Sprout Social vs HangTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sprout Social
Manage your social media presence on the go with this platform's companion app. It allows you to view messages, reply, schedule posts, and track engagement across multiple social networks from your mobile device.
- Unified inbox for all messages
- Reply, assign tasks, and view history
- Post, schedule, queue, or draft messages
- Track post engagement metrics
- Notifications for new social messages
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The perfect companion app for Sprout Social so you can manage your social media anywhere. You must have a Sprout Social account to use this app. Sprout Social is a social media management and engagement platform that helps you manage your X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google My Business, and Tripadvisor profiles all in one place. Your favorite Sprout features are now available on the go: • See all of your messages in one place • Easily reply, view conversation history, and assign a task from a message • Quickly post, schedule, queue or draft a new message • View retweets, clicks, shares, replies and more for individual posts • Get notified of new social messages
HangTime
This app helps you coordinate plans with friends by sharing availability and creating events. It focuses on in-person interactions rather than a social media feed, allowing you to see when friends are free and easily schedule meetups. You can manage event privacy and integrate existing calendars.
- Share availability with friends
- Create and schedule events
- Manage event privacy settings
- Follow close friends
- Subscribe to external calendars
- Focus on in-person meetups
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HangTime is a calendar for your friends not a feed. No infinite scroll, no algorithm deciding who you see, no ads. Just a simple way to share when you're free, see when your friends are, and actually make plans to hang out. Share your availability. Set the hours you're generally around and let the friends you choose see them. No more "when are you free?" threads that go nowhere. Send a hang. See a friend's open afternoon? Send them a hang and lock in plans in a couple of taps. Make events, your way. Every event has its own privacy setting, keep it between you and one friend, open it to the people who follow you, or make it public. You decide who sees what. Follow the people who matter. Add your close friends, see their plans, and leave the noise out. No growth metrics, no pressure, no strangers in your replies. Bring your calendar with you. Subscribe to an existing calendar feed and keep everything in one place. HangTime is built on a simple idea: Taking the social off media. The conversation isn't under a photo, the social interaction isn't online, it's in person with your friends. We just want to help get you there. Let's hang.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HangTime at 100% against Sprout Social's 46%. HangTime also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Sprout Social's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 8). 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.
HangTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sprout Social has 1.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Sprout Social's written reviews are positive against 100% of HangTime's.
Sprout Social ships an update every 2 weeks, HangTime every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sprout Social | HangTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sprout Social, Inc. | GRT Tech LLC |
Customer experience
Sprout Social
HangTime
Bugs and requests
Sprout Social
Reported bugs
9 issues- Scheduled posts not showing up
- Inability to remove posts from the queue
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Certain messages not showing in Smart Inbox
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- Unable to download the app
- New update broke the app, can't view FB private messages
- Scheduled Instagram posts won't automatically open to their app
- Notifications greyed out and can't be edited
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to macro, translate comments/messages and change sentiment on a post
- More characters allowed, ability to post more than 4 pictures, post videos and pictures in the same post
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to crop from the app on your phone
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- Ability to edit through the app like you can on Instagram
- More robust notification system for Instagram video posting
- Ability to access reports on mobile
HangTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sprout Social
No in-app purchases
HangTime
No in-app purchases
