Artlapse vs ReCapture App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
ReCapture App
This app uses augmented reality to guide your device back to the exact location where you previously took photos. This allows for seamless creation of time-lapse sequences without needing to keep your camera stationary.
- AR-guided location recall
- Time-lapse creation
- Frame alignment
- Free and ad-free
- Privacy-focused
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ReCapture helps guide your device back to the location of previously captured images so you can add frames to your time-lapse without leaving your camera fixed in one place. Capture time-lapse of subjects you pass by every day. ReCapture is the work of an academic lab at Cornell University. It is free, add-free, and we do not use or analyze any of your images or personal data. Based on the paper "ReCapture: AR-Guided Time-lapse Photography" UIST 2022, by Ruyu Yan, Jiatian Sun, Longxiulin Deng and Abe Davis. For more information, see the project website: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/abe/projects/recapture/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Artlapse at every 3 days against ReCapture App's every 2 weeks. ReCapture App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Artlapse against 5.0 for ReCapture App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Artlapse ships an update every 3 days, ReCapture App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artlapse | ReCapture App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | June Kim | Abe Davis |
Customer experience
Artlapse
ReCapture App
In-app purchases
Artlapse
No in-app purchases
ReCapture App
No in-app purchases
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