App Pause: Mindful Screen Time

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About this app

Do you open apps on autopilot? Are you wasting hours doomscrolling? Is mindless scrolling, phone addiction, and brainrot killing your focus? Then it’s time for a dopamine detox.

App Pause is the mindful app blocker that interrupts your bad habits by adding a short, customizable delay before you launch distracting apps. The short pause gives you the choice to stop doomscrolling and regain control.

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Why use App Pause?

🧠 Avoid Distractions & Delay Brainrot: Most distraction blockers just lock you out. App Pause intervenes the moment you tap an app. That short delay forces your brain to switch off autopilot, helping you stay focused and break the cycle of phone addiction.

⏱️ Limit Screen Time: Practice delayed gratification by waiting a fixed amount of time on every launch and then choosing exactly how long you want to use the app for (app usage limit). Once your chosen time is up, you will be paused again, helping you stick to your original intention. This is the perfect app time limit tool for mindful screen time management and digital wellbeing.

🧘 Mindful Breaks: Turn that waiting time into wellness. Use the pause screen to practice Guided Breathing. It is the mindfulness app that helps you stop doomscrolling.

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✨ Free Key Features

✔️ Smart App Blocker: The best avoid distraction app. Pause an unlimited number of distracting apps.

✔️ App Time Limit: Limit screen time for any app and set custom rules to what happens when the limit is hit.

✔️ Mindful Breathing: Turn pauses into a mindfulness app exercise.

✔️ Productive Swaps: Stop doomscrolling by swapping to a "Good App" (like a book reader).

✔️ Floating Timer: Track your app usage and screen time in real-time.

✔️ Pause App Schedule: Pause apps automatically at specific times (e.g., 9 am - 5 pm M-F).

✔️ Custom Reminders: Write notes to help you stay focused.

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💎 Pause+ (Optional Upgrade)

✔️Unlimited Profiles: Create as many profiles as you need (like "Work," "Study," or "Evening") to manage your app limits for different contexts.

✔️Support a solo developer building tools for self control.

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📝 A Personal Note from the Developer

Hi, I'm Samiul, the solo developer behind App Pause!

I built this tool because I struggled with my own phone addiction. I wanted a solution that wasn't just blocking everything, but actually helped me stay focused and build self control. My goal is to give you a highly customizable tool for better digital wellbeing.

I develop App Pause with ❤️. If you have feedback or feature ideas, please reach out!

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⚙️ Note on Permissions & Device Compatibility

Some phones have aggressive battery savers that can stop background apps. If the pause screen doesn't appear, please check your battery settings and consider enabling the Accessibility Service option.

Accessibility Service (Optional): This service is strictly used to detect when you launch a target app to trigger the app blocker. It ensures App Pause works reliably on all devices. No personal data is ever collected.

Ratings and reviews

THIS APP IS JUST SO AMAZING, unlike other productive apps in which you have either time limit or permanent pause but this app has something better a timer screen which is just so helpful to make you realise that you really want to use this app or not. tried many but this app is the one which reduced my screen time by a lot and literally a lot. but has one minor problems, if we quickly close the pause screen and quickly reopen the app sometimes it's stops working which is just nothing but still.

Excellent and elegant applicafion. Does the job wonderfully, without any annoying ads. Also allows for customisation on a per-app basis, which I find useful. Highly recommend.

this app is so cool and the pausing mechanism where it counts down to ten and then gives you the option to use it for a few mins is so so good. kudos to the dev for figuring the user experience out and making it free!!

What’s new

v0.28.2 - App Usage Improvements

💝 Shout out to Mikado for reporting abnormal app usage issues.

🐞 [Bug] Day label calculation was wrong in Pause Screen's Bar Chart. Fixed now.