Comparison

Pomolapse vs LockLapse

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

Head to head
About

Pomolapse

This app combines a focus timer with a camera to create short timelapse videos of your study or work sessions. Choose from different focus methods and video styles, and optionally add a tracking emoji to cover your face. Review your focus history and unlock advanced features.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro and goal-based focus timers
  • Record with front or rear camera
  • Export 8s, 20s, or full-flow videos
  • Multiple video styles
  • Optional face-tracking emoji
  • Focus session history and insights
Features
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Turn an hour of focus into an 8-second film. Pomolapse combines a focus timer and camera to turn time spent studying, working, or creating into a short timelapse you can keep. Choose how you focus • Pomodoro cycles with focus, short breaks, and long breaks • Goal-based focus with a target time, pause, and overtime Turn focus into a film • Record with the front or rear camera • Export an 8-second, 20-second, or full-flow video • Choose Immersive, Record, Dial, and other video styles • Keep your goal, focus time, date, and one-line note in the result • Optionally cover your face with a tracking emoji • Save or share a finished video right away Records and Insights • Browse sessions by date with video-first thumbnails • Review focus time, active days, and completed Pomodoro cycles • Unlock detailed patterns and achievements with Plus The core focus, record, save, and share experience is free. Watch one rewarded ad to unlock advanced output for a record, or use Plus for ongoing ad-free access. Videos and focus records stay on your device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

LockLapse

Features
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Prop your phone against a book, hit start, and work. LockLapse films your desk as a timelapse and ends it with a card carrying the numbers, hours, streak, subject and date. The card is the part you post. It renders itself when you finish, so a three-hour block becomes a clip without an edit. Recording and the card are free. HOW IT WORKS • Name what you're working on and tap start. The phone sits there and you work. • The running clock is burned into the footage, so the number stays legible while the timelapse plays and survives whatever edit the clip goes through. • Finish, and the card renders onto the end of the video with your total time, day streak, subject, date and a still from your own desk. • Save it to your camera roll or share it straight out. BUILT FOR LONG SESSIONS • The sensor runs at 5fps and the screen dims to near-black after twenty seconds, because a long session is a heat and battery problem before it is anything else. • A phone call, a notification or a switch to another app closes the current segment to disk and keeps every frame already recorded. • Recording picks up again on its own once the interruption ends, so a session never sits paused waiting for a button. • Focus and white balance settle for two seconds and then lock, so hours of footage don't hunt or drift in colour. LOCKLAPSE PRO • Every session you record. Free keeps the last seven days. • Four card themes (Midnight, Ember, Forest, Tape). • Any accent colour, with the rest of the card built from the one you pick. • Your name signed on the card, and the LockLapse wordmark off. Yearly with a free week, or one payment for life. Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no upload, no analytics. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pomolapse4 screens
LockLapse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LockLapse at none against Pomolapse's shown. Pomolapse's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pomolapse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and LockLapse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
Pomolapse versus LockLapse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomolapseLockLapse
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMin ParkAdesia SRL

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pomolapse

Subscriptions1
  • Pomolapse Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pomolapse Plus Lifetime$19.99
2 purchases

LockLapse

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Pomolapse free?
Pomolapse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LockLapse free?
LockLapse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomolapse or LockLapse have ads?
Pomolapse shows ads; LockLapse does not.

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