Mindful Pause

Mindful Pause helps you use your phone on purpose.

Most app opens are reflexes, not decisions. Mindful Pause puts a short, calm pause in front of the apps you choose (feeds, short videos, games) and leaves everything else alone. Calls, messages, payments, banking, maps and your camera are never touched.

THE PAUSE
• A question that fits the moment, in English or Hinglish, sometimes with a line you wrote yourself, and a breath before you decide.
• Like a question? Send it on WhatsApp or save it as a picture.
• Then choose: close the app, or open it for 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
• Every time you step away counts as a walk-away.

TODAY
• Time on your chosen apps against your daily target.
• Your walk-aways, and your streak of days on target.
• A small plant grows with your streak: new leaves on days 7, 14, 21 and 30.

PROGRESS YOU CAN TAP INTO
• Your last 7 days, then each app, each day and each pause.
• Every rule change you make, kept in one simple list.
• A short review every 15 days.

RULES THAT FIT YOU
• Pause, daily limit or quit, per app.
• Calm first hour after waking and phone-free bedtime: off, soft or hard.
• Decide with a clear head: loosening a rule waits 24 hours.

GENTLE NUDGES
• A quiet nudge after 20 minutes of continuous use. Never while the phone is locked, never with sound.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Everything you do stays on your phone. The app only downloads new pause questions, and sends nothing about you.
• No ads, no tracking, no accounts.

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE
This app uses Accessibility services. Mindful Pause uses Android's AccessibilityService API only to notice when you open one of the apps you've chosen to pause, so it can show the pause screen at that moment, and to close an app if you've set a hard block on it. It does not read your messages, what you type, your passwords or other content on your screen. Nothing it detects leaves your phone or is shared with anyone. You can turn the service off at any time in your phone's Accessibility settings.