Comparison

SnowZat vs Hotham

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

Head to head
About

SnowZat

Locate friends on a 3D resort map across numerous international locations. Track your skiing or snowboarding stats, participate in challenges, and earn coins for store discounts. Offline maps and navigation are available, with battery-efficient background operation.

Highlights
  • 3D resort maps
  • Friend locator
  • Run statistics tracking
  • Daily and season challenges
  • Earn store coins for discounts
  • Offline maps and navigation
  • Leaderboards
Features
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Find your friends on the SnowZat 3D resort map. All Resorts for Australia, NZ, USA, Canada, Japan Earn SnowZat coins for large discounts in the SnowZat store. Perisher, Thredbo, Falls Creek, Mt Buller, Mt Hotham, Charlotte Pass, Guthega, Mt Selwyn, Cardrona, Coronet Peak, Treble Cone, The Remarkables, Mt Ruapehu, Whakapapa Daily photos of resort conditions. Efficient all day battery usage. Detailed all day stats. Leaderboards for friends, resort, country and globe. Challenges - daily and season An internet connection is required for friend sharing and competitions, however maps and navigation do not require an internet connection. Location Services is required for collecting statistics whilst the app is in the background and the foreground. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. The Snowzat app has been specifically designed to run all day in the background, collecting run statistics, with minimal drain on the battery.

About

Hotham

Get real-time weather, snow reports, and live snow cams for the ski resort. Track friends, monitor your ski day and season stats, and compete on leaderboards. Purchase lift tickets, lessons, and rentals directly through the app.

Highlights
  • Real-time weather and snow reports
  • Live snow camera feeds
  • Friend tracking and group creation
  • Ski day and season statistics
  • Resort leaderboard
  • Online ticket and rental purchases
Features
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REAL-TIME WEATHER DATA No more guessing how many layers you’ll need with real-time weather including minimum temperature, wind speeds and how much snow has fallen in the last 24 hours. VIEW LIVE SNOW CAMS Keep an eye on snowfalls and see real time mountain views with live cams from various locations around the resort. FIND AND TRACK YOUR FRIENDS Stay connected with friends by creating your own private group. See their current location in real-time on the resort map, what run or lift each person in your group is riding and the difficulty rating. TRACK YOUR DAY AND SEASON Keep track of all the details about your ski day and season. How many days skied, runs completed and vertical kilometres logged are all at the touch of a button. If you have an Apple Watch, record your runs as a workout and see your workout in the Health app. LEADERBOARD Compete for the top spot on the Hotham Leader board through days skied, lifts ridden, and vertical metres logged. SHOP ONLINE Buy early and save on lift tickets, lessons, rentals and more. Created exclusively for Mount Hotham Alpine Resort by the Resorts Tapped LLC. Note: Location and Logging services require a GPS-equipped device. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

SnowZat4 screens
Hotham4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hotham at every 10 days against SnowZat's every 2 months. Hotham also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). SnowZat's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (392 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hotham holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SnowZat has 392 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of SnowZat's written reviews are positive against 41% of Hotham's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SnowZat ships an update every 2 months, Hotham every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SnowZat versus Hotham: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnowZatHotham
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (392 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews — better40.6% of reviews
Number of ratings392 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB86 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMetroView SystemsMount Hotham Skiing Company PTY LTD

Customer experience

SnowZat

All ratings391 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative24.3%

Hotham

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive40.6%
Neutral18.8%
Negative40.6%

Bugs and requests

SnowZat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Hotham

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • Trail status inaccurate
  • Grooming status incorrect
  • App often doesn't work early morning
  • Snow report/weather conditions not dated
  • Lift status shows 'unknown'
Show 11 more
  • GPS tracking issues (stops working, deletes runs)
  • App fails to load sometimes
  • Slow to show trail and lift status
  • Cameras mislabeled or not showing
  • Tracking auto-disables after inactivity
  • Stats failing to update
  • Login issues
  • App redirects to web browser for snow report
  • Trail map out of date
  • New app is not iPad friendly
  • Cannot open properly on iPad

Requested features

19 requests
  • More specific weather information
  • Ability to book ski school on the day
  • More resort/personality skiing footage
  • Link with Epic Passes
  • See all resort trails under each lift (older version functionality)
Show 14 more
  • App for Hotham, Falls, and Perisher
  • Comment on terrain park status
  • Add expected opening time for closed lifts
  • Better webcams
  • Include speed in stats
  • Add road conditions alerts
  • Add a 'help!' button for emergencies
  • Leaderboard fairness
  • iPad compatibility
  • Phone list feature
  • Night skiing tracking
  • First Tracks availability
  • Back country trail information
  • Grooming information for cross-country trails

In-app purchases

None

SnowZat

No in-app purchases

None

Hotham

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SnowZat free?
SnowZat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hotham free?
Hotham is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SnowZat or Hotham?
Hotham is rated higher. SnowZat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 392 ratings, while Hotham averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SnowZat or Hotham have ads?
Neither SnowZat nor Hotham shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SnowZat or Hotham?
SnowZat ships an update every 2 months, and Hotham every 10 days. Most recently, SnowZat was updated on October 24, 2026 and Hotham on October 12, 2026.

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