Short answer: pauza is free, and the free tier is a complete app — full screen time tracking, all 15 Aura levels, streaks, the avatar shop, a friend challenge and a daily Hard Mode block. PRO costs $59.99 per year or $9.99 per month and removes the caps. There is no ad tier, no data selling, and tokens can never be bought or cashed out.
what the free tier includes
- Full screen time tracking on iOS 26+, per app.
- All 15 Aura levels, daily streaks and the token economy.
- One friend challenge — 1v1 or solo, up to 7 days.
- One Hard Mode block a day, up to 4 hours.
- The avatar shop.
- Claiming your tokens by hand each day.
what PRO adds for $59.99 a year
- Unlimited Hard Mode — block for as long as you need, as often as you need.
- Unlimited challenges, solo or 1v1, with no cap on how many run at once.
- Extended challenges up to 14 days instead of 7.
- Auto-claim, so a missed day never costs you the tokens you earned.
- Weekly and monthly analytics with a per-app breakdown and trends.
yearly or monthly?
PRO is $59.99 a year or $9.99 a month. The yearly plan works out to $5 a month, so it is cheaper if you stay past six months — and screen time habits are a months-long project, not a weekend one. The monthly plan exists so you can try PRO without committing a year.
Both renew automatically until you cancel, and both can be cancelled at any time from your iPhone settings.
how to cancel your pauza subscription
- Open Settings on your iPhone and tap your name at the top.
- Tap Subscriptions.
- Tap pauza, then Cancel Subscription.
- You keep PRO until the end of the period you already paid for, then drop back to the free tier — your streaks, tokens and history stay exactly where they are.
why the core app is free
Most screen time apps put tracking itself behind a paywall, which means you have to pay before you find out whether the thing works for you. pauza does the opposite: the loop that actually changes behaviour — earning tokens for time off your phone, spending them on Hard Mode, betting them against a friend — is free, and PRO only lifts the ceiling once you are already using it every day.
Tokens are the one thing money can never touch. They have no cash value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out. PRO buys you room, never progress.
Start on the free tier — it is the whole loop, not a trial. Upgrade only if you hit the caps.
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