Behavior over guilt

Pause before you order. Spend less. Regret less.

OrderPause adds a deliberate moment between impulse and delivery. It does not track calories, scrape apps, or ask for daily logging. It simply makes expensive habits less automatic.

$19 Default average order used to make weekly and annual delivery estimates feel real.
10 sec The free pause starts small, then friction can escalate when the habit repeats.
Local-first Your settings, estimates, and intervention history stay on-device.
What makes it different

OrderPause is not a punishment app.

It is a financial-awareness tool for delivery habits. The goal is not to ban food. The goal is to interrupt expensive autopilot before another convenient order turns into another invisible drain.

01

Specific to delivery

Designed for Uber Eats, Deliveroo, DoorDash, and food-ordering websites you choose, not generic screen-blocking for everything on your phone.

02

Money, not morality

The app focuses on estimated spend, habit drift, and friction. No calorie counting, no diet language, and no shame-driven streak mechanics.

03

Calm by design

Minimal interventions, premium copy, and a quiet interface that feels like a deliberate stop signal instead of a loud productivity toy.

How it works

Three small changes can blunt a very automatic habit.

The strongest behavior change in OrderPause is not analytics. It is timing. The app asks for setup once, then steps in right when the order is about to happen.

A

Select the apps and sites

Choose which delivery apps and websites you want help controlling through Apple’s Screen Time framework.

B

Set a weekly spend target

Add a simple weekly delivery budget and an average order estimate so the app can make the cost feel concrete.

C

Hit pause before access

When you try to open a selected app, OrderPause inserts friction, surfaces the likely spend, and gives you a second chance to back out.

Quietly expensive 1 fewer order a week can keep about $988 a year.

That estimate uses a $19 average delivery order. It is not about perfection. It is about giving a recurring habit enough resistance to stop feeling invisible.

Core promise
Convenient now. Expensive over time.

OrderPause lives in that uncomfortable gap and makes it harder to ignore.

Pricing

Useful for free. Stronger when you need more control.

The free plan already creates value. Pro is there when you want longer delays, stronger friction, and a clearer picture of what delivery is costing over time.

Free

Start with the pause.

$0 forever

Enough to feel the value before you pay for anything.

  • App and website selection
  • 10 second base delay
  • Weekly and monthly estimated spend
  • Rotating nudges and simple dashboard
Built for iPhone

The point is not to forbid the order. The point is to make it a decision.

OrderPause uses Apple’s Screen Time stack to create a calm intervention right before the habit takes over.