Pick the apps that pull you in. The next time you open one, Pauso shows a calm full-screen pause: Do you really want to open this? After a few seconds you can continue on purpose, or close it and move on. Most of the time, that breath is all it takes.
Pauso doesn't nag or lock you out of your own phone. It just puts a small gap between the reflex and the scroll.
Instagram, YouTube, X, a game, whatever eats your evenings. Three apps are free; Premium pauses as many as you like.
Open a paused app and a calm screen appears first, with a 3 to 30 second countdown you choose per app.
Close it and go back to your day, or continue once the countdown ends. Every open you avoid counts toward your streak.
Premium adds the tools that hold the line when willpower is low: schedules, daily budgets and a strict mode with no early exit.
Work hours, study time, bedtime. During a schedule every paused app is fully blocked, with no "Continue" button at all.
Give an app a time budget per day. Once it's used up, the app stays closed until midnight, even mid-session.
For the length you choose, Pauso can't be switched off, uninstalled, or have its apps, limits and schedules changed. It ends on its own.
Opens avoided, opens you went through with, time spent in paused apps, and a streak of days where the pause worked.
A focus app shouldn't be another thing watching you.
Not in the free version, not ever. No ad SDK is in the app.
Nothing to sign up for. Install it and start.
Pauso has no backend and no analytics. Your rules and stats are stored only on your device.
Pauso only learns which app came to the front. It cannot read what is on your screen.
About the accessibility permission. Pauso uses Android's Accessibility Service to learn which app just came to the front, so it can show the pause screen over it. It receives only the name of that app. Pauso does not read, collect or share anything on your screen. You turn the service on in system settings after the app explains this. Full details in the Privacy Policy.
It's the only reliable way on Android to know the moment an app comes to the front, so the pause can appear before you start scrolling. Pauso receives the app's name and nothing else. It is configured so Android never gives it your screen content.
Yes, after the countdown. That's the point of the free version: a pause, not a cage. If you want something firmer, Premium's schedules, daily limits and strict mode remove the "Continue" button.
No. While it's on, Pauso blocks its own settings, the system accessibility page and the uninstall dialog. It ends at the time you picked. Choose a length you mean.
Your first three paused apps keep working with the pause screen. Schedules, limits and strict mode stop applying but are kept, so they come back if you resubscribe.
Some phones (Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Samsung and others) kill background services to save battery. Open Pauso → Settings → Allow running in the background and exclude Pauso from battery optimisation.
Android 8.0 and newer.
Download Pauso on Google Play. Questions or ideas? Email sivanimmaladev@gmail.com.
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