Comparison

FocusLapse vs Latent

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
Read full description

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

Latent

This app creates short timelapse videos of your work or study sessions, making your effort visible and trackable. It helps build streaks and provides visual proof of your dedication, fostering accountability through social features.

Highlights
  • Automatic timelapse recording
  • Focus timer with Pomodoro support
  • Camera-off mode for pure timer use
  • Streak tracking and visual progress charts
  • Shareable session clips and stickers
  • Friend accountability and social feed
Read full description

Latent is a focus camera. Press record and it films an effortless timelapse of you doing your work, studying, building, practicing, then condenses it to about ten seconds. Tag the session, and it becomes a number. The number becomes a streak. The streak becomes a body of evidence that you showed up, again and again, when nobody made you. Most of what you do is invisible. The hours at the desk, the reps no one counts. And what's invisible starts to feel like it doesn't count. Latent makes your effort visible, first to the one person who has to believe it: you. THE FOCUS CAMERA - Press record and get to work. Latent films a battery- and storage-friendly timelapse of you while the app is open. Leave the app and the recording pauses. - Stopwatch, goal timer, or full Pomodoro with focus/break rounds. - Camera-off mode turns Latent into a pure focus timer. No camera, just the clock. - Every session ends with a duration you can see and a clip you can keep. PROOF YOU CAN SEE - Streaks, bar charts, and a heatmap of when you actually did the work. - A shareable sticker and video export for every session. WITNESSED EFFORT - Add friends who keep you honest. See their streaks and their comebacks. - A home feed of effort from people who matter. - Kudos, comments, and nudges for when a friend hasn't logged that day. Your sessions stay private to you until you choose to share them. Your becoming is already happening. Latent just lets you see it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms: https://trylatent.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://trylatent.co/privacy

Screenshots

FocusLapse4 screens
Latent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Latent at every 3 days against FocusLapse's fortnightly. Latent also leads on ratings volume (208 vs 8). FocusLapse's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FocusLapse against 4.9 for Latent. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Latent has 208 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of FocusLapse's written reviews are positive against 91% of Latent's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusLapse ships an update fortnightly, Latent every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FocusLapse versus Latent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusLapseLatent
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.9 (208 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.9% of reviews
Number of ratings8208 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercocon Godo KaishaWeaive, Inc.

Customer experience

FocusLapse

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Latent

All ratings203 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral0.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

None

FocusLapse

No in-app purchases

None

Latent

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FocusLapse free?
FocusLapse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Latent free?
Latent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FocusLapse or Latent?
FocusLapse is rated higher. FocusLapse averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Latent averages 4.9 from 208 ratings.
Do FocusLapse or Latent have ads?
Neither FocusLapse nor Latent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusLapse or Latent?
FocusLapse ships an update fortnightly, and Latent every 3 days. Most recently, FocusLapse was updated on October 30, 2026 and Latent on October 31, 2026.

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