Pausea
Pricing
Stop opening the app you didn't mean to open
Pausea puts a countdown between you and the apps that eat your evenings — and keeps score of the promises you make to yourself.
Free to use · No account · Nothing leaves your phone
Take a breath
You said you wouldn't open Instagram.
Do you really need it right now?
The pause screen
Today
Monday 27 July
Your not-to-do list
Blocker
Friction before distraction
You choose what counts
How it works
Pick the apps that pull you in
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, the shopping app you open without deciding to.
Get a pause instead of a habit
Open one and a full-screen countdown appears — 10, 20 or 30 seconds. Long enough to notice you reached for it without meaning to. Then go back, or open it anyway and get a few minutes before the pause returns.
Keep a not-to-do list
Most apps track what you want to start doing. Pausea tracks what you want to stop. Write rules in your own words, mark each evening kept or slipped, and watch the hours add up.
It cannot read your screen
To notice that you opened a blocked app, Pausea uses Android's accessibility service —
registered with canRetrieveWindowContent="false", so Android never hands
it screen content at all. It is told the name of the app coming to the foreground, and
nothing else.
No messages, no passwords, no browsing history, no analytics. There is no account, no server and no sync: everything you write stays in a database on your phone and is deleted when you uninstall.
Free to start
Free
€0
Enough to find out whether this works for you.
- 3 rules
- 1 blocked app
- Daily check-ins and streaks
Pro
One payment
Or monthly, if you prefer.
- Unlimited rules
- Unlimited blocked apps
- Scheduled blocking hours
Stop paying and you keep everything you already made. The limits apply to adding new rules and apps — never to the ones you have.
Questions
Does it actually stop me opening things?
Not by force, and that is the point. Pausea adds a few seconds of friction at the moment you reach for an app, which is usually enough to notice you were not really deciding. If you still want it, you can open it anyway — the pause simply comes back when the grace window ends.
Can it read my messages or passwords?
No. The accessibility service is registered so that Android never gives it screen content — it is told the name of the app coming to the foreground and nothing more. Nothing it sees is stored or sent anywhere.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no server and no sync. Everything lives on your phone and disappears when you uninstall the app.
What happens if I stop paying?
You keep every rule and blocked app you already set up. The free limits apply only to adding new ones, so nothing you have made is ever taken away or hidden.
Will it drain my battery?
No. Pausea does nothing until Android tells it an app came to the foreground — there is no polling and no background scanning. It asks to be excluded from battery optimisation only so the system does not put it to sleep and quietly stop blocking.
Is it on iPhone?
Not yet. Pausea is Android only, because the pause screen relies on an Android capability that iOS does not offer in the same form.
Take back the rest of your evening
Pausea is finishing testing and arrives on Google Play shortly. Leave your email and you will hear the day it lands — nothing else, ever.
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