Halff vs Pausean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Halff
This app helps you track how you spend your time by prompting you every 30 minutes to categorize your activities as valuable or a waste. It provides daily, weekly, and monthly reports to visualize your time usage and identify trends.
- Categorize half-hour time slots
- Customizable value/waste categories
- Daily, weekly, and monthly reports
- Reminder window customization
- Sync with web and Mac dashboard
- Ad-free experience
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Halff is the honest audit of your day. Your day is 48 half hours. Every 30 minutes, Halff asks what you just did. One tap: it paid you back, or it cost you. No timer to start, nothing to stop. By evening you know where your hours went: a score out of 100, your productive hours, your wasted hours, and what ate your day. WHAT YOU GET โข A reminder every 30 minutes, only between the two hours you choose. Never at night. โข One tap to score, with your own categories: deep work, content, prospecting, meetings, sport, sleep, and the ones that cost you. โข A daily score out of 100, built from four parts: value ratio, volume, completion, streak. โข The streak: one scored half hour a day keeps it going. โข Your last 30 days, your week and your month, your typical day, your focus blocks, your records. โข 18 widgets, three of them on the lock screen. โข Sleep read automatically from Apple Health. โข Halff for Mac: a light under the notch that asks every half hour. Same account, always in sync. โข A discipline report every 30 days. Halff doesn't block anything. It shows you the truth of your day, half hour by half hour. That's enough to change it. Free trial available. Subscription billed through your Apple account, cancel anytime in your settings. Terms: https://halff.io/cgu.html Privacy: https://halff.io/confidentialite.html
Pausean
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Turn your phone over. The time is yours. Pausean is a focus timer that starts when you put your phone down. Set your minutes on the dial, lay your phone face down, and your time begins. Every quiet stretch becomes a stone in your bowl. A GENTLE START - Tap once to get ready, then turn your phone over. Your time starts the moment it lies face down. - In the first seconds you feel three slow breaths as soft vibrations. No need to look. - The dial clicks into place minute by minute and shows which stone you will receive. NO PRESSURE, NO GUILT - Picking your phone up briefly is fine. Your time keeps running for 60 seconds. - Jokers let you pause a session when something comes up. - No streaks, no red days. An empty day simply stays empty. YOUR BOWL - Each duration forms its own kind of stone. - Each month gets its own bowl. With Pro, past bowls stay on your shelf. - Older stones gather dust over time. Rub them with your finger and they shine again. - Press and hold a stone to see what you can do with it. BREATHE - Guided breathing has its own tab. Arriving and Letting go are free for everyone. - Every exercise leaves a piece of sea glass in your bowl. - Feel the breath (Pro): soft vibrations guide you, so you can close your eyes. AUTUMN STONES Until November 29, every session forms one of four autumn stones: chestnut, leaf print, pumpkin stone and honey stone. The pumpkin stone is free for everyone this season. SHARE YOUR CALM Share a session, a single stone, your week or your month as a quiet image. PAUSEAN PRO - Pocket mode: sessions also run while your phone is put away - All breathing exercises and Feel the breath - History as a week and month calendar, plus statistics - Past bowls on your shelf - All seasonal stones and stone sets - More jokers per day Pausean Pro is available as a subscription or as a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads. Your sessions live only on your phone. Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. Designed for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass, and built to work with VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calmsides.com/pausean/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Halff at none against Pausean's 2. Halff also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Pausean sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Halff asks for nothing beyond the download.
Halff ships an update every 5 days, Pausean fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halff | Pausean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days โ better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | โ |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UGO STEFANO DI SARIO MULLER | Calmsides |
In-app purchases
Halff
No in-app purchases
Pausean
- Pausean Pro โ Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pausean Pro โ Lifetime$22.99









