Pauzo: App Blocker & QR Key

Keep reaching for your phone without a reason? Pauzo helps you interrupt that habit. Choose the apps that distract you, keep your essentials available and decide when you want to use the rest.

A simpler phone for study, work and evenings
Start Dumb Phone Mode with the essentials you choose, such as calls, messages and maps. The optional minimal home screen puts those useful apps within reach, without a grid of distractions.

Add a pause, not another reminder to dismiss
Pause before opening a limited app. Set schedules and limits for the parts of your day you want to protect, or start a multi-day challenge to spend less time scrolling.

Turn movement into screen time
Earn minutes with push-ups counted by the camera on your device. Spend those minutes on the apps you limit. Camera images are processed live and never recorded.

A physical key you can put away
Link a compatible NFC tag or use a printed QR code for key-based unlocking. A QR key works without NFC hardware. Put the key away from your usual scrolling spot to make opening an app a deliberate choice. Emergency unlocking and Release all remain available.

Do I need an account or an internet connection?
No account is required. Rules, usage history and earned minutes stay on your phone. There are no ads, analytics or tracking.

Why does Pauzo ask for permissions?
With your consent, Android Accessibility detects when a chosen app opens so Pauzo can show its pause or block screen. A separate optional feed service checks screen element names and labels in supported apps to recognise short-video feeds. This processing stays on your device. Camera access is for push-ups or QR scanning; optional step features use activity access or Health Connect.

Choose your essentials, set one limit and make room for what you meant to do.

Recent changes:
First release of Pauzo.
• Dumb Phone Mode: one switch, and only the essential apps you pick stay open.
• Push-ups for screen time: phone under your face (your nose counts) or the camera from two meters (beta).
• Brainrot: short videos and endless feeds behind a breath.
• Dopamine Detox challenges, schedules and a physical key (NFC sticker or QR code).
Free, no account, nothing leaves your phone.