Comparison

TimeWarp vs Stourk

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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 • 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.

About

Stourk

This app transforms your photo library into a visual journey across an illustrated atlas. It uses photo metadata to create animated routes, personalized postcards from visited cities, and passport stamps for countries. Save journeys as posters or videos to share.

Highlights
  • Photo metadata journey visualization
  • Illustrated atlas map
  • City-specific digital postcards
  • Country passport stamps
  • Journey saving as posters/videos
  • Private by design, no account needed
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Your photos already know where you have been. Stourk reads only the date and place stored with them and turns the whole collection into a journey: a stork carrying your memories across an illustrated atlas, city by city, year by year. WATCH THE JOURNEY Choose a year, or your whole life, and watch the places become a route. The map is a printed atlas, not a satellite view; the route is drawn as the shortest arc between the places your photos know. Scrub through it, jump to a moment, and see the photographs from that stop as you pass. THE POST Every city you stayed in writes to you. Its letter is addressed by hand, stamped with the city's own postage, and postmarked by the Stourk postal service. Tear one open and the city's own note comes out first, then the photographs from that city. THE PASSPORT Every country you entered is stamped into a passport: rubber ink, struck askew, dated. Turn the pages. Tilt your iPhone and the pages keep a surprise for you. THE CASE Journeys earn luggage labels. They stick to a suitcase you keep. KEEPSAKES Save a journey as a poster or a short film, and share it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Stourk has no account, no server and no analytics. It reads photo dates and locations on your iPhone, keeps what it builds there, and never uploads a photograph or a place. Your library is read-only to it. Clear the local data whenever you like; Stourk will not read your library again until you ask. The only network traffic is the map itself, vector tiles from OpenFreeMap with data from OpenStreetMap contributors, and, for a photo that lives only in iCloud, that photo from Apple. English and Turkish.

Screenshots

TimeWarp3 screens
Stourk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stourk at 100% against TimeWarp's 0%. Stourk also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). TimeWarp's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeWarp ships an update every 5 days, Stourk daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeWarp versus Stourk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeWarpStourk
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBite Forest LLCIBRAHIM KUCUKKAYA

Customer experience

TimeWarp

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

Stourk

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TimeWarp

No in-app purchases

None

Stourk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeWarp free?
TimeWarp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stourk free?
Stourk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeWarp or Stourk have ads?
Neither TimeWarp nor Stourk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeWarp or Stourk?
TimeWarp ships an update every 5 days, and Stourk daily. Most recently, TimeWarp was updated on October 8, 2026 and Stourk on October 16, 2026.

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