HeadPause guides balance and stillness practice, including Epley, Semont, and Brandt-Daroff, using AirPods head tracking. Four practices for balance, stillness, steadiness, and ear comfort. All guided. All on-device. No account, no ads, no tracking.
Your vestibular system is always working. HeadPause gives it something to practice with.
Free to start. Optional $9.99 Pro unlock. One-time purchase, Family Sharing, no subscriptions.
The same eight screens as the App Store listing, in the same order.
Your inner ear is a set of fluid-filled canals with motion sensors. When your eyes, head, and body disagree, you feel dizzy, unsteady, or queasy. HeadPause gives your head a job to do and measures how well you do it. Slow positional routines for balance. Eyes-closed stillness for calibration. Horizon-holding for moving environments. The practice is the product.
Three steps from install to your first score.
HeadPause reads head pitch, roll, and yaw from the motion sensors in your AirPods. No extra hardware, no microphone access, nothing to pair.
Balance routines that guide you through positional maneuvers by voice. Still sessions for eyes-closed steadiness. Motion sessions to hold the horizon in a moving environment. Ring sound sessions for masking, focus tones, and wind-down.
With motion-capable AirPods, scored sessions end with plain numbers: a form score, how steady you held, and how closely you matched each angle, compared with last time. Progress, streaks, and personal bests stay on your device.
Pick the one that matches what you feel. All guided, all timed, all honest about what they measure.
Balance routines, in plain English.
Routines named for what you feel, built around classic positional maneuvers (Epley, Semont, Brandt-Daroff, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll, Gaze Stabilization). Each is a slow, guided sequence of head positions paced by voice.
Eyes closed. Measure your stillness.
Pick a soundscape (music, ocean, forest, rain, silence) and a duration. With Pro and motion-capable AirPods, HeadPause samples head motion many times a second and scores how steady you held. The ambient wash fades when you drift and returns as you settle.
Hold the horizon. Stay grounded.
A steadiness anchor for moving environments. Five environment presets (car, plane, screen fatigue, before travel, after travel) shape session length and audio cues. A soft box-breathing pacer plays in your AirPods while you keep your head level.
Quieter room for your ears.
Sound sessions for masking, focus tones, wind-down, and quiet-room support. Works with any headphones, EarPods included. Ring is a comfort tool, not a tinnitus treatment.
HeadPause is an iPhone app. Find your row.
| Your device | Voice coach | Soundscape | Head tracking | Scoring | Visual walkthrough |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirPods or Beats with H1 / H2 chip | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Other headphones (incl. wired EarPods) | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| iPhone speaker (no headphones) | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
Other headphones covers any audio device that isn’t an AirPod or H-chip Beats. That includes wired EarPods, Galaxy Buds, Pixel Buds, Sony, Bose, Jabra, and generic Bluetooth earbuds. They all run the same way: full audio sessions, no head tracking. Apple only exposes head-motion data for AirPods and Beats with the H1 or H2 chip, so HeadPause can’t read motion from anything else. On speaker, every audio cue plays through the iPhone speaker. Voice walkthrough, soundscape, breathing pacer, the lot. The real difference vs headphones isn’t feature loss; it’s privacy and immersion. Headphones make Still and Ring feel quieter, but a speaker session still works.
Guided routines for Epley, Semont, Brandt-Daroff, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll, and gaze stabilization. A wellness practice, not a treatment.
Eyes-closed sessions with audio feedback. The soundscape fades when your head drifts, giving you a quiet signal without having to open your eyes.
Put the app on before a bumpy drive, a flight, a boat, or a busy train. The horizon anchor and paced breathing give your nervous system something predictable.
Your vestibular system is always working. A few minutes a day of stillness training builds awareness of small drifts you would otherwise miss.
HeadPause was built the same way PulseAware was: no account, no ads, and no GMX3C server that receives your practice data.
HeadPause reads head pitch, roll, and yaw from your AirPods. No microphone access, no audio recording. HealthKit Mindful Minutes is opt-in and write-only. HeadPause never reads your health data.
Form scores, calm scores, horizon-hold percentages, and completion history are calculated and stored locally on your iPhone.
No sign-up, no email, no ad tracking. The app does not identify you to any server.
HeadPause does not keep a raw recording of your movements. Only your results, stored locally on your iPhone. Nothing is synced to iCloud or anywhere else.
Free gives you the daily practice. Pro adds guided scoring on every maneuver. One purchase, yours forever.
Brandt-Daroff and Gaze Stabilization Balance routines. Still sessions up to 3 minutes with two soundscapes (music, ocean) and a calm score with motion-capable AirPods. Motion for car and before-travel. Ring masking. One guided, scored run of each other maneuver. The last 7 days of progress history. Always free, no account required.
All processing on-device. No cloud, no tracking, no sign-up.
Guided scoring on every maneuver (Epley, Semont, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll), both sides. Full progress history and trends. Longer Still sessions (5 and 10 min) plus forest, rain, and silence soundscapes, with voice coaching and drift feedback on the soundscape. All five Motion environments with horizon scoring, drift hum, and haptic nudges. Full Ring sound studio (masking, focus tones, wind-down beds, quiet-room support). Family Sharing included.
One-time purchase. No subscriptions. Yours forever.
On-device processing. Your practice data is never sent to GMX3C.
iPhone and AirPods required. Free to start, optional Pro unlock in-app.
Free to start. Optional Pro unlock. No subscriptions.
