# Posato — Space for what matters.

> Space for what matters. (iPhone/iPad app by Piotr Krawczyk.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/posato/id6812237585 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Piotr Krawczyk](https://appshunter.io/developer/1529168219)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 44 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Polish, European Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Posato?

Choose the websites and apps you want to step away from, keep them in pause sets, then start a pause on your iPhone or plan pauses ahead with a schedule. Give yourself time to read, work, or be somewhere else.

PAUSE ON YOUR TERMS

Pick a pause set and a duration: a quick choice from 25 minutes to 8 hours, Until end of day, or your own length on the timer. Posato uses Apple's Screen Time controls to pause that set for the session. You can deliberately end it early or remove Posato at any time. The pause gives you a moment to reconsider before opening something out of habit.

PAUSE SETS

Keep a set for each kind of pause, such as one for work and one for evenings. Each set has its own websites and apps, and one is the default. When pauses overlap, Posato pauses everything in their sets, within each device's limits, until the last one that includes an item ends.

SCHEDULES

Plan recurring pauses by weekday and time, each with its own pause set, such as weekday mornings or every evening. A schedule starts and ends on its own, even when Posato is closed. Skip the next one or end one early when plans change. Posato can tell you when a pause ends or when one starts on another device.

BREAKS AND BRIEF VISITS

During a scheduled pause, take one break of 5, 10, or 15 minutes; restrictions return on their own. For a website you want to check now and then, such as the news, let it open briefly during a pause: every 30 minutes, hour, or 2 hours, for 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Session shows when it opens next.

OPTIONAL ICLOUD SYNC

Link your iPhone and Mac through your Apple Account to sync pause sets with their websites, sessions, and schedules. App choices stay on each device. Changes are encrypted on your device before they reach your private iCloud database.

FOLDER SYNC AND OTHER DEVICES

Instead of iCloud, you can keep your workspace in a folder that iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or another service keeps in sync. Posato writes only encrypted files there and syncs the folder when you open the app. Folder sync also links Posato on Windows and Linux computers; posato.app has the downloads. Add a device by choosing the same folder and scanning a QR code.

Sync can be delayed or fail to arrive, and Posato cannot wake a sleeping device. The Mac app is a separate download for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. After a one-time setup there, pauses and schedules start without asking for your password each time.

EXPORT AND IMPORT

Save your pause sets, their websites, and your schedules to a file, optionally protected by a code, and import it on another device, such as a Mac on another Apple Account. App choices stay on each device.

NO POSATO ACCOUNT

No analytics, usage scores, streaks, or Posato-operated server. Posato follows your iPhone's language in English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Your choices stay on your devices unless you turn on sync. Posato is open source under the Apache License 2.0.

BEFORE YOU START

Screen Time permission is required on iPhone. The system may keep restrictions in place after a pause ends. For sessions shorter than 15 minutes, keep Posato open at the end or open it again to clear them. If you use Posato on more than one device, update all of them: devices on an earlier version stop syncing until they update.

## Is Posato safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Posato.

## Is Posato legit?

Posato has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Posato is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.0 — 2026-11-06

- Take a break during a scheduled pause: 5, 10, or 15 minutes, once per scheduled pause. Restrictions return on their own, and End break brings them back at once.
- Let a website open briefly during a pause: choose Open briefly in its menu, then every 30 minutes, hour, or 2 hours, for 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Session shows when it opens next.
- Posato now follows your iPhone's language in Polish, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as English.
- Folder sync now also links Posato on Windows computers.
- Update Posato on your other devices to keep them in sync.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-10-22

- Sync through a folder: keep your workspace in a folder that iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or another service keeps in sync, instead of iCloud. Posato writes only encrypted files there and syncs the folder when you open it. It also links Posato on Linux, new in 1.5.
- Join in two steps, in either order: choose the same folder on the iPhone, and scan the QR code that Add a device shows on your other device with the iPhone camera. Posato joins as soon as it has both. The code works for 10 minutes.
- Export and import: save your pause sets, their websites, and your schedules to a file, optionally protected by a code, and import it on another device. App choices stay on each device.
- A warmer light look.
- A device that joins during a pause starts pausing right away.
- The sync section shows when this device last synced.
- Duplicate a pause set from its menu.
- A set with websites and no apps chosen on this device no longer shows a warning.
- App choices update the pause set summaries at once.
- A first pause set you renamed, and the default you chose, stay when you create a workspace.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-11

- A new look that feels at home on iPhone and iPad: navigation bars with large titles, system menus and time pickers, and swipe actions in lists. When you swipe back from the left edge, the whole screen follows your finger.
- Longer quick choices when you start a pause: 1, 2, 4, or 8 hours, or Until end of day, next to 25 and 45 minutes.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-06

- Pause sets: keep websites and apps in named sets, such as one for work and one for evenings, and choose a set for each session or schedule. Your current choices become your first set.
- When pauses overlap, Posato pauses everything in their sets, within each device's limits, and each item stays paused until the last pause that includes it ends.
- Swipe from the left edge to go back.
- A schedule you change follows its new times on every device, also after it ended earlier that day.
- A session you start or end on your iPhone reaches your other devices without Sync now.
- If you use Posato on more than one device, update all of them: devices on an earlier version stop syncing until they update.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-29

- Schedules: plan recurring pauses by weekday and time. They start and end on their own, even when Posato is closed, and sync with your other devices when iCloud sync is on.
- Pause notices: Posato can tell you when a pause ends or when one starts on another device. Turn them off in About Posato.
- Reopening Posato during a session no longer ends it early.
- If you use Posato on more than one device, update all of them to keep them in sync.

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