Focus Labs vs LockLapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Labs
This app helps you visualize your study efforts by recording optional timelapses of your focus sessions. Track your progress, build consistency with streaks and badges, and connect with friends to share your achievements.
- Focus timer with customizable session lengths
- Optional timelapse recording of study sessions
- Personal history of completed sessions
- Streak tracking and achievement badges
- Social features to follow friends and share progress
- Privacy controls for session sharing
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Make your hard work visible. Focus Labs helps you start studying, capture your effort, and see your progress build. Set a focus timer, record an optional timelapse, and create a history of the sessions you showed up for. Whether you’re preparing for an exam, practicing a skill, or working through an assignment, give your next session a clear start. FOCUS YOUR WAY Choose your session length and get started. Use the timer on its own or turn on your camera to capture a timelapse. Optional Pomodoro-style breaks help structure your study time. SEE THE WORK YOU PUT IN Turn a long session into a short video you can look back on. Save your sessions in your personal history and watch your focused hours add up. BUILD YOUR CONSISTENCY Track your streak, review your activity, and earn badges as you reach milestones. Every session adds to your record of showing up. KEEP GOING WITH FRIENDS Follow classmates and study partners, share completed sessions, and encourage each other with reactions. Everyone studies on their own schedule—there’s no live call to join. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SHARE Sessions are private by default. Keep your progress for yourself or share a session with your followers. Timelapse recording is optional, with privacy blur available when you use it. Start a session. See your effort. Keep showing up.
LockLapse
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Labs at none against LockLapse's 2. Focus Labs also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. LockLapse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Focus Labs asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Focus Labs | LockLapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akash Shah | Adesia SRL |
In-app purchases
Focus Labs
No in-app purchases
LockLapse
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99









