Comparison

FocusLapse vs LockLapse

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

LockLapse

Features
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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/

Screenshots

FocusLapse4 screens
LockLapse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusLapse at none against LockLapse's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. LockLapse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. FocusLapse asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FocusLapse versus LockLapse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusLapseLockLapse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercocon Godo KaishaAdesia SRL

In-app purchases

None

FocusLapse

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

LockLapse

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is FocusLapse free?
FocusLapse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LockLapse free?
LockLapse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusLapse or LockLapse have ads?
Neither FocusLapse nor LockLapse shows ads.

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