Pause: daily mindfulness

I used to live this simple little app. When I was in a meeting and having trouble focusing it was perfect. It was both calming and focusing. Now it is useless! The only time I can use it is if I’m alone in a quiet room, and then I don’t need it! I bought it because it purports to help anxiety and improve focus, but I can’t use it in situations where that’s needed. Even with the volume turned down on my phone this app broadcasts to everyone around me that I’m using it.

App is simple and straightforward. Developer continues making meaningful improvements to the app in response to feedback!

This is an amazing app and is well worth the money! The only improvement I would ask for is for an option to keep the "guide" from growing outside of the screen. I would like to watch it follow my fingertip and I find that part most relaxing. Update: very bummed that the newest update requires an annual fee now to access the additional features after I paid for the app, but at least the original feature is still free…hoping the same won’t happen to Sway…

Out of all the available known breathing techniques this is what you’re going with. I have to lay down and put my phone awkwardly on my stomach. And then the audio keeps cutting out every few seconds. This is incredibly annoying and the most frustrating breathing technique I’ve ever tried. You shouldn’t have to lay down to do breathing exercises. I’ll keep using my other breathing apps that aren’t just a gimmick.

I have enjoyed using Pause for a while and have been very happy to see the feature set grow with new and very helpful additions. I have been considering subscribing, but have one major complaint: Pause does not seem to offer the opportunity to log mindful minutes in Apple Health. As someone who likes to track that metric passively, I would really like to see that added to a future update.

I’ve loved this app till it went silent. Wish I had known the fix was to take my phone off “silent mode.” All is well and I can now enjoy the app again!

If you’re having a hard time with stress, falling asleep, etc., I highly recommend the Pause app. I cannot overstate how much I love this app. (I’ve been using it for a few years now.) You basically guide a little blob around the screen - verrry slowwwwly - picking up other gently floating little blobs, as your blob grows and grows and eventually fills the screen. All while gentle, floofly, space age meditation music plays. It sounds weird, but it’s actually a lovely, relaxing experience! If this app ever went away, I’d honestly be bereft. It’s a big part of my relaxation toolkit!

I bought this app a long time ago, and am happy my original features are still here, with the added bonus of new iOS and phone support. None of the core features changed; however there are new options that are “locked” which one cannot remove if not purchased, or not being used. (Your original purchase, or newly-downloaded app/purchase as the case may be, is quite similar to the original Pause app.) Unfortunately, the “Pause Premium” is currently the cost of the original app purchase – but is monthly on a monthly basis. This astronomically increases the price, if one is interested in the advanced metrics, themes, and so on. (Subscriptions do enable developers to devote more time to apps, and not release “new” versions after abandoning the current app listing, as the App Store does not offer upgrade pricing. More on that later.) Feature Requests: Adding an “advanced” screen in settings, which would allow all of the visual elements to be customized, such as removing certain functionality, if one is not using them. Alternatively, they could be “relocated” (in that “advanced” menu, or in general) so that the “Pause Home Screen” remains as singularly-focused as it once was: just place your finger… :) My belief is that “metrics” for meditation has some degree of irony: I feel meditation is about the abandonment of intentionality, thought-movement, and willful doing. Not trying to do so, and trying to not do so. It has no “point,” and is the point. “How can I improve at no-thing?” Its relaxing, because it’s, in simpler terms: a break! If you’re reading that, please consider that question; if you find it funny maybe that’s the answer, it’s ironic, and a bit of a riddle. However, not everyone holds this philosophy: the app authors have told me that some “objective” guidance can help one start on the right track to meditation. If you are interested in the metrics and believe it could help you, and/or like the neat also-included colorful themes, subscribing may help keep the app alive – aiding in funding further development! Though, I feel the price of $4/month is too steep, as the app 1Password is less than that, for example. In my personal opinion, I believe $10/year is fair for the functionality I derive from it. (But the stress relief Is worth more). —— Note: This is a much more thoughtful and revised review, since I received a comment from the app developers who read and said they will consider my original review. Consider this a more thorough, better one

sick and tired of the rip-off pricing

Usually there’s a contact us for clients but this app doesn’t have one yet. I purchased a new sound for my pause app but it’s gone because of the new update installment.