App Intel

NetPause: Pause Apps & Focus

LiveLinksGroups Engine8 apps · 108.8K installsProductivityFree · contains adsIn-app purchases: $2.89 - $28.99 per itemcom.linksgroups.netpause

Pause any app's internet. Manual, Timer & Schedule Mode. No root. Stay focused.

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Total installs
537
exact · Play shows 500+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
—★
— ratings · — reviews
Released
27 Mar 2026
7mo ago
Last update
29 Aug 2026
v1.0.20 · 1mo ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

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Installs per day · last 90 days

00.30.50.8111 Oct12 Oct12 Oct11 Oct: 012 Oct: 0

Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • Shares data with third parties Device or other IDs
  • Collects data App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • No way to ask for data deletion

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

8 in 2 groups
1 Sensitive2 Notable5 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Act as a VPN that, once you allow it, routes your internet traffic through itself
Wi-Fi connection informationRoutine1

Access to details about Wi-Fi networks your device sees or uses

  • See whether Wi-Fi is on and details of the network you are connected toview Wi-Fi connections · ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
OtherSensitive7

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Act as a VPN that, once you allow it, routes your internet traffic through itselfbind to a VPN service · BIND_VPN_SERVICE
  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
NetPause: Pause Apps & Focus The no-root app firewall and internet blocker for Android. Pause any app's internet instantly — no accessibility service, no data leaving your phone. NetPause is the net blocker, pause app, distraction blocker, and screen time management tool that works entirely on your device. Block distracting apps, stop mindless scrolling, and protect your mental well-being. No sign-up or account needed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 HOW PEOPLE USE NETPAUSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Pause WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok at 10 PM and sleep without scrolling. - Schedule social apps off every weekday 9 AM–5 PM and get things done. - Set a 45-minute study timer and let it unpause automatically when done. - Tap Manual Pause before a meeting and stay fully present. ━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 3 PAUSE MODES ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 MANUAL PAUSE Pause any app with one tap. Resume whenever you're ready. The best android pause app and app blocker for Android — perfect for meetings, family time, or deep work sessions. ⏱️ TIMER PAUSE Set a focus timer: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, and more (Premium). Auto-unpauses when done. Need more time? Add 5 Minutes without breaking your focus. 📅 SCHEDULE PAUSE (Premium) Set it once. Block apps automatically at recurring times. Every weekday 9 AM–5 PM, every night at 10 PM, or any schedule you choose. Your focus runs on autopilot. ━━━━━━━━ 📊 FEATURES ━━━━━━━━ ✅ Pause WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and any app ✅ Internet blocker per app — disable app internet on demand ✅ Net blocker and noroot firewall for Android ✅ Block distracting apps, messaging apps, and video apps ✅ App blocker and app blocking apps for Android — blocking apps without root ✅ Manual, Timer & Schedule app blocking modes ✅ Add 5 Minutes to extend sessions without losing focus ✅ Screen time tracker — Focus Analytics dashboard ✅ Paused Apps Dashboard — full app usage control at a glance ✅ Pause end notification so you know when your session is done ✅ Social media blocker — stop scrolling app in one tap ✅ Digital detox app — reduce screen time effortlessly ✅ Top focus apps for Android — better than Pause It & NetGuard with timer and schedule ✅ Light & Purple theme (free), Dark theme (Premium) ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━ NetPause uses Android's VpnService API to build a local, on-device network filter. No external VPN server or tunnel. All filtering happens on your device. No data transmitted externally. VpnService is used solely to drop connections for apps you pause. No screen reading. All sessions stay on your device. ✅ No root required — noroot firewall for Android ✅ No accessibility service, no screen reading ✅ No account or sign-up needed ✅ Zero data leaves your device ✅ Lightweight and minimal battery impact ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 WHO IS NETPAUSE FOR? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Students: less distraction, better grades. 💼 Professionals: deep work without interruptions. 🏠 Remote Workers: stay on task during work hours. 🧠 ADHD: structure screen time without willpower. 😴 Poor Sleepers: pause before bed, sleep better. 👨‍👩‍👧 Parents: screen time control, no root needed. 🧒 Teens: break the scroll habit early. 📵 Everyone: if your phone distracts you, NetPause is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ FREE vs PREMIUM ━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE — start blocking apps today: - Manual Pause - Timer Pause (30 min, 1 hr) - Focus Analytics - Light & Purple theme PREMIUM — full control: - Unlimited apps paused simultaneously - All timer durations + custom time - Schedule Mode (auto-pause, recurring) - My List for quick access to favourite apps - Dark theme - Advanced Analytics - Ad-free experience NetPause: Pause the noise. Rest, focus, and own your time. Enjoying NetPause? Please take a moment to leave a rating. It really helps. NetPause is developed and owned by LinksGroups Engine and is not affiliated with any other organization. If you find a copycat app, please report it to us at [email protected]

What's new

Performance improvements and minor bug fixed.

Growing in Productivity

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