Your phone
should make you
happier.
Pause Therapy bricks your phone and takes over the screen — no matter what you're doing. No swiping away. Just a short, science-backed moment of breathing, coaching, or clarity. Then you come back.
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The average person scrolls 300 feet of content per day.
That's the length of the Statue of Liberty. Every day. Your brain wasn't built for this. Pause Therapy stops the scroll cold — it takes over your entire screen, no matter what app you're in, and gives you a moment that actually helps you.
How it works
You pick up your phone
Like you do 96 times a day. No judgment.
Your phone is bricked
On a schedule you set — one to five times a day — the screen is taken over completely. No swiping out. No notifications. Just a mindful breathing exercise, a coaching prompt, or a moment of gratitude — full screen, no escape.
You come back to yourself
In under 60 seconds, the pause is over. You've shifted from autopilot to awareness. Now you choose what to do next — intentionally.
Not another meditation app.
Meditation apps wait for you to show up. Pause Therapy doesn't ask permission — it takes over your screen, locks you out of everything else, and gives you a moment of presence right where the brain rot happens.
Full Screen Takeover
When it's time to pause, your phone is bricked. No swiping away, no switching apps. The entire screen becomes the intervention — a breathing exercise, a coaching prompt, a moment of presence. Nothing else exists until it's done.
Micro-Interventions
Short, powerful exercises rooted in positive psychology that shift your state in under 60 seconds. No app can compete for your attention — the pause owns the screen.
Personalized Tracks
Choose from mindfulness, positive psychology, or coach-designed tracks — or let the app adapt to what you need.
Progress You Can Feel
Track your mood shifts, streaks, and growth over time. Your phone becomes a tool for well-being, not distraction.
Choose your path.
Three tracks, each designed to shift your relationship with your phone — and yourself.
Mindfulness
Guided breathing, body scans, and present-moment awareness exercises that ground you in seconds.
Positive Psychology
Evidence-based interventions from the science of happiness — gratitude, strengths, and savoring.
Coach-Designed
Custom tracks created by certified coaches for motivation, resilience, and intentional living.
What if the thing you reach for 96 times a day actually made you better?
Built on the science of positive psychology and designed for real life.
About the developer.
My Approach to Mindful, Humane Technology
I focus on building user experiences that make people happier and healthier in a field called Humane Technology. I use the latest research in the science of well-being to design my applications.
I studied software development at UCLA and Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania under Martin Seligman.
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Why Android only?
Android
Available nowAndroid gives apps the ability to draw over other apps and control what's on screen. This means Pause Therapy can truly take over your phone — locking the screen, pausing the scroll, and showing you a mindful intervention no matter what app you're in. This is the core of how Pause Therapy works, and only Android allows it.
iOS
Not possible — yetApple does not give apps full control over the device. On iPhone, apps can't take over the screen, can't lock you out of other apps, and can't interrupt your usage the way Pause Therapy needs to. iOS simply doesn't allow an app to brick your phone and show you a breathing exercise mid-scroll. Until Apple opens up these permissions, Pause Therapy can't deliver the experience on iPhone the way it's meant to work.
We're watching Apple's accessibility and Screen Time APIs closely. If iOS ever opens the door, we'll be there.