I put my iPhone in my Glif, put it on my Joby mini tripod and use the built in timelapse mode on the iPhone camera app.

The timelapse mode on the iPhone is clever enough to vary the number of images it captures/uses as the length of the time lapse increases. i.e. it captures images quickly to start with, but then starts discarding the earlier ones if you run it for a long time. The end result is a short-ish video, which is probably what most people want most of the time.

No doubt there are also dozens/hundreds of time lapse apps in the Apple/Android app stores, with more flexibility than Apple's own time lapse mode.