Comparison

Headzone vs Always Pause

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Headzone

Enhance concentration and mental clarity with short, daily drills. This app offers structured exercises to improve attention, composure, and consistency, making focus training a simple habit for work, school, or sports.

Highlights
  • Multiple focus modes
  • Daily guided workouts
  • Detailed session history
  • Streak and progress tracking
  • Achievements and leaderboards
  • Immersive audio feedback
  • Coaching experience
Features
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Build sharper focus in just a few minutes a day with Headzone. Headzone helps you train concentration through fast, structured drills designed to improve attention, composure, and mental consistency. Whether you want to focus better at work, school, in sports, or in everyday life, Headzone turns focus training into a simple daily habit. Headzone uses progressively challenging concentration grid exercises to help you stay engaged, focused, and calm under pressure. Sessions are short enough to fit into a busy schedule, but deep enough to build a meaningful routine over time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Train with multiple focus modes, including classic concentration grids and more advanced challenge styles • Follow daily workouts that give you a clear session to complete each day • Review detailed session history and performance trends over time • Track streaks and long-term progress to stay motivated • Unlock achievements and compete through Game Center leaderboards • Personalize your experience with immersive audio feedback and training themes NEW IN HEADZONE 3.0 • A new Coaching experience with clearer guidance on what improved and what to train next • Daily workout planning and stronger progress tracking across training and awards • Expanded session review tools and cleaner practice feedback • New streak tracking, achievements, and Game Center integration • Enhanced audio themes, feedback sounds, and overall polish across the app HEADZONE PRO Headzone Pro unlocks advanced coaching features, including deeper session insight, focus review, and next-step training guidance and personalized workouts. NO ADS. NO DISTRACTIONS. Headzone is built to be a focused training space without ads or interruptions, so you can stay locked in on the work. Download Headzone and make focus training part of your daily routine.

About

Always Pause

Features
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Sometimes you just need to breathe. Pause+ is a quiet library of 50 breathing techniques — box, 4-7-8, physiological sigh, coherence, and more. Each one is real, researched, and ready the moment you need it. No streaks. No programs. No notifications chasing you down. Open the app, pick what you need, breathe, close it. What's inside · 50 science-backed breathing techniques · Four moods — calm, sleep, focus, energy · Haptic guidance on Apple Watch — phone-free breathing, anywhere · One-tap rescue for the hard moments · Widgets for your home screen, lock screen, and Control Center Who it's for For people who've tried the other apps and felt worse. For anyone who wants a breathing tool, not another thing to keep up with. For the ones who want quiet — not content. Pause+ is ad-free, tracker-free, and designed to be used briefly. Practice when you need to. Don't when you don't. Breathwork, backed by science. Designed to stay out of your way.

Screenshots

Headzone4 screens
Always Pause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Always Pause at none against Headzone's shown. Always Pause also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Headzone sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Always Pause sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Headzone ships an update monthly, Always Pause every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Headzone versus Always Pause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeadzoneAlways Pause
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB9 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPaul FarnamWork OnDeck LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Headzone

Subscriptions3
  • Headzone Pro$3.991 Month
  • Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Headzone Pro3 Days trial$39.991 Year
3 purchases

Always Pause

Subscriptions2
  • Always Pause+7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Always Pause+7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Always Pause+ Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Headzone free?
Headzone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Always Pause free?
Always Pause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Headzone or Always Pause have ads?
Headzone shows ads; Always Pause does not.
Which is updated more often, Headzone or Always Pause?
Headzone ships an update monthly, and Always Pause every 2 weeks. Most recently, Headzone was updated on September 29, 2026 and Always Pause on September 22, 2026.

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