Official AFL Tipping vs Hotham
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Official AFL Tipping
Engage in the official Australian Football League tipping competition. Submit weekly tips, join or create leagues with friends, and track your progress against other players nationwide. Features a new streak game and push notifications to ensure you never miss a deadline.
- Submit weekly tips
- Create/join competitions
- Track nationwide rank
- Push notifications
- New Streak game
- Register via AFL iD
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The Official AFL Tipping app is updated for the 2026 season! FREE for all users, the app allows you to play AFL Tipping when you're on the go. Within the app you can do all the following and more: Register to play Tipping via AFL iDSubmit your tips every week and follow the results as they happenCreate or join comps and challenge your friends, family or co-workersTrack your rank against players nationwide.Receive push notifications so you never forget to tipTake on the brand-new Streak game! Download the app now for your chance to WIN great prizes and take on your mates!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hotham at 5.0 against Official AFL Tipping's 1.0. Hotham also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (41% vs 30%). Official AFL Tipping's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Hotham holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Official AFL Tipping's written reviews are positive against 41% of Hotham's.
Official AFL Tipping ships an update every 2 months, Hotham every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Official AFL Tipping | Hotham |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.9% of reviews | 40.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Telstra Limited | Mount Hotham Skiing Company PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Official AFL Tipping
Hotham
User reviews
Official AFL Tipping
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great for comps
- 👍 Fun with friends/family
- 👍 Good for AFL fans
- 👍 Convenient app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 Server connection problems
- 🐛 App not updated
- 🐛 Clunky interface
- 🐛 Login difficulties
Hotham
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Informative app
- 👍 Great for checking conditions
- 👍 Useful for tracking runs
- 👍 Good weather updates
- 👍 Easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clunky navigation
- 🐛 Inaccurate trail status
- 🐛 Tracking issues
- 🐛 Outdated information
- 🐛 Poor user experience
Bugs and requests
Official AFL Tipping
Reported bugs
12 issues- Cannot connect to server
- App keeps crashing
- App not updating for new season
- Login issues (keyboard not appearing, AFL ID errors, can't submit)
- App directing to wrong season period
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- Delayed updates after games
- Ladder in wrong order
- App won't open after update
- App reverts to previous season
- Cannot create comps
- Password validation broken
- Screen won't condense to submit login
Requested features
9 requests- Make tipping more exciting (hide user fav percentages until after game starts)
- Fix app not updating for new season
- Allow tipping in finals
- Add a Finals Comp version
- Add a league table
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- Need confirmation for tip changes
- Fix Gauntlet team selection issue
- Improve app design to feel more modern
- Allow users to see what comp members have tipped
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'
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- 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)
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- 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
Official AFL Tipping
No in-app purchases
Hotham
No in-app purchases
Questions
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