TimeLapsed vs Pocket Director

Time. Under your control. Turn passing clouds, a city after dark, aircraft and traffic into motion you can shape. TimeLapsed brings a professional timelapse camera, programmable capture and a powerful frame-blending engine to iPhone and iPad. Start with a profile. Go deeper when the shot demands it. SEE THE TRAILS BUILD Create star trails, rolling trails and comet tails in the live camera preview. Tune trail length, blending, glow and color while you shoot. Use Horizon Mask to keep sky trails off the foreground and Anchor Lock to help correct mounted-camera bumps. CONTROL EVERY DETAIL Set shutter, ISO, focus, white balance, interval and zoom. Keep recording time, exposure and device status visible in the HUD. Save camera profiles and use position recall to guide your framing back to a saved reference. Updated for iOS 27, with aperture controls on supported iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max lenses and Camera Control integration on supported iPhones. PROGRAM HOW THE SHOT EVOLVES Build camera automations with timed changes and smooth ramps for exposure, interval, color and trail effects. Rehearse your timeline before recording. Scheduled capture requires the camera to stay open in the foreground. CAPTURE NOW. BLEND LATER. Save an effects-free companion movie alongside your processed capture. Open a video in the editor, preview and tune a new blend, then render star trails or comet effects with the same engine. Import still-image sequences from other cameras through Photos or Files and turn them into timelapses. MAKE EVERY TAKE COUNT Pause and resume video recording, flip or mirror the camera, split clips and build a trip into a film. Edit speed, framing, color, titles and audio. Shoot and edit widescreen 16:9 as well as portrait video. Mark Moments to keep the right part of a recording, and save still frames from videos. CREATE IN REAL LIFE Place a framed, translucent reference image over the live camera view while you draw on real paper. Record the artwork taking shape. Explore tilt shift, simulated night vision and simulated thermal effects. KNOW WHERE. KNOW WHEN. Plan with the Sun, Moon and stars in Sky Planner. Find Dark Hours, explore light-pollution maps and Bortle panels, and get directions toward darker skies. Check weather radar and forecast-based rain alerts during your shoot. Air Traffic Watch adds aircraft data and predicted paths using your own flight-provider keys. BUILD YOUR CAMERA SETUP Preview and control capture from Apple Watch or another TimeLapsed device. Remote control also supports compatible Canon cameras. Connect supported external displays, USB-C microphones, Power Delivery hubs and external storage for a mounted recording setup. YOUR TIME. YOUR PROGRESS. Review capture history with exposure, white balance, weather, battery, CPU, memory and thermal-state statistics. Keep personal records or join the optional leaderboard. Discover and share videos, images, camera profiles and automations in the Community. Add music from the integrated catalog. Analyze Scene offers optional AI camera recommendations for you to review and apply. START FREE. GO FURTHER WITH PRO. The core camera, built-in profiles and watermarked 1080p exports are free. Advanced workflows, clean exports and additional planning tools require Pro. Watch preview and record controls are free; advanced Watch controls require Pro. Existing full-version owners keep lifetime Pro through Restore Purchases. Features depend on compatible hardware, accessories and service availability. Aircraft providers may charge for your own keys. Production Display has a separate license. Companion video is effects-free video, not sensor RAW. Thermal and night-vision effects are simulated. EULA / Terms of Service: https://shutterspeedapps.com/timelapsed/tos?language=en Privacy Policy: https://shutterspeedapps.com/timelapsed/privacy?language=en AI Usage Policy: https://shutterspeedapps.com/timelapsed/aiusage?language=en

Your iPhone's best camera is the one on the back — the one pointing away from you. Pocket Director puts that picture on any other screen you own, and puts the controls there too. Open a browser on a laptop, tablet or spare phone, scan the code on the iPhone's screen, and you are watching yourself while you film. There is nothing to install on that second device. If it has a browser, it works. FILM AND WATCH AT THE SAME TIME • A live view of what the camera sees, on any device on your Wi-Fi • Start and stop recording from across the room, with an optional 3, 5 or 10 second countdown • Elapsed time on screen, so you always know how long the take is • Tap anywhere on the picture to set focus there CHECK THE TAKE WITHOUT WALKING BACK • Open Recordings and every take is listed, with its size and when it was shot • Play any take back in the same browser window you are already watching in • Download one take, or all of them, to the device you are sitting at • Auto-download drops each take onto that device the moment you press stop • Delete a take you don't want, with a confirmation first A PROMPTER ON THE MONITOR SCREEN • Paste lyrics, a script or notes and they scroll while you film • Play, pause and a speed slider, so it moves at your pace • Drag it anywhere on the screen and resize it to suit your eyeline • It lives on the second screen only, and never appears in the recording • Your text and its position are remembered for next time LIGHT AND COLOUR YOU CAN SET BY HAND • Light: auto, plus presets such as daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent and shade • EV: brighten or darken the exposure yourself when auto gets it wrong • Lock exposure and lock colour, so the picture stops drifting mid-take • Flash on or off • Reset puts light, colour and EV back to automatic in one press THE REST OF THE CAMERA • Record in 720p, 1080p or 4K where your iPhone supports it — pick the quality before the take • Front or back camera • Zoom that is recorded into the file • Quality and camera side lock while a take is running, so nothing changes by accident MONITORING • Choose the preview size: larger for a laptop, smaller when the signal is weak • Turn the preview off entirely — recording carries on without it • Rotate the preview on your screen; the recording keeps its true orientation • Battery, heat status, free storage and recording time remaining, always on view • Move the control dock and the status panel wherever suits your screen PRIVACY THAT NEEDS NO EXPLAINING • No account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics • No internet required. Your own Wi-Fi is enough, and the iPhone's Personal Hotspot works with no data connection at all • The picture and the controls stay on your own network • Every device has to be approved by hand on the iPhone before it sees anything • Approvals last only while the app is open. Close it and every device is revoked • Recordings are saved on your iPhone in Files › Pocket Director and stay there WHAT YOU NEED • Both devices on the same Wi-Fi, or the second device joined to the iPhone's Personal Hotspot • A browser on that second device — Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge. • Pocket Director open on the iPhone while you film. iOS stops the camera when an app goes to the background, so if that happens the take is stopped and saved Made for anyone who has to be in front of the camera and behind it at the same time: musicians, teachers, makers, presenters, and anyone filming themselves with nobody else in the room. Found a problem? There is a Report a problem button inside the app.