Hey Product Hunt community! 👋 I’m Samantha (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and my co-founder Jill is a Nurse with ADHD. We’re thrilled to share Pause Point with you today! Why we built this: In clinical practice and daily life, we kept bumping into a major flaw with traditional mental health apps: The Executive Function Paradox. When acute stress or overstimulation hits, sympathetic nervous system arousal takes your prefrontal cortex temporarily offline. Expecting someone to unlock a phone, open an app, and navigate a multi-step routine mid-stress spike is asking them to use the exact cognitive hardware stress just disabled. How Pause Point works: Instead of adding to screen fatigue, Pause Point operates silently in the background on your Apple Watch. It tracks autonomic markers (Heart Rate & Heart Rate Variability) passively. When it detects a resting stress spike, it delivers a gentle, private haptic wrist tap—acting as an immediate, screen-free somatic circuit breaker. Zero phone unlocking, zero manual tracking, and zero streak guilt. Special Product Hunt Offer: We want you to experience it firsthand! Download the app today to get a 7-Day Free Trial to test out passive haptic pacing on your own Apple Watch. We’d love your honest feedback, thoughts, or feature requests. How do you currently handle real-time stress and screen fatigue during busy workdays? Drop your thoughts below—Jill and I will be here all day answering your questions! 👇✨

Pause Point

Catch stress on Apple Watch before your brain even notices

Catch stress on Apple Watch before your brain even notices