Hotham vs MyHoops
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.
MyHoops
Follow community basketball leagues and games with live updates. Track your favorite players, teams, and clubs, and access detailed statistics. Stay connected to the action anywhere, anytime.
- Fixtures and schedules
- League ladders and results
- Player and team statistics
- Favorite players and teams
- Real-time game updates
- User-friendly interface
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Introducing the official mobile App for everyone involved in Community Basketball. MyHoops is a free iOS App built for community basketball fans, housing fixtures, ladders, results, and statistics for leagues operating on PlayHQ. With MyHoops, community basketball fans can favourite players, teams, clubs, grades and leagues, giving fans quick and easy access to the players and games they care about most. MyHoops’ user-friendly interface is designed with the community basketball fan in mind, no matter where they are, so that they can stay connected to games and players anywhere, anytime. Download the MyHoops iOS App today.
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Verdict
Hotham and MyHoops both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of MyHoops's written reviews are positive against 41% of Hotham's. MyHoops also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 5.0 for Hotham against 5.0 for MyHoops. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyHoops has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Hotham's written reviews are positive against 78% of MyHoops's.
Hotham ships an update every 10 days, MyHoops fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hotham | MyHoops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.6% of reviews | 78.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — 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 | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mount Hotham Skiing Company PTY LTD | PlayHQ |
Customer experience
Hotham
MyHoops
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
MyHoops
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to navigate and user-friendly interface
- 📊 Comprehensive stats and player tracking
- ⭐ Excellent for viewing game schedules and times
- ❤️ Great for parents monitoring children's games
- 🎯 Ability to favorite teams and players
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes and freezes on startup
- 🐛 Profile viewing errors ('oops we've dropped the ball')
- 🐛 Scoring inaccuracies and misattributed points
- 🐛 Login issues after password updates
- 🐛 Fixtures and stats disappearing after updates
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
MyHoops
Reported bugs
12 issues- App freezes on welcome/login screen
- Cannot open player profiles - error message displayed
- Scoring attributed to wrong players
- Password sync issues between HQ site and app
- Fixtures and statistics disappearing after updates
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- Search functionality broken after recent update
- Team icons missing from profiles
- App not loading past initial screen
- Incompatibility with large text/magnified display settings
- Games not displaying for new seasons
- Netball app converting to basketball app unexpectedly
- Scoring discrepancies between app and actual game results
Requested features
15 requests- Calendar integration (Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal)
- Push notifications for fixture updates and team changes
- Search by venue functionality
- Leaderboards for top scorers (total points, 3-pointers, free throws)
- Advanced stats (assists, rebounds, steals, blocks, technical fouls)
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- Ability to remove or hide old teams from profile
- Team name customization for multiple teams in same club
- Ability to choose which club to display for multi-club players
- Division-wide fixture viewing (not just by team)
- Training videos and program content
- Team chat section for communication
- Multiple favorite tiers (personal vs friends)
- Ability to correct scoring errors directly in app
- Last name optional for player search
- Notifications for favorite team/player updates
In-app purchases
Hotham
No in-app purchases
MyHoops
No in-app purchases
