Lapse - Disposable Camera App Reviews

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Amazing App Before The Update. I really loved Lapse and brought so many friends to download it before. I would have rated it a 5/5 before the update because it was centered around sharing with friends, helped create lovely pictures and was easy to use. However after this update it has taken the focus out of sharing with friends and instead shows friends pictures almost like “stories” on the top of the screen, while your main feed is “community”: pictures from random people you don’t know and have no control over how to filter. It really feels like the whole purpose of the app, to share creative in-the-moment pictures with friends has taken a backseat with this update. At least let us be able to pick if we want to see the friends updates or community feed as the main feed. Maybe give us the choice to switch back and forth and have some say over which one is our main feed, the way TikTok has a “Following” vs “For You” tab and Instagram has an “Explore Page” separate from the home feed. Some minor tweaks would make it an amazing platform again.

Fix your app. First off I wanna the concept and idea of the app is real cute and I can see the potential of using this app for cute photos. Now all that being said, why do I have to add like 10 people just to get the app running like I don’t wanna add random people or people I don’t like as my friends on here, like why do I have to go through all these things before I have to use the app, like yes I get understanding how to navigate and use the functions of it, but it’s doing too much with having to share it with other people, secondly there are so many bugs with app, like deleting or editing your photos they won’t fix or they don’t function right when you try to edit, thirdly, I don’t like how when you archive photos when they develop you can’t post them later if you decide to, like what if I don’t feel like posting it till later, and if I archive it I won’t be able to post it when I feel like it, and how do I even save my photos if I wanna keep them in my own camera roll, anyways I do like the app but there is too many bugs and required things that y’all are asking for that makes this app too much, fix it, thank you♥️

Needs major improvement.. I love lapse don’t get me wrong, but there’s some features that are kind of … odd. When you make an account it plays a video that you cannot skip and that vibrates your phone with a loud audio. You must add and invite friends before you even are able to make an account which is not a smart move as I have not even seen the apps features yet! Maybe once I make an account I’ll be willing to do those features. Then it makes you add a widget to your phone screen(if you’re able)to be able to use the app which is also frustrating. I also cannot delete my birthday even though I have tried probably 20 times at this point… I really do enjoy being able to share my day to day life with those I know and love and I do enjoy seeing others post as well! It’s a really interesting concept and I really enjoy the purpose of the app and that it’s kind of a “digital diary.” I just wish the producers(idk the right term)would not make it this pushy. I will continue to use the app! I just hope to see improvements. I hope this helps someone! - Kay

Super pushy.. Signed up because I got an invite from a friend, and instantly my phone was taken over by the app. This is slight hyperbole, but the point is I felt like I was opening a video game app as my phone started playing a video and vibrating. Then as you try to go through the sign up, they push you over and over again to “invite five friends!!!!! Find five friends!!!!! INVITE 5 FRIENDS.” You can skip this step but ONLY by hitting the help button, otherwise they do not give you the option to skip inviting people. Then it forces you to take a snap immediately? I was using the bathroom at the time so it was super weird for me. Then if you try to fill out your profile at all it also forces you to upload like 3 snaps or you don’t get to update any info on your profile? So you literally have to add snaps before you can finish setting up your profile. It’s just super pushy and annoying truly. Like please let me take this at my own pace or I’m just going to delete the app and never try it again. ***edit*** I still find their tactics annoying, but I’m getting more into the swing of using the app? It’s really annoying that I’ll try to post every day though and they still won’t give me the lab tools. Like I share and it says “shared 4 out of 5 days out of 7” and I’ll share the next day too and it’ll say “shared 4 days out of 5 out of 7” like wow okay cool so posting regularly doesn’t even work half the time.

The update 😩. I’m giving the app 5 stars so y’all can actually see my review. I got lapse a few months ago and have absolutely loved it ever since. One of my favorite apps because I felt like everyone could post a lot and not be judged for posting a lot you know. Plus it would take really nice pictures and I loved seeing my friends posts. But recently all my friends lapse has updated and the posts show up like stories with a big community tab under. I had not updated my phone so that my app would not look like that but this morning when I opened it it was updated. You don’t scroll to see new posts anymore, you have to individually go through everyone stories and I really miss the old form. The new look just ruined the whole vibe of the app. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE return the app to its original design. I really loved the app how it was. It truly was a five star app up until the update.

Cool app, but…. It’s funny when you screenshot, the cat police shines thru. The app is a bit confusing, but still getting used to. I do like that we get to wait patiently for the pics to develop, but I don’t like that when I post on my Instagram, the logo shows. I don’t want other people knowing that I’m on a new app w/ constant suggested friends. This app is perfect for introverts, but I prefer having a small group of friends knowing about my life, rather than acquaintances who just wanna know wassup. It’s a bit annoying that I had to invite 5 friends in order to see my friends’/family’s feeds, & trying to take out the logo, with a 9:3 photo/edit the photo before uploading to my camera roll just to invite 3 friends. Which I get, Lapse is promoting themselves to be out there. Also, when I archived all my photos last Thursday, I thought I was able to share them later so that it can be posted on my feed, but no one saw the day off I was enjoying. So I put it in my album for people to see & even posted a status for people to look at it, but I didn’t get any emoji reactions, which defeats the purpose since they’re pretty much like “Likes.”

Love this app but— Music!!. I absolutely adore Lapse. Their mission to live in the moment has been effective in my life. I had to delete insta bc I had a reels addiction and def can’t go back to tik tok for the same reasons— and Facebook is well… Facebook. But Lapse is solely just connection and typically intimate moments and core memories. The vintage look, the flash photography, the memory books. I especially love waiting for them to develop. It keeps the sacredness of the moment. 🤍 And one of my absolute favorite parts of Lapse is adding m u s i c to the albums! I am a music junkee— and adding a soundtrack to some of my favorite memories?! Otherworldly experience for a music lover. And I know I know- you guys are working on it— but in case there’s any question to if the music is important or not? I just wanted to vote in and say it’s a game changer. And when you guys bring it back.. maybe we could choose the part of the song we want? Cuz that would be cool, cuz sometimes it’s the right song and the part is just… not it lol. But yeah. Love lapse.

Designed beautifully. The graphics and the intro was dope - it felt like a party in my hand. Starting with my biggest con (hoping the app creators see this lol) but the watermark on the developed photos is too big. I love the film look and would want to share it on different platforms like Instagram, or even share it with friends, but the watermark logo with the logo is too big and right in the center that I’m less inclined to share it or save it on my phone. I just use other apps to get the same look when thinking of sharing the photo. I’d love to use Lapse’s saved photo but that logo watermark is not it for me. On the positives, posting photos is so easy and I like the notification that my photos have “developed” so that I can share my pictures. I also LOVE the widget on the Lock Screen that makes it SO EASY to immediately take a photo. Makes me more inclined to use the app and I use it every day!! (I’m a person who rarely takes photo to begin with.)

Used to be one of my fave apps. I love LOVED this app until the new update. It reminded me of early instagram where it was just me and some close friends. I didn't think too hard about the pictures I took and it was actually a super fun way to have a form of social media that encouraged me to stay in the moment. I honestly preferred Lapse to BeReal because there was no time limit to post or anything like that. Lapse just had a genuine and intimate quality that I loved. After the update I notice that I barely use the "social media" function of Lapse. Like tbqh I really don't care about seeing random photos from people I don't know. The appeal for me originally was having my own little community to share cool pictures with. I really dislike how my friends are shoved up to the top 'story' style. It just kinda ruins the original appeal of the app. I didn't mind the old explore page. It was kinda cool to go though and see the most aesthetic pictures that got selected. Being able to submit and maybe make it to the explore page was kinda fun because it encouraged me to take some artsier pictures. I still use this app to take pictures and use the album and recap features, but I feel way less connected to my little community of friends. To me that was the best part. I sincerely hope you guys consider working towards an update that is similar to the original format, something that prioritizes people's actual friends list.

The best social app to come out in a WHILE. Listen, I think all of us (or at least a lot of us!) are completely exhausted with the facade of Instagram and endless scrolling on Tiktok. We want to go back to what Instagram used to offer, sharing timeless and innocent photos of friends or cats of flowers or coffee, or really anything that brings you joy without the pressure of likes, views, engagement etc. A few apps have come out and tried to capture this (like BeReal) but even those end up turning into a competition of trying to grab the coolest moment of your day. But what about all the little in betweens? A cute little bug you see on the road or a leaf that’s shaped like a heart. There’s no place for little moments like that other than staying in your camera roll or maybe texting a friend. My sister recommended me this app and honestly I was pretty skeptical at first (especially since my work is in social media and I don’t need another app to mentally drain me), but this one is truly a piece of joy amongst all the chaos. I only have 7 friends on the app so far (and I like it that way). I love being able to share anything I feel inspired to capture, having to wait to see the photos so I don’t get that instant hit of dopamine, plus seeing the little glimpses of beauty in other peoples day. I hope I continue using this app and I hope it catches on, because so far - it’s really been refreshing and pleasant to use :)

Great App only 1 Concern!. I absolutely love this app. I saw a friend using it and immediately went to download it. I think the look of film is beautiful and make pictures much more interesting and detailed. I’ve sent it to several of my friends and they have all downloaded it and loved it as well. My only concern is how during setup you get stuck until you add 10 friends and share the app with 3 people. For me that wasn’t an issue, but a lot of people I’ve sent the app to it has become an issue because they either don’t have 10 friends using the app to be able to add or don’t have anyone new to send the app to. I think the app shouldn’t require people add that many friends or share it with that many people as it can cause some users to be unable to use the app altogether if they do not have enough friends to connect with. Hoping in a future update this gets fixed! Other than that I’m very much enjoying this app and love showing it to friends and family :)

Good in theory. I’m honestly not a social media type of person. A few of my friends sent me the link to join this and I figured why not so I did. The process to get an account is a little aggressive and was a really lengthy process. The idea of it seems really good and I like the idea and the layout. Originally when I made my account I only chose 4 pictures because I didn’t really know what the pictures would be for. I ended up decided I wanted to change them and it will NOT load. I’ve tried to refresh it multiple times and I’ve tried to use it on different internet sources and use my own cell service but it’s not working. I also wish you could zoom in more in the apps before you take the picture. Honestly if those issues were fixed it would probably be a 5 star. My only problems are the challenges to change journal pictures, how long the process to join the app is, and not being able to farther zoom in. But it is a cute app with potential.

“friends not followers?” what happened?. i loved Lapse and used it religiously. the idea of “friends not followers” really resonated with me as i’ve moved away from a lot of social media over the years. their recent change to highlight “community” (read: strangers) posts and force my friends’ posts into a hidden, small “story” like instagram or snapchat is so extremely disappointing. i don’t need another instagram or snapchat. i wanted something fresh and new and different. i used to open Lapse and was greeted by adorable snapshots from my friends’ lives. now my Lapse home page is people i don’t know with captions begging for “vibes.” how does this fit the vision you promised us even a little? for weeks, i held out hope that they would listen to their long-time users’ feedback, but they confirmed on their instagram recently that they are not going to change it back to the way it was. i mean that’s fine - it’s their prerogative, obviously - but i’m not gonna use another stupid follower- (in this case ViBeS) obsessed social media. i’m out.

So much potential. This app has so much potential. It really pulls you in with the intro video and the synchronized haptic feedback that goes along with it. I love that it feels like old school MySpace meets old Facebook and Instagram. Having to wait for photos to develop really keeps you in the moment as well. However there are a few areas where it falls short. Being forced to invite 5 people who aren’t already on the app just to be able to use it is a bit extreme. Also even after all that I am still not able to see people feeds because the app wants me to invite even more people. All the people I want on the app have already been invited or are already on the app. I feel this aspect of the app could be its downfall if something doesn’t change soon. Everyone I tell about the app seems interested until they find out they HAVE to invite at least 5 new people. Also I should be able to upload camera roll photos to be developed or be able to add archived photos to my feed at a later time.

cool in theory. I downloaded this app 4 days ago. I had to go through the whole process everyone talks about being so hard in the one star reviews. honestly the set up wasn’t too bad. the into video got me hyped up, but tbh it’s kinda a let down. the darkroom (photos have to “develop” which takes anywhere from 1-3hrs) is really cool, and I like the design of it. I like how it’s geared towards friends not followers. THAT BEING SAID. I keep getting these weird notifications (like 20+ a day): “so and so just joined Lapse!” I don’t even know who they are 90% of the time. I cant figure out if it’s sending me notifications when my contacts join or what. also, when I try to turn off those notifications, I go to my profile —> three dots in the top left —> notifications and I get this error message saying I cant access this yet because the developers are still working on this feature??? 1) why is the feature to adjust notification preferences taking so long to develop??? like that’s the biggest reason a lot of my friends have deleted the app two days after having it. and there’s no way to unlink your contacts from the app to stop it from alerting me when 4 people I haven’t talked to in months joined the app. develop it and then release it. don’t develop as you go.

“Deleted forever” and my account is still active 2 weeks later. If this is what floats your boat, you can be all for it. But I should have the right to see for myself that I’m not interested and then delete the account that I made. Did the whole 8 page process to get rid of this app and finally got to the last screen “your account will be deleted soon. we batch delete users every week” and I checked a week later and had to do the entire process again to see the same “this number will be blocked forever from Lapse” page again. That is pretty shady. It insinuates that you prey on users to get sucked into forgetting to remove themselves and falsely advertise the amount of “friends” who are using the app. Requiring 8 people to get sent the cheesy “pls download this app 👉🏻👈🏻” message and then add an additional 5 more thru the app is low key a pyramid scheme. I got needing to build a user base but hardwiring it into the account making process is kinda a red flag. 👋🏼 Hey admin, please delete my account, I am not interested in your app and have the right to do so.

Like it but there is no way it would “replace” using camera. I really like the ability to share photos with my friends without a surplus of ads and unnecessary features. I hope that aspect stays the same. The moment i see an ad I’ll delete. I would like to be able to upload photos. I get that the point is that you don’t see the photo you took until later, but if I’m really truly living in the moment then I’m not trying to take a picture on my camera and in this app. And this app is not going to replace my camera app because i can’t save the photos to my phone unless i either download with a logo and date/time or i go through all these hoops to be able to remove watermarks. Also I would probably want to be able to have the photo without a filter. Since i can’t upload photos, I haven’t really been using the app since I downloaded it. If we could create multiple journal entries and keep it separate from the snaps that could be a cool option to retain the whole “i just snapped this pic so casually” aspect while also allowing us to share photos with friends that we didn’t take on Lapse

Desperate data grab. I downloaded this app because my friends were getting it and it was the new hype social media. Upon downloading and using this app for a mere 15 minutes, I quickly came to realize that this app is purely built to take as much data as they can from you and sell it. It’s no different than the big ones, but at least the big ones hide it slightly better on launch. Only plus is that it’s beautifully coded and designed. The app once downloaded has a lot of invasive nonnegotiable information requirements. It asks for access for camera and microphone (don’t remember why they needed that got lost in the “new type social media” bull). Then it asked for contacts and photo access. However instead of hiding their access to my pictures they blatantly boast that they have access to my pictures prior to even clicking allow access to all pictures. This part didn’t really phase me because TikTok has been doing the same thing ever since I downloaded it. The part that made the data grab seem desperate was that when I tried to delete my account they gave me an ultimatum. If I deleted my account in the next data wipe, my number would be banned from using the app. I’m sure they have some legal bull written about this in their privacy policy somewhere to justify their desperation, but it’s all just a coy for this BeReal knockoff.

I love this app, but….. This app rocks. It’s so fun. I deleted Instagram because I found the reels too addicting, and feel like this app takes me everything I love about Instagram and makes it healthy. I’ve told many of my friends about it and gotten them to use it, and they like it too!! Today I wanted to post on Instagram some photos from lapse, and found that it crops your photo and doesn’t take off the lapse logo unless you add three friends (which I did, but it only lasts for 24hours!). You can’t even download your photos to your phone without the logo/time stamp or the awful crop, which is really frustrating to me. I was going to post my lapse photos on Instagram and advocate to my followers to download the app because I love it, but I won’t be doing that with the weird automatic crop/logo, and am considering discontinuing my use altogether because of this issue. Which makes me sad. Plz fix, or at least let me screenshot!!!

Annoying privacy nightmare that tries to force you to shill for them. Lapse is an interesting concept, especially if you have a busy/interesting life and lots of friends (which not everyone does), but the app has too many gimmicks that make it a pain to navigate and set up your account. Every onboarding screen relies on annoying flashy animations and videos with haptics that can’t be skipped or disabled. When making an account you’re constantly asked for identifying info that you either can’t choose not to provide (camera access and full contacts access) or can technically decline but wouldn’t think to (the option to skip providing your exact birthdate, for example, is hidden under a grayed-out “help” button. They require you to add 5 friends before you even explore basic features, which defeats the whole purpose of getting people interested in a new app. Probably an unpopular opinion but I don’t like being required to do certain things that enrich an app’s developers just to see if I’d even want to use the app. After only 30 seconds of access to my contacts (I switched it off after they let me through) the app had already uploaded the full names, contact photos, and mutual connections of all of my contacts, ranging from my deceased relatives to old friends I’ve fallen out with to random coworkers I never speak to. I challenge the developers to reply to this review, since they only seem interested in responding to positive or non-constructive reviews.

I Hope This Isn’t The Future of Social Media. Weirdly pushy. You open the app, you’re bombarded with “The Story” — which is like, the first 5-10 minutes. Instead of letting you organically move around the app, which, with good design wouldn’t need all the hand holding and intrusive narrative building (is this social media? Is it a camera app?) it traps you in a long sequence of text and photos. After that, you MUST add 3 friends who are already on the app. After that, you MUST invite 5 people who are not on the app. Which like, I don’t even know if I WANT to invite people to the app yet because I haven’t used it. I don’t want to recommend something that isn’t worth it, and honestly FORCING people to invite people before they get to even use the app feels desperate. The first experience I got with this app was that I’m not smart enough to figure out how to use the app on my own (why do we have an instruction guide for a social media app that isn’t anything we haven’t seen before? Or isn’t just a combination of things we’ve seen before?) and that I’m not allowed to use the app until I trap five other people into this process. It feels like a MLM but thank god I don’t have to spend money. I kind of like the premise, and I think it could be a pretty good social media app, but I never had to invite 5 of my friends before I used Snapchat.

Privacy concerns. I couldn’t even get through the app set up because it was so convoluted. First, you have to be sent an invite, then you have to send 5 people who are NOT on the app an invite (so a pyramid scheme). Most of my friends were already on the app so I ended up sending it to people I barely know, I felt like an annoying telemarketer. You HAVE to link your contacts and you HAVE to add a home screen button that take photos and directly uploads them onto the app. What I’m getting from that is that the app constantly has access to your camera feed (besides the fact that having an extra button on your home screen is just annoying). Then you HAVE to take an initial photo to start using the app, except it doesn’t tell you whether the app uses your front or back camera (nor is this info available online). For those of you who don’t know, you can’t see a preview of the photo so you don’t really know what’s being photographed. Yeah you can make an educated guess it’s the back camera but I would like that to be clearer. You can’t opt out of any of these steps. I ended up jumping through hoops to use another social media app that will sell my info.

Lots of steps required to be able to use the app once downloaded. This app seems like a cool idea, but the whole set up to just be able to use the app was so beyond frustrating and annoying. First you have to add 8 friends. I’m not someone that has a lot of friends, lost quite a few after high school. So I had to add people I haven’t spoke to in a couple years. Next, you have to invite 5 friends to join the app. How annoying!! I don’t want to invite 5 people to use this app THAT I HAVEN’T EVEN GOT TO TRY YET. And just when you thought maybe it would finally be over, they make you add it as a widget to your lock screen/wallpaper. This was the most tedious annoying process I’ve ever gone through just to USE an app. I literally almost deleted it after it was asking me to add 8 people. The only reason I went through all the bull was because my best friend really wanted me to download it. Anyway if you want to spend 5-10 minutes setting up and app just to use it, then this is definitely the one for you. I would give this app 0 stars if I could. Stop making people do ridiculous steps just to use your app.

Updated layout is terrible. It goes against the motto of “for friends, not followers.” I would like to see my friends posts, not random people. It’s still cool to highlight really nice photos, but on a separate tab. I’m sure there’s a lot of people who looked at them, but I feel like the majority just want to interact with their close circle. I feel like the new format makes your friend’s post more of an afterthought and not having post in chronological order to scroll through is frustrating. The new layout reminds me of Instagram which I mainly left to use lapse since I enjoyed how intimate the social media feed felt. Now I just see a bunch of strangers again. Negative 5 stars for this update honestly. Please change it back asap or I probably won’t use it with this format. Looking at Lapse’s new layout is an eyesore. All my friends feel the same about the update. I understand this is still in its startup phase. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Put effort into adding new features like being able to tag people in comments to reply to them.

Memory capsule feature!!. I love this app. Probably my favorite in my entire phone and i can’t wait for the full version to come out!! As an avid hater of social media’s Beaty and aesthetic standards i absolutely adore the concept of this app and the fact that it’s SOOOOOOO CUTE!! As the developing team comes out with new features the app just gets better!! The one thing that i’d love that i don’t know if anyone has even thought of is that i kinda wish you could archive your journal in some way. Sort of like if you were to change the song and the photos of your journal because of the change of seasons in your life you could still look through your past journals like a scrapbook of you will. Just a way to save your journals overtime and be able to go back to them later maybe for inspiration, nostalgia or looking for an old photo. I think it’d be great addition to the app overall!!!! Thank you sm to the developing team ⭐️

What I Hope Will Be The Next Social Media App. This app is so epic. I love that there are no ads or promotional stuff, only updates on when a friend of yours thought to pull out their phone for 2 seconds and take a quick snapshot- one that you can’t see until you’ve forgotten about taking a picture in this is a trait I love about disposable film cameras since it makes the experience of taking and viewing a photo so rewarding- but it’s cool to see it applied to the convenience and increased connectivity of smartphones. I hope no businesses or corporations will think of using Lapse (formerly Journal) as a new tool to exploit for advertising like BeReal. Also, as a photographer, I’m bothered by the digital look of captures when all I could do was pull out my phone without any creative control over the camera settings. By using Lapse for documenting fleeting moments, I embrace the vintage edit, and I can carry on with life, satisfied with how my photos turned out. As for the rebrand, however, I don’t think I’ve met any friends who’ve liked the new logo. The watermark it adds to pictures when you save them ruins the lower half of the image. Please fix that Lapse. The goofy logo betrays the film quality of the photos.

A Touch Aggressive, Too Little Polish. I do like the overall concept of the app, it's a bit aggressive in forcing the user to invite 5 people before they can even take a look at the main screen or give it a shot. I really don't want to spam my friends so I can see what a 'new social media' is about. Additionally, trying to add snaps to select is frankly annoying - I don't want to see the same introductory screen every time i open it with no images! It takes too much time and after the third or so time of seeing "Your profile is your Journal" in an attempt to upload images I pretty much closed the app. It's a solid concept, and I hope it does well, but it really needs to back off new users and let them look around before forcing them to invite people. EDIT: I've brought it down to two stars, there's no way to retroactively add snaps to your feed - I wanted to see how all of my images turned out before deciding which to post but that's not an option at all. So make sure you don't accidentally swipe left to archive, ever. It has a lot of potential but it's really adamant about not letting you be any form of anonymous.

Incredible App; everything I’ve ever wanted BUT it logged me out and I have no way of accessing it.. Hello everyone. I want to start with the fact that I have been simply obsessed with this app since I downloaded it in October. I have used it to document all important, casual, day-day events in my life. It didn’t matter the situation my lapse was always out with me documenting everything in a way that just brought so much joy to my soul. I go through the app and revisit all those lovely memories it’s helped me create. I sent a DM to the team over in IG asking for help; as I found out today that I had been logged out of the app. When I entered the phone number I thought I had used it said that I was new, and to start a new account, after processing that for a bit I remembered when I downloaded it, it required a US number, I have been living in Colombia since July, and I remembered I had a google phone number so I used that, thinking it would never be necessary again. I was wrong. & that has caused me incredible sadness as I do not have access to that google phone number anymore and google will not give me access to it. Please, support, I need help, I need my account back & if I can’t have it back I just want the pictures that’s all I care about please.

I use this app all the time but the new UI is not user friendly at all.. This is one of my favorite apps, love how the photo needs to develop before you can see it. I use this app almost daily & the filter is great. I loved Lapse until the new update changed the entire interface and now it’s so irritating to use. When you open up your feed, you’re forced to look at random people you don’t care about, rather than your friends pictures. Another thing, friends posts are now stories. Which is the worst update ever. This is not user centric at all and needs to be upGRADED back to where we can see our friends posts as actual posts & not stories. Please consider this review and the multiple other reviews complaining about the same thing. Don’t ruin your app like this. Many social media apps that become popular in a short amount of time mess up like this.. by changing their interface that is meant to act as an “upgrade” and “innovative”. These apps up losing their users and the app goes to complete garbage. Thanks that’s it. Please change this feature ASAP because you have a lot of users that love this app but now don’t like or use it as much because of this.

Spamming Notifications. Lapse is fun but the notifications you receive can drive you crazy. You get a notification every time someone posts which can be a quite a lot when someone journals 5-10 photos at once and then your phone won’t stop going off. I’ve also gotten notifications that my photos are ready to be developed after the fact that I already developed them. As if that wasn’t enough to remind you that the app exists, lapse gives notifications to remind you to check the app and see what’s going on! As if the notifications don’t already tell you enough of what’s going on. With all of these notifications going off, lapse will repeat the same notifications sometimes creating a never ending loop of dings going off. I have tried deactivating the notifications but then I have no way of seeing when my photos are ready, and there is no way of choosing what notifications you get and don’t get. It’s either everything or nothing. Having an option to regulate notifications would help the app avoid spamming user’s phones.

New Update Ruined Everything I Liked About The App. Before the update, I loved this app. I had a small community of just close friends, no influencers, no businesses, none of the consumerism that TikTok and Instagram have become. I kept my friend group intentionally small so I only saw who I talk to on a regular basis. It was personal, relatively simplistic (setup was clunky, but I let it slide), and I loved the idea of sending emojis to my friends on posts I liked. Post-update took away literally all of that. Now the Community is the primary feed and my friends are shoved into the top section as Stories that are timed like Instagram, so you don’t get to enjoy the post because it flips to the next picture too fast. I now see random people’s posts who aren’t even in my area of the world - the feed feels completely random. I don’t even use that section of the app anymore. I just take cute photos and don’t share them and just put them into albums. Don’t get me started on the forced watermark when screenshotting or exporting photos. Silly and stupid to push your branding onto people for free marketing. I’d rather use a different vintage film camera lens app with no social element than deal with this silliness. It feels like the company got a new CEO or something because these features don’t feel like the old version of the app at all - it’s completely changed direction. Bad move imo.

Love the concept!. The photos come out really cool and unique and it’s fun waiting for them to develop. I enjoy creating albums and the addition of music is a really awesome feature that brings me back to the MySpace days! I would love for this app to get more popular because I think it could be so fun to have more freedom and carelessness with our pictures. With that said there’s a few things I don’t enjoy… number one the sign up process was really sketchy and forcing you to invite people to make an account is weird. Some of my friends thought it was a scam. Not everyone feels comfortable with that. Secondly, the idea of making people pay to download the photos without a watermark is also sketchy. WE took the photo! I’m happy to pay a fee for the app but to pay per photo is ridiculous. The watermark is huge. If it was smaller it wouldn’t be as a big of a deal, but I would just like to share my photos on my Instagram stories without the aggressive watermark that ruins the photo.

Love this app but scammy features. I love the concept of this app, very fun and different way to approach social media. I love the filters, truly looks just like my 35mm camera! The concept of the developing time is fun and I really like how it prevents you from doing a bunch of retakes in the moment. The process of posting is easy and intuitive. I wish there were a few tweaks to the process of downloading, requiring you send to 5 seems excessive especially when you can’t send to people already on the app. I get the idea behind it, but it’s been a turn off for some of my friends who don’t want to go through the long process and bug other people to download. I also wish you could just use the filter on existing pics or export without logo. I recently updated so you can no longer screenshot, you must export with the app logo. It’s not a very appealing logo/ watermark- I think it detracts from the overall vibe of the picture. I would repost to other platforms more if it was a little more streamlined or better placed. It really just makes me want to crop it out. I hope this app catches on and more people download, it’s really a good idea just could be improved user experience!

Too much to even use the app. The concept of this app is really cool, the thing that’s frustrating is that u basically have to have 10 ppl you have to invite to even use the app without restrictions & if you’re friends are already using the app u can’t invite them again to get started. then on top of having to invite everyone in your contacts you also have to post 5 days out of the week to be able to save your photos without the horrid watermark. i already invited way too many ppl to this app & i still cant even save the photos? it’s just a lot for whats supposed to be a social media app. i get they want engagement but it’s just so much to do. the filters really cute that it adds that’s why im still using it but it’s not like i can even use the photos. hopefully they change this feature in the future, probably keep people around longer. oh & dont forget you can’t screenshot on this app either so if a friend takes a pic you have to be tagged in it to save it yourself.

needs a lot of work but it is a cute and good concept. right off the bat, the inviting friends to join and adding random people should not be required to register as a user, not a lot of people are going to like that and i surely didn’t. i had to add random strangers to have access to the app. i invited 5 of my contacts and it glitched so now the app is making me invite a total of 10 contacts for me to be able to see whatever my friends are posting. seriously?? the pictures are cute at least but the app is so annoying when you’re not just using it to take pictures. the loading intro screen for the profile needs to be taken away not a lot of people are going to like seeing the repeated video about their profile details especially when they already know. I think adding a video camera could also be a nice thing. Another thing is that I wish that I could save the pictures i uploaded as my background “journal” thing from my camera roll with the filters you guys put on them. other than that the app is good and cute but none of my friends will go through the signup process and as i’ve seen per review every one else’s won’t either.

Was my favorite app… until the update. I deleted this app. For a couple months, this was my absolute favorite app. It was my primary social media and I naturally gravitated away from Instagram and twitter. I loved how personal and intimate this app felt. No ads, or influencers, or random strangers. Just my close friends, enjoying their lives, sharing an appreciation for photographing it. But the new update kinda changed all that. This layout makes the app feel like Snapchat. Making the community posts the primary focus instead of who you’re following makes the app feel super impersonal. When the format looks like stories, it’s really easy to just skip past everything instead of actually savoring and appreciating each post. The new update also removed the “thoughts” feature. I really enjoyed sharing thoughts with my friends and engaging with them in that way. Now that feature is gone on top of the music feature being pulled. There’s just no reason for me to use this app anymore. It’s not a cute little safe intimate space for me and my friends to express themselves. It’s just a camera app now. The only benefit is the cute filter. So I deleted the app :/

Loving it, but some grievances.. Love love love the idea behind lapse. A step back into simpler times before the rush of social media. However, this isn’t something I’ve fully adopted due to the infancy of the app, and sharing links to get started. I do understand Lapse is trying to build a baseplate of users before rolling out public access. I think the invite only is kinda killing the lust to create an account. For instance I invited my wife to join, but she never completed setup bc of the invites you HAVE to send to users who aren’t on it already. My wife isn’t one to bombard her family and friends with links to random stuff on the internet, therefore she was out before ever getting to experience it. Another thing. I’m not gonna remember to take a photo with Lapse to capture a moment. Lapse has access to my photo library, yet I can’t seem to get the upload to work. I’d like to upload photos to the share feed, but can’t. I’m assuming that’s a quick fix that’ll hopefully be fixed by next bug update.

I’m genuinely loving the app so far. I’ve been using this app since Sep. ‘23. This was after i did away with all my other social medias. I love the premise of this app “Friends not Followers”. I love the emphasis on pictures but forcing you to wait for the results so you can enjoy the present. I loved the music feature but i understand why it’s been put on halt considering TikTok is going through the same thing. I hate that so many negative reviews are being written because the app is great for what it can provide: an ad-free user friendly experience with close friends. I like that the app is being developed as we use it. It feels cool to witness how it morphs into its final form. Yes, i miss the music and yes, it can be nerve wracking to have to send invites to friends but for what the app offers for free, I think it’s worth it to stick it out and go with the flow. It’s not free to run an ad-less app, remember that.

Had it all but threw it all away :(. This was my favorite social media and photography app until the recent UI change. They’ve deemphasized your friends posts in favor of the community tab, which holds no value to me and is actually a negative feature of the app, in my opinion. Instead of being able to quickly and easily see your friends posts front and center, they’re now in story-esque posts up top, and the main page is now full of content curated by yet another algorithm showing me people I don’t know. I liked the app because it was a fun way to see what my small group of close friends were up to without being inundated with influencers and ads. The update makes that harder to do, and makes the app much more like other social media apps, in a strongly negative way. I’m really hoping they’ll change it back, or my quest for an algorithm-free social media app will be forced to resume (maybe thinking Retro—I downloaded it a while ago but lapse was so great then. Might have to give Retro a serious look if this UI change persists).

I miss 2 months ago lapse. I love this app, it is my new favorite way to interact with friends with social media. That being said, I’ve found the updates which now forbid screenshotting to be gratuitous and annoying. I get it, u wanna monopolize this aesthetic and get as much money as you can out of people, but the app is just much more annoying to use now as someone who is absolutely not going to pay for a membership, and I just crop out the lapse symbol the majority of the time anyways. Like, my screenshotting has nothing to do with you. This amount of control being exerted over my user experience makes me want to not use the app anymore, let me do what I want with my pictures that I took. It’s especially frustrating having used the app before this stupid restrictive “if you buy a membership you’re allowed to have fun again” system was implemented. The app is also way buggier now, It crashes and freezes and makes copies of recaps from the same album over and over when I’m trying to download recaps from each of my albums separately. This app just feels like it’s getting worse over time compared to the freedom us users had a few months ago and it’s honestly upsetting to me what with how much I’ve enjoyed it up to this point.

Update ruined it. I wish we still had the option to put music on our page. We were promised it would be back but it hasn’t been for a while so I’m starting to think they removed that feature permanently. Also, I hate how the new feed is all about “influencers”, I downloaded this app because it was different and the algorithm showed me what I wanted to see which was what my friends would post. Now the main feed is filled with random people I don’t care about and my friends are only little stories at the top. Most of my friends stopped using this app for that reason and I might join them too, it’s getting to close to being like instagram or facebook with none of the good stuff. At least on instagram and Facebook I see what I actually want to see instead of random strangers that aren’t even in my area? Also, I rarely get people I know suggested to me now, I wish they’d bring back the old friend recommendation feature. Basically, this app ruined everything good about itself which was what made it stand out, and it turned into a even more boring version of every other social media that exists. I wish they’d completely scrap everything they did with this new update and went back to what they had before.

i love this app !!! but…. everything about it is great! i love the effects the photos have, the way we react to photos & the layout for profiles i only have two issues - 1. the way you have to send to 5 friends just to use the app. it feels bothersome. i know people that might like the app so that’s easy but past that it feels like a scam. i sent it to a few friends & they had thought i was hacked or something. this isn’t a HUGE issue but i think this should be OPTIONAL 2. my second issue is similar to the first but way more important to me - it’s how when you go to download YOUR OWN PHOTOS you have to send texts to 5 people or fulfill other requirements. i understand it’s getting you to keep using the app & get more people to use it but if i’m trying to save a photo i took myself, i shouldn’t have to go through extra hoops just because i missed a couple days of the weeks journal. we should be allowed to save our photos at all times without limits since they’re OURS & we took them of our personal lives. i have no problem promoting the app on social media & do regularly share to instagram tagging the app account & i don’t think other people have an issue with this either so i think we should be allowed to save our own photos without any hassle. i would happily change my review to 5 stars if my second point was changed but until then it’ll have to stick to 3

Deleted my Instagram for this app. I’m so here for this!!! I downloaded this app and spent some time learning it. Although it’s not intuitive at first it wasn’t hard to pick up on. And now that I know how to use it I love it. I love that you can take a photo and not think about it, it has made me more present, as opposed to sit and look through photos / edit before posting. It feels super authentic and I have been getting as many people on it as I can since I deleted Instagram for this LOL! It feels so pure, no beauty filters, real moments, real memories and it’s awesome to see my squad get creative again. The one thing I feel is needed is to have the option to save the photo without the effect. And also post without the effect (for those who aren’t into it). Since we are posting our memories here now I feel this is something to consider. But anyways, this social media app is what we need. THANK YOU!!

it was nice while it lasted. I have been an avid journal, now lapse, fan for quite some time now. I’ve recommended it to many because of simply loving the vibes of the app. Now, I think it’s important to note, the process of getting the app is overly aggressive and unnecessary-I do understand the thought and strategy behind it, but I also think presenting someone with such a bad fist impression is, plainly said, a bad idea. Next, not only did you neglect to fix the tragic, vibe ruining watermark, and made it look worse, but you removed the ability for us to screenshot. Why? Now I’m sure you could give many reasons for that, but I don’t think any would level out to the ramifications of this. Because of the watermark I refuse, and always will refuse, as so many agree, to share any of the photos on any other social platform, period. Nor, quite frankly, do I like the pictures at all. (I want the real snapshot, film pictures back) Once, the simple way around this was to screenshot the photo, but no. That being said, when it comes down to it, the vibes were ruined when you turned away from the original purpose and mission of this app to popularity and profit. I really do hope to see some good changes that get you back to your roots in the future, thanks.

New update. Let me start off by saying I love lapse. My friends and I all use it to document our days and fun memories together. Now for the new update. WHY MAKE IT MORE LIKE SNAPCHAT. I don’t understand. Why take a great thing and try to make it like every other social media. What I loved about Lapse is that is was UNIQUE. I loved scrolling through everyone’s pictures. Why did you guys make everyone a little bubble on top I do not understand. Now this makes it harder to screenshot others posts that I may be in without their little circle icon profile popping up. Plus the little sticker icon at the bottom detracts from it. PLUS, making them all tiny little icons at the top takes away from seeing everyone’s, I loved how everyone’s was visible outright, now these tiny little icons make it so that only certain ppl like close friends will get clicked on and others won’t be seen, THIS TAKES AWAY FROM THE CHARM OF THE APP I hate this new update why does every app when it gets big conform to the others, the whole point is to be unique. Im very sad Lapse.

Way too much info wanted to start. A friend invited me to get in on the “early access” of this app. Reading about it sounded okay, didn’t really blow me away, sounded like sending a text photo to a friend but I figured I’d try. At first you enter all the usual info, name, user name, phone number, etc. Then it takes you to a page where you have to add 8 people before you can continue. I knew exactly one person in the list of 65 people but I had to add 8 to go forward. So I added 8 people. Next page is them demanding you invite 5 people to use the app. Once again you cannot move forward without texting 5 people. I texted 5 landlines bc I’m not going to bother my friends will apps I don’t even know anything about. Next page, you must change your Lock Screen to include their widget. Once again you cannot move forward until you do this. This is as far as I got. I refused to continue trying to move forward, I’ve never used such an invasive app. So without even completing my profile I would get a minimum of 20 notifications a day telling me about people I didn’t know adding things I didn’t care about.

Kinda obsessed. I really love this app so much. When I downloaded it, I really was expecting to be intrigued for a day and then forget about the app, but it’s actually so different and unique and FUN. This app makes me feel like a kid again who snapped everything and anything just because I had a camera in my hand. I love that it takes time to reveal the photos you took because it forces you to snap the picture, and then move on and be in the moment. You can’t look at the photo and add text or a filter or a song or nit pick what you don’t like and take it hundred more times. You just snap and move on and by the time they’ve developed you really only care to keep the good images and continue on with your day! I love that it’s a journal that showcases your life and organizes you’re wonderful moments in a beautiful way, instead of them getting lost in my phones camera roll mixed in with things that are not post worthy etc. I love the friend model instead of the followers. I love that lapse DOESNT notify you or have a list of anyone whose looked at your posts, I love only having my journal for my friends. It’s so special. The only change I would consider them making is, please change the emojis that I use to react to my friends photos, the last or most frequent ones that I choose, not you choosing for me. 💗💗💗 love lapse. 💗

Seemed Ok, Has Some Drawbacks. I saw this app and immediately wanted to give it a shot. I’m huge on pictures, and thought it would be like Huji but better. Not quite. First, it requires that you invite a bunch of people, which i did and dismissed it as a good idea to get the word out for the app. Cool, fine, whatever. Some of my close friends didn’t want to do this step, feeling super awkward about the implication, so the social aspect was already a little gone. Then I took pictures, and the development feature is quite fun. Love the profile customization and all that jazzy stuff. Then I tried to download the pictures, and they have large watermarks that you can only remove if you invite 3 new people to the app every 24 hours. Thats crazy. Each week, sure, but every day? Idk, i didn't want to bother more people so i downloaded what i could with the watermarks and deleted the app. R.i.p. - i’m sure some people wont mind, but it wasn’t for me or my group.

Love this app but could use a little work!. As an avid hater of what Instagram has become, I love Lapse! I love being able to see my friends posts instead of ads, businesses or influencers. I hope with the rise of popularity, that doesn’t change but we’ll see after time. I love the friend not follower model. However, the find friends could use work. I wish it would show me more options instead of showing the same people that I don’t know at all. You have to add the people listed before you are able to see new options of friends you may know. I’ve been digging through other friends’ friends list to find my friends which is a bit annoying. It also shows me when someone joins lapse but I’m like who are you? I don’t even know who they are. Another big thing that I hope they work on is deleting photos. I’ll post on lapse and decide I actually don’t want a photo to post and delete it, but it only deletes it for me. My friends are still able to see it hours later and it’s a little embarrassing especially if I take multiples of the same photo. That’s my main gripe with this app. Otherwise I love the app and I can see it becoming the next big thing as long as it doesn’t fall and make the same mistakes as other big apps. I love the personal touch to Lapse. Please don’t fall to ads and business models. Love you!

Trying really hard to like it. When I first downloaded the app and put my phone number in to register it wouldn’t go through. I pressed the help button and it said this was a common bug and to email the lapse help email which I did. They sent me one email back saying that they had gotten my email but had an increase in responses and it would take time to respond which I understood. A couple days later I could finally enter my number and it would go through and then it asked for me to invite my five friends which I did but then when I pressed next it said it was unable to process. I sent another email but no response. Days later it was able to go through but then it asked to add the widget to your Home Screen, I did and it wouldn’t allow me to go on. Again, I sent an email and no response. Then, once again days later I could get passed that stage. I thought I was finally able to use the app. I was excited because I love the concept of Lapse and I was looking forward to taking pictures but now none of my photos will sync to the darkroom. Lapse has not been in communication with me still and I’m frustrated, I want to like the app but am not feeling like it’s worth the amount of effort I’m putting in. I’m disappointed to say the least.

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🩷 This app is super cool! 🩷. When I started using the app I will say there was a lot of set up steps like at least 5 but you will see the other comments were a bit dramatic. It was well worth the steps to have the app itself! You can send friend requests to who you would like (at least 8 people) but if they don’t all accept that’s fine! I have 6 friends and I like keeping it simple. You take photos in your disposable camera and they sit in your digital darkroom for a time being 30 mins - to an hour and once they have developed you can chose to post it to your friends or delete it. You can also go in your friends feed and post comments about how you are feeling today, your mood and emoji to go with it Example: I’m feeling… Snappy 📸 and your friends can react. However in the featured section you may chose to look at strangers photos so be ware of that. They are never inappropriate as the app is careful about what gets submitted to the featured section, but still be careful! The app is very fun! I hope my review was helpful :) 10/10 would recommend!

It sucks. It’s not even letting me delete my account now lol.

super cool!. It’s so fun! I just wish after taking multiple pictures at once, you could look at them all and decide which one you want to share. As after you archive a picture you’re unable to share it. Other then that amazing app :D

Have fun. Absolutely amazing! Lapse is a must-have app for anyone looking to unleash their creativity with the freedom to create with their eyes closed. The results are always fun and full of unexpected energy. It's a fantastic tool for exploring new creative avenues!

Sharing to access. I love the photo camera quality in the app but I just don’t think you should have to invite 5 people, to access the app.

Lapse review. I loveeeee this app! I use it all the time! It’s way more fun to take pictures, and as a photographer, it’s a lot like a camera, but the developing is easier. I’m always checking to see if my pictures have developed! I definitely recommend this app!

uhhhh. love the idea of it but now my dad has an account

Gimmicky!. The app FORCES you to invite/add 15 friends - even if you just wanna enjoy it with a small group of people! They push how “exclusive” it is but you can’t proceed to use it unless you push it on more people! They need a skip button because it’s WAY to forceful.

So cute and fun!!. i love this app and i hope more ppl start using it!!!

Reply option. It needs a reply button so we can reply to our friends when they add comment

horrible update. Deleted this app after the update since I can’t save my photos without the watermark anymore. I have no use for it anymore if I can’t have my photos without them being a walking ad.

made me add 8 ppl to join, i don’t have that many friends dude.. i literally don’t have 8 friends on this app and it won’t let me join until i add 8 ppl bro whyyyy just let me have like 3 added this is crazy man

Can not delete account whilst sign up.. Followed their FAQ to delete account because inviting 5 friend before you even used the app is unacceptable. Now I can receive 6 digit code for signing up but can not receive 6 digit code while deleting the account? Wow how conveniently this is broken :)

Terrible. You got to invite the universe before you can create an account. Literally the worse app ever

Don’t waste your time. They force u to invite friends and ask so many questions. Deleted app.

most recent update won’t let you change music/buggy. App is great…. but can’t change music keeps giving errors every time (all music options in the app), and anytime you select specific photos to add to highlights’ and go back into edit them later on it will re-add every photo you removed and you will have to select each photo again and drag to delete box before selecting the ones you want. pls fix

Cool idea but lacks a few basic functionalities. Cool idea and pretty filters. Wish we could unsend a vibe and I think the monthly highlights flip between photos too quickly in the users profiles (journals)

makes my pictures look musty i love it. by musty i don’t mean gross i mean like old but it’s cute

My Daily App. The best and most exciting app on my phone. I use Lapse daily and for the first time in years have enjoyed capturing photos with my phone again. This app has transformed the my relationship with the camera on my phone.

Too much steps. I agree with others as well , I have people on their I know but we ain’t friends we acquaintances

The one star comments are bull. Screw you guys who said it’s hard

Lapse. You have to share the app with a ton of people to even get started which is weird but I do love it. The idea behind the app is so creative and this is the only thing I take pictures on now

Lapse. This app is awesome you can really find some hot girls on this

Easier to get a donor kidney than sign up. The sign up was so tedious that I deleted the app before I was finished. Cool concept but awful execution.

Weird hoops to jump through. There’s insane rules to saving photos on this app. Either every photo has the lapse logo on it, or you have to share photos on your story and make minimum posts (5 days every week) to save without a glowing orange logo on your picture. I love the aesthetic and concept behind this app but this has left a sour taste in my mouth. Hoping that the app updates to get rid of this soon or will be switching back to my normal camera/editing so I have control over the photos i take.

Instagram Who?. This app is so refreshing , disposable film style ? Perfection. I love how in the moment and refreshing it is , no trends , no likes , no getting wrapped up in trendy audios and toxic people etc… This app allows you to express yourself in the moment you are in and show the beauty and rawness within it. You get to express yourself to the fullest while having fun with your friend circle. Creating a profile and adding a theme song was so fun to choose out with my friends. I can’t wait to see all the beautiful moments captured within this app. 🤍 Thank you to the creators ✨

Weird needy pyramid scheme-esque app????. Completely agree with the other reviews criticizing how many steps there are to get into the app. It asks you for a bunch of information and accessibility, like to access contacts and your phone number to send a code, which would be normal and fine if it actually sent a code. After retrying later and being able to get past this step, it then tells me I’m “almost there! just have to invite FIVE other friends to the app!😉😉😉”. Such a slimy barrier to put before being able to access the app, because for your friend to then be able to join the app, they would have to invite FIVE of their friends… Free advertising in the form of a pyramid scheme, how smart! (i don’t think you could invite friends that were already on the app either) Deleted the app after seeing this ridiculous requirement, I’m not going to harass my friends so I can have another social media. Cool idea maybe, but the whole thing seems very holier-than-thou high on itself.

Music. Awesome app overall but idk why the music got removed that part was awesome

bad design. this app forces you to add people, connect your entire contact list, share the app with 5 others, and add a lock screen widget and won’t let you progress without doing so. it also constantly sends you notifications to continue the onboarding if you stop. horrible onboarding, not worth it for a mid app.

First review I ever wrote. This app is so bad that I made the first review I’ve ever written just to give it a bad rating. Unfortunately, I cannot give it 0 stars, so I have to settle with just one.

Awful first impressions. The app makes you jump through hoops just to sign up. I think I would be more forgiving if it allowed you to skip certain steps that you could double back to at a later date like the profile picture and adding contacts, but the app won’t let you proceed until you complete each step. It’s also weird that it claims you need to send the link to 5 people in your contacts because there is limited space since it’s still in early development, but it’s essentially asking for more users while claiming limited space. Overall not impressed. Conceptually it is a cool idea but it shouldn’t be this hard to set up the app.

AMAZING!. I love this app and I post on it pretty much every day! I love sharing my life in such a real and raw way and expressing myself through these disposable photos. I also love seeing photos of my friends and what they’re doing. I have gotten 8 people to get this app so far and everyone loves it!!

Terrible. This app literally has so many things u have to do, to even START using it. i deleted it after i made an account. sorry it shouldnt take me 10 minute's just to answer everything and do what u guys make people do and share with 5 friends? so annoying. such a turn off no one has time for all that

update sucks. This was my favourite app until they updated and you can’t save your photos without their watermark now:/ deleted so fast.

So much fun!!. A refreshing app with a new concept! Feel like I’m using an actual camera when I’m snapping random pictures throughout the day, waiting eagerly to see how they develop!!! My only complaint is that it’s a litttttle confusing and the software isn’t the easiest to navigate. Hoping with time and further development, these small issues will be fixed. Looking forward to seeing this little community skyrocket!

Snapchat + BeReal but better?. This app is kinda takes the best of both apps and makes them into a cool way to share memories with friends and for yourself. I’ll definitely be using this over snap memories for the time being!

Bro just give us instant access. Why the heck do I have to do a whole quest just to use the damm app

Love this app, absolutely amazing. Ye

First Born Child in Return for Sign Up. Make it easier to sign up without needing to give away my first born child. More than 10 steps to set up an app in 2023 is wild.

Very very fun :3. I hate taking pictures because the second I take them I find like 30 defects, with this I just stopped caring and it’s sm fun to take pics w the app!!!

Tedious but worth it. The sign up process is for exposure for the app it’s great marketing!! The app is amazing and I’m glad it’s being pushed so many people I know are now on lapse!!

LOVEEEE. I love this app it is so much fun to do with friends glitchy at times but is overall awesome.

this app is like drugs. drugs

BEST APP EVER!. This is my new favourite app! I am never buying a disposable camera again!

Intrusive and demanding. I didn’t end up using this app because you cannot use it until you invite 5 friends and give them your phone number which I was not interested in doing. Then after couple months of the app just sitting on my phone it started to send intrusive notifications, flashing screen, weird images, buzzing. Needless to say I deleted it.

Great app - need to fix widget. Great app, I love the photos that result from it and the concept. Please add an option for the lockscreen widget to not have a number. The number is not correctly correlated to the number of photos developing and I wish there was an option to not have it there. It used to not have a number and I much prefer it that way. As well, it doesn't add to brand/app awareness at all so I'm not sure if there is any good reason for it. My rating would go up to 5 if this changed!

Dope. New bereal unlocked

I actually really like it. I thought this is just another lame version of be real or Instagram, but it’s not and it’s a really cool but interesting app. Often I take the picture and just forget about them until the end of that day then it’s a fun lil surprise. I will say the “invite 5 friends” I wasn’t really a fan of and seems the same for everyone. y’all need to remove that it’s killing the app!

This app is so cute. Honestly for such a newly made app, I love the design and idea behind it. It is so well made and it’s so cute and fun.

🩷. So gooddd

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Capture the moment, don’t curate them!. This app does a good job mimicking the feel of film. As someone who is familiar with using film, the app does an excellent job of capturing moment, as opposed to curating them. I do wish that the devs would be able to add an option of shooting with 24 and/or 36 roll films and not having them developed until the roll is finished. I think half the fun of using film is capturing moments, forgetting what was captured and then getting them developed to look back fondly at them. Although it won’t be as quick as posting regularly on your journal, I think this option would give a more nostalgic feel for those who really want to mimic film photography. Overall, I think this app is great and would love to see that added as a feature!

Cool idea, needs some tweaks. Like many others have mentioned, the sign up process is kind of a pain. You shouldn’t have to invite others before you’re able to use the app. It’s a cool idea and if it didn’t make you do that I think more people would be into it. The concept is super cool and it’s been fun to share photos and react to other peoples photos. Feels kind of like if Snapchat had evolved with social media instead of turning into an unusable app with a bunch of ads. That is also the direction that Instagram is going as well so this feels like a nice respite from seeing ads everywhere. I really hope they don’t decide to include ads in the user experience. I’m excited to see how this app evolves and improves over time.

Absolutely loving the app. Like the title says I absolutely am loving this app I love the way in which the devs are trying to push away from more of a “how many followers Do you have” pov and going with more of a close knit friends way of approaching this social platform it is refreshing I just wish there were some minor tweaks made like maybe a timer on the camera for those group photos you also would like to be in or maybe taking a self shot and no one can take the photo for you nonetheless still an amazing app I hope this app stays how it is from a wide point of view just need a couple tweaks in my opinion but hey who am I

Terms and Conditions🚩🚩🚩. “Whenever you upload, post or share Your Content on or through our Services, you grant to Lapse a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable licence to host, store, use, display, distribute, modify, adapt, edit, publicly perform or display, publish and create derivative works of Your Content. You also waive any moral rights that you may have in relation to Your Content.” - Any photos taken are their property and they can use them as they please and by using the app you consent to this. “These Terms are between you and us, and no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its Terms.” - Meaning no legal recourse “You grant us a licence to show these aspects of your Lapse profile publicly where we so choose to. For example, where you choose to share a photo or video that you took on Lapse with the Lapse team, if we decide to share Your Content publicly on our other social media accounts, your account and other basic profile information may be displayed alongside such content.” - They can share any and all public information given to them alongside your captured pictures in which they can edit how they please, then they can post this alongside personal identifying information such as phone number, email, full name, billing address, profile picture. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Fan. The filters that it picks out for my pics are always on point. I like the widget on the lock screen feature, easy and fast to get to. It is annoying that when you first download it it makes you invite five friends like, what if you don’t have five friends? Or what if all your friends already have it? I like that the journals are divided into months and the previews are sick. I like the profile selects, very nice. I like the profile emojis, creative. I don’t like the send a vibe to see a vibe. I don’t like the lapse stamp that it leaves on pics if you’re trying to download them or post them on other platforms, gives a tacky feel. There was a music feature that I was a big fan of but they haven’t brought it back, so I’m still waiting for that. Over all, this is my kind of app. Worth a download 🌞

Great app, but…. This app is great! You take pictures and then wait for them to develop. Once they develop you have 3 options. Post it(for your friends to see), archive it(only you can see), or delete it. You can add anyone you want, as long as they accept your friend request. You can add a song to your profile. I love this feature, but the way they have the songs set up is odd. The app chooses a random time in the song of your choice, and it only plays for about 30 seconds. You don’t get to choose the moment in the song. This seems very unnecessary. If the developers see this, I request that you guys please add a feature where we can choose the time in the song. Please and thank you!!

Fun but currently full of glitches. I have really enjoyed the concept of this app. When it works, I love it and want to share photos all the time! But currently there are so many bugs and glitches that it makes me give up. My snapped photos straight up disappear and don’t load, both from the lock screen and the app. I’ve taken so many that I’m excited by only to check my dark room and they’re not there. Yes I have updated the app. Sometimes I can barely scroll through the feed without it freezing. The inbox lags and I have to restart the app to see notifications. When these are fixed I will be using the app way more often!

Trying too hard. First off, the audacity this app has to force you to add 5 people to continue, ASK 5 people to download, permission for contacts and camera and have a widget is simply too much. Then, if you choose to delete your account you’re BANNED from using it with the same phone number again? Really turned me off to wanting to give the app the time of day. It’s super clunky and lots of annoying bugs. The interface is similar to tinder imo with the emojis and the swiping left/right. It’s advertises itself as being more “authentic” but it’s clearly just as curated as instagram as you can chose what photos to show and and can put photos from camera roll on your profile. The disposable camera idea is cool but we already have apps for that, i’ve been using Dispo for years. It’s an okay idea but do we really need another fake “authenticity” social media?

Holds your pictures hostage, forces you to invite over 10 people. This app concept is cool but its pros are lost in translation. -This app will not let you screen shot your pictures. It’s honestly creepy that when you do, the picture saved is a cat with a police hat telling you to save it from the app. You can’t take the logo and date numbers off of the photo until you invite more people, AND post it to a public place, which is totally against the motto of this being “for you and for friends not ‘followers’”. -This is not worth the effort. Too many hoops to jump through to have a fully working app. It makes you invite people right when you get on, you can’t try out the camera or see what the person who invited you sent you. Everyone I invited said this too and didn’t go through with it so I have no friends on here. Overall, It’s embarrassing to invite anyone else because of this forcing them to add even more people.

YOU HAVE TO PAY TO NOT HAVE A LOGO ON THE PICTURE???????. Are you kidding me lapse. You REALLY went and did that?? Just like every other app that died because it started out great and then cost money? Especially in this economy? Shame. When I first got lapse I loved it. I told everyone it’s great because it’s like another vsco but all the pictures come out unique. I would post my pictures on other platforms WITH and without the logo because I liked it both ways but for sentimental pictures of my boyfriend I preferred them not there and other pictures I use for my editing AND NOW I HAVE TO PAY OR ELSE I GET A PICTURE OF GRUMPY CAT? FOR SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THAT????? I’m. Livid. You creators are greedy. Be more like clash of clans or among us where you *can* pay to get that premium good good content but you don’t *have* to pay to be treated just as fairly. If y’all’s “good good” content is the whole reason for the app its not that good at all, is it?

Keeps send notifications. I have this and I have it set to where it only shows how many notifications I have on it but lately I have been getting random notifications that my snaps have developed even though I didn’t take any pictures. I am assuming it does that based on how long ago you took pictures, but I find it really annoying because I will click on the notification but no snaps/pictures are there so if the creators of this app could fix this it would be amazing. Besides that, it is a really fun alternative to Snapchat. It is more safe and you can’t call or anything like that. If someone wants to be a friend with you, they have to ask first and no one can see your “story” if they are not following you unless you submit a photo to get featured. Also, the app is fully updated so that shouldn’t be why this is happening

Save your time, skip this app. I have literally never been so frustrated with an app to want to write a review. But the rating should be much lower than the 4.8 currently on the app store. This app gives Gen Z vibes, which could have been fun and cool, if not for how difficult it is to use this app. It takes you through a painfully slow introduction you have to watch about how we need to rewind to the days of film photography. Then you are prompted (read: forced) to add 8 existing users to be your friend, people you may not have talked to in years. On top of that, you are also required to invite at least 5 new friends to join the app. It was so much work that I barely signed up for the app before embarrassingly reaching back out to my friends to undo the invite and tell them it's not worth it. I cannot stand behind this app at its current state and recommend to others. Even something as simple as deleting your account is TEDIOUS. There's a two step verification that's really more like 10 steps. It makes me want to throw my phone. I tried to fill out the feedback form also and same thing - too many steps and required answers. Skip this app and download a film camera/filter app instead. I'll stick to insta/snap (though Bereal seems better than this too).

Annoying to set up. The app itself and the concept is really cool, but -2 stars because of how annoying it is to use it in the first place (btw my complaints are really for the app creators to see) It forced me to invite 5 people before being allowed to use it which I understand is to get more users but it almost did the opposite for me. That made me want to delete it bc I barely had anyone to invite considering some friends were already on it. The intro was very long and I hated that it forced me to add the app as a widget before being able to continue. It’s only my first day using it though, I might update this review later. Y’all would definitely get more users if it wasn’t that annoying at the beginning I bet some people would even love to keep a private account without friends just for the fun of it but having to invite people ruins that.

on the fence, but having fun so far. What I like most about this app is the absence of ads, brands, and am algorithm deciding what I see. I hope that when this app monetizes, there’s a way to retain that and also protect privacy. Maybe the user-base will have ideas or input on that. It’s important to have ways to stay connected with and interact with people we actually know. The theme of making it look/act like a disposable or point-and-shoot film camera seems contrived or silly at first (remember when IG started with that vibe?), but it really removes the urge to take GOOD photos, or worrying too much about how I/people look. The iPhone is capable of really nice digital photography and I enjoy doing that too, but Lapse prioritizes capturing and sharing more easily and often. The next thing I’d change on it is allowing it to support/display landscape orientation. I always used my real cameras oriented that way most often, so the snapshots here should be able to rotate 90 degrees in some way, even if it’s not automatic. I appreciate that this app doesn’t DO too much, so you can explore it all quickly, but I still don’t find the UI/navigation very intuitive.

Love this app. I love this app SO FRICKIN MUCH!!!! I use it all the time and take photos that are stunnin. Also, the creator(s) even took the time to add a section on how to fix certain problems, like the music not working previously. Only complaint is that they REMOVED the music entirely for who knows what reason. They’ve added like 3 updates since then and still have not fixed the issue or added music back. Lapse creator(s), PLEASE add the music back. It was fun and honestly great to see how people felt about their month through music or what their favorite song was on their profile. Seriously though, if you are considering downloading this app, DO IT. It’s truly amazing.

Terrible Start. TLDR: If you don’t want us to care about followers and want to emphasize on the intimacy that photos have, which is what you advertise, don’t require us to follow X amount of people immediately. Right off the bat, this app required me to add 8 people. You could default and add all 100 people it recommended you, but you needed to have no less than 8. It was an unskippable step. Nothing on the screen gave me an option to come back to this later, even exiting and reopening the app took me directly to this step. Incredibly frustrating because this app is invite only. What if I didn’t even have 8 people I personally knew to add? Am I supposed to just add random people? Ironic, because this is an app that advertises on not wanting users to care about followers, and wanting to bring back the intimacy of photos. If you don’t want us to care about followers, don’t require us to follow people.

Cute but increasingly scammy. This app is a complete pain to actually get into, but once you’re in, the concept and interface are great; however, they seem to be implementing new features to artificially inflate how much new users join up that severely negatively impact the experience. For example, at first I could download any of my pictures to my camera roll, at any time. Now, I have to invite three new friends and share the app to a separate social media account (totally defeats the point of trying to switch to this one) just to be able to get access to downloading my own photos without a ridiculous logo and time stamp, and the access only lasts for 24 hours. It’s annoying enough that I’d almost rather they just asked for money to sign up for a “premium” experience instead. I’ll likely be uninstalling, which is a shame.

Almost so great, but then it tried too hard. I can (almost) forgive the pyramid scheme structure of the app, but I draw the line at the millennial quips I am subjected to at every turn. Please— if a developer sees this— tell your copywriting team……to chill out. Idk who the target audience is. But every time I “develop” photos and start to have a modicum of Lapse appreciation…I am force fed the quips and immediately feel embarrassed that I have agreed to use this app. The app design is pretty, the tactile effects are fun, the lack of ads (for now I presume) is refreshing. The filters are genuinely cool. The concept is kinda silly, but whatever— I knew what I was getting into. Think pieces have already been written about the insane force-invites (lol) so I’ll save my breath. I turned off notifications 2 days in, because it was overwhelming and full of more of the eye-rolling marketing language.

Honestly obsessed. There’s still some changes and things that need to be made as it is new, but fr fr it’s become my favorite thing no gassing. It’s like VSCO, MySpace (with the profile music), photo dumps, and like Dispo or Huji in one it’s great. Seriously take advantage of it and the widget and just use it like a blog but then having your friends on there is so cool cuz you can look at their little blogs too!!! It really helps to romanticize my life more and like pick out little moments and capture them it’s so much fun and so cute and really easy to take aesthetic and pretty photos all the time. I hope in the near updates we can add music to the created albums too and not just the monthly ones so that we can really curate the vibes on our journals, overall though I just love it

Loved until recent update. Absolutely loved this app and the photos it took, until today when I noticed the app is now blocking screenshots. Just the most annoying possible feature. It makes it ten times more difficult to get pictures taken of you saved to your phone, which was one of the best parts of the app, the spontaneity of taking the photos. It’s now impossible to have those photos actually saved to your phone without having to make the other person save and send them to you. And of course, you have to now save them with a logo. Which is just lame and really changed how I viewed the app. Taking my photos through lapse used to be preferred, now I doubt I’ll be using it very much at all just because of the annoyance that these features cause. Super disappointing from what could’ve become my favorite social media app.

So disappointed. I love the concept of this app: vintage filters, photo developing time, friends not followers, living in the moment. But WHY are y’all trying so hard??? If something is good people WILL gravitate to it. Forcing people to add friends and invite people just to use the app in the first place is ridiculous. Not to mention that the app is always glitchy. First you force us to bring people to your app, but then you don’t even have it together enough to support the usage? It’s actually embarrassing for y’all on the lapse team!!!! Get it together!!! AND NOW instead of taking a screenshot to avoid the ugly and boastful icon, I have to invite even more people to your app just so I can download a picture? I’m not impressed and honestly so disappointed. This has so much potential but you’re ruining it. Beautiful things don’t need recognition, and you guys are obsessed with yourselves.

LOVE IT but disappointed. I downloaded this app as soon as it was available and it was so much fun. I love everything about it and was using it everyday, multiple times a day. A little over a week ago my app crashed and it logged me out. I haven’t been able to get past the phone number screen to get back in. 😞 beyond disappointed that I can’t access this app while all my friends are enjoying it around me. I have contacted customer service 3 times and I keep getting a “reclaim your account” notification. When I click it nothing changes. I still cannot get past the phone number screen. I was able to access it on my iPad so my account is not the issue. It’s just the app on my phone. I really wish this issue would be fixed. 1 star until I can use this on my phone again. 😞💔 I really want to love this app but can’t without being able to use it…

YAY. this app is such a fun way to connect with friends without worrying about likes/follows/comparisons. it feels more personal than other forms of social media which i love! the pics always turn out so cute too. i will say that the beginning experience of creating an account was kind of frustrating and it took me about an 45 minutes to finish setting it up because of lags and it wouldn’t load after i added friends. the fact that you have to share with five people before you can even use the app was also frustrating but i understand the intent behind it because of the newness of the app. overall i think this app is amazing and i can't wait to use it more.

unnecessary set up process.. Was really excited to try the app out and experience it with my friends, after receiving an early access invite, but I was thrown into a long set up process where i had to invite and add a total of 13 people which felt like much. There were many options of people to make my friend (8 people needed to continue) but I did not want to have that many people, with the options given, as my friend on the app. The friends that I did have that were already on the app usernames did not show up after typing them in to try and add them. After getting past that step I then had to invite 5 more people to join the app. The people that I am friends with already have the app so I did not have 5 extra people to send an invite to. Maybe if you only needed to add 1-3 people that would have been fine but the whole set up process was a bit much.

Too many requirements. This app seems fun and I like the concept, my only gripe is all the requirements you need to do before actually creating your account. I understand trying to get people to join the app and create a buzz, but I’ve sent this to a couple of people that have stopped creating their account because of all the requirements. I wish there was an option to skip from adding people and inviting people. Also adding the widget is also a little annoying because not everyone wants to, and making that a requirement is wack. I’m sure there’ll be more people willing to create an account without all the things they have to do to advance toward they’re profile.

Perfect app EVERYONE. Initially when my friend sent me an Invite I was like, “oh boy here we go… another friggin app.” Annoyed by having to invite 5 ppl (idk 5 ppl hahaha/syke) Reluctantly I give it a try and setup a profile and add the widget to my Lock Screen and go on about my day… However I find that everyday randomly throughout the day I’d like to quickly “capture the moment.” And guess what I have this widget thingy on my Lock Screen for quick access to a retro style camera! The novelty is that you snap your shot and are forced to keep it moving because IT HAS TO GO TO THE DARKROOM TO DEVELOP!!!! so as you’re going on with your day you randomly get a notification for some amazing memory you captured earlier in the day! It can literally change your mood because if you’ve snapped a quick pic of your dog, let’s say, and go on with your day and it’s terrible for some reason then BAM a notification and you develop the photo in suspense and tadaaaa it’s a picture of your cute fluffy doggy that brings you back to life! I love the app and this is my 1st ever review of an app period let alone for the IPhone #stayblessed

I like it but... I like this app, the filter is amazing and I love the idea of it. Theres 2 reasons I’m giving it 3 stars though. The first being that you can’t add photos from your gallery. I get why the app doesn’t have this feature to more properly imitate a disposable camera. But I still think it would be nice to have past photos “developed” through the app. The second reason I’m giving it 3 stars is because I hate that you have to add friends and post everyday for a week just to be able to edit your photos? I get that it’s to get people to use the app more but it makes the majority of people just delete the app and not like it. But really all I beg for is being able to develop photos from the gallery so I can have my old photos turned to film.

Allow Screenshots.. No one is going to want to keep this app around if you keep making people jump through so many hoops to access essential features. It’s clear that many people don’t like the ugly watermark it places on all of your photos, which is why many people had to work around it with screenshots. It totally ruins the photo with an ugly banner across the entire bottom of the image. The app was already hard enough to access. No one wants to have to spam 8 of their friends in order to see if they even like the app. Now we have to do it every 5 days just to access a feature that should be essential? If you truly make a good app, word will spread about it on its own. You don’t have to force your branding down everyone’s throat and make your app interface so cumbersome that no one wants to use it anymore.

Awesome app! Finally a no “in app purchases” disposal camera app. I’ve been waiting for this forever, saving so much on film and able to get the film feel in an organic spontaneous fashion! However, for the last 4 days my app has been crashing so I haven’t been able to view my thanksgiving lapse picture or use it - so bummed about the memories I’ve missed out on. 5 stars for the app but they need to fix this crashing issues!!! (Note for the developers - app buttons are a little clunky, need a better way to get to the “feed” and for the love of all things photo please fix the crashing issue!!!!!) (yes I have updated the app - issue still not fixed)

Non-Stop Crashes. Every time I use this app it freezes up on me and crashes. I go to view my developed snaps and they won’t open. If they do open it freezes on the first one, and I can’t archive or delete or share. I am forced to close the app and reopen it. If I go to view my notifications, I cannot click on any of them because the app freezes. I am somehow able to take photos but again this is useless when I can’t actually view them or do anything with them once they develop. I have updated the app several times since I first download it. I have updated my iOS to the newest software. And still the app freezes and crashes on me continuously rendering it inoperable. I think the app produces great photos and it’s a wonderful idea which I was very excited about but now I am disillusioned with the app as it is completely non-functional at this point on my device.

Sign up is too complicated. I love the idea of this app, but the sign up, pop-ups, steps… it’s just too much. I had ZERO energy to actually use the app after the sign up process. I have numerous friends that won’t even try it when I invited them because they heard the sign up process was too long. I got done with signing up after being forced to add 8 friends (who idk how I would add them because none of the people I would add have Lapse because it’s so new (so that makes 0 sense to have that as a sign up requirement)), add photos, invite friends, and more. The intro, unnecessarily long & as a creative, I get that people worked hard on it, but it needs to be like 3 seconds long or you lose people. Just please make this user friendly. You have way too much competition with other social media platforms and ‘film’ apps to have something this annoying to sign up for.

Most desperate app ever. Lapse tries so hard to portray their platform as some wholesome throwback app but the very concept of swiping on your photos to share contradicts the whole “let’s go back to being real on social media” message that they preach. Having a “darkroom” to develop photos on a smartphone is wild because it’s so clearly there just to make users continuously come back to the app. If you want to develop a new social media app that’s chill but stop acting so high and mighty about your platform when it has the exact same goal as every other app: to get users. I wasn’t going to write this review but I’ve requested twice for my account to be deleted and it still has not been deactivated over 2 weeks later. No way you’re so desperate to keep people that you “mass delete” accounts every week in hopes that they’ll forget they made the request instead of just letting people delete their accounts whenever they want.

Here for the aesthetic. What a fun way to focus on the creative, brief snapshot from your personal perspective! The app is still in early phases with bugs to pick out, however I am so excited to keep sharing the snapshots of my life with friends alike. Yay Lapse! lol The first step is to upload pictures or to take a snapshot to be developed. Like a disposal camera, you can’t see what your snapshot image looks like until it’s developed, but in Lapse, it’s just a “darkroom” until the app alerts you of its development. I like the idea of a quick pic, move on, look later. It really takes the harsh criticality we put on ourselves. Really love it, super aesthetic, v kitschy, 10/10, would recommend!

Absolutely terrible sign up. If I could rate this 0 stars, this app still does not deserve that high of a rating. The sign on process is horrible. After typing in my friends usernames, the app will not recognize the name even when I have their account information in front of me. Despite sending in several bug requests, there is no answer on how to resolve. This is further frustrating given the terrible signing on process, and inability to add my friends when the app won’t pull up their usernames. Furthermore, I did not give this app permission to see my contacts, yet suspiciously it recommended individuals from my contacts that I haven’t spoken to in years. The cherry on top is the app crashing and inviting those 25 random people that I haven’t spoke to in years. I have asked for my account be deleted to save me further embarrassment, but there is no response from their help desk, only a 7 day waiting period for this account. Absolutely garbage, do better lapse.

What kind of pyramid scheme BeReal is this?. It’s legitimately a pyramid scheme I’m convinced!! Like it WILL NOT let you test out ANY app features, or even give you a clear idea about what the app is without first adding at least 8 friends who already have accounts and inviting 5 friends who don’t. And spoiler, it’s BeReal with a vintage filter and slightly different restrictions. Instead of only seeing one post per day and it being spontaneous you can see a month of people’s posts on their feed but you can’t actually LOOK at your own photo you took (at whatever time you wanted) until some random time of day that it’s “developed” I guess if you’re looking to get roped into an app that starts it’s features with making you peer pressure your friends into also getting the app, just to share slightly edited “spontaneous photos”, then this is the app for you :) My personal recommendation? Get an actual disposal camera for actual moments that you’ll actually care to look back on!

Disappointing App with Potential. So I love the concept and have been using lapse for a little over two months now. The pros: V cute way to stay in the moment and have cute photos The cons: Exporting photos is a nightmare - the watermark is huge and I don’t want it on my photos but i don’t have a choice. They just rolled out a remove watermark feature but it comes with a 24h ONLY time limit and you have to invite more friends to the app + share the app + journal within the app. The app is super buggy and unintuitive. Sometimes it shows photos that have already been developed as not developed, or it shares too much to the “feed” about you adding things to albums. Privacy wise they want access to your contacts to build up their base and they are constantly asking you to invite more people into the app. It’s starting to be waaay less fun and more invasive and annoying. I get that they want to grow but they need to work on the user experience significantly. It would be great if they had an auto save to camera roll function and more custom settings. Less pushing to share the app to gain access to key functions in the app would be excellent too. And less asking for my information etc. So yeah. Download at your own risk I guess?? If they don’t change things I’ll be gone!

New app who’s dis. New beginning!! Really enjoy how much I want to share, and the engagement I have with all the people who vibes, it’s not only socially not awkward. But it pushes you to be more social, and get to know others with mini clips of your fav pics. It gives me lots of confidence about my life, and the certainty of not being alone. Really best new social media app, you guys really thought of everything. One feed back suggestion, you should give us a set time when to come back for our pics when develop therefore we can create more and more. If we just wait 2-3 hours, we might come back after 5 hours and forget we even had develops. But if we come back sooner, it’s easier to get in the app more frequently.

I love it.. I think we could really have fun here. Keep the concept wholesome and simple- just like disposable cameras were. I am excited for new updates and for the app to fix a few bugs, but it really seems like a good vibes only and aesthetically pleasing way to capture moments. I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older I take less pictures than I used to, and I wanted to change that and then boom Lapse comes along. I love it so much. I just want a picture. I want to show my friends. I don’t want to make it instagram pretty. I just wanna take pictures of my dog and things I think are pretty and delicious beverages and candid photos of my friends and family and share them with the friends and family I don’t get to see often anymore. Also I love a good profile song.

Love the app, a couple critiques.. first off, i’d like to say i hope this app becomes the next big thing and dethrones the current apps which have chokeholds on the market. i love the accessibility, and the profile customization is SO COOL. i love being able to share what music i’m into with just a quick glance at my profile, and the emojis on the profile picture is a nice touch as well. i also absolutely LOVED the intro to the app, coolest thing i’ve ever seen. my only complaints lie in the instant part of the app, they’re a little clunky to get to, being hidden in a notifications tab. i believe they should get their own tab at the bottom, and that they also shouldn’t be “hold down to open.” it’s a little clumsy to do, and with an app that’s already slow (it being a new app), it kind of takes you out of the immersive experience. also, i’d love to be able to add more than a few words at the bottom of an instant, the current character limit is much too small to say anything of value. all in all, i’m in love with the vintage vision for the app, i’m excited to see where it goes, and i appreciate the thoughtfulness you all have as a developer!

Continues to access contacts even after turning off. I specifically set up the app after installation to not access my contacts. I got a notification from my app today that someone I know joined. Lapse should have no way to know we know each other or to suggest them since we have 0 mutual friends. Again: I. Turned. Off. Contacts. Access. I turned it off. The app should not be suggesting contacts and should not be storing that information. As others have pointed out, this is a blatant data grab and I’m frankly horrified that a company would be so shady with user data, especially since they seem to market to kids and teens. I checked the privacy policy and terms of use, and it says that contacts and the data there is a contractual obligation, however in a developer response to another one star review criticizing the same thing I am, they say it is “optional to use the app”, so which is the truth?

Cool but counterintuitive. If Instagram and VSCO had a baby, it would be this app. Cool in theory, but seems like just another platform to make Gen Z people feel retro because their photos on their iPhone 15’s have filters on them. Interesting concept, though. I liked the intro video, but I hated that I had to invite a multitude of people given that it is only in development. Also didn’t like how I couldn’t block or restrict other users, but I get that maybe that feature isn’t available yet. I would say I would have downloaded it again once that feature was developed, however, cant since I can’t even use my number anymore🙃 That’s an ultimatum that doesn’t make much sense. For the amount of people you have to recruit to the app to actually make your own account, most of them will end up deleting it within day just to never be able to use it again. Counterintuitive, IMO. Fix that and maybe you’ll get people back.

Fun new app could be even better. I am really enjoying lapse! It’s like a combo digital camera app, early days of snap stories and be real all came together. The more people that get on it the even better it will be but I’m enjoying it just as my own journal as well My biggest critique or note is that I think snaps develop too quickly. Make it more analog, give me time to forget what I did, 6 hours, next day, even 2 days! As far as I can tell it’s not meant to be an immediate thing, we have plenty of other apps for that. Make it more like a real camera, we used to have to use up the whole roll of film THEN still wait for the photos to develop once we dropped them off. Take it for what it is… TLDR: try this app it’s a fun new photo journal

One of the most pretentious apps out there. You HAVE to give access to ALL your contacts, HAVE to provide your phone number. Why? It’s a dumb little app to share photos. You HAVE to send invites to 5 friends before you can access the actual app. Why should I as a user give my entire contact list and my own phone number to an untrustworthy company? If you have to force your users to invite their friends, your app can’t be that good. How about you actually create a genuinely good app so people ask their friends to join naturally. But no, you have to do this bullsh*t to attract more users. I tried to sign up, and I had to sit through a intro video. If your app was designed well, a generic user would be able to figure out your UI, and your features through using it. I don’t mind a splash screen if I don’t use a particular feature, but you do that too. So its double pretentious. It took me about 10 minutes before I was able to take a picture on this app.

Perfect for Memories and Journaling. I’m quite fond of the journaling feature in Lapse. It’s seamless to include music, text, and photos, creating a hassle-free experience. It’s great for sharing with close friends, but I mostly appreciate it for personal journaling and revisiting my memories. The core value of this app lies in its ability to preserve memories, which is crucial to me as I deeply cherish time. The time and date stamps are a fantastic addition! Additionally, the need to wait for photo development in the app encourages staying present in the moment, rather than rushing to apply the perfect filter for immediate posting. While a few filters for enhancing photo quality or adding an artistic touch would be nice, I appreciate the simplicity of the app and the option to keep things straightforward.

I’m Pro Lapse But…. Love the concept, design, and attitude of the app and I hope it continues to grow even more in popularity. However, the pressure to immediately add two people, then invite 5 more people, and being forced to watch the instructional screens repeatedly when navigating this already intuitive app is annoying. I hesitate to call my issues with Lapse “dark” UX patterns but at the very least they’re annoying and kind of stressful UX/UI patterns to have in place. Ultimately, I’d like to experience the app and see if I like it before inviting my friends to it. I don’t even invite friends out to a bar unless I’ve checked out the vibe myself first. Luckily, you can invite people already on the app, I wouldn’t have made it past the onboarding steps otherwise.

App is almost fun, some extreme drawbacks. Update: i'm going to uninstall if you ask me every single time whether or not I want to keep notifications off, yes I do. The picture quality is pretty terrible, and locking a bunch of features behind inviting even more friends after you have already invited five and embarrassed yourself is just straight up obnoxious, and then you only unlock them for 24 hours. the whole app is highly manipulative and feels like it was designed in a lab. Also the delay to develop is just a weird gimmick to get you to open the app again. Basically it's kind of fun but the people running it think of their users as lab rats. There's not really anything specifically that makes this a go to, it's just a new flavor of the month for social media.

sign up is so annoying i wasn’t even able to use the app. i downloaded the app because i got an invite from my friend and the concept seemed really cool and fun, sort of like a mesh between bereal and instagram? but the sign up is BEYOND frustrating. first it makes you add at least four friends and does not give you the option to skip. all of my current contacts on the app are acquaintances/people i barely know and i had no interest in adding them yet i had no choice if i wanted to use the app. then it forces you to invite five people. this is where i quit because it’s clear they’re just trying to get as many people to download the app as possible, which i understand but it’s also not the user’s job to do that for you? maybe provide an incentive to inviting people or something. i can’t even speak on the functionality of the app because i couldn’t get past the ridiculous sign up requirements.

Super aggressive “marketing” features. You have to invite 5 people NOT on the app to even have access to it. You can’t unlock the feature to export without the logo unless you invite 3 more people. It only takes photos in 9:16 format, with 3:4 exporting also only unlocked after the “invite 3 more people” thing. And will block if you try to screenshot. At this point it seems like the app is trying way to hard to get the word out that it’s operating like a pyramid scheme, which damages new people’s perception of the app immediately. I don’t want to spam my friends. And it makes me wonder why so many aggressive features have been implemented, when that app developing time could have been spent improving other features. Otherwise the idea of this app seems really cute and great, don’t think I want to keep using it though if it’s going to stay like this.

Amazing app, would love and pay for automatic export option. This is such a thoughtful new social media app. It really is much lower maintenance and more natural to use regularly than any other platform, and I’ve gotten my whole friend group active on here. The built-in filter is beautiful. What would make the app perfect is an option for automatic export as you take photos, with options to save both filtered and unfiltered photos, at the highest quality possible. I find myself taking lots of photos both on and off Lapse because I do want to keep a non-filtered version for posterity, so it’s a bit of a pain point to switch back and forth.

2/5 for now. I think that the whole of this app is really cool and could definitely be better than BeReal, another app with the ‘wait to play’ concept. I see a few similarities to Tinder, Instagram, and most noticeably, Snapchat, but the speed of the app isn’t up to par at all when it comes to quick, smooth popups. The camera takes around a second to load and that could mean so much when you quickly open the app to snap a picture to see later. I noticed how you’re actually forced to invite contacts to the app and I can’t doubt that this is just a way to spread the word that this app exists. It took me quite a long time to actually gain control on this app, since there were constant popups instructing me to do this or that. This app has loads of potential and I could see myself using Journal on a daily basis. TLDR: ehh. app is kinda slow. i like snapchat better. bad for stalking. no scrolling feature. 2/5