Comparison

TimeWarp vs NaviFin

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

Head to head
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 โ€ข Ghost overlay lines every new shot up with your last one โ€ข Lens and zoom are remembered per spot, so every frame stays consistent โ€ข Smart reminders, from hourly to yearly, nudge you at just the right time โ€ข 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.

About

NaviFin

A premium, native client for your Jellyfin media server, offering seamless playback of all formats across Apple devices. Enjoy advanced features like subtitle selection, skip intro, and offline downloads.

Highlights
  • Hybrid playback engine (AVPlayer & VLC)
  • Subtitle, audio track, and playback speed selection
  • Skip Intro and Skip Credits
  • Offline downloads
  • Live TV with EPG guide
  • SyncPlay for synchronized viewing
Features
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NaviFin is a native client for your own Jellyfin server, built separately for Apple TV, Mac, iPad and iPhone. It is video first, it plays what your library actually holds, and it asks nothing of you beyond your server address. PLAYS ANYTHING A hybrid engine pairs Apple's AVPlayer for pristine native playback with VLC for the exotic formats Jellyfin libraries are full of. MKV, HEVC, surround audio, embedded and external subtitles: NaviFin picks the right engine automatically so you just press play. PROFILES FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE Choose who is watching when the app opens, the way a television app should. Give every profile a face from sixteen built-in designs, or keep the picture already on your Jellyfin account. Pictures are stored on your server, so every device shows the same one, and a PIN can keep a profile to itself. Switching between people takes one tap and no password. EVERYWHERE YOU WATCH One purchase covers a true ecosystem app: - Apple TV: a cinematic home with Continue Watching, Top Shelf, and a focus-native interface. - Mac: a single-window app with a glass sidebar, in-window playback, keyboard shortcuts, and offline downloads. - iPad and iPhone: an adaptive layout, Picture in Picture, AirPlay, and offline downloads. MORE THAN A PLAYER - Subtitle, audio track, and playback speed selection in the player. - Skip Intro and Skip Credits, Next Up auto-advance, and trickplay scrubbing. - Music: a full audio player with system Now Playing, lock screen, and background playback. - Live TV with an EPG guide, channels, and recordings. - Offline downloads on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with watch-state sync back to your server. - Home Screen and Mac widgets. - SyncPlay: watch together, in sync, across devices. - Kids Mode: a per-profile rating ceiling with a PIN to leave it. YOURS, AND PRIVATE NaviFin talks only to the Jellyfin server you point it at. No accounts with us, no tracking, no ads. It handles real-world setups: reverse proxies, custom access headers, mutual TLS, and self-signed servers on your own LAN. One time price. No subscription. No in-app purchases. NaviFin is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Jellyfin project. A Jellyfin server is required.

Screenshots

TimeWarp3 screens
NaviFin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NaviFin at 83% against TimeWarp's 0%. TimeWarp's advantage is price (Free vs $6.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

TimeWarp is free to download; NaviFin costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeWarp ships an update every 5 days, NaviFin every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
TimeWarp versus NaviFin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeWarpNaviFin
PriceFree โ€” better$6.99
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews โ€” better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree โ€” betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV โ€” better
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBite Forest LLCNenad Jokic

Customer experience

TimeWarp

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

NaviFin

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

TimeWarp

No in-app purchases

None

NaviFin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeWarp free?
TimeWarp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NaviFin free?
NaviFin costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeWarp or NaviFin have ads?
Neither TimeWarp nor NaviFin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeWarp or NaviFin?
TimeWarp ships an update every 5 days, and NaviFin every 6 days. Most recently, TimeWarp was updated on October 8, 2026 and NaviFin on October 25, 2026.

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