Lapse

Lapse is a London-founded consumer photo company (Lapse Ltd) whose iOS app turns an iPhone into a disposable camera - a one-tap Lock Screen shutter, a film "developing" delay, and a friends-only photo journal built on a "Friends not followers" thesis of no ads, no data sales, and no public follower counts. The app is invite and friends-gated Early Access, free to use, iOS only, and screens uploads with AI moderation; contacts are hashed and encrypted on device. Lapse is backed by Greylock, GV and Speedinvest. It publishes no public API, developer portal, SDKs or documentation as of the July 2026 enrichment pass, so this profile captures company identity, the published policy and support surface, and probed security posture rather than an API surface.

Lapse is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Photography, Photo Sharing, and Social.

Lapse’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerPhotographyPhoto SharingSocialMobileiOSCamera

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

BlogRSS

Instagram

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AppStore

AppStore

TikTok

TikTok

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lapse
name: Lapse
description: Lapse is a London-founded consumer photo company (Lapse Ltd) whose iOS app turns an iPhone into a disposable
  camera - a one-tap Lock Screen shutter, a film "developing" delay, and a friends-only photo journal built on a "Friends
  not followers" thesis of no ads, no data sales, and no public follower counts. The app is invite and friends-gated Early
  Access, free to use, iOS only, and screens uploads with AI moderation; contacts are hashed and encrypted on device. Lapse
  is backed by Greylock, GV and Speedinvest. It publishes no public API, developer portal, SDKs or documentation as of the
  July 2026 enrichment pass, so this profile captures company identity, the published policy and support surface, and probed
  security posture rather than an API surface.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://lapse.com/homepage/images/webclip.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lapse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- greylock
- gv
- speedinvest
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-no-public-api: true
x-no-public-api-checked: '2026-07-19'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Photography
- Photo Sharing
- Social
- Mobile
- iOS
- Camera
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://lapse.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://lapse.com/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/@lapse
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://medium.com/feed/@lapse
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lapse.com/pdf/Lapse%20-%20Privacy%20Policy.pdf
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lapse.com/pdf/Lapse%20-%20Terms%20of%20Service.pdf
- type: AppStore
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lapse-disposable-camera/id1636699256
- type: Instagram
  url: http://instagram.com/lapse
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@getlapse
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lapse-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lapse-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lapse-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence