Webcam Time Lapse App Reviews

simple and useful - works perfectly.

I use is to make time lapses of satellite weather and radar as well as sun time lapses from SOHO. The problem I have is that the image download rate caps out at 3600 seconds (1 hour). Some of the images I download update every 3-12 hours. It would also be nice to preview what has been recorded so far without having to terminate the current recording. Finally, I have to manually run multiple instances of this app to do ore than one recording. It would be nice to be able to set up multiple recordings within one instance of the app. All this being said, it works very very well and does exactly what is says. Excellent work.

works like a charm, happily recording full-resolution time lapse video from a webcams live feed. developer was helpful in figuring out a problem with the webcam feed, too. well worth the money.

I love the simplicity of this software - it works as advertised and without any hiccups. A few suggestions that would be VERY useful: 1) Remember settings and restore them the next time the app is run (URL or Webcam, Frequency, Frames Per Second) 2) Option to print a date & time stamp on each frame image. 3) Detect webcams being plugged in without having to restart the software. (Apples Photo Booth does this)

just bought a logitech c920 webcam and wanted to do a timelapse with it. Found this app in the mac store and so far so good. Support is top notch and quick. I literally emailed the developer and in 5mins time I got a response. quick and responsive. Thank you

Dont waste your money.

I’ve been looking for something that would do exactly this, grab JPG web camera outputs and stitch then together into a QuickTime movie automatically. My only wish is for this APP to have the option of how long it would run (up to, and including an option to run until the user stops it). My guess is that this featured request is a very easy addition. Please add this feature… and I will give this APP 5 STARS!

This captures from a URL, not from your Macs webcam. I clicked too quickly, and now I really wish Apple had some refund policy.

With an upgrade this now does exactly what I bought it for. Recognizes both firewire and USB webcams. Works simply and straight forward. Wouldnt mind seeing a straight image to folder dump as an option in a future update.

Its a pretty low-frills time-lapser. Does as advertised. It would be great if it could segment and name movies at a user-specified interval (new movie once a day, etc)

This app is exactly what I was looking for: a program that would take pictures at regular intervals and put them together into a movie file for quick perusal. After a few tests, I noticed that it would stop recording after roughly three and a half minutes of playback time, but I emailed Matt and he found an issue that he said should be resolved with the next release. The app is brill and the support is excellent. Highly recommended.

This is the nifty little app Ive been looking for. Glad it has arrived and its easy to use. I had some problems importing the movie from the app into iMovie so I contacted them. I was impressed with a prompt response and a fix.

I previously reported a bug in which the program would freeze into the recording. The developer Matt Shepard was very responsive to my email and it is fixed in the update. Ive used it about 5 times after the update without problems. Thanks!

I either read things wrong or was confused and bought the wrong tool. But I really like what I got. I originally wanted a tool which would take photos from my camera and save them to the hard drive. It ended up this tool takes photos from camera (or online) and makes a timelaps move out of it. Even thou it is not what I wanted, after purchasing it I started using it and like it a lot. The interface is clean and well polished, the time laps move feature works great, and it is one of those tools that will make you become creative to put it to good use. Ive already movied my garden lights coming to life and running out of power (they are solar powered) hours later and once that is on Facebook I want to make a time laps movie of my Jasmin plants. I think this app and my last laptop will be each others friends and get plenty of use during summer.

Works perfectly with built-in iSight on my Macbook. Doesnt work so well with Logitech external webcam as it wont allow you to save the document for some reason. Running Mountain Lion and Logitech webcam is C910.

This seems to really fill an empty niche in image capture - time lapse using iSight or an external camera. Simple, no nonsense interface and it works quickly and easily. I had a issue with my external video camera, and when I contacted the developer I received nearly instant support, beyond just troubleshooting my setup, he set to work adjusting his app for future users. Impressive.

This app is brilliant. Seriously. I wanted to put together a time lapse of a thunderstorm I saw developing over Gerlach, NV (home of Burning Man) and needed a simple way to do it. This couldnt have been easier. Just enter the URL of the cam, set the interval and frames per second and voila. One hour of image captures resulted in this software creating a perfect 11 second video! Thank you for building this!

The application not save the time lapse which is important for a time lapse application DO NOT TRUST THIS APPLICATION

This will record off the built-in iSight, and the old external (FireWire) iSight. I tried a few webcam URLs but no go. Since there’s no built-in help, judging only from the error message, I guess the URL it wants is for an image (still or streaming JPEG?). Most webcams I found seem to use Flash (ugh) or Java. It’d be nice if a future revision included a list of known good URLs. The UI isn’t polished. The “preview” window is really a view of the last frame taken, not a live view of the camera as I’d expect when using a connected/built-in cam. It uses a slider for the playback FPS (fixed to multiples of 3 seconds, why?) but a type-in box for the capture rate. A nice touch is expressing the playback rate as a meaningful number. The suggested save-as file name is basic: untitled.mp4. It could be cleverer and use the camera name or the starting date and time of the capture. The UI gets the job done.

The interface is clean and straightforward. Select your webcam. Set how frequently you want it to capture a frame. Set the frames per second of playback. Hit Record! A handy little converter tells you how long your video will be for every 2 hours recorded. The preview window shows the last frame taken and is based on the interval you set for capturing frames. I found this helpful for judging how much time is elapsing between frames. Thanks to the developer for a nice easy to use app!