Pausely puts a small speed bump between you and the apps that eat your day. Not a lockout, not a guilt trip — ten seconds to decide whether you meant to open it.
A breath before the scroll.
Pausely stands in front of the apps you chose and asks for ten seconds first — a breathing exercise, a sentence to type, or a moment to name your intention.
Why are you opening it?
Turn a reflex into a decision — and make it on purpose. Most of the time, given the chance to think, people close the app instead.
Walking away counts.
Keep the win, or go in for five minutes — no lockouts, no guilt trips. Your own alternatives sit on the pause screen as a third way out.
See the time come back.
Every pause you kept, every hour reclaimed, a streak and a weekly chart — with widgets for the Home Screen and a countdown on the Lock Screen.
Your apps. Your rules.
A switch and a pause for every app, with schedules for evenings and workdays. Strict mode holds you to it when you ask it to.
Nothing leaves your device.
No account, no analytics, no advertising. Pausely cannot even read which apps you picked — Apple keeps that. One optional feature sends anything at all, and it starts switched off. How that works.
What it costs
Free is a working product, not a demo, and nothing you set up is ever taken away — even if a subscription lapses.
- One rule
- The breathing pause
- The whole progress screen — wins, time reclaimed, streak and chart
- Widgets and the Lock Screen countdown
- As many rules as you like
- All three pauses
- Strict mode
- The mood insight
- The optional AI reflection and its weekly note
- Yearly starts with a free trial
Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store for your country. Billing is handled by Apple. Subscription terms.
Built on Apple's Screen Time
Pausely uses the same framework that powers iOS's built-in app limits. Apple grants it only to apps it has reviewed for the purpose, and Apple — not Pausely — is what actually stands between you and the app. That is why Pausely can block an app without ever learning its name.
- iPhone and iPad, one appThe same single-column layout on both, and it behaves in Split View, Slide Over and Stage Manager. iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 and newer.
- Eight languagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese — including the block screen and the widgets. Choose one in Settings → Language without changing anything else on your device.