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 track your progress with detailed insights. The core features are free, with optional upgrades for advanced functionality.
- 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
- Session browsing and insights
- Achievements and patterns with Plus
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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 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 3 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 | 85.7% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 5 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 | 62 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Min Park | Adesia SRL |
In-app purchases
Pomolapse
- Pomolapse Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pomolapse Plus Annual1 Year trial$19.991 Year
- Pomolapse Plus Lifetime$39.99
LockLapse
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99








