Comparison

LapseIn vs Latent

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

Head to head
About

LapseIn

Features
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OCUS. RECORD. LOOK BACK. LapseIn turns your focus sessions into time-lapse videos. Start a timer, point your camera at your workspace, and get to work. When the session ends, edit your time-lapse with customizable overlays for your focus time, goals, streaks, and progress. Save the video in LapseIn, export it, share it, or keep only a session log when you don’t want to store a video. CHALLENGE A FRIEND Send a friend a focus challenge and work toward a time goal together. Challenges share your session time and progress without sharing your video. BUILD GOALS AND STREAKS Create goals, track your daily focus time, and build streaks as you make progress. STAY ACCOUNTABLE Add friends as accountability partners, share 24-hour Stories, and follow people whose progress motivates you. JOIN STUDY ROOMS Focus alongside others in live study rooms, follow the leaderboard, and celebrate milestones together. CREATE AND SHARE RECAPS Turn your sessions into daily, weekly, or goal recap videos. Share sessions to Stories or your Feed, or export your recaps to other apps. YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR CHOICE Videos saved in LapseIn stay on your device unless you choose to share them. Delete individual Stories, Feed posts, saved recaps, or your account from the app at any time. Terms of Use: https://lapsein.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://lapsein.com/privacy

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
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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

LapseIn4 screens
Latent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Latent at none against LapseIn's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. LapseIn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Latent asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LapseIn ships an update every 2 days, Latent every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LapseIn versus Latent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLapseInLatent
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (203 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—90.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—203 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB77 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJOSE DANIEL CANTU CANTUWeaive, Inc.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LapseIn

Subscriptions2
  • LockIn Pro$4.991 Month
  • LockIn Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Latent

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LapseIn free?
LapseIn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Latent free?
Latent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LapseIn or Latent have ads?
Neither LapseIn nor Latent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LapseIn or Latent?
LapseIn ships an update every 2 days, and Latent every 3 days. Most recently, LapseIn was updated on October 25, 2026 and Latent on October 29, 2026.

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