App Pause: Mindful Screen Time

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About this app

Multiple strategies to control your screen time, block apps, and stay focused.

⏳ Pause Screen before opening apps
Take a moment before launching a distracting app. The customizable pause screen shows your current usage data, helping you break the autopilot habit and make an informed decision before you start scrolling.

⏱️ Interrupt scrolling with session limits
When using an app, decide beforehand exactly how long you want to use it for. Once your session ends, you will be paused again, preventing doomscrolling and helping you regain screen time control.

🚫 Set Daily Usage Limits
Define daily limits for any app. Once a limit is hit, choose your strategy to restrict screen time: from a simple app block to a time multiplier that makes the pause screen longer.

📅 App Block Schedule
Automatically block apps and limit screen time at specific times (e.g., 9 am - 5 pm). It’s the essential screen time app for maintaining focus during work, study, or sleep.

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✨ Additional Features

✔️ Mindful Breathing: Turn any pause screen into a wellness exercise.
✔️ Productive Swaps: Swap a distracting app for a "Good App" (like a book reader).
✔️ Screen Time Tracker: Monitor your usage in real-time with a non-intrusive floating timer.

💎 Pause+ (Optional Upgrade)

✔️ Unlimited Profiles: Create as many profiles as you need (Work, Study, or Evening) to manage screen time for different contexts.
✔️ Support a solo developer building tools for self control and focus.

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📝 A Note from Samiul

I built App Pause to beat my own phone addiction. My goal is to build a customizable tool that can help us use our phone with intention. I develop this app with ❤️ and ☕️. If you have feedback to help improve your screen time management, please reach out!

⚙️ Technical Details

App Pause provides an option to use Accessibility Services to detect when distracting apps are launched and trigger the app blocker. This ensures the pause screen works reliably to limit screen time. No personal data is ever collected or shared.

Ratings and reviews

Great app! Very easy to personalize. I choose which are the time-wasting apps to monitor, how long is the pause (to think if I really want to do this right now), how long before it pauses again, and my daily goal for time spent on each app. I looked at a couple of other "pause" apps, but they only tracked the total time per day, on all of the monitored apps together. Not as useful as choosing a time limit for each individual app

using this instead of Ascent because a lot of customization is available for free :) the pausing can literally save your life, download this asap!! one problem: for the apps I have blockers or multipliers set up for, the time usage randomly goes to super high numbers like 738/15m, and I've only used the app for a total of 12m in the past 3 days. it resets after a while but it keeps happening

This is actually a great app. You can customize everything, even the length of the breath you would like to take if you choose to have breath-taking as your break, versus just a pause, which you can also select the length of. Good replacement of the defunct Ascent app.

What’s new

✨ E-Ink Support: New dedicated breathing timer optimized for E-Ink displays.
🌐 Language Selection: Choose your preferred language during onboarding for a more personalized experience.
✨ Better Device Support: Clearer guidance for aggressive battery settings on certain devices.
🚀 Simplified Onboarding: Faster first-time setup to get you started quicker.
🛠️ Improved performance and bug fixes for a smoother experience.