Which Instagram app was made for creating time-lapse videos?

Hyperlapse was the Instagram app made for creating time-lapse videos. Instagram released it on August 26, 2014, as a separate iOS app focused on turning ordinary handheld footage into smooth, accelerated sequences.

Its key technical feature was image stabilization. Users could record as they walked or moved, then speed the footage up by as much as 40 times normal playback. This made Hyperlapse different from a basic time-lapse made by combining separately captured still photographs: it processed continuous video and reduced visible camera shake.

A common mix-up is Boomerang, another Instagram-made app. Boomerang, released in 2015, created short clips that loop forward and backward rather than conventional time-lapse sequences. Hyperlapse was removed from app stores in 2022, although its historical role in Instagram’s stand-alone app lineup remains significant.