Battle USA, Santa Tracker.

Countdown to Christmas first became available on 08 Dec 2011. It is estimated that Countdown to Christmas has been downloaded between 500000 and 1000000 times from the Play Store.

Countdown to Christmas 2.4.2 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to write to external storage.