Sadharan Pause — Privacy Policy
Sadharan Pause is a simple, dark app that lets you decide when other apps may be opened, made by Sadharan ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app does with information on your phone.
In short: everything stays on your phone. Pause has no internet access at all, so it can't send anything anywhere. It has no sign-up, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting.
What the app reads
- Which app is on screen. With your permission (the "Sadharan Pause" switch in Android's accessibility settings), Pause learns when a screen of some app comes to the front: which app it is, and the name of that screen in the app's code. It uses that only to show its pause screen when the app is one you've paused. This switch is set up so Pause can't look at what's on any screen: it can't read text, messages or anything you type. Android's messages about a new screen can include that screen's title; Pause doesn't use or keep it.
- Your phone's own record of app use (optional). With Usage access, Pause reads how long each app was open, from the record Android already keeps (usually about the last 10 days), for the Stats tab. When the accessibility switch reconnects after the phone closed Pause, Pause also uses this record to see which app is in front, so it can cover a paused app straight away.
- Whether Reels or Shorts are on screen (optional). If you choose to limit or block Reels, Shorts or Spotlight, and turn on the separate "Sadharan Pause: Short videos" switch in Android's accessibility settings, Pause looks at the layout of Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat (and no other app) only to tell whether their short-video player is showing and when you swipe to the next video, so it can count them. When you reach your number for the day, or if you blocked them, Pause goes back. It doesn't read the text on screen, which videos you watch, your messages or anything you type, and it doesn't save or send what it sees.
- The apps you can open. Pause lists the apps on your home screen (their names and icons), so you can pick which to pause.
What the app stores, and where
All of the following is saved in the app's private storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.
- Your rules. Which apps are paused, and how: paused completely, open only at times you chose, a break after each use, or your usual times. For an app with a break, when you last left it.
- Your choices. For example how "Open anyway" works, whether Pause is on, and how many Reels or Shorts a day each app allows.
- Today's Reels count. How many Reels, Shorts or Spotlight videos you've watched today in each app you limited: just a number per app, not which videos. It starts again at midnight.
- What Pause did. Each time the pause screen came up, and whether you chose "Open anyway". Kept for 60 days, for the Stats tab.
- Daily app times. How long each app was open on each day, saved before Android's own record forgets it, so the Stats tab can compare one week with the week before. This covers every app you used, not only paused ones, so the comparison can include time from before you paused an app. Kept for 60 days.
What leaves the phone
Nothing, by itself. Pause has no internet permission. Two buttons in Settings hand you over to other apps:
- Send feedback opens your email app with our address and the app version filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send there. We use the emails we receive only to reply and to improve the app, and don't share them.
- Rate Pause opens the Play Store.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Accessibility: "Sadharan Pause" | To notice when a paused app comes to the front and show the pause screen. It can't see what's on the screen. You turn it on in Android's settings; Pause explains it first. |
| Accessibility: "Sadharan Pause: Short videos" (optional) | Only to limit or block Reels, Shorts and Spotlight, if you choose to: to see when their player is on screen in Instagram, YouTube or Snapchat, count the videos, and go back when you reach your limit. You turn it on in Android's settings; Pause explains it first. |
| Usage access (optional) | How long apps were open, for the Stats tab, and which app is in front when Pause comes back after the phone closed it. You turn it on in Android's settings. |
Pause asks for nothing else: no internet, contacts, location, camera, microphone, storage or accounts. From Settings it can open Android's app settings, where you can let it keep running; it doesn't change them itself.
A limit worth knowing
Some phones close apps on their own, for example when you clear recent apps. Android then brings Pause back, usually within half a minute, and Pause covers any paused app that's open. Until then, paused apps open as usual. No app can stop a phone from doing this; locking Pause in recent apps, or letting it run without battery limits, closes the gap. Pause's Settings show how on your phone.
Backup
Pause's information is not included in Android's cloud backup or when you move to a new phone, so it never leaves this phone that way either. A new phone starts fresh.
Keeping and deleting your information
Everything stays on your phone until you remove it. You can unpause apps, let Reels or Shorts open as usual again, clear the Stats tab's records with Clear stats in Settings, or delete everything by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it. Feedback emails you sent us can be deleted on request.
Children
The app isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions or requests: apps.androhub@gmail.com