Comparison

Footscroll 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

Footscroll

Features
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Every step you take writes a new page in a 200-year-old story. Footscroll turns your daily walk into the legendary journey of Ino Tadataka — the Edo-period cartographer who spent 17 years walking Japan's entire coastline to create the nation's first accurate map. ■ Ino Tadataka's Dream Your steps fuel a tiny surveyor's progress along Japan's 40,000 km coastline. Watch him walk across Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu, and beyond — all rendered on aged washi paper with sumi ink, just like the original Ino maps. The further you walk in real life, the more of Japan unfolds before you. ■ Charts That Tell a Story Track your steps across four time scales — day, week, month, and year. A prediction bar shows whether you're on pace to hit today's goal. A heatmap calendar paints your active days in shades of green. ■ Gold Leaf Celebration Hit your daily goal and gold leaf drifts across the screen — a quiet, beautiful moment of celebration. Your consecutive streak is tracked too, keeping you motivated day after day. ■ Washi, Sumi, Indigo This isn't just another step counter. Footscroll is crafted with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art: washi paper textures, sumi ink coastlines, indigo ocean gradients, and old province names written in classical vertical script. Every screen feels like holding a piece of Edo-era cartography. ■ Your Data Stays Yours Steps are read from Apple Health. Everything is stored on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. Ever. Key features: • Step ring with daily goal tracking • Ino Tadataka's Dream — coastline survey mode • Day / week / month / year step charts • Step heatmap calendar • Pace comparison vs. yesterday • Consecutive goal streak • Gold leaf celebration animation • Japanese & English

About

Always Pause

Access a curated collection of over 50 science-backed breathing exercises designed for calm, sleep, focus, and energy. This app offers a simple, ad-free experience with haptic guidance on Apple Watch and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • 50+ science-backed breathing techniques
  • Four moods: calm, sleep, focus, energy
  • Haptic guidance on Apple Watch
  • One-tap rescue feature
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets
  • Ad-free and tracker-free design
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

Footscroll4 screens
Always Pause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Always Pause at none against Footscroll's shown. Always Pause also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Footscroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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

Footscroll ships an update every 10 days, Always Pause every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Footscroll versus Always Pause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFootscrollAlways Pause
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsao YamaguchiWork OnDeck LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Footscroll

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
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 Footscroll free?
Footscroll 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 Footscroll or Always Pause have ads?
Footscroll shows ads; Always Pause does not.
Which is updated more often, Footscroll or Always Pause?
Footscroll ships an update every 10 days, and Always Pause every 2 weeks. Most recently, Footscroll was updated on October 18, 2026 and Always Pause on October 28, 2026.

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