Paussible
60-second pauses private by design free

Small pauses,
possible every day.

A minute of slow breathing, a stretch at your desk, two minutes of genuine nothing. Twelve tiny guided pauses — with Sunny, a companion who never nags, never counts, and never lets you fail.

psst — you can pat him

No account, no analytics Works fully offline No streaks, no scores, no shame

The companion

Meet Sunny

He holds a warm mug, he shows up when you arrive and when you finish, and he disappears the moment you start a pause — because the pause is yours, not his. Four warm expressions. Zero disappointment. That last part is a rule.

Welcoming

arrival, and the empty journal

Joyful

a pause completed — never a score

Cozy

while a pause runs, ears down

Curious

an invitation — never a demand

On this website he also wears costumes — a pilot's cap for box breathing, a nightcap for sleep, a hi-vis vest for shift workers. In the app he is always himself: one warm character, drawn by hand, who belongs to the calmest minute of your day.

The core act

Twelve small pauses, four kinds

Every pause is one to three minutes, guided by a visual pacer with optional voice, and ends on your mark — never a stopwatch in your face.

Explore all twelve

The app, today

What a minute with Paussible looks like

Real screens from the current build — the welcome, the goals you can set for yourself, a pause in progress, and the only review system that matters: I did that.

Paussible onboarding: Sunny the puppy welcomes you to the app

First hello — Sunny, no account

The Paussible home screen: Take a moment, with the day's gentle invitation

Home — one clear action

A pause's prep card explaining what the exercise will ask

Before a pause: what it will ask

A completed pause with the line I did that

Done — “I did that.”

The goals step where you choose what pauses are for

Your goals, your words

Around the core act

Everything else stays out of the way

A tiny journal

Write one thing that went right today. Sunny reflects it back from a fixed, written-in-advance set — honestly labelled, never pretending to think.

2,026 affirmations

A whole library of Sunnies to like, edit, share, keep on your home screen with a widget, or set as your wallpaper.

Pause Lock

Choose the apps that rest on your schedule. When one opens, Paussible offers a two-minute breather instead — and you can always get in.

Gentle reminders

A morning pause, a bedtime pause, and custom ones you name. One quiet notification — “A pause is here if you want it ☀” — and that's it.

24 calm themes

Seventeen quiet tints and seven crayons, each contrast-verified in light and dark mode. The one below is live — try it.

Voice guidance, optional

Warm narration for the pauses that want it, fully disclosed as synthetic, with its own volume step and an off switch that stays off.

Try it here

Seventeen tints and seven crayons

The app ships every one of these, measured for contrast in both modes. Pick one — the whole page, Sunny included, re-themes exactly the way the app does.

Your choice stays on this device. In the app it becomes your theme.

Grounded, honestly

Small is not a compromise — it's the design

+0.36vigour after micro-breaks
(meta-analysis, 22 studies)
−0.35fatigue after micro-breaks
(same meta-analysis)
60senough time for the body's
“safe” signal to land

Micro-breaks reliably change how people feel — vigour up, fatigue down. The evidence that they make you more productive is weak, and we won't claim it. The full picture, with citations, lives on the science page.

Read the science

The promise

No streaks. No scores. No shame.

There is nothing to break, nothing to lose, and no number you didn't choose. A missed day is greeted like any other day — because it is one.

Deletion is a right

Everything you make can be exported, and everything can be deleted in three plain steps. Uninstalling removes all of it.

Private by default

No account. No analytics. No ads. No internet access needed — every feature works fully offline, on your phone only.

Calm over busy

One clear action per screen, generous space, motion that eases — and a reduced-motion mode that keeps every feature, minus the movement.

Paussible is coming to Google Play

Free, with all twelve pauses free forever. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment it lands — one message, then silence.

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