SuperBetter vs Pause

Improve mental health, resilience and social-emotional skills. SuperBetter is at heart a simple and transformative idea – we can use the same strengths naturally displayed in game play to confront real-life challenges, build skills, manage stress & practice self-care. SuperBetter uses the psychology of game play in all of life. Playing SuperBetter means bringing a gameful mindset to real-life - challenging yourself, going for epic wins, adopting a secret identity, completing quests, battling bad guys, activating power-ups and checking-in with allies. The 7 rules for living gamefully is a framework to be stronger, happier, braver & more resilient in everyday life. Invented by researcher & game designer Jane McGonigal, SuperBetter is backed by science. In a randomized controlled trial at University of Pennsylvania playing SuperBetter for 30 days was associated with significant improvements in mental health and resilience. The SuperBetter app makes it simple to go for epic wins, track your gameful strengths and build your whole-person resilience - mental, social, emotional & physical. Proven results in 10 minutes a day. SuperBetter is for youth, teens, young adults & everyone who wants to unlock their heroic potential using the power of living gamefully. Over 1 million people have played SuperBetter. SUPERBETTER PRODUCTS > Hero account: Play SuperBetter on your own. > Host account: A web-based portal to host challenges for squads. > Player account: Join squad challenges when invited by a host. HERO ACCOUNT: PLAY ON YOUR OWN 14-day free trial Grow your mental health, social-emotional wellbeing & physical resilience with a library of over 40 solo challenges. Create your own challenges to go for personal epic wins. Join squad challenges from hosts. Watch a demo video on the SuperBetter website. HOST ACCOUNT: HOST CHALLENGES FOR SQUADS Promote mental health, resilience, social-emotional learning and skills for success with groups in a way that's practical & engaging. Designed for educators, the Host account is available to anyone: > Middle & high school teachers promote social-emotional learning. > Small groups, teams & clubs foster youth mental health & resilience. > Universities empower student success & student wellbeing. > Small businesses make it a low-cost employee wellbeing program. The web-based host portal makes it easy to create squads & host challenges. Squad challenges bring the SuperBetter methodology to life. Each has an epic win and 5-days of activities. Hosts select from a library of over 90 challenges to promote mental, emotional, social & physical resilience, or create custom challenges to have squads go for any epic win they choose. Squad members play about 10 minutes a day on the SuperBetter mobile or web app. They use a free Player account or a low-cost Hero account. Learn more on the SuperBetter website. PLAYER ACCOUNT: SQUAD PLAY ONLY The Player account is a companion to the Host account. It is a free account to play with squads only. Players can join squad challenges when invited by someone with a Host account, and play a weekly challenge hosted by SuperBetter. DESIGNED FOR SMARTPHONES The SuperBetter mobile app is designed for smartphones. If you have a Chromebook, iPad or tablet device you can play on the web app. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The Hero account price is $24.99 per year. Pricing is for U.S. customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Charges may be converted to local currency depending on country of residence. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled before the end of the current subscription period. Manage your subscription in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

The apps you choose ask you one question before they open: why now? Type a short answer, read it back as one calm sentence, and two seconds later Continue appears. Then you go in, or you put the phone down. No timer to wait out and nothing gets blocked. Everything runs on your iPhone. What you type is never stored or uploaded; it is gone the moment you continue. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps. Choose from a list of common social, video, chat, music and browser apps, or add any app by its link scheme. 2. Route each one through Pause. This uses a Shortcuts automation you set up once per app; the app walks you through the five steps and shows the exact link to paste. 3. Open a routed app. Instead of the feed you get one screen: the question, a text field, then your own reason mirrored back in a calm sentence, then Continue. The friction is the typing and the reading, nothing more. Take an app off the list and its friction is gone the same minute. TWO TONES Neutral mirrors your sentence back plainly. Dry is shorter and a little more blunt. Switch in Settings whenever you like. WHAT IT NEVER DOES - No account and no sign-in - No server, no analytics, no ads, no notifications - No streaks, badges, points or "minutes saved" screens - No history of what you typed; each reason lives in memory only for the moment it belongs to - No reading of the content inside the apps you route - No network calls of its own WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone on iOS 26. On iPhone 15 Pro and newer, with the system's on-device intelligence turned on, the reflection is written by the on-device language model in iOS 26. On other iPhones, or with it turned off, Pause uses a built-in set of static reflections instead, and the routing and the typing work exactly the same way. Either way it works offline. WHO IT IS FOR People who reach for the same few apps many times a day and want a beat before the next one, without handing a blocker the keys. Pause is an agreement with yourself. You can walk around it, and it will not tell on you. FREE AND PAID Your first routed session is free with the whole mechanic, so you feel it work before you decide anything. From the second session Pause asks you to subscribe or buy once; you can answer Maybe later and it asks again a day later. Both subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. The one-time purchase never expires and is family-shareable. Pause is made by Hadger, a one-person iOS studio that ships calm, private apps for iPhone. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS - Pause Weekly: weekly subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, auto-renews until cancelled. - Pause Annual: yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, auto-renews until cancelled. - Pause Lifetime: one-time purchase, family-shareable, never expires. - The reflection mechanic is free for the first routed-app session. The paywall surfaces on the second routed-app session. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://hadgerapps.github.io/pause/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://hadgerapps.github.io/pause/terms/