touch grass blocks your most distracting apps until you literally photograph grass, verified by computer vision, with a monthly free skip and rewilding donations from skip purchases. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what touch grass does better.
| touch grass | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | touch grass blocks your most distracting apps until you literally photograph grass, verified by computer vision, with a monthly free skip and rewilding donations from skip purchases. | Block Schedules that switch your chosen apps off at set times and back on afterwards, one-tap Focus sessions for right now, and a streak that counts the days you kept the block. |
| Genuinely better at | Getting you outside. The unlock is a walk to a patch of grass, which no schedule can replicate. | Paused works indoors and at 11pm: the apps switch off on schedule and a Focus session takes them away now. |
| Day to day it feels like | Distracting apps stay locked until you have done something else first — exercise, steps, a habit, a task, reading — and you spend what you earned in minutes. | A small, boring wall. You pick the apps, pick the hours, and they stop opening — no coins, no plants, no hardware, no reasons to type. A calm Paused screen where the app used to be. |
…going outside is the point for you. Paused just blocks.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and quietly turned it off after a fortnight. A blocker you have disabled is not a blocker.
Said up front, because this is the part comparison pages usually leave out.
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