Comparison

Comicscope vs TimeWarp

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

Head to head
About

Comicscope

Transform your photos and videos into comic book panels. Arrange them into pages and albums, add text, and export your creations. Offers a unique live camera filter and a playful, intuitive design for storytelling.

Highlights
  • Live, comics-style camera filter
  • Arrange panels into albums and pages
  • Add text and captions to panels
  • Automatic location and date filling
  • Export at mobile or print resolution
  • Original graphics technology, no AI filters
Features
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Comicscope frames the world in panels, live in the viewfinder. Part sketchbook, part graphic novel. Shoot or import, arrange your layout, and add text: a caption, a line of dialogue, a full narrative. Every panel builds the bigger picture—a story, a journal, an album for anything. Share a panel or page whenever you like. • Live, comics-style camera filter • Arrange panels into albums and pages • Panels for text, location, and date; location and date fill in automatically • Export at mobile or print resolution • No generative AI filters: Original graphics technology • Custom font based on the author’s wife’s handwriting • No account, no servers: Runs on your iPhone • Playful & intuitive design COMICSCOPE FREE Free to use all major features. Create up to three albums. Exported images are small and carry a watermark. COMICSCOPE UNLIMITED One In-App Purchase (or subscription) unlocks everything: • No watermarks • Export your original, unfiltered photos • Auto-save shots to your Photos library • High-resolution export • Back up albums to iCloud Drive • Unlimited albums that you can lock, export, import, and set as your default Screenshots include paid features. Privacy Policy: https://www.tinrocket.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.tinrocket.com/terms (Comicscope was previously known as Serialbox; the name changed in October, 2026)

About

TimeWarp

Create stunning timelapse videos by taking sequential photos of changing scenes. The app guides you to capture consistent frames and offers features like ghost overlays, smart reminders, and community sharing. Explore the world's transformations, one photo at a time.

Highlights
  • Ghost overlay for precise framing
  • Lens and zoom memory per spot
  • Smart capture reminders
  • Timelapse playback and export
  • Community warp points for shared projects
  • Bounty system for remote photo capture
Features
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WATCH THE WORLD TRANSFORM, ONE PHOTO AT A TIME Drop a pin at any spot: your front porch, a construction site, a growing garden, your favorite trail. Take a photo. Every time you return, TimeWarp reminds you and shows a ghost overlay of your last shot, so you line up the exact same frame. Then play it all back as a beautiful timelapse and watch your world change. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Use TimeWarp entirely on your own. No account required, nothing uploaded, every photo stays on your device. A personal time machine for the places you love. Want a safety net? An optional free account backs up your points and syncs them across your devices. BUILT FOR THE PERFECT MATCH • Ghost overlay lines every new shot up with your last one • Lens and zoom are remembered per spot, so every frame stays consistent • Smart reminders, from hourly to yearly, nudge you at just the right time • Play back, export, and share your timelapses as video TRACE THE SUN'S FIGURE-8 Photograph the sun from the same spot at the same time once a month, and TimeWarp stacks your shots into an analemma: the glowing figure-8 the sun draws across the sky over a year. Guided reminders and an AR sun finder help you catch each month's shot. A patient project with a stunning payoff. A TIMELAPSE CAPTURED BY MANY HANDS Publish a spot as a community warp point and let anyone nearby add their own frames: a shared, ever-growing record of a place, built by everyone who passes through. Explore community points around you on the map, add to the ones you visit, or create a private community just for family and friends. POST A BOUNTY. GET THE SHOT. Want to know what a place looks like right now (a trailhead, a surf break, a job site) but can't get there? Post a bounty and someone nearby will travel there and capture it for you. Or earn money fulfilling bounties around you. Every fulfillment is verified at the location by GPS, and photographers line up their shot to your reference, so you get real, current conditions, framed the way you asked. Photographers are paid through Stripe for their time and travel. Your places have stories. Start telling them.

Screenshots

Comicscope4 screens
TimeWarp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeWarp at none against Comicscope's 3. TimeWarp also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Comicscope sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. TimeWarp asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Comicscope ships an update every 4 days, TimeWarp every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Comicscope versus TimeWarp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComicscopeTimeWarp
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinrocket, LLCBite Forest LLC

Customer experience

Comicscope

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TimeWarp

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Comicscope

Subscriptions2
  • Serialbox Unlimited (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Serialbox Unlimited (Yearly)$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Comicscope Unlimited (Lifetime)$19.99
None

TimeWarp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Comicscope free?
Comicscope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeWarp free?
TimeWarp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Comicscope or TimeWarp have ads?
Neither Comicscope nor TimeWarp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Comicscope or TimeWarp?
Comicscope ships an update every 4 days, and TimeWarp every 5 days. Most recently, Comicscope was updated on October 31, 2026 and TimeWarp on October 8, 2026.

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