Comparison

Hammock Time vs Alani Surf

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

Head to head
About

Hammock Time

Features
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Hammock Time watches the weather and pings you when it’s good enough to get in the hammock. Pick Good, Great, or Perfect. Leave the app. That’s it. It follows your phone, or a hammock you pin. Rain is always a no. One ping when the weather crosses your bar, daytime only.

About

Alani Surf

Features
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Your life around the waves. Surf forecast, surf reports, swell, tides and wind for the breaks you surf. Alani Surf reads the buoys and the swell models, learns the sessions you rate highest, and tells you when to go. Then it keeps the rest of your surfing life in one place. KNOW WHEN TO GO Follow a break and Alani reads the buoys, swell models and tides against the sessions you rated highest there. When a morning lines up with your best ones, you get one quiet heads-up. No feed. No blast to everyone. THE REPORT, IN PLAIN WORDS Every break starts with a sentence, not a chart. Then faces in feet, swell, wind, water, wave power in kilojoules, tide, sunrise and sunset, a Best Time window, and seven days ahead hour by hour. WIND YOU CAN READ A wind chart coloured by what it does to the wave: offshore, glassy, cross or onshore, from sunrise to sunset. Clean windows spelled out. KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR SURFING LIFE Log the session while it is still fresh. Rate it 1 to 10. Conditions are already filled in. Add a line, a photo, where you stayed. Private by default. Share it with a few friends, your crew, or everyone. Over time the log becomes the breaks you have surfed, the trips you took and the sessions you still think about. TRAVEL BY THE BREAK Land somewhere new and start with the wave. From each break, find what surfers actually need nearby, measured from the water. Sip: independent coffee and juice, closest first. Stay: hotels, surf camps, hostels, yoga and recovery. Shop: surf shops, board rentals, ding repair and local shapers. Stoke: what is on tonight, from live music to a drink after dark. Pinned and rated by surfers who have been. Alani Approved means three of them stamped it. YOUR LINEUP Keep your crew close wherever you go. Share a session with a few friends, rally them when it is on, see where your people surfed. Secret spots stay secret. THE ETHOS Keep some things sacred. Share it your way. Call it like it is. Sponsored is always labelled. Stoke cannot be bought. Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. No passwords. Free for surfers.

Screenshots

Hammock Time3 screens
Alani Surf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Alani Surf at every 4 days against Hammock Time's fortnightly. Hammock Time's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hammock Time ships an update fortnightly, Alani Surf every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Hammock Time versus Alani Surf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHammock TimeAlani Surf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTAYLOR JACK RAINESbundleIQ, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Hammock Time

No in-app purchases

None

Alani Surf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hammock Time free?
Hammock Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alani Surf free?
Alani Surf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hammock Time or Alani Surf have ads?
Neither Hammock Time nor Alani Surf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hammock Time or Alani Surf?
Hammock Time ships an update fortnightly, and Alani Surf every 4 days. Most recently, Hammock Time was updated on October 29, 2026 and Alani Surf on November 10, 2026.

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