# Dear Wander: Screen Time Pause — A journal for your phone time > A journal for your phone time (iPhone/iPad app by Andres Vidal.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dear-wander-screen-time-pause/id6759883721 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Andres Vidal](https://appshunter.io/developer/1747759989) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 36 MB - Languages: American English, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-18 - Data updated: 2026-10-28 ## What is Dear Wander? Dear Wander is a screen time companion for using your phone less. Its journal helps you stick to it. You pick the apps you open too often. When you go to open one, Dear Wander shows up first, with the sentence you wrote that morning. You breathe with the orb for about a minute, then it asks how you feel now. You decide whether to open the app or put the phone down. The journal keeps track of your day In the morning you write one sentence for the day. In the afternoon the app asks how you're feeling about it, and at night how it went. If it was hard, it asks whether it was too much for one day, and the next morning you can start from a smaller step. Each pause shows up in your journal with how you felt after. When you want to write more, there's a question drawn from what you did today, or a blank page. Your week Each week you see how many times you paused and how you felt after, next to one line you wrote. For harder moments A 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, to come back to your senses. Built on Apple's Screen Time You choose the apps and websites. What you write stays on your phone, and there's no account to create. Dear Wander is free with one app. Dear Wander+ is a single payment for every app you choose, with grounding and insights. No subscription. Warmly, Dear Wander Terms of Use (EULA): https://dearwander.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dearwander.com/privacy/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Dear Wander+ Monthly | $3.99 | per month | | Dear Wander+ Yearly | $19.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Dear Wander+ Lifetime | $5.99 | one-time | ## Is Dear Wander safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Dear Wander. ## Is Dear Wander legit? Dear Wander: Screen Time Pause has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dear Wander is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-27 Use your phone less, and keep track of how it's going. Your intention, through the day. In the afternoon Dear Wander asks how you're feeling about the sentence you wrote that morning, and at night how it went. If it was too much, the next morning you can start from a smaller step. A journal page. Writing now opens a full page with your day at the top: your intention and your pauses. The question comes from what you did today, or you can take the blank page. Your week. Insights show how you felt after your pauses, with one line you wrote. One payment. Dear Wander+ is now a single purchase. No subscription. A new theme. Aurora, from peach to lilac. Choose it in Settings. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-03 It now runs on more iPhones. It now runs from iOS 18. A journal of its own. What you write now has its own tab. Entries stay closed until you open them, so nothing you wrote is on show when someone glances at your screen. A question at night. In the evening, one question about your day, drawn from your own intention and the pauses you took. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-31 A new look, and a fix. Dear Wander has a new icon: an arch opening onto the last of the light. Websites now get the same pause as apps. If you'd put a whole category on your list, the sites inside it were slipping through. They don't any more. Works only in Safari. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-27 Dear Wander now has a Spanish App Store page, and a new support page at dearwander.com/support if you ever need one. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-18 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Dear Wander | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Cindy - Crossfit Workout](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cindy-crossfit-workout/id6802301405) | — | $3.99 | Health & Fitness | | [DoomWalk: Scroll Into Steps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/doomwalk-scroll-into-steps/id6759511168) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Therapyside - Online therapy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/therapyside-online-therapy/id1223472664) | 4.6 (30) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [MasterEQ: Improve Yourself](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mastereq-improve-yourself/id6738186034) | 4.4 (7) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [Cubitt Health](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cubitt-health/id6468028489) | 4.3 (3) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [FITCO](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fitco/id1232476908) | 3.3 (14) | Free | Health & Fitness | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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