Pausea Pricing

Friction before distraction

You already know which apps eat your evenings. Pausea puts a moment of pause between you and them — and keeps score of the promises you make to yourself.

Coming soon to Google Play

What you see when you reach for a blocked app.

How it works

1

Pick the apps that pull you in

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, the shopping app you open without deciding to.

2

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.

3

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.

Quiet by design

No account. No sign-up. No cloud. Everything you write stays in a database on your phone and is deleted when you uninstall.

Pausea cannot read your screen. To notice that you opened a blocked app it uses Android's accessibility service, registered with canRetrieveWindowContent="false" — so Android never hands it screen content at all. It sees the name of the app coming to the foreground and nothing else. No messages, no passwords, no browsing, no analytics, nothing sent anywhere.

Pricing

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. Pro 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. It has no code that touches text on screen, and 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.

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.