Timelapse Helper vs Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timelapse Helper
This app assists timelapse photographers by calculating the necessary shooting time for a desired playback duration. It's a straightforward tool for planning your timelapse projects.
- Timelapse shooting time calculation
- Desired playback duration input
- Simple and straightforward interface
- Planning tool for timelapse projects
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The Timelapse Helper is a neat companion for anyone interested in timelapse photography. It's a simple app to help you calculate the shooting time needed to create timelapse footage of a desired playback duration.
Time
This app helps photographers and videographers plan time-lapse projects. It calculates essential settings like shutter interval, recording duration, and final video length based on your desired output and camera specifications. It also estimates storage needs for your media files.
- Calculate shutter interval, event duration, or target duration
- Supports standard NTSC, PAL, and film frame rates
- Memory card data estimator
- Copy inputs and results to clipboard
- Clean, intuitive interface
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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A quick and easy time-lapse calculator with three modes. The default mode allows you to determine the shutter interval (time between shots) that is required to achieve a desired video clip length for a given recording duration. The Time-lapse Calculator can also be set to calculate the necessary event duration (recording time) or target duration (video clip length) based on the other variables. Most time-lapse utilities only allow you to enter the recording duration and shutter interval. Then they calculate the duration of the video clip that would result. That is rarely useful. If you know how long you would like the final clip to be, your video frame rate, and how long you plan to continue capturing exposures to cover the event, then it is the shutter interval variable that you need to calculate. If you know what shutter interval you would like use and how long your video clip needs to be, it is the recording time that you need to calculate. In addition to the intervalometer functions, the Time-lapse Calculator estimates the memory card storage capacity that will be required for RAW or high-quality JPG image files, based on the megapixel count of your camera. Features: • Calculate shutter interval, event duration (recording time), or target duration (video clip length) • All standard NTSC, PAL, and film frame rates (FPS): 15, 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 59.94, 60, or 120 • Memory card data estimator • Home screen quick actions using 3D Touch: Shutter Interval, Event Duration, or Target Duration mode • Copy to Clipboard with one touch (inputs and results) • Maximum event duration (recording time): 999 days • Clean, intuitive interface is easy to use while offering features for professional photographers and videographers • Universal app for iPhone and iPad • Responsive layout optimized for all device sizes and models, from iPhone SE through iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, and iPad mini up to iPad Pro
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Timelapse Helper at Free against Time's $0.99. Time's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 8 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Timelapse Helper is free to download; Time costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Time holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Timelapse Helper's written reviews are positive against 86% of Time's.
Timelapse Helper ships an update every 8 months, Time every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timelapse Helper | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) | 4.5 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | sighmon | Dax Mackenzie Roggio |
Customer experience
Timelapse Helper
Time
In-app purchases
Timelapse Helper
No in-app purchases
Time
No in-app purchases
