Hotham vs Play AFL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Play AFL
This app provides comprehensive information for community Australian Football leagues. Track fixtures, ladders, results, and player statistics for games running on PlayHQ. Easily favorite your preferred players, teams, and leagues for quick access to the action.
- Fixtures and schedules
- League ladders
- Game results
- Player statistics
- Favorite players and teams
- League and club information
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Introducing the official mobile App for everyone involved in AFL Community Football. Play AFL is a free iOS App built for community football fans, housing fixtures, ladders, results, and statistics for leagues operating on PlayHQ. With Play AFL, community football fans can favourite players, teams, clubs, grades and leagues, giving fans quick and easy access to the players and games they care about most. Play AFL's user-friendly interface is designed with the community football fan in mind, no matter where they are, so that they can stay connected to games and players anywhere, anytime. Download the Play AFL iOS App today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hotham at 5.0 against Play AFL's 4.2. Play AFL's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (65% vs 41%). On price, update cadence, 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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Play AFL has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Hotham's written reviews are positive against 65% of Play AFL's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hotham ships an update every 10 days, Play AFL fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hotham | Play AFL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.6% of reviews | 65.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mount Hotham Skiing Company PTY LTD | PlayHQ |
Customer experience
Hotham
Play AFL
User reviews
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
Play AFL
From 13 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great for tracking stats
- 👍 Convenient for checking games/fixtures
- 👍 Good for following teams/players
- 👍 Helpful for parents
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 Slow loading
- 🐛 Can't log in
- 🐛 Frozen app
- 🐛 Player profiles messed up
Bugs and 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'
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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
Play AFL
Reported bugs
22 issues- Can’t save in stages
- Game dates incorrect
- Can’t log in
- Email doesn’t stick
- App frozen
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- Player profiles messed up
- Player movements reverted
- Login impossible
- Teams inactive that are active
- Search function doesn't work
- Players default to public
- Timer incorrect
- Match times incorrect
- Custom avatars messed up
- Missing junior stats
- No option to add stats
- Can't find clubs
- Stuck on loading screen
- Game day screen hard to swipe
- Weather widget not priority
- Game details page changed
- Update nobody asked for
Requested features
6 requests- Link a child to two accounts
- Add schedule for ground on that day
- Search up a ground and see all games
- Nickname for saved teams
- Add fixtures calendars
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- Add 'add to calendar' feature for fixtures
In-app purchases
Hotham
No in-app purchases
Play AFL
No in-app purchases
