A meditation app, by people who teach

Take a breath.
It's just one minute.

Pause is a small library of guided meditations, breathing exercises, and quiet sounds. Built for people who don't have time to meditate but probably need to.

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"You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day. Unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour."An old Zen proverb

A few of our daily practices

Short. Honest. Effective.

Most of our sessions are between three and twelve minutes. Long enough to feel something. Short enough to actually do.

Box breathing

3 minutes

A four-count cycle that calms your nervous system in less time than your coffee takes to cool. Used by Navy SEALs and tired parents alike.

Loving-kindness

8 minutes

A guided practice for the days when patience runs short. Sit, breathe, and quietly wish well to the people in your life.

Body scan

12 minutes

A slow walk through your own body. Notice tension, release it, move on. The single best practice for chronic pain we've found.

A typical day

Five minutes,
five times a day.

Pause was designed around something we noticed in our own lives: the people who stick with meditation are the ones who do it for one minute, twenty times a week. Not the ones who try to do it for an hour, twice.

We send you a small notification when it's time. You can ignore it. Most days, you won't.

  • Wake-up breath 2 minutes
  • Mid-morning reset 3 minutes
  • Pre-meal gratitude 1 minute
  • Afternoon body scan 5 minutes
  • Evening wind-down 8 minutes
After 30 days

How it feels.

Pulled from our 2025 user survey. 4,200 responses, no edits.

82%
Sleep better
71%
Less anxious
94%
Still using it
11min
Daily average
Two ways in

A library worth paying for.

Free to start. The full library is one flat fee per year, less than a single therapy session.

Daily

Free, forever

$0per month
  • Three daily practices
  • Box breathing
  • Sleep stories (3)
  • One device
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Lifetime

Pay once, breathe forever

$199one time
  • Everything in Library
  • All future content
  • Priority support
  • The warm feeling of being done
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Free for seven days. No card. No commitment. Just one quiet minute.

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