Time-lapse photography is a great way to enjoy a hobby and capture beautiful photos. Videos are captured at a slow rate, but appear to move faster when played. Although some smartphones come with built-in time-lapse, you need a camera app with time-lapse if yours lacks it. Time-lapse photography captures slow-moving yet mesmerizing beauty. With high video speed and low frame rate, you can capture epic videos or timelapse photos of the sunset, blooming flowers, moving clouds, and other spectacular scenes. However, you don’t need a costly camera to shoot time-lapse videos but a time-lapse app and your smartphone. Online time-lapse apps feature almost zero rendering time, giving you control over its settings. It means you can alter your camera settings such as white balance, exposure, timer, and even be able to apply filters. You can also define video duration, frame interval, and orientation for video settings. The apps are easy to use and enable you to select the bitrate and resolution.

Moreover, you can choose from a free or paid app or one with both options such as Framelapse. Free versions often feature ads while paid versions give access to more advanced features such as exposure lock, custom bitrate, and white balance lock, among others. Other time-lapse photography apps such as "Lapse It" comes with manual settings such as scene mode, focus mode, white balance, frame interval, and ISO mode. You can shoot stop motion videos or time-lapse videos, and afterward, alter their frames per second, resolution, and codec. You can also add an effect or audio to your captured videos to be creative. The best time-lapse apps also feature simple, user-friendly interfaces. They allow you to import or shoot videos as you deem fit. You can change the speed of your videos if you opt to capture videos with your app. For instance, the Microsoft Hyperlapse app can increase the speed of your video from 1X to 32x. The least speed at 1x stabilizes your video without impacting its audio.

You can also choose where to save your video and select a desirable resolution such as 1080p or 720p. It’s possible to export your video to an external device or even share it with others. You can also make time-lapse videos in motion and use built-in stabilization features in the apps to stabilize them. Apart from changing manual settings such as brightness, aspect ratio, saturation and contrast, some time-lapse apps such as TimeLapse record 4K videos. They also allow RAW images to be saved. It’s also possible to record tilt-shift videos with no time-lapse flicker. Recorded videos can be edited on frame levels. With the apps, you can also add audio to your videos before rendering them and create different sessions for capturing time-lapse videos. Other features include WiFi remote, voice-control, autosave, reverse playback and shots at up to 10 fps speed. You can also create multiple projects for unlimited time-lapse videos. This is a great way to learn practical skills.