Version 2.0 — built to hold

Every app wants
your attention.
This one gives it back.

Pausa puts a daily budget on the apps that eat your time — and holds the line when you can't. Set it once, clear-headed. Pausa keeps it in the tired evening.

Pausa arrives August 3.

You decide, not the apps.

Once, not a subscription. No account, no tracking, no ads.

Protecting your time · all day
Today's budgets
72 Pausa Score
in control
Instagram22 / 30 min
on budget
YouTube68 / 60 min
over
X12 / 45 min
room to spare

The apps were built to decide how your day goes. Pausa hands that back.

The mechanism

Three quiet parts that keep the apps from running your day.

Today's budgets

Give each app a daily allowance.

Thirty minutes of Instagram. An hour of YouTube. You decide — then Pausa enforces it, all day, automatically. Any app that tends to take you.

Instagram22 / 30 min
YouTube68 / 60 min
X12 / 45 min
A wall that holds

Spend it, meet a pause.

No red alert, no shame — a calm screen when the time's gone. Push again and the pause grows. The more you push, the steadier it gets.

The Pausa Score

Lately — am I in control?

72

One quiet number. Not a streak to break, not a high score to chase — a healthy zone to stay in.

the budget

You set it. Pausa keeps it.

Decide how much each app gets while you're calm and clear. Then never decide again in the tired evening — Pausa already knows the number, and holds it for you.

Protecting your time
Pausa score
72
Instagram22/30
YouTube68/60
X12/45
Chess6/15
screenshot · home
The Pausa Score

Not a high score. A healthy zone.

One bad day is one seventh of the picture, never a reset. The goal isn't a hundred — it's staying in the green. Three honest states, one quiet number.

78
in control
57
slipping
34
the apps are winning

Nothing leaves your phone.

No account. No analytics. No tracking. Your budgets, your score, your history — all of it stays on your device. The privacy promise isn't a policy. It's the architecture.

No sign-upNo subscriptionNo ads, everNo data collection

Field notes

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August 3, 2026

Pausa is live on Google Play

One developer, one idea: a daily budget for the apps that eat your time, held by an app that doesn't nag, track, or subscribe you. Pausa is out today.
June 20, 2026

What two weeks without mobile internet does to your attention

Scientists paid 467 people to switch off the internet on their phones for two weeks. What happened next is worth two minutes of your time.
June 19, 2026

What 8,000 kids and four years tell us about attention

A major Karolinska study followed children for four years. The ones who used more social media drifted toward distraction — and the direction of cause is the part worth sitting with.

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