Timeout: Feel It First
Feel it before you say it
Free · In-App Purchases
The app's interface is in Norwegian. Feel it before you say it: two soft taps on your watch before the window closes, and a real 20-minute break. Everything on device.
Timeout learns your body's own signs that you are leaving the window of tolerance, taps your Apple Watch before it closes, and walks you through a real 20-minute break. So you get to choose your words.
The app's interface is in Norwegian.
BODY FIRST. WORDS AFTER.
Gottman and Levenson showed that flooding starts long before you notice it: your pulse climbs while you sit still, you sigh, your voice goes up, and around 100 beats a minute you lose the ability to listen. Timeout listens to the body, not the words.
HOW IT WORKS
• The window is open: the watch reads your pulse every few seconds while the window is open, without saving a workout. You open and close it yourself.
• Apple Health: Timeout reads heart rate, resting heart rate, HRV, sleep, workouts and State of Mind from the Health app, and writes the feelings you name to Health only if you turn it on.
• Body sounds on the phone: sighs, gasps and a raised voice are recognised as classes with timestamps. Never words, never an audio file. Only at home, and only when you turn it on.
• The window is closing: two soft taps on the wrist when your pulse climbs at rest or your body sighs the way it does before your own episodes. One line on the screen, two buttons. No lecture.
• Timeout, 20 minutes: the ring counts down, the suggestions fit where you are, and the watch tells you when your body is calm. Afterwards: one card with sentences that repair.
• Put it into words: “What do you feel?” One tap. Naming the feeling calms it, and gives the app a label with your body in the same moment.
• Your own model: label episodes afterwards, and Timeout learns your curve instead of a fixed number.
• Live Activity in the Dynamic Island and on the lock screen, complication and Smart Stack on the watch, Double Tap to start the break.
THE RESEARCH
Based on published research by John Gottman and others on physiological flooding and the 20-minute break, and Daniel Siegel's window of tolerance, and research on affect labelling, sighing, voice and sleep. Sources at timeout.appit.ai.
PRIVACY
Everything lives on your watch and phone. No account, no cloud, no server. No audio stored, no transcription. Orange dot when the microphone is on. No alerts to anyone else, no relationship score, nothing that records children.
PRICE
Free for 14 days, then 99 NOK a month through the App Store. Renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings.
Timeout is a tool for self-regulation, not a medical device. It makes no diagnoses and does not replace a doctor, psychologist or therapist. Heart rate comes from Apple Watch. The app is made for adults and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Gottman Institute.
Requires an iPhone with iOS 26 and an Apple Watch with watchOS 26.
Terms: https://timeout.appit.ai/en/terms/
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Information
- Provider
- Trond Klæboe
- Size
- 6.2 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Timeout Monthly 99,00 kr
- Copyright
- © 2026 Appit AS