Comparison

Hotham vs Time On Water

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

Head to head
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.

About

Time On Water

Features
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Time On Water turns your iPhone or iPad into a marine instrument display built around the way you use your boat. YOUR BOAT. YOUR DATA. YOUR DISPLAY. Create your own dashboard pages, choose the information that matters and arrange it into clear, readable widgets. Start with your iPhone’s built-in location data, or connect compatible onboard instruments for live information from the boat. BUILD DISPLAYS FOR THE JOB Every boat—and every person aboard—is different. Create focused pages for the helm, the rail, the start or general sailing. Choose your widgets, change their size and organise your dashboards around what you need to see at a glance. Depending on your device, subscription and connected equipment, available information can include: • Speed over ground and course over ground • Position and heading • Apparent and true wind • Boat speed and depth • Navigation and waypoint information • Sailing-performance data • Polar targets and percentage of target CONNECT THE BOAT Time On Water can connect to supported marine-network gateways over Wi-Fi, bringing compatible onboard data onto the screens you already own. Save the connections you use and return to them quickly with Quick Connect. Data availability depends on the instruments, gateway and information present on the boat’s network. RECORD YOUR TIME ON THE WATER Start a Session and preserve what happened on the water. Free users can record position, speed over ground and course over ground using the iPhone’s location services. Connected boats can record the marine data available through their supported gateway. Review your Sessions, inspect the recorded track and replay the sail through the same configurable dashboards used for live data. Change pages, try different layouts and revisit the Session as though the recorded information were arriving from the boat again. FOR PERFORMANCE Time On Water Pro adds boat-specific performance tools for sailors who want more than raw numbers. Import and select polar data, compare live performance with target speed and display focused information for different points of sail. FOR THE START Turn live position, movement and wind data into information you can use during the starting sequence. Set the ends of the starting line and monitor: • Real-time line bias calculated using your wind data • Distance to Line • Time to Line • Time to Burn Time On Water continuously updates the numbers as the boat moves, helping you judge whether you are early, late or approaching the line on time. START FREE Explore Time On Water using the sensors already in your iPhone: • Build configurable dashboard pages • Display device position and movement • Record and replay GPS-based Sessions • Explore the supplied demonstration Session CONNECTED Connect supported onboard instruments: • Receive compatible live marine data • Save connection profiles • Use Quick Connect • Record and replay connected Sessions PRO Add sailing-performance intelligence: • Polar import and selection • Live targets and performance calculations • Real-time start-line tools • Line bias, Distance to Line, Time to Line and Time to Burn • Everything included with Connected Connected instruments and advanced performance features require an eligible subscription and compatible marine-network equipment. Continued use of location services during an actively recording Session can affect battery life. Background location is used only while a Session you explicitly started remains active. Time On Water is a supplementary display. It does not replace primary navigation equipment, alarms, safety equipment, charts, proper seamanship or the need to maintain an appropriate lookout. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.timeonwater.com.au/privacy

Screenshots

Hotham4 screens
Time On Water4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hotham at none against Time On Water's 1. Time On Water's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Time On Water sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hotham asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hotham ships an update every 10 days, Time On Water every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hotham versus Time On Water: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHothamTime On Water
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB22 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMount Hotham Skiing Company PTY LTDLuke Matthews

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

Time On Water

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hotham

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Time On Water

One-time1
  • Lifetime ProFree

Questions

Is Hotham free?
Hotham is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time On Water free?
Time On Water is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hotham or Time On Water have ads?
Neither Hotham nor Time On Water shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hotham or Time On Water?
Hotham ships an update every 10 days, and Time On Water every 4 days. Most recently, Hotham was updated on November 3, 2026 and Time On Water on November 6, 2026.

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