Comparison

TimeLapse vs iMotion Pro

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

Head to head
About

TimeLapse

Create and edit professional time-lapse sequences on your mobile device. Capture stunning videos with advanced camera controls and a dedicated editor for frame-level adjustments, filters, and virtual pan/zoom.

Highlights
  • Flexible time-lapse camera setup
  • Record 4K video and RAW photos
  • Smart Exposure for flicker reduction
  • Frame-level time-lapse editor
  • Virtual pan and zoom capabilities
  • Powerful filter stack for adjustments
  • Tilt shift and deflicker effects
Features
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• One of the "coolest, best and most useful photo apps for the iPhone" David Pogue, NY Times, April 27, 2011 • "A must buy for any iPhone owning image sequence fan" - Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith, Digital Urban • "Neat! ... TimeLapse is fun." - Dave Caolo, TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) TimeLapse is the professional choice for creating and editing great time-lapse sequences on your iDevice. TimeLapse is the complete time-lapse workflow on the go. ======================== FEATURES Best in class time-lapse camera: • Flexible and easy to setup - define your capture session any way you like • Record 4K video (or HD) • Record RAW photos (or JPEG) • Smart Exposure ensures no time lapse flicker • Works with Motrr Galileo robotic motion control to create amazing pan and tilt time-lapse movies - find out more about Galileo at www.motrr.com Dedicated HD time-lapse sequence editor: • Frame level editing • Powerful framing capabilities for easy virtual pan and zoom • Powerful filter stack - saturation, brightness, contrast, exposure adjust, gamma adjust, vibrance, white point and more • Tilt shift • Deflicker to ensure a pristine final result ======================== TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY Time-lapse photography is a movie making technique that creates the illusion of time progressing more quickly - of time sped up. Common examples of time lapse movies are movies of clouds zipping across the sky, growing plants, blooming flowers, rotting fruit, etc. ======================== NEWS AND SUPPORT For updates, news and help for TimeLapse follow us on Twitter @xysternet Help TimeLapse improve! Many of TimeLapse's features are the result of thoughtful user feedback. Visit http://xyster.net/tlapse to share your ideas, post your videos or just say hi. If you love TimeLapse, don't forget to leave a review.

About

iMotion Pro

Create captivating time-lapse and stop-motion videos with an intuitive yet powerful tool. Enhance your stories, animate objects, and capture life's moments with professional rendering and easy sharing options.

Highlights
  • Time-lapse and stop-motion creation
  • Professional rendering
  • Easy video sharing
  • 4K UHD, 1080p & 720p exports
  • Multiple capture modes
  • Unlimited movie length
  • Add audio soundtracks
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Create your own time-lapse and stop-motion stories OR Your time-lapses and stop-motions (almost) like magic! OR Enhance your stories in minutes with time-lapse and stop-motion • Enhance your stories and make your photos real! • An intuitive app for professional rendering • A complete, fast, powerful and universal tool • To share your videos easily iMotion Pro is iMotion with "Full Version" In-App purchase included. # Where will iMotion take you? Time-lapse and stop-motion are everywhere: in the cinema, on television, on social networks… We cannot miss the charm of these fast and efficient stop-motion and time-lapse videos. They are now at your fingertips thanks to the iMotion app. Amaze your family by bringing precious memories to life, surprise your students with clear demonstrations, impress your customers by telling them a story, amaze your friends by bringing photos, landscapes and slices of life to life… only in a few minutes! With iMotion, the only limit is your imagination! # Is the iMotion app made for you? You are looking for a stop-motion / time-lapse app: • Simple and intuitive, • Powerful, offering a professional result, • With an unlimited number of photos and videos: never stop creating! • Offering the export of your videos directly to your photo library, your iTunes sharing folder, your email, your iOS apps and social networks, • Making you forget all the technical aspects: download, edit and publish, it's ready! • Without watermark or advertising, If you find yourself in one or more of this information, then iMotion is for you! # Inspiration: the only limit is your imagination! • Make your own animated films to entertain the whole family, • Simplify learning with a smooth, step-by-step tutorial, • Capture a landscape, a sunset, the colors of the sky or a memorable city, • Animate your favorite objects, your OOTD, your best recipes, • Freeze memories of your child growing up, • Immortalize the evolution of your pregnancy or your weight loss, • Compile your selfies for a fun effect… # Features: unleash your creativity, iMotion has thought of everything else! • 4K UHD, 1080p & 720p HD capture & exports • Universal binaries iPhone / iPad / iPodTouch • 5 capture modes (time-lapse, manual, microphone, wifi remote, photo library import) • Portrait (for Instagram and Tiktok) and landscape (for Youtube) orientations supported • Rear and front cameras supported • Flash light & camera zoom support • Onion skin support • Change camera settings (Manual Focus, Exposure & White balance) • Export: videos, photos and animated GIF to your Photo Library, iTunes Sharing Folder, Mail and iOS apps and social networks (Instagram, TikTok, Youtube…) • Unlimited movie length, even with the free version • Add audio soundtrack to your movie with iPod import, microphone and Files • Import multiple frames from your Photo Library • Export frames to your Documents folder while capturing • Export & import your movie project Download “iMotion Remote” app for free to preview and remote your capture from an other device iPhone/iPad/iPodtouch. # Watch movies made with iMotion Browse the iMotion gallery to see examples of videos made by iMotion users: http://www.youtube.com/imotionhdgallery # Who is behind Fingerlab? • Fingerlab is an independant mobile & desktop app publishing studio, based in Paris, France, founded in 2010. • We are indie developers and our goal is to create the greatest user experience for mobile devices. We are driven by our passions: music, photography and apps. • Fingerlab won the Apple Design Award in 2012 for its app "DM1-The Drum Machine", and all Fingerlab apps have been featured on the AppStore in multiple categories. Watch us : vimeo.com/​fingerlab Follow us : twitter.com/​fingerlab Powered by Fingerlab http://www.fingerlab.net

Screenshots

TimeLapse3 screens
iMotion Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iMotion Pro at 4.3 against TimeLapse's 2.1. iMotion Pro also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 12). TimeLapse's advantage is review sentiment (62% vs 32%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On 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

TimeLapse costs $4.99 and iMotion Pro $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iMotion Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iMotion Pro has 84 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of TimeLapse's written reviews are positive against 32% of iMotion Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeLapse ships an update fortnightly, iMotion Pro every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TimeLapse versus iMotion Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeLapseiMotion Pro
Price$4.99 — better$5.99
Rating2.1 (12 ratings)4.3 (84 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews — better31.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1284 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.3 — better12.2
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerxyster.net LLCSKETCHES SRL

Customer experience

TimeLapse

All ratings12 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews307 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral10.7%
Negative27.4%

iMotion Pro

All ratings84 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive31.7%
Neutral11.0%
Negative57.3%

User reviews

TimeLapse

From 12 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Excellent time-lapse quality
  • 💡 Useful presets and settings
  • 🔒 Ability to lock exposure and focus
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🔍 Difficult to set up long-term time-lapses
  • 🤔 Confusing or unintuitive interface changes
  • 🚫 Inability to export/save time-lapse videos

iMotion Pro

From 84 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for beginners
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 👍 Good for spontaneous stop motion
  • 👍 Works well for small projects
  • 👍 High quality video output

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashing
  • 🐛 Shaky and unprofessional videos
  • 🐛 Fuzzy picture quality
  • 🐛 Onion skin distorted
  • 🐛 Slow trigger time

Bugs and requests

TimeLapse

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when trying to save/export time-lapse videos
  • Inconsistent behavior with photo interval and duration settings
  • Issues with compatibility on newer iOS versions and devices
  • Problems with exposure and white balance adjustments

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to pause and resume time-lapses
  • Implement better handling of notifications and interruptions
  • Improve time-lapse video export and editing capabilities
  • Add support for higher frame rates and resolutions
  • Introduce a simpler, more streamlined interface option

iMotion Pro

Reported bugs

50 issues
  • Crashing all the time
  • Picture quality looks bad
  • Camera weirdly zoomed in
  • Sensitive to slight movements
  • Videos come out shaky
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  • Fuzzy thanks to weird zoom
  • Onion skin feature appears incorrectly distorted
  • Trigger time takes 5+ seconds
  • Bug on the first frame
  • First shot is reinterpreted
  • Onion skin stays on first frame
  • Edit menu does not work
  • Cannot playback video
  • Imported photos appear as a black screen
  • No way to save video in progress
  • No microphone option
  • Cannot see previous movies from iMotion
  • Drains battery rapidly
  • Phone overheats
  • App crashes every time it's opened
  • Cannot export pictures without restarting iPhone
  • Cannot use selfie camera
  • Description is misleading regarding HD quality with iMotion remote
  • Cannot access camera roll
  • Cannot resume a video
  • Resume button not present
  • App doesn't recognize camera
  • Capture button never shows
  • Controls aren't showing up
  • Controls missing after iOS 8 update
  • App freezes when device is turned landscape
  • App crashes every few hours
  • Low res uploads to Facebook
  • Resume feature gone
  • Tools missing after update
  • No music added
  • iMotion Remote app no longer working
  • Sound input is crippled
  • Gallery rejection emails are long and wordy
  • Blurs camera and zooms in
  • Pro version does a close-up and takes pictures off to the right
  • Audio screwed up on export
  • Kicks off app during filming
  • Super hard to resume filming
  • Restarts animation mid-way for like 4 seconds
  • Freezes in landscape
  • 1080p is not supported on iPad mini Retina display
  • No control buttons visible
  • Crashes since iOS 8 update
  • App doesn't open due to compatibility or bug

Requested features

11 requests
  • Import from files
  • Masking feature
  • Zoom feature
  • Manual exposure control
  • Expand photo import limit
Show 6 more
  • Selfie camera support
  • Duplicate frames
  • Dark mode support
  • Manual focus
  • Auto-exposure/auto-focus lock
  • Keep taking pictures during low battery notification

In-app purchases

None

TimeLapse

No in-app purchases

None

iMotion Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeLapse free?
TimeLapse costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iMotion Pro free?
iMotion Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TimeLapse or iMotion Pro?
iMotion Pro is rated higher. TimeLapse averages 2.1 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while iMotion Pro averages 4.3 from 84 ratings.
Do TimeLapse or iMotion Pro have ads?
Neither TimeLapse nor iMotion Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeLapse or iMotion Pro?
TimeLapse ships an update fortnightly, and iMotion Pro every 4 months. Most recently, TimeLapse was updated on October 13, 2026 and iMotion Pro on October 12, 2026.

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