iSky vs Artlapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSky
Transform your surroundings into living art using your device's camera. Experience the world through the styles of famous paintings in real-time. Pause, play, and share your artistic creations with others.
- Real-time neural network style transfer
- 5 famous painting styles
- Live video pause and play
- Share creations
- Tap to change styles
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iSky provides you a window into the world through the eyes of 5 different paintings: Van Gogh's Starry Night, Mosaic, Leonid Afremov's Rain Princess, Natasha Westcoat's Candie and Francis Picabia's Udnie. The app uses your iOS device rear camera, and applies realtime neural network style transfer of the camera scene. Neural networks are trained in PyTorch, and transferred to Apple's CoreML via an ONNX intermediary. Please note that performance may be slower on older Apple devices. - Tap the screen to alternate between 5 different painting styles. - Pause and Play live video. - Share with with everyone using the share button! Turn your world into art, and share it with the world!
Artlapse
Record your artistic process with this app, capturing brushstrokes at set intervals to create smooth timelapse videos. It intelligently detects motion to ensure your recordings are always engaging.
- Timelapse recording for art
- Customizable recording intervals
- Adjustable recording duration
- Motion detection for engaging clips
- Smooth video compilation
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Artlapse is the ultimate Timelapse recording app for artists. It captures your brushstrokes at a specified interval for a specified duration. The clips are then combined to create a stunning Timelapse video that doesn't jank like the regular Timelapse feature on the camera. It can even detect motion in the image so that it always shows something interesting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Artlapse at 5.0 against iSky's 3.7. iSky's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Artlapse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSky | Artlapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Ultralytics LLC | June Kim |
Customer experience
iSky
Artlapse
In-app purchases
iSky
No in-app purchases
Artlapse
No in-app purchases
