Opus One vs Pause
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Opus One
This app helps you manage tasks and notes with a paperlike interface. Organize your day with daily task lists, schedules, and notes, and use a master task section to capture all your to-dos. Features include drag-and-drop reordering, event integration, and customizable notes.
- Master Task section
- Daily Task lists with status, priority, and notes
- Daily Schedule and Event integration
- Daily Notes with customizable text formatting
- Drag and drop task reordering
- Cloud synchronization
- Sketch drawing canvas
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Opus One is a real day planner, not another to-do app. Each day gets its own page — tasks with A/B/C priorities, your schedule, and notes — on a planner that looks and feels like paper. Plan on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and it all stays in sync. YOUR DAY ON ONE PAGE • Daily Tasks with A/B/C priorities, status, notes, and alarms. • A schedule that shows your Calendar events alongside your tasks. • Drag a task onto the schedule — with task durations, the end time fills in automatically. • Daily Notes with photos, PDFs, checklists, and audio. • Today's weather and a daily quote, right on the page. PLAN BEYOND TODAY • Master Tasks: everything on your mind in one list, no due date required. • Goals with timelines, photos, and progress you can see. • Roles: review the areas of your life each week so nothing important gets crowded out. • Mission, Values, and Vision pages to keep the big picture one tap away. • Meeting Planner for agendas, decisions, and next steps. NOTES AND JOURNALS • Rich notes with fonts, colors, tags, and your own custom sections. • Sketch and handwrite with Apple Pencil. • Journals with 25 covers to choose from, plus a guided Gratitude Journal. IT GOES WHERE YOU GO • Home Screen widgets for today's tasks, your mission, your values, and daily quotes. • Live Activities keep today's tasks on your Lock Screen. • Add a task from Control Center, or ask Siri. • Apple Watch app to see your day and check off tasks from your wrist. • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. MAKE IT YOURS • Planner themes, including seasonal ones. • Task-complete sounds and rewards for finishing what you planned. • Color-coded categories and repeating rules with advanced options. OPUS ONE PRO The core planner is free. Opus One Pro adds cloud sync across all your devices, weather, attachments (images, PDFs, audio), Apple Pencil sketching, categories, repeating rules, Goals, Siri, and themes. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac on the same iCloud account. Available yearly or monthly. Subscription details: Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Account Settings. Privacy Policy: https://piso13.com/privacy-policy-2/ Terms of Service: https://piso13.com/terms-of-service/
Pause
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Pause puts a capybara between you and your feed. Open Instagram, YouTube, or any app you pick, and you don't land on the feed. You meet Kapi, a capybara holding the key. Do one small thing that's good for you, then decide how long you're really going in for. The app is still there. So is your attention. Not a blocker you rage-quit after three days. Not a timer you swipe away. A short, real pause, every single open. REAL BLOCKING, NOT WILLPOWER Pick the apps that eat your time. Pause shields them with Apple's Screen Time. Open one and you meet Kapi instead of the feed. No timer to ignore, no "just five more minutes." WHAT TURNS THE KEY Pick your mix. Every gate is one of these: • Words: learn a new English word with a memory key that makes it stick. 340+ words, most useful first. Built for exam prep. • Sudoku: a mini 4×4 grid against the clock. Beat your own time. • To-do: see today's tasks and tick one off. A full to-do list with due dates, reminders, and repeats lives inside the app. • Breathe: nine guided patterns (box, 4-7-8, coherent, vagus and more) with Kapi breathing beside you, inhale for inhale, with soft breath sounds you can follow eyes closed. • Lesson: a 2-minute lesson from Atomic Habits, Deep Work, Indistractable, Dopamine Nation and more. 270 lessons from 10 books, each with a try-this and a quiz. THEN YOU CHOOSE After the gate, pick how long you're going in for: 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes. When time's up, the shield comes back on its own. PAUSE PASS Three passes a day lift the shield for 15 minutes each. Real life happens. Passes reset at midnight. SEE YOUR REAL PATTERN Your actual screen time, shown to you straight. Then watch what Pause saves you, counted in hours of your life back. WATCH IT GROW Every pause grows a pearl on the plant on your home screen. Keep the streak, get a recap every Monday, and share cards of your streak, your garden, and the hours you got back. WHO IT'S FOR Students preparing for exams (the Words gate was made for you). Anyone who opens Instagram "for a second" and loses an hour. Anyone who has tried app blockers and deleted them. Free to download and use. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your progress if you change phones. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your app choices and usage never leave your phone. Apple's Screen Time framework keeps that data sealed on-device. We couldn't read it if we wanted to. Your account holds only your progress, tasks, and streaks. Your scroll can wait. Kapi has the key.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pause at none against Opus One's 2. Opus One's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). On price, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Opus One sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pause asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Opus One | Pause |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (955 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 955 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PISO 13, Inc. | Abhishek Jain |
Bugs and requests
Opus One
Reported bugs
4 issues- Sync issues between devices
- App crashes and data loss
- Keyboard not working on iPad
- Distorted font in calendar view
Requested features
6 requests- Add weekly and monthly views
- Improve Apple Pencil support
- Add project management features
- Integrate with more calendar/task apps
- Provide better training and tutorials
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- Allow customization of UI and themes
Pause
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Opus One
- Opus One Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Opus One Professional7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Pause
No in-app purchases









