Pomolapse vs LockLapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
LockLapse
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | Pomolapse | LockLapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | ā |
| Ads | Yes | No ā better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Min Park | Adesia SRL |
In-app purchases
Pomolapse
- Pomolapse Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pomolapse Plus Lifetime$19.99
LockLapse
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99








