Pause – Mindful Site Blocker Autor: Apollox

Pause puts a small speed bump in front of the sites that eat your time.

When you open a site you've added, like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Reddit, Pause asks first: "Do you really want to open this?"

• Say no, and you're taken back where you came from.
• Say yes, and you wait a few seconds first. The timer pauses if you switch to another tab, so you can't just wait it out somewhere else.
• After waiting, the site stays unlocked for a while (15 minutes by default). When the time runs out, open tabs on that site go back to the prompt.

It's friction, not a hard block. Most of the time, a few seconds is enough to realise you didn't really want to go there.

Rules for each site

• Pause mode (ask, then wait) or Block mode (won't open at all)
• Your own wait time, from 5 seconds to 10 minutes
• How long the site stays unlocked, from 1 minute to 2 hours
• Schedules: only apply a rule on certain days and times, e.g. weekdays 9:00–17:00
• Turn any rule on or off with one click

Toolbar popup

• See the current site's status at a glance: paused, blocked, or unlocked with the minutes left
• "Lock now" ends an unlock early
• Add the site you're on with one click, or type any site
• Pause starts empty: you choose exactly which sites to slow down

Analytics

• How often you turned back vs. went through
• Your resist rate, and how it compares to the previous period
• Time spent on paused sites (only while the tab is in focus and you're not idle)
• A day × hour heatmap of when you get tempted most
• A sortable table for each site
• Filter by 7, 30 or 90 days, all time, or a single site

Appearance

• Light, Dark or Auto, set separately for the popup and the prompt page

Private by design

• Pause collects no data. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics servers.
• Your sites, settings and stats are stored only in your browser.
• You can reset your stats at any time.