Comparison

Latent vs Tyma

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

Head to head
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

About

Tyma

Features
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Tyma is a simple, visually beautiful focus timer for iPhone. Pick a time. Start focusing. That's it. Tyma isn't a task manager, a calendar, a habit tracker, or an AI assistant — it's a timer that helps you begin and finish a block of focused work. It works entirely offline, with no account and no sign-up. • Live Activities & Dynamic Island — see and control your session without opening the app • Session history with daily and weekly focus patterns • Optional Hyper Focus mode — block distracting apps for the length of your session • Multiple visual themes No ads. No tracking. No account required.

Screenshots

Latent4 screens
Tyma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Latent at every 3 days against Tyma's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Latent ships an update every 3 days, Tyma weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Latent versus Tyma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLatentTyma
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (214 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings214 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeaive, Inc.Nicholas Boults

In-app purchases

None

Latent

No in-app purchases

None

Tyma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Latent free?
Latent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tyma free?
Tyma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Latent or Tyma have ads?
Neither Latent nor Tyma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Latent or Tyma?
Latent ships an update every 3 days, and Tyma weekly. Most recently, Latent was updated on November 5, 2026 and Tyma on October 31, 2026.

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