Hangtime vs Planetary Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hangtime
Easily see which friends are available and instantly create plans for activities. Connect with friends by sharing your availability and interests to find companions for spontaneous outings.
- View friend availability
- Create plans instantly
- QR code friend adding
- Set availability and interests
- Direct messaging
- Friend request system
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For years, you have spent countless weekends at home with the family... it is time to move on, with Hangtime. Hangtime lets you quickly view which of your friends are available, and helps you put together plans instantly. Regardless of what you're in the mood to do, there's probably a friend willing to join you. Get started planning fun times with friends on Hangtime today. How to use the app: ● Add friends with the QR scanner. Try to only add friends that you will hangout with. ● Flip the switch when you are free, and enter something you're in the mood to do. Then hit "Save". ● View a list of your friend's that are also free. Long press on a name to request them, if they also request you, you will see a blue smiley face icon. Tap on the name again to start messaging them.
Planetary Social
A peer-to-peer social media platform focused on personal connections and censorship resistance. It prioritizes user ownership of content and relationships, operating without algorithms or advertisements. Compatible with other Secure Scuttlebutt protocol apps, it works both online and offline.
- Peer-to-peer data sharing
- Censorship resistant network
- User ownership of content
- No advertisements or algorithms
- Offline and off-grid functionality
- Open source
- Compatible with Secure Scuttlebutt apps
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Peer to peer social media for humans, not algorithms. Planetary passes data from friend to friend, creating a network that is personal, censorship resistant, and minimizes abuse and spam. Planetary gives you ownership over your relationships and content, and is compatible with any app using the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol. In Planetary there are no advertisements or artificial intelligence algorithms trying to make you feel a certain way. Your content lives on your device and the devices of those around you, it isn't owned or controlled by a corporation. Experience social networking where you're the customer, not the product. Unlike most social media, Planetary: - Does not sell your data. - Is naturally spam-resistant. - Compatible with other apps including Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfox, feedless, and more. - Works off-grid and offline. - Allows you to take your friends with you if you decide to move to another client. - Is open source! No one company should own the Internet’s public spaces, which is why we’re building on —and contributing back to— the open source Secure Scuttlebutt ecosystem. Their core technologies let us recreate a social network experience, but in a decentralized way that no one organization can dominate.
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Verdict
Hangtime and Planetary Social both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Hangtime's written reviews are positive against 38% of Planetary Social's. Hangtime also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 16.0). Planetary Social's advantage is ratings volume (37 vs 5). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Hangtime against 4.1 for Planetary Social. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planetary Social has 37 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Hangtime's written reviews are positive against 38% of Planetary Social's.
Hangtime ships an update every 4 days, Planetary Social every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hangtime | Planetary Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 4.1 (37 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Randy Perecman | Verse Communications Inc |
Customer experience
Hangtime
Planetary Social
In-app purchases
Hangtime
No in-app purchases
Planetary Social
No in-app purchases
