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. 💗

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 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.

I downloaded Lapse shortly after it’s conception, I have put up with some of the more annoying feature additions and changes, but at it’s core I loved it, especially for following my friends and us being able to tag each other and not have to send 100 pictures via text message because we could just export the ones we wanted. I think Lapse should have changed a few things to keep it afloat, I wouldn’t mind an ad or two on the discover feed, or one that pops up when you open the app. The world runs on ads, it’s a great way to keep things free/low cost for the consumer/user. I think they missed a great opportunity to partner with apps like SCRL, or camera brands, other photography related businesses, etc. I liked Lapse because as a photographer I don’t want to always lug around a camera and then have to edit RAW files in Lightroom/Photoshop in order to take aesthetic photos of my daily life/friends/family. I am most upset that I wont be able to automatically tag my partner and friends instantly. Sure, have the photos on the user’s phone so its not taking up room on a server, server upkeep is expensive- understandable. I don’t know if this drastic of a measure is wholly necessary. I hope the team at Lapse takes to heart the feedback I see many of us giving them, and eventually restores some of the barebones of the social aspect.