Frequently asked questionsFrequently asked questions

Pausr is built for people whose work lives on a screen and who intend to keep doing it for years: developers, designers, writers, editors, analysts, founders. It fits you if you have already tried a break app and uninstalled it because it interrupted you at the worst possible moment, if you want honest screen-time numbers rather than encouragement, and if you would rather pay once than rent a habit. It is the wrong tool if you want a website blocker, a meditation program, or a dashboard to monitor a team: nothing ever leaves your Mac, so there is nothing to report on.

No. Pausr is a small, lightweight app that checks your activity every few seconds with native helpers. No video processing, no heavy background indexing. You will not find it in the battery report.

Everything stays on your Mac: your stats, settings and history are local JSON files, and there is no account and no server. Pausr never reads your screen content and never records anything. Detection (meetings, video, games) is based on local signals like which app is frontmost.

Pausr is a break timer at heart: it proactively triggers your breaks at the right moment. The difference is that it knows the context. It holds reminders during meetings, calls, screen sharing and games, pauses your music during breaks, and shows honest screen-time stats. It follows a health protocol, not an egg timer.

Yes. Every break comes with a 30 second heads-up and can be postponed (a couple of times a day) or skipped. Pausr is firm but never locks your machine.

No, and that is deliberate. When a single app has held you for a long stretch, Pausr sends a pointed reminder instead. Hard blockers teach you to disable the blocker; a well-timed mirror works better.

macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Pausr is built for macOS only, so it can integrate deeply with it.

Quit Pausr, drag it from Applications to the Trash. To wipe your local data first, use Settings, then Local storage, then Delete all local data inside the app.

Open the Download page and click "Get your key or manage your subscription", or go straight to pausr.io/license. Enter the email you used at checkout and we send you a private one-click link to your Stripe billing page, where you can cancel, change your card or download an invoice. Cancelling stops the next payment, and Pausr keeps working until the end of the period you already paid for. If you come back later, subscribe again and a fresh license key arrives by email right away.

Email support@pausr.io. Pausr is built by one person, so you are writing directly to the developer.