Not impressed
This is a great attempt at a highly unusable app. Just full of typically trendy looking white people, very confusing features that have zero purpose other than manipulating you to invite friends to use it. At first I thought oh this is nostalgic of the early days of Instagram but after 1 week using this I’m actually done with wasting my time on a bunch of images that I will never see again
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Email access
I love the app but I despise the fact that it’s connected to your phone number only. Not only is it inconvenient if you lose that your number for whatever reason, but it’s not even secure because all it needs to do is send a text message to get access. Please fix this
Literally stop updating this
Each update this app has it gets worse and worse. I admire this app for the concept and I’ve used it for almost a year now. In the beginning they had music you could add to the month & I understand the rights issue screwed it up. I was sad but obviously excused it. What I can’t excuse is the way it adopted the “story” format. Let me see my friends. I could care less about random people. My friends and I have all talked about how each update makes you look like you don’t care about the user experience. What I want is to click on the month and see their month again. I don’t want to click on “all journaled”… are you kidding me? The music was one thing… but this is abhorrent honestly. Stop making the experience worse. People have been dropping off and it seems pointless. I can get my stuff put on the “main page” WHERE EVERYTHING IS NOW but what are the chances? “Influencers” shouldn’t be the main focus EVER. There’s more people out there who want a better user experience than there is people who are taking the “best photos”. Please change it back. Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and other apps already have this stupid format. I thought this app wanted to be different and I was wrong. Y’all need a better team seriously. The original was WAY better. So yea.. if you want to get this app for the “genuine” feature… think twice because they don’t care about you.
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Update ruined it
I wish we still had the option to put music on our page. We were promised it would be back but it hasn’t been for a while so I’m starting to think they removed that feature permanently. Also, I hate how the new feed is all about “influencers”, I downloaded this app because it was different and the algorithm showed me what I wanted to see which was what my friends would post. Now the main feed is filled with random people I don’t care about and my friends are only little stories at the top. Most of my friends stopped using this app for that reason and I might join them too, it’s getting to close to being like instagram or facebook with none of the good stuff. At least on instagram and Facebook I see what I actually want to see instead of random strangers that aren’t even in my area? Also, I rarely get people I know suggested to me now, I wish they’d bring back the old friend recommendation feature. Basically, this app ruined everything good about itself which was what made it stand out, and it turned into a even more boring version of every other social media that exists. I wish they’d completely scrap everything they did with this new update and went back to what they had before.
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Used to be one of my fave apps
I love LOVED this app until the new update. It reminded me of early instagram where it was just me and some close friends. I didn't think too hard about the pictures I took and it was actually a super fun way to have a form of social media that encouraged me to stay in the moment. I honestly preferred Lapse to BeReal because there was no time limit to post or anything like that. Lapse just had a genuine and intimate quality that I loved.
After the update I notice that I barely use the "social media" function of Lapse. Like tbqh I really don't care about seeing random photos from people I don't know. The appeal for me originally was having my own little community to share cool pictures with. I really dislike how my friends are shoved up to the top 'story' style. It just kinda ruins the original appeal of the app.
I didn't mind the old explore page. It was kinda cool to go though and see the most aesthetic pictures that got selected. Being able to submit and maybe make it to the explore page was kinda fun because it encouraged me to take some artsier pictures.
I still use this app to take pictures and use the album and recap features, but I feel way less connected to my little community of friends. To me that was the best part. I sincerely hope you guys consider working towards an update that is similar to the original format, something that prioritizes people's actual friends list.
After the update I notice that I barely use the "social media" function of Lapse. Like tbqh I really don't care about seeing random photos from people I don't know. The appeal for me originally was having my own little community to share cool pictures with. I really dislike how my friends are shoved up to the top 'story' style. It just kinda ruins the original appeal of the app.
I didn't mind the old explore page. It was kinda cool to go though and see the most aesthetic pictures that got selected. Being able to submit and maybe make it to the explore page was kinda fun because it encouraged me to take some artsier pictures.
I still use this app to take pictures and use the album and recap features, but I feel way less connected to my little community of friends. To me that was the best part. I sincerely hope you guys consider working towards an update that is similar to the original format, something that prioritizes people's actual friends list.
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New Update Ruined Everything I Liked About The App
Before the update, I loved this app. I had a small community of just close friends, no influencers, no businesses, none of the consumerism that TikTok and Instagram have become. I kept my friend group intentionally small so I only saw who I talk to on a regular basis. It was personal, relatively simplistic (setup was clunky, but I let it slide), and I loved the idea of sending emojis to my friends on posts I liked.
Post-update took away literally all of that. Now the Community is the primary feed and my friends are shoved into the top section as Stories that are timed like Instagram, so you don’t get to enjoy the post because it flips to the next picture too fast. I now see random people’s posts who aren’t even in my area of the world - the feed feels completely random. I don’t even use that section of the app anymore. I just take cute photos and don’t share them and just put them into albums. Don’t get me started on the forced watermark when screenshotting or exporting photos. Silly and stupid to push your branding onto people for free marketing. I’d rather use a different vintage film camera lens app with no social element than deal with this silliness.
It feels like the company got a new CEO or something because these features don’t feel like the old version of the app at all - it’s completely changed direction. Bad move imo.
Post-update took away literally all of that. Now the Community is the primary feed and my friends are shoved into the top section as Stories that are timed like Instagram, so you don’t get to enjoy the post because it flips to the next picture too fast. I now see random people’s posts who aren’t even in my area of the world - the feed feels completely random. I don’t even use that section of the app anymore. I just take cute photos and don’t share them and just put them into albums. Don’t get me started on the forced watermark when screenshotting or exporting photos. Silly and stupid to push your branding onto people for free marketing. I’d rather use a different vintage film camera lens app with no social element than deal with this silliness.
It feels like the company got a new CEO or something because these features don’t feel like the old version of the app at all - it’s completely changed direction. Bad move imo.
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Needs major improvement.
I love lapse don’t get me wrong, but there’s some features that are kind of … odd. When you make an account it plays a video that you cannot skip and that vibrates your phone with a loud audio. You must add and invite friends before you even are able to make an account which is not a smart move as I have not even seen the apps features yet! Maybe once I make an account I’ll be willing to do those features. Then it makes you add a widget to your phone screen(if you’re able)to be able to use the app which is also frustrating. I also cannot delete my birthday even though I have tried probably 20 times at this point… I really do enjoy being able to share my day to day life with those I know and love and I do enjoy seeing others post as well! It’s a really interesting concept and I really enjoy the purpose of the app and that it’s kind of a “digital diary.” I just wish the producers(idk the right term)would not make it this pushy. I will continue to use the app! I just hope to see improvements. I hope this helps someone!
- Kay
- Kay
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I use this app all the time but the new UI is not user friendly at all.
This is one of my favorite apps, love how the photo needs to develop before you can see it. I use this app almost daily & the filter is great. I loved Lapse until the new update changed the entire interface and now it’s so irritating to use. When you open up your feed, you’re forced to look at random people you don’t care about, rather than your friends pictures. Another thing, friends posts are now stories. Which is the worst update ever. This is not user centric at all and needs to be upGRADED back to where we can see our friends posts as actual posts & not stories. Please consider this review and the multiple other reviews complaining about the same thing. Don’t ruin your app like this. Many social media apps that become popular in a short amount of time mess up like this.. by changing their interface that is meant to act as an “upgrade” and “innovative”. These apps up losing their users and the app goes to complete garbage. Thanks that’s it. Please change this feature ASAP because you have a lot of users that love this app but now don’t like or use it as much because of this.
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Was fun at first
Really liked this at first but with the new update, it feels just like instagram all over again. I miss actually seeing my friends’ posts in the feed format, rather than seeing randomised community posts. It feels a bit clunky and as if it’s lost the very essence of why people are attracted to Lapse in the first place.
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Kinda obsessed
I really love this app so much. When I downloaded it, I really was expecting to be intrigued for a day and then forget about the app, but it’s actually so different and unique and FUN. This app makes me feel like a kid again who snapped everything and anything just because I had a camera in my hand. I love that it takes time to reveal the photos you took because it forces you to snap the picture, and then move on and be in the moment. You can’t look at the photo and add text or a filter or a song or nit pick what you don’t like and take it hundred more times. You just snap and move on and by the time they’ve developed you really only care to keep the good images and continue on with your day! I love that it’s a journal that showcases your life and organizes you’re wonderful moments in a beautiful way, instead of them getting lost in my phones camera roll mixed in with things that are not post worthy etc. I love the friend model instead of the followers. I love that lapse DOESNT notify you or have a list of anyone whose looked at your posts, I love only having my journal for my friends. It’s so special. The only change I would consider them making is, please change the emojis that I use to react to my friends photos, the last or most frequent ones that I choose, not you choosing for me. 💗💗💗 love lapse. 💗
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