Comparison

FocusLapse vs GoalFeed

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

Head to head
About

FocusLapse

Record your study or work sessions as time-lapse videos. This app helps reduce phone distractions and provides a visual log of your effort. Review your progress with animated overlays and history tracking.

Highlights
  • Record study/work sessions as time-lapse videos
  • Animated analog clock overlay
  • Front and rear camera support
  • Adjustable video speed
  • Focus history and progress graphs
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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FocusLapse turns your study, work and reading sessions into time-lapse videos and a personal focus log. Set down your phone and start focusing. Recording yourself at work can help you stay with the task in front of you. Turn a long session into a short video, then look back and see the effort you put in. Features • Record time-lapse videos while you focus • Review your focus time in charts • Add a rating and a note to each session • Delete unwanted sessions and remove their time from your totals • Switch between front and rear cameras • Choose video orientation, clock design and study-time display before recording • Combine multiple time-lapse videos into one highlight video • Save finished videos to Photos • Check your focus time in a widget Keep a visual record of your study or work routine. You can share your finished videos through your usual social apps. Free to use, with no ads or account required. Videos, focus records, ratings and notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's servers. Available in Japanese, English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian and French. The app follows your device's preferred languages.

About

GoalFeed

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【GoalFeed - See Your Goals Moving Forward】 Have you ever felt like this? · You complete lots of todos every day, yet your long-term goals seem to make no real progress. · You make plenty of plans, only to abandon them halfway or forget about them entirely. · You stay busy all the time, but you're not sure whether you're actually moving toward your goals. · Your task list keeps growing, gradually becoming a source of stress and anxiety. Most Todo apps focus on one thing: Was the task completed? [Not Completed] → [Completed] GoalFeed focuses on something different: Is the goal moving forward? [Progress Today] → [Progress Today] → [No Progress Today] → [Progress Today] → ... → Completed! 【Record Progress, Not Just Check Off Tasks】 Long-term goals are rarely completed in a single day, whether it's finishing a book, building a product, learning a new skill, or improving your health. With GoalFeed, you can record how a goal progresses across different days. Even when a goal is not yet completed, you can still capture the actions, efforts, reflections, and progress you've made along the way. Because completion is the destination. Progress is the journey. 【AI-Powered Growth Review】 As your records grow over time, looking back becomes increasingly difficult. GoalFeed provides: · Visual Analytics Dashboard · Random Review Cards · Historical Search Helping you rediscover the progress and growth that are often overlooked. GoalFeed is not just another Todo List. It helps you record actions, capture reflections, and continuously review your journey, so you can see your long-term goals moving forward. Because many times, what people lack is not effort. It's the ability to see that they're making progress. User license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ User privacy policy: https://goalfeed.com.cn/privacy.html

Screenshots

FocusLapse4 screens
GoalFeed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusLapse at none against GoalFeed's 2. GoalFeed's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GoalFeed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. FocusLapse asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusLapse ships an update fortnightly, GoalFeed every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
FocusLapse versus GoalFeed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusLapseGoalFeed
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.515 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercocon Godo Kaisha俐 马

In-app purchases

None

FocusLapse

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

GoalFeed

Subscriptions2
  • GoalFeed Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • GoalFeed Pro Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is FocusLapse free?
FocusLapse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoalFeed free?
GoalFeed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusLapse or GoalFeed have ads?
Neither FocusLapse nor GoalFeed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusLapse or GoalFeed?
FocusLapse ships an update fortnightly, and GoalFeed every 4 days. Most recently, FocusLapse was updated on November 9, 2026 and GoalFeed on November 5, 2026.

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