Make a Daily Photo Timelapse on Android

To make a daily photo timelapse on Android, put your photos in date order, open Timelapse Studio in Progress Photo: Before After, choose a speed and format, preview the sequence, then tap Create video. You need at least two photos. The steps below cover existing photos, playback choices, missing days, and what to check before keeping the finished file.

1. Put the photos in chronological order

Open the project containing your daily series, or create a project and use Import photos to add pictures from your gallery. Progress orders the timeline by each photo’s stored date. For JPEG imports, it tries to read the embedded capture date; if that is unavailable, it uses the file’s modification date or the current date. Check the timeline rather than assuming every import landed on the right day. Open an incorrectly dated photo and use its date control to correct it. Save the change and check the order again before making the video.

2. Open Timelapse Studio and review the sequence

In the project’s Tools area, tap Timelapse. The studio shows a preview, the number of included photos, an approximate duration, and the output quality. Tap Play to watch the sequence before exporting. Look for a picture appearing out of order, an accidental duplicate, or a frame that belongs to another project. Make any corrections in the project first, then reopen the studio. There is no separate frame picker or drag-to-reorder editor in Timelapse Studio: the video follows the project timeline, subject to the free version’s frame limit described below.

3. Choose how quickly the photos advance

Start with Auto, then try a manual speed if the sequence feels rushed or drags. Progress offers Slow, Medium, Fast, and Very fast. The table gives their source-photo playback rates; these control how quickly the pictures change, not your shooting schedule. Slower playback gives viewers more time to inspect each image, while faster playback compresses a longer series. For planning, 60 included photos at six photos per second gives roughly 10 seconds of image sequence, though the saved file can run longer. Judge the result by watching it, rather than aiming for an exact duration.

4. Choose the frame shape and check the crop

Under Format, choose Vertical 9:16, Square 1:1, or Wide 16:9 to suit where you intend to view the video. Progress fills the selected frame with each photo and centers it, so parts of an image can be cropped when the shapes differ. Preview the whole sequence after changing formats. Check that the subject remains visible near the edges, especially if your series mixes portrait and landscape photos. The Background buttons do not add visible borders around ordinary photos because the image fills the frame. Choose another aspect ratio if the current crop removes something you need.

5. Pick a transition that suits the footage

Use Cut first to see each photo without a transition blending it into the next. Then preview Soft if you prefer a blended change, or Zoom if you want added movement. Watch a section where the subject shifts position: a transition may change how that jump looks, but it does not correct the underlying alignment. Timelapse Studio does not automatically realign imported pictures or generate missing stages between them. If an image needs repositioning, prepare an adjusted copy in a separate photo editor before importing it. Keep the original so you can revisit the edit.

6. Keep missing days understandable

A missed day does not prevent you from exporting the series. Progress advances through the included photos at the selected pace; it does not hold a picture longer to represent a longer gap between capture dates. For a daily project, set Day label to Show if you want viewers to see the elapsed days. The label is calculated from the project’s start date and the photo’s stored date, so check both if the numbering looks wrong. Choose Hide for an unlabeled video, and explain any significant gap in the caption if the dates matter to the story.

7. Check whether the full series is included

The free version includes every photo when a project has up to 10. Above that limit, it uses the first five and the last five, rather than sampling evenly across the timeline. A jump in the middle of the preview may therefore reflect omitted photos, even when you took a picture every day. Free video output is 720p with a Progress watermark. Premium includes every photo at 1080p without the watermark. Check the included-photo count before exporting, particularly when your goal is to show the intermediate stages rather than just the beginning and end.

8. Create the video and keep a copy

When the preview looks right, tap Create video and wait for the progress indicator to finish. On Android, Progress passes the generated file to the system share sheet. Choose an available destination that lets you keep a copy; creating the video does not itself guarantee a permanent copy in your gallery. The app tries MP4 first and falls back to WebM when MP4 recording is unsupported. Check the actual file extension after export. If your destination requires MP4 and you receive WebM, you will need a separate video conversion tool; Timelapse Studio has no format-conversion control.

9. Watch the saved file from beginning to end

Open the copy you kept and check the opening image, final image, crop, labels, and pace. A correct-looking first frame is not enough to confirm the whole export. If the video plays locally but another app rejects it, check that app’s accepted formats against the actual exported file. If the sequence itself is wrong, return to the project or studio, correct the relevant setting, and create a new video. Keep the source photos as well as the finished clip: the video is a viewing copy, and the photos let you make a different version later.