FocusLapse vs Raid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Raid
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Raid turns a study session into a train ride you take with other people. Choose how long you want to focus, invite your friends with a six letter boarding code, and depart together. The journey runs on a live map, everyone watches the same countdown, and the whole crew arrives at the same station. RIDE TOGETHER Host a ride and share a boarding code, or invite friends directly from the app. Everyone sees the same route, the same clock and the same arrival. Rest stops are built into longer journeys, so a break is part of the timetable rather than a failure. TALK IN THE CABIN Every ride has a cabin chat, plus a live voice line you can join with one tap. Audio only, never recorded. CREWS AND THE WORLD BOARD Name a crew, share its code and climb a crew board that only counts rides you took together. A world board ranks every rider, and only minutes with your doors locked count. Climb the rank ladder from Passenger upward and unlock new travelcard designs. Watch live trains cross your city's map while other riders are out. LOCK THE DOORS Pick the apps that distract you and seal them for the length of a ride. The selection is made in Apple's own picker and never leaves your iPhone. Slipping into a sealed app is always possible, but it costs the train time, and your crew sees the delay. KEEP WHAT YOU EARN Every arrival prints a ticket stub recording the route, the train, your seat and the people you rode with. Longer journeys print on rarer stock. Locomotives in the depot are unlocked by the distance you travel, never by payment. PLAN AHEAD Schedule departures with friends for later in the day or the week. Build a timetable you actually keep, and watch your streak and total distance grow. Raid is free to download. First Class and Supervision Passes are optional auto-renewable subscriptions. Focusing is easier when somebody is waiting for you at the other end. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thera1d.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Raid at 16.4 against FocusLapse's 18.5. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FocusLapse ships an update fortnightly, Raid every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusLapse | Raid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | cocon Godo Kaisha | Minmi Kim |
In-app purchases
FocusLapse
No in-app purchases
Raid
No in-app purchases









