Aquarium Timelapse

Watch your corals and plants actually grow. Create stunning time-lapse videos of your tank.

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Aquarium Time

See It In Action

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Fact: Corals don't grow before your eyes. Frankly, nothing in our aquarium grows that fast except for chaeto... because you bought one of those fancy refugium lights after a BRStv binge that you're still trying to justify. #allmymoneygoestochaeto

By the maker of Aquarium Camera. Tested by over 250 reef aquarists on the Reef2Reef forums!

Telling others about the new frags you bought from World Wide Corals (who graciously supplied the screenshots for this app) and how nicely they've started encrusting since you started that zeovit system is great, but what if you could SHOW them how fast they were growing?

That's what this app is all about: Proving your maintenance is helping spur better growth, getting your likes up on social media, owning your next aquarium club meetup, and having the coolest plant and coral growth log of all time!!

How It Works

Start by taking pictures of your corals, plants, snails, crabs, starfish, and full sections of your tank. Every few days, take another picture using the same orientation. I've created an easy-to-use overlay tool to line up your shot from the previous photo.

Once you have enough photos, hit play and watch your plants and corals grow before your eyes! When it's time to post progress, with a touch of a button, a time-lapse video will be created for you to save to your device library and share on your favorite aquarium social media channels.

Features

  • Create Any Number of Aquarium Photo Collections: Track multiple corals, different angles, or entire tank sections
  • Easily Add New Photos Over Time: Use the in-app camera to capture consistent shots
  • Show/Hide Overlay of Your Last Photo: Line up each new photo precisely with the last one—no guesswork
  • Add and Toggle Targets: Place markers on your images to line up your shot perfectly every time
  • Toggle Text Overlays: Show the date each photo was taken in your final video
  • Toggle Slide Order: Keep track of looping shots for seamless playback
  • Easily Export Videos: Save to your device library at different frame rates and quality settings
  • Easily Share Square Videos: Optimized for Instagram, Facebook, and other social media
  • All Photos Automatically Placed in an Album: Never lose track of your timelapse progress

Why This Exists

Watching coral and plant growth unfold over weeks and months is one of the most rewarding parts of the hobby. But without time-lapse, you're relying on memory—and memory is a terrible measure of progress.

I built Aquarium Time because I wanted proof that my maintenance routines were actually working. Now, instead of wondering if that Monti cap is actually encrusting or if it's just wishful thinking, I can watch it happen frame by frame.

Thanks for checking out this app! Proceeds go back into making more apps we all wish we had to help maintain our tanks. I'd love your feedback if you have time to fill out the form on our website—I continue to support this and my other apps for aquarium lovers into the foreseeable future.

Stop saying your coral is growing. Prove it.

Download Aquarium Timelapse

Watch your tank's progress unfold before your eyes.

Download on the App Store