Comparison

LapseForge vs TimeWarp

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

Head to head
About

LapseForge

Features
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LapseForge is the simplest and most powerful way to create time-lapse videos right from your iPhone. - High-quality capture: record every moment with clarity, adjusting resolution, enabling flash, and controlling zoom. - Project management: keep your sequences organized and easy to find, even exporting selected images as ZIP files when needed. - Full control: adjust capture intervals and final duration, and control recording remotely from your Apple Watch. - Export and share: save your creations and share them effortlessly. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced creator, LapseForge helps you transform the passage of time into unique stories.

About

TimeWarp

Create stunning timelapse videos by taking sequential photos of changing scenes. The app guides you to capture consistent frames and offers features like ghost overlays, smart reminders, and community sharing. Explore the world's transformations, one photo at a time.

Highlights
  • Ghost overlay for precise framing
  • Lens and zoom memory per spot
  • Smart capture reminders
  • Timelapse playback and export
  • Community warp points for shared projects
  • Bounty system for remote photo capture
Features
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WATCH THE WORLD TRANSFORM, ONE PHOTO AT A TIME Drop a pin at any spot: your front porch, a construction site, a growing garden, your favorite trail. Take a photo. Every time you return, TimeWarp reminds you and shows a ghost overlay of your last shot, so you line up the exact same frame. Then play it all back as a beautiful timelapse and watch your world change. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Use TimeWarp entirely on your own. No account required, nothing uploaded, every photo stays on your device. A personal time machine for the places you love. Want a safety net? An optional free account backs up your points and syncs them across your devices. BUILT FOR THE PERFECT MATCH β€’ Ghost overlay lines every new shot up with your last one β€’ Lens and zoom are remembered per spot, so every frame stays consistent β€’ Smart reminders, from hourly to yearly, nudge you at just the right time β€’ Play back, export, and share your timelapses as video TRACE THE SUN'S FIGURE-8 Photograph the sun from the same spot at the same time once a month, and TimeWarp stacks your shots into an analemma: the glowing figure-8 the sun draws across the sky over a year. Guided reminders and an AR sun finder help you catch each month's shot. A patient project with a stunning payoff. A TIMELAPSE CAPTURED BY MANY HANDS Publish a spot as a community warp point and let anyone nearby add their own frames: a shared, ever-growing record of a place, built by everyone who passes through. Explore community points around you on the map, add to the ones you visit, or create a private community just for family and friends. POST A BOUNTY. GET THE SHOT. Want to know what a place looks like right now (a trailhead, a surf break, a job site) but can't get there? Post a bounty and someone nearby will travel there and capture it for you. Or earn money fulfilling bounties around you. Every fulfillment is verified at the location by GPS, and photographers line up their shot to your reference, so you get real, current conditions, framed the way you asked. Photographers are paid through Stripe for their time and travel. Your places have stories. Start telling them.

Screenshots

LapseForge3 screens
TimeWarp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TimeWarp at every 5 days against LapseForge's every 2 months. TimeWarp also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LapseForge ships an update every 2 months, TimeWarp every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
LapseForge versus TimeWarp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLapseForgeTimeWarp
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationβ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS26.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size26 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeronimo Cabezuelo RuizBite Forest LLC

In-app purchases

None

LapseForge

No in-app purchases

None

TimeWarp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LapseForge free?
LapseForge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimeWarp free?
TimeWarp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LapseForge or TimeWarp have ads?
Neither LapseForge nor TimeWarp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LapseForge or TimeWarp?
LapseForge ships an update every 2 months, and TimeWarp every 5 days. Most recently, LapseForge was updated on September 20, 2026 and TimeWarp on August 7, 2026.

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