HeadPause guides vertigo and BPPV exercises, including Epley, Semont, and Brandt-Daroff, using AirPods head tracking. Four practices for balance, stillness, steadiness, and ear calm. All guided. All on-device. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to share it.
Your vestibular system is always working. HeadPause gives it something to practice with.
Free to start. Optional $4.99 Pro unlock. One-time purchase, no subscriptions.
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 vertigo. 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 to guide you through canalith repositioning maneuvers. 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.
Each session ends with a plain-English score. Calm score out of 100, percent held-steady, peak drift in degrees. Progress, streaks, and personal bests tracked locally.
Pick the one that matches what you feel. All guided, all timed, all honest about what they measure.
Vertigo and BPPV routines, in plain English.
Symptom-first routines drawn from the canalith repositioning maneuvers used in vestibular care (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. 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.
Eight symptom-labelled routines walk you through the same canalith repositioning maneuvers clinicians use. Educational, 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: nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly choose to export it.
HeadPause reads head pitch, roll, and yaw from your AirPods. No microphone access, no audio recording. HealthKit Mindful Minutes is opt-in and stays on your device unless you sync.
Calm scores, drift readings, 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.
You can turn on iCloud sync to share practice history across your own devices. Encrypted in transit and at rest by Apple.
Free gives you the daily practice. Pro unlocks the full clinical library. One purchase, yours forever.
Brandt-Daroff and Gaze Stabilization Balance routines. Still sessions up to 3 minutes with two soundscapes (music, ocean). Motion horizon-hold for car and before-travel. Ring masking. The last 30 days of practice history. Always free, no account required.
All processing on-device. No cloud, no tracking, no sign-up.
Full Balance library with form scoring (Epley, Semont, Half-Somersault, BBQ Roll). Longer Still sessions (5 and 10 min) plus forest, rain, and silence soundscapes. All five Motion environments with horizon holds, drift hum, and trip telemetry. Full Ring sound studio (masking, focus tones, wind-down beds, quiet-room support). Complete practice history and iCloud sync.
One-time purchase. No subscriptions. Yours forever.
On-device processing. Your practice data never leaves your devices.
iPhone and AirPods required. Free to start, optional Pro unlock in-app.
Free to start. Optional Pro unlock. No subscriptions.
