PAUSE
Your strongest answer may be silence.
The psychology of communication — free, offline, no account.
Think → Pause → Listen → Understand → Respond
React → Speak → Defend → Regret
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The app asks for the microphone. That is the whole point; nothing is recorded.
One loop, start to finish
Screens
What it actually measures
Most apps in this space ask you to rate yourself. PAUSE listens. While a scenario runs, the microphone feeds a loudness analyser 40 times a second, and the numbers below come out of that trace — on the phone, with nothing recorded, stored or uploaded.
| Pause before you answered | time from the other person's last word to your first |
| How long you spoke | your speech runs, joined up |
| Interruptions | speech that started before they had finished |
| Pauses inside your answer | gaps of 0.4 s or more in your own turn |
| Voice steadiness | how much your loudness swung about — agitated, or flat |
What it does not do: transcribe you. There is no speech recognition and no language model in the app. After you answer out loud you pick which of four answers is closest to what you said — naming your own move is most of the work.
Inside
SQ — Silence Quotient
One number for how you use silence: the pause before answering, restraint in length, not interrupting, and how long you can hold a deliberate silence.
Five minutes a day
A 28-day programme: read the principle, hold a mic-verified silence, answer a hard sentence, review, answer again. Streak and a delta against yesterday.
Ten fields
Silence · Listening · Adler · Emotions · Skills · Conflict · Leadership · Relationships · Negotiation · Social. 30 lessons, 20 scenarios.
Alfred Adler
Why you answer the way you do: the purpose behind the reaction, the safeguarding tendencies, belonging and contribution — not just tricks.
Two languages
English and Macedonian, everything translated: lessons, scenarios, feedback.
Yours alone
No account, no server, no analytics. It works in flight mode. Export or delete everything from the More screen.
The honest limits
This is training, not therapy, and not medical advice. The app scores how you delivered an answer and which answer you picked — it cannot hear what you actually said, so an eloquent answer and a clumsy one score the same if you classify them the same. The profile numbers are a mirror for your own practice, not an assessment of you as a person.
One optional feature is not offline: Deep coach is off by default and only runs if you paste your own Anthropic API key, in which case your typed answer goes to Anthropic and you pay for that call.
Накратко на македонски
ПАУЗА е бесплатна апликација што ја вежба паузата пред одговорот. Микрофонот навистина мери колку долго си молчел пред да одговориш, колку долго си зборувал и дали си влегол во збор — сето тоа на телефонот, ништо не се снима ниту се качува никаде.
Внатре: десет области, 30 лекции, 20 ситуации, 28-дневна програма од пет минути дневно, тренер за тишина и Коефициент на тишина (SQ). Психологијата е на Алфред Адлер: целта зад реакцијата, заштитните тенденции, припадноста и придонесот.
Работи офлајн, без сметка и без сервер. Ова е обука за комуникација, не терапија.