Comparison

Timelense vs fiammo

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

Head to head
About

Timelense

This app transforms physical postcards into interactive experiences. Send and receive personalized cards with exclusive AR content and video feeds. Customize your messages with images, emojis, and stickers for a unique way to connect.

Highlights
  • AR postcard content
  • Personalized video/photo feeds
  • Customizable postcard designs
  • Global postcard delivery
  • Private PenPals feature
  • Live photo and video compatibility
Features
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Capture and share moments in a meaningful, personal way. Timelense brings postcards to life with a sprinkle of magic (and a touch of AR). Send and receive physical postcards that contain exclusive content accessible via the Timelense app. Timelense postcards aren't just physical cards - there's more than meets the eye. If you want to take a closer look and have access to content created just for you, use the Lens within the app to scan the postcard. Send postcards easily - to anyone, anywhere, and at anytime. Customize every aspect of the postcard - bring it to life with images, emojis, stickers, and more! Create a personalized video and photo feed connected to each postcard - sharing stories of what you want with who you want. Don't feel like sharing your address? No worries! The PenPals feature keeps your information private while still allowing recipients to send a follow-up postcard to you. Key Features: - Compatible with live photos and videos - Image editing: high-quality filters, fonts, emojis, and stickers (no design experience required) - High-quality image resolution for printer-friendly designs - Free icons and illustrations included - Delivers to anywhere in the world

About

fiammo

This app offers a private space to share daily thoughts and reflections with a select group of friends. Posts are ephemeral, disappearing after a day, encouraging authentic expression. It facilitates intimate conversations through encrypted messages and a unique 'echo' feature.

Highlights
  • Daily writing prompts
  • Ephemeral posts
  • Private circles for sharing
  • Encrypted direct and group messages
  • Echoing feature for conversations
  • Personalized 'Catch up' reminders
  • Writing 'sky' visualization
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fiammo is a place to write something small every day, for the people you choose, and let it go. Each day there's a prompt. Answer it in a line or a page, or tap one of its options and say why. Write it as a post for your friends, or keep it to Just me, where only you can read it. On Saturdays the prompt asks how your week went, in two taps. A post burns after a while: it's there for a day, then it's gone, so what you write is for now, not for a record. Your friends are in circles you make, and every post goes to the circles you pick, or to a few people by name. A post is only public if you make it public. Add photos or a video, a voice note with its words beneath it, or the place you wrote it, and tag the friends who were there. Write on a day and your streak burns: a fire that grows the longer you keep it, with Puff, the ember, living at it. Miss a day and a match can relight it. Once you've answered the day's question, guess what one friend picked. You find out when their answer is in, and over time you see who knows you best. When something a friend wrote stays with you, echo it: choose the line, add a note if you like, and it goes to them as a message. Echoes are how conversations start here. Messages are encrypted end to end, one to one and in group chats. Only the people in a conversation can read it. Send photos, videos, voice notes, links with a preview, and reactions, and share a link from another app straight into a conversation. A message written without a connection sends when you're back. Open a conversation's details to see everything the two of you have shared, gathered by month. Discover is the public side: posts anyone chose to make public, and people you may know. A profile can point to where else someone writes. At the start of each month, fiammo offers you a dump of the last one: your photos, a few posts worth bringing back, and what you wrote about, for the circles you choose. A post of yours, even one that has burned, can go out as a link that lasts a day. Catch up is a private list of people you want to stay close to, with a reminder on a schedule you set, so keeping in touch isn't left to chance. Over time, your writing becomes a sky: a constellation read once a week from what you wrote, with a star for each thing you keep coming back to. Your profile keeps the month's writing at a glance, and turns over to show your fire. fiammo is for a small circle, not a crowd. Write for the people who matter to you, and let the rest burn.

Screenshots

Timelense4 screens
fiammo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: fiammo at every 4 days against Timelense's every 11 days. fiammo also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Timelense's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Timelense against 5.0 for fiammo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: fiammo has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timelense ships an update every 11 days, fiammo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timelense versus fiammo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelensefiammo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMathieu DutourCaleb Hung

Customer experience

Timelense

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

fiammo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Timelense

No in-app purchases

None

fiammo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timelense free?
Timelense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is fiammo free?
fiammo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Timelense or fiammo?
Timelense and fiammo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Timelense or fiammo have ads?
Neither Timelense nor fiammo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timelense or fiammo?
Timelense ships an update every 11 days, and fiammo every 4 days. Most recently, Timelense was updated on November 3, 2026 and fiammo on October 31, 2026.

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